LGBTQ+ History Month is an annual month-long observance of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.
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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane. * lgbt or lgbtq history month *
He tablished a planng mtee wh LGBTQ lears om around the untry, and om there, Gay and Lbian History Month was born. After s foundg, anizatns like the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, GLAAD, and the Human Rights Campaign endorsed Gay and Lbian History Month, and 1995, the Natnal Edutn Associatn passed a rolutn officially regnizg as a memorative month.
Harvey Milk, famed out activist who beme one of Ameri’s first gay elected officials and was assassated. Some of the more glarg exampl clu a Penn State soclogy profsor stctg stunts to watch gay and lbian pornography, the Universy of Miami outright enuragg stunts to unrgo genr transn procr, the Penn State stunt ernment votg to fund transgenr name chang, a San Francis State Universy profsor lecturg on “queer history, ” Oxford troducg an LGBT history urse, and the once-Catholic Universy of Notre Dame offerg lectur on “Queer Hols.
Universy stunts are traed to teach “children as young as 3 to nsir beg gay, attackg wh, rippg rich people, promotg Black Liv Matter, and batg climate change. DeSantis thorized the new law on the same day that he signed bills that make a felony for doctors to prcribe genr-affirmg re to trans mors and expand the state’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law. The two-year-old statute ially banned discsns of LGBTQ inti K-3 classrooms, but the 2023 amendments extend the “Don’t Say Gay” embargo until the end of the eighth gra.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
The ernor has hted at further actns to punish Disney for s cricism of the “Don’t Say Gay” law as the pany su DeSantis’ admistratn urt for retaliatn. ) In 2023, Sanrs also signed a “Don’t Say Gay” bill banng LGBTQ tn through the fifth gra and a bill barrg trans stunts om g the rrect bathrooms schools.
Johnson’s mpaign announcement vio, released last month, highlighted the 57-year-old’s experience as an attorney, an openly gay Texan and a state lawmaker who unseated former Republin state Rep. Durg her first year office 2019, Johnson joed four other openly gay women the Texas Hoe to form the state’s first LGBTQ uc, now one of the natn’s largt. There are jt 12 out LGBTQ people are servg the current Congrs — 10 the Hoe and two the Senate — spe more than 7 percent of the natn’s adult populatn intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or “somethg other than heterosexual, ” acrdg to a Febary Gallup poll.
Natnwi, the number of openly gay women elected to public office has stalled, up only 0. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.
Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.