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Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
- GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
- STEREOTYP, EMOTNS, AND BEHAVRS TOWARD LBIANS, GAY MEN, BISEXUAL WOMEN, AND BISEXUAL MEN
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
"Beg gay is a choice," "You n cure homosexualy," and, "Gay parents are bad," are jt a few of them. * lgbt stereotype *
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10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
The dis era startg the 1970s hered by unrground gay clubs and disc jockeys kept the ‘partyg’ aspect vibrant and hered the more hardre circu party movement that was hedonistic and associated wh party and play (PNP or PnP), or simply ‘partyg’. LGBT stereotyp affect everybody om the muny and stop them om beg their te selv so the sooner we break them, the nstant prsure on LGBT people to behave a certa way and talk a certa tone or drs a certa type of cloth orr to be labeled gay or bi or trans puts huge prsure on them.
GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
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Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy. The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida.
STEREOTYP, EMOTNS, AND BEHAVRS TOWARD LBIANS, GAY MEN, BISEXUAL WOMEN, AND BISEXUAL MEN
Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men. The blu mic of Ain-Amerin women showsed varieti of lbian sire, stggle, and humor; the performanc, along wh male and female drag stars, troduced a gay unrworld to straight patrons durg Prohibn’s fiance of race and sex s speakeasy clubs.