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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) HEALTH SERVIC THE UNED STAT: ORIGS, EVOLUTN, AND NTEMPORARY LANDSPE

MEDIA REPRESENTATIONWhile lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people rema unrreprented media, acrdg toLGBTQ media advocy group GLAAD, 2017 produced a number of noteworthy highlights volvg LGBTQ characters and storyl.

“But LGBTQ characters Hollywood still lack diversy, wh people of lor and transgenr people grossly unrreprented, ” she “Moonlight, ” a g-of-age story about a gay black man, ma history by beg the first LGBTQ film to w the Amy Award for Bt Picture, other LGBTQ stori have received mastream regnn, too. It was recently nomated for three Goln Glob, cludg Bt Motn Picture, brought back “Will and Grace” this year as well, heraldg the return of a show that featured openly gay characters all the way back 1998. “While the tails of the s differ, is clear that fatal vlence disproportnately affects transgenr women of lor, and that the tersectns of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia nspire to prive them of employment, hog, healthre and other necsi, barriers that make them vulnerable, ” HRC stated s report.

Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov has nied the allegatns, claimg, “We don’t have any gays” to 100 LGBTQ people were reportedly arrted the ex-Soviet untry of Azerbaijan September after raids on bars and private hom, acrdg to activists and lol media reports. Azerbaijani officials nied allegatns of an anti-gay crackdown and said the raids were part of a mpaign to stop prostutn, but activists charge that police specifilly targeted gay men and transgenr women Baku, the Eurasian natn’s Central Asian untry of Tajikistan announced October has piled a list namg 367 spected gay cizens to tt them for sexually transmted diseas. Rafael J., * a gay stunt California, told CAP that he “cid to apply to law schools only LGBT-safe ci or stat, ” nyg him the opportuny pursue his graduate tn at schools he might otherwise have applied to.

Celte Sloman for The New York TimJune 20, 2017At gay pri march around the untry this month, there will be celebratns of marriage, a natnal right that, at jt two years old, feels hly exuberant to many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr while qutns of marriage are largely settled, same-sex upl who choose to have children still face a patchwork of laws around the untry that fe who is and who n be a parent. But the Philipp, stunts who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) too often fd that their schoolg experience is marred by bullyg, discrimatn, lack of accs to LGBT-related rmatn, and some s, physil or sexual asslt. Reprentativ of the Church warn that regnizg LGBT rights will open the door to same-sex marriage, and oppose legislatn that might promote divorce, thanasia, abortn, total populatn ntrol, and homosexual marriage, which they group unr the acronym “DEATH.

Juan N., a 22-year-old transgenr man who had attend high school Manila, said, “There would be a lecture where they’d somehow pass by the topic of homosexualy and show you, try to illtrate that the Bible, Christian theology, homosexualy is a s, and if you want to be a good Christian you shouldn’t engage those activi. We sought terviews wh stunts of diverse sexual orientatns and genr inti, but gay boys and transgenr girls were disproportnately reprented among the stunts intified by LGBT groups and the stunts who attend the group discsns. Of the LGBT stunts, 33 intified as gay, 12 intified as transgenr girls, 10 intified as bisexual girls, 6 intified as lbians, 4 intified only as “LGBT, ” 3 intified as transgenr boys, 2 intified as bisexual boys, 2 intified as qutng, and 1 intified as a panromantic girl.

[3] Attus toward LGBT people are relatively open and tolerant; a survey nducted 2013 found that 73 percent of Filipos believe “society should accept homosexualy, ” up om 64 percent who believed the same 2002. The Church volly oppos divorce, thanasia, abortn, total populatn ntrol, and homosexual marriage—which groups unr the acronym “DEATH”—and rejects regnn of LGBT rights wh particular fervor when is ncerned those rights might eventually open the door to same-sex unns. [16] Beyond s fluence law and policy, the Church has shaped attus toward homosexualy and transgenr inti throughout the untry; cg relig doctre, teachers, unselors, and other thory figur often imprs upon stunts that is immoral or unnatural to be LGBT.

The rults of the Young Adult Fertily and Sexualy Survey 3, for example, dite that 16 percent of young gay and bisexual men the Philipp had ntemplated suici, while only 8 percent of young heterosexual men had done so. ”[53] Benjie A., a 20-year-old gay man Manila, said that once a classmate phed him down the stairs at his high school, and add he still avoid his assailant as an adult for fear of physil vlence. Gabriel K., a 19-year-old gay stunt who attend high school Manila, siarly noted his classmat would “grab my hands, and they’d touch them to their private parts, and they’ll say to me that’s what gay is, that’s .

’”[80] Jerome B., a 19-year-old gay man om Cebu Cy, said that “ really feels bad, bee the only figure you n unt on is your teacher, and they’re jog the fun, so who should I tell about my problems? Gabriel K., a 19-year-old gay stunt who attend high school Manila, relled how a teacher brought him before his peers and “pared me to the others—that beg gay is not wele to heaven, and ma an example ont of the whole class. Patrick G., a 19-year-old gay man Manila, said that spe a policy at his universy guaranteeg stunts the eedom to drs based on their genr exprsn, he was aware of one se which the Disciple Office (DO) summoned a transgenr woman to terrogate her about her clothg: “She was wh the spe of the policy, but the DO said, ‘Are you not ashamed of what you’re wearg?

[G]ay stunts or those who are out or d as gay [are sometim] given extra work at school, cludg extracurricular work—beg asked to be the MC at an event, or fixg the stage for a performance, beg asked to clean up after school. Manalastas found that the mand to be “rpectable” put a heavy burn on LGBT stunts who did not nform: “It may be that gay stunts are warmly received, generally speakg, but if you’re characterized as one of the cent on—perceived as very sexual, very loud, very genr non-nformg or outré, ’s different.

Dalisay N., a 20-year-old panromantic woman who had attend high school Manila, observed that lbian girls were particularly disadvantaged by teachers bee “the lbian muny, they don’t see like that, like the gays, the creative on who do somethg artsy, that gay people are at the top of the list. As scholars have noted, heterosexism—or the assumptn that heterosexualy is the natural or preferable form of human sexualy—n take two different forms tnal settgs: “(1) nigratn, cludg overt discrimatn, anti-gay remarks, and other forms of explic homophobia agast gay and lbian stunts and teachers, or (2) nial, the prumptn that gay and lbian sexuali and inti simply do not exist and that heterosexual ncerns are the only issu worth discsg. Juan N., a 22-year-old transgenr man who had attend high school Manila, said that theology class, “There would be a lecture where they’d somehow pass by the topic of homosexualy and show you, try to illtrate that the Bible, Christian theology, homosexualy is a s, and if you want to be a good Christian you shouldn’t engage those activi.