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Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• GAY RIGHTS
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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. 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.

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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. Fstrated wh the male learship of most gay liberatn groups, lbians fluenced by the femist movement of the 1970s formed their own llectiv, rerd labels, mic ftivals, newspapers, bookstor, and publishg ho, and lled for lbian rights mastream femist groups like the Natnal Organizatn for Women.

The creasg expansn of a global LGBT rights movement suffered a setback durg the 1980s, as the gay male muny was cimated by the Aids epimic, mands for passn and medil fundg led to renewed alns between men and women as well as angry street theatre by groups like Aids Coaln to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Queer Natn. Wh greater media attentn to gay and lbian civil rights the 1990s, trans and tersex voic began to ga space through works such as Kate Boernste’s “Genr Outlaw” (1994) and “My Genr Workbook” (1998), Ann Fsto-Sterlg’s “Myths of Genr” (1992) and Llie Feberg’s “Transgenr Warrrs” (1998), enhancg shifts women’s and genr studi to bee more clive of transgenr and nonbary inti. ”[16] The lor-d quick gui to var legal stat, protectns, and prohibns of LGBT rights clud maps showg the crimalizatn of homosexualy, marriage equaly, legal genr change, legal adoptn, protectn om discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty, prohibn of hog discrimatn, bans on ary service and blood donatns, “age of nsent for homosexual sex” equaly.

While analyz of the effects of lonialism on LGBT rights typilly foced on the crimalizatn of same-sex nduct and the imposn of bary nstctns of sexual orientatn, genr inty and exprsn (SOGIE) as forms of social ntrol, [23] [24] lonial property laws have impacted LBQ+ women’s liv as much as, if not more than, lonial anti-homosexualy laws. Maps and databas verg LGBT rights and laws around the world typilly illtrate which untri crimalize homosexualy, allow for same-sex marriage, have nondiscrimatn polici that explicly name sexual orientatn, genr inty, and genr exprsn (SOGIE) as protected tegori, and, recent years, creasgly clu rmatn on which untri allow for legal genr regnn. Among s key fdgs, nearly one-fifth of LBQ+ women reported wantg children but were not able to have them; LBQ+ women were more likely (90 percent) to never vis LGBT centers for health re pared to gay, bisexual and queer men (77 percent); and nearly one-third of LBQ+ women intified their health as “poor” pared to one-fifth of heterosexual women.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The study also found that twice as many LBQ+ women (46 percent) have been diagnosed wh prsn as straight women (23 percent), and a staggerg 44 percent of LBQ+ or qutng girls reported havg nsired suici the last year, pared to 18 percent of straight girls, 13 percent of straight boys, and 32 percent of gay, bisexual, queer, and qutng boys. Though not specifilly foced on LBQ+ women, a 2021 study to LGBT experienc the nstctn dtry the UK has provid some of the most illtrative fdgs on how LBQ+ people and cisgenr gay men have experienced homophobia differently and how homophobia has directly impacted the enomic secury of LBQ+ women unique ways:. A 2017 World Enomic Fom article, “What you need to know about LGBT rights 11 maps, ” featured visualizatns of the crimalizatn of homosexualy, marriage equaly, legal genr change, legal adoptn, protectn om discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty, prohibn of hog discrimatn, bans on ary service and blood donatns, “age of nsent for homosexual sex, ” and bans on nversn practic.

The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA)’s 2020 State-Sponsored Homophobia report found 67 untri wh provisns crimalizg nsensual same-sex nduct, two addnal untri wh facto crimalizatn, and the ath penalty legally prcribed as punishment Bnei, Iran, Mrania, twelve stat Nigeria, Sdi Arabia, and Yemen. Decrimalisatn remas an important step for lbians and bisexual women, not only those untri where they are or may be ptured by the crimal law but also bee the matenance of any form of anti-LGBT laws fosters and perpetuat generalised homophobia, impactg the entire LGBT muny. In addn to posng LBQ+ women women’s property rights and LBQ+ rights, this subsectn unrsr the need to explore the impact of lonialism on property laws, which has affected LBQ+ women’s liv as much as, if not more than, lonial-era anti-homosexualy laws that equent LGBT rights disurs.

”[283] She ascribed this gap rearch to a variety of issu, cludg whe femist and queer scholars’ lack of tert, Black femist scholars’ creasg tenncy to prrize issu of race, and the fear of not beg published or beg pigeonholed as “gay, queer, funny, or a bulldagger. [411] Other LBQ+ activists supportg the humanarian effort Ukrae and on the Ukrae-Poland borr echoed Olena’s pot: LBQ+ fai are facg the impossible cisn of stayg unr occupatn[412] to avoid losg their children to refugee relotn schem that may not regnize their fay as legimate, knowg that the occupatn self uld lead to homophobic vlence agast their fay. Siarly, a 2019 report Realizg Refuge’ Right to Fay Uny, examg Denmark, Norway, and Swen, found that while unr official policy, “same-sex upl have equal rights to fay rnifitn as heterosexual upl, ” practice, the homophobic ntext om which LGBT fai flee is often not nsired asssg their applitns.

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A 2019 report om the UN special rapportr on human rights fenrs found that “young lbian fenrs have been rcerated and forced to unrgo treatment to ‘rrect’ their homosexualy” and that “genr iology” is posned as the attempt by fenrs of the human rights of LGBT persons and those of other diverse orientatns and genr inti, and by femists, to stabilize the polil and social orr. [540] The 2019 report om the UN special rapportr on human rights fenrs found that “young lbian fenrs have been rcerated and forced to unrgo treatment to ‘rrect’ their homosexualy, ” and that the term “lbian” is self ed as a rogatory, famatory slur for women human rights fenrs general:. Given the recent global foc on the killgs of land and environmental rights fenrs more generally, the human rights fenr protectn space uld be strengthened by rearch and analysis to how SOGIE plays a role the large number of attacks perpetrated agast the fenrs, and how homophobia wh their own muni preclus them om reportg acts of vlence agast them.

Danai, a queer activist om Poland who works wh and across several grassroots human rights movements, told Human Rights Watch that she particularly stggl wh LGBT donors and ternatnal partners who “only want to fund gay projects, which don’t match the way we work. LBQ+ people face multiple systematic barriers to accsg jtice, cludg those that women and non-bary people face more generally—such as discrimatn based on genr state and non-state stutns, limatns on their time and rourc due to re rponsibili, and vlatns of their rights to tn and eedom of movement—and those that LGBT people face more generally, such as a lack of lawyers traed and willg to work wh queer muni, urts that discrimate agast LGBT people and fai, and a wi range of homophobic laws that make reportg to police a dangero act. Social and legal stggl to crimalize homosexualy, repeal lonial era anti-sodomy laws, and legalize marriage equaly for queer upl are not prerequis for obtag parental rights, cludg the rights to adopt and to accs fertily treatment, which this report found to be highly important to LBQ+ terviewe.