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Contents:
- REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
- ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
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‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
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Before he me to the ACLU, he actually wrote the cy’s first prehensive law banng anti-gay discrimatn – and California’s first as well. Matt wrote a new versn that was passed 1989, but was repealed by voters (y, San Francis voters repealed a gay rights bill – and wasn’t so long ago). 6% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer, acrdg to a new Gallup report.
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Dpe the fact that a greater number of lbian upl have children than do gay men, gay men actually tend to be more equently portrayed wh fai pared to lbian upl. Acrdg to a recent Ipsos report, among the progrsg generatns, more LGBTQ+ people are choosg to intify as “fluid” rather than “non-fluid” (meang gay or lbian) as members of Gen-Z are far more likely than prev generatns to be plurisexual or attracted to more than one sex. Early rearch the field datg back to Frd’s Inversn Theory 1910 scribed gay men and lbians as “sexual verts”—implyg that homosexualy was some sense the reversal of “normal” sex.
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To tly reprent and ronate wh LGBTQ+ nsumers, advertisers have to fight, walk, or dance (#n’tncelpri) the sho of all LGBTQ+ nsumers rather than jt chasg the pot of gold at the end of the gay male or, more recently, bary rabow. L - lbian: a woman who is attracted to other womenG - gay: a man who is attracted to other men or broadly people who intify as homosexualB - bisexual: a person who is attracted to both men and womenT - transgenr: a person whose genr inty is different om the sex the doctor put down on their birth certifiteQ - queer: origally ed as a hate term, some people want to reclaim the word, while others fd offensive.