Abstract. Opprsn of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people is an issue wh which social workers and social-work tors need to ncern the
Contents:
- OPPRSN AND DISCRIMATN AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENRED PEOPLE AND MUNI: A CHALLENGE FOR MUNY PSYCHOLOGY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- GAY RIGHTS
- OPPRSN AND DISCRIMATN AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENRED PEOPLE AND COMMUNI: A CHALLENGE FOR COMMUNY PSYCHOLOGY
OPPRSN AND DISCRIMATN AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENRED PEOPLE AND MUNI: A CHALLENGE FOR MUNY PSYCHOLOGY
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenred (LGBT) people ntue to experience var forms of opprsn and discrimatn North Ameri and throughout the world, spe the social, legal, and polil advanc that have been lnched an attempt to grant LGBT people basic human rights. Ev … * oppression of lgbt community *
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenred (LGBT) people ntue to experience var forms of opprsn and discrimatn North Ameri and throughout the world, spe the social, legal, and polil advanc that have been lnched an attempt to grant LGBT people basic human rights.
'YES, I AM MORE THAN JUST THAT': GAY/BISEXUAL YOUNG MEN RESIDING IN THE UNITED STATES DISCUSS THE INFLUENCE OF MINORITY STRESS ON THEIR SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIOR PRIOR TO HIV INFECTION. Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * oppression of lgbt community *
However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary. Whe, male, and Wtern activists whose groups and theori gaed leverage agast homophobia did not necsarily reprent the range of racial, class, and natnal inti plitg a broar LGBT agenda. 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. 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. ” In Wtern history, we fd ltle formal study of what was later lled homosexualy before the 19th century, beyond medil texts intifyg women wh large cloris as “tribas” and severe punishment s for male homosexual acts.
GAY RIGHTS
Historil Aspects of LGBT’s Lbian, gays, bi-sexual and transgenr dividuals are no new disvery and have been prent for many years morn Amerin history. But the same unrolved issu are sendg the LGBT muny to opprsn. Wh the LGBT muny expandg all over * oppression of lgbt community *
Their wrgs were sympathetic to the ncept of a homosexual or bisexual orientatn occurrg naturally an intifiable segment of humankd, but the wrgs of Krafft-Ebg and Ellis also labeled a “third sex” generate and abnormal.
OPPRSN AND DISCRIMATN AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENRED PEOPLE AND COMMUNI: A CHALLENGE FOR COMMUNY PSYCHOLOGY
* oppression of lgbt community *
” German rearcher Magn Hirschfeld went on to gather a broar range of rmatn by foundg Berl’s Instute for Sexual Science, Europe’s bt library archive of materials on gay cultural history. His efforts, and Germany’s more liberal laws and thrivg gay bar scene between the two World Wars, ntrasted wh the backlash, England, agast gay and lbian wrers such as Osr Wil and Radclyffe Hall.
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenred (LGBT) people ntue to experience var forms of opprsn and discrimatn North Ameri and througho * oppression of lgbt community *
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.
The disptns of World War II allowed formerly isolated gay men and women to meet as soldiers and war workers; and other volunteers were uprooted om small towns and posted worldwi. This creasg awarens of an existg and vulnerable populatn, upled wh Senator Joseph McCarthy’s vtigatn of homosexuals holdg ernment jobs durg the early 1950s outraged wrers and feral employe whose own liv were shown to be send-class unr the law, cludg Frank Kameny, Barbara Gtgs, Allen Gsberg, and Harry Hay.