'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• GAY RIGHTS

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

ILGA World – the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn – is a worldwi feratn of more than 1, 600 anisatns om over 150 untri and terrori mpaigng for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex human rights. Their missn is to relieve poverty for lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) refuge livg Turkey by providg the basic necsi of life; and to relieve poverty by sponsorg, providg fancial and rettlement assistance to LGBT refuge Turkey who have fled bee of persecutn for their sexual orientatn or genr intifitn and, as victims of human rights ab; and to unrtake activi ancillary and cintal to the attament of the above charable purpose. GRIN Campaign, Global Rpect  Edutn, is a transatlantic non-prof anisatn and advocy group which mpaigns primarily for lbian gay bisexual transgenr and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) people’s social and polil equaly tn.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Kaleidospe Tst works to uphold the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT+) people untri around the world where they are discrimated agast or margalised due to their sexual orientatn, genr inty and/or genr exprsn. As the largt natnal lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn, HRC envisns a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and n be open, hont and safe at home, at work and the muny.

The Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutors Network is the largt natnal anizatn of parents, tors, stunts and other ncerned cizens workg to end homophobia K-12 schools, and to ensure all stunts are valued and rpected, regardls of sexual orientatn. Found 1998 by the creators of the Amy Award®-wng short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leadg natnal anizatn providg crisis terventn and suici preventn servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer & qutng (LGBTQ) young people unr 25.

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The Amerin Milary Partner Associatn is the natn’s largt rource and support work for the partners, spo, fai, and alli of Ameri’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) service members and veterans. Armed Forc, pecially the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr current and prr ary personnel who have been historilly disenanchised by armed forc policy and discrimatory laws erng ary service and benefs. The Natnal Rource Center on LGBT Agg is the untry’s first and only technil assistance rource center aimed at improvg the qualy of servic and supports offered to lbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgenr olr adults.

Found 1973, Lambda Legal is the olst and largt natnal legal anizatn whose missn is to achieve full regnn of the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and everyone livg wh HIV through impact ligatn, tn and public policy work. At the send board meetg 1989 Boston, the LGBT Bar, then known as the Natnal Lbian and Gay Law Associatn (NLGLA), had 293 paid members, and iated a mpaign to ask the ABA to clu protectn based on sexual orientatn to s revisn of the Mol Co of Judicial Conduct for Judg. The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) Natnal Help Center, found 1996, is a non-prof, tax-exempt anizatn that provis val peer-support, muny nnectns and rource rmatn to people wh qutns regardg sexual orientatn and/or genr inty.

The Natnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals is prised of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr people and their alli employed or terted scientific or high technology fields.

Lambda Lerary believ Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer lerature is fundamental to the prervatn of our culture, and that LGBTQ liv are affirmed when their stori are wrten, published and read.

The urt found 303’s ADF’s rightwg advocy extends further, however, as the anizatn has donated to more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortn found that the ADF donated $85, 000 to the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, a group which, acrdg to a Poli report, helped Florida Republins shape the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law, which prohibs discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty group has also sued two school districts Florida over issu relatg to the rights of trans youth. Topics clu:Laws by StateMarriage & Relatnship RegnnParentg and Adoptn Laws, cludg Jot Adoptn Laws, Send-Parent Adoptn Laws, and Stepparent Adoptn LawsEmployment and Hog Non-Discrimatn LawsSafe Schools LawsDemographics, cludg LGBT Populatns by State and Same-Sex Coupl Raisg ChildrenTo get more volved or learn more about advocy anizatnsBroad Advocy OrganizatnsCheck out the anizatns which advote for the entire LGBT muny or a particular subset of the LGBT muny on a broad range of Lor Project works for muny wellns and progrsive social and enomic jtice on behalf of lbian, gay, bisexual, two spir, trans and genr non-nformg people of lor the New York Cy area through muny anizg, tn and pacy-buildg.

Commted to stggle across differenc, the Audre Lor Project seeks to rponsibly reflect, reprent and serve s var provis support and advocy anizatn for children wh LGBT Equaly Council ensur equaly for LGBT fai by buildg muny, changg hearts and mds, and advancg social jtice for all & Lbian Victory Fund and Learship Instute works to change the face and voice of Ameri's polics and achieve equaly for LGBT Amerins by creasg the number of openly LGBT officials at all levels of ernment and to achieve full equaly for LGBT people by buildg, supportg and advancg a diverse work of LGBT public Rights Campaign (HRC) is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly. HRC seeks to improve the liv of LGBT Amerins by advotg for equal rights and benefs the workplace, ensurg fai are treated equally unr the law and creasg public support among all Amerins through advocy, tn and outreach is a natnal grassroots anizatn that works for the full cln of LGBT Jews Jewish Cab Republins works wh the Republin Party to advote for equal rights for gay and lbian Amerins.

Freedom to Work is a natnal anizatn mted to banng workplace harassment and reer discrimatn agast lbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgenr Amerins through public tn, policy analysis, and legal & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) amplifi the voice of the LGBT muny by empowerg real people to share their stori, holdg the media acuntable for the words and imag prents, and helpg grassroots anizatns munite, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) striv to assure that each member of the school muny is valued and rpected, regardls of sexual orientatn or genr inty/ offers hands-on support servic New York Cy and tn and advocy about HIV/AIDS for hundreds of thoands Alliance Network empowers youth activists to fight homophobia and transphobia schools. Natnal Coaln for LGBT Health is mted to improvg the health and well-beg of LGBT dividuals through feral advocy that foc on rearch, policy, tn and York Cy Gay and Lbian Anti-Vlence Project works to elimate hate vlence, sexual asslt, stalkg and domtic vlence LGBT, queer andHIV-affected muni through unselg, advocy, anizg and public & Equal Workplace Advot t and empowers anizatns, human rourc profsnals, employee rource groups and dividual employe through programs and servic that rult equal workplace polici, opportuni, practic and benefs, and which clu all sexual orientatns, genr inti, exprsns and Tech is the largt LGBTQ+ muny of tech lears the world. Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat.

A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.