Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

• SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE
• GAY RIGHTS
• THE HISTORY AND SYMBOLS OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM AT CORNELL UNIVERSY
• WHAT IS A SYMBOL SHOWG SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS THAT MAK CLEAR I AM A STRAIGHT SUPPORTER?

SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

Tradnally, the symbol is drawn pla black, but more recent versns pict the double mars wh the rabow lors filled to symbolize the gays’ aterny or solidary wh other subsectors of the muny. Back the 20th century New York, gay men would wear a red necktie or bow tie or basilly any red accsory to subtly reprent their inti and help intify members of the same muny. Fortunately, after retirg at age 27, Burke ught a send wd and domated the Gay Softball World Seri where he kept the practice of givg high-fiv to his teammat.

GAY RIGHTS

Boston artists Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale ed a lavenr rhoceros to symbolize the gay muny for their 1970s public ad mpaign led by Gay Media Actn Advertisg. The practice of gay people intifyg as unirns beme popular 2018, as unirn horns and actual unirn stum ma their way to Pri events.

THE HISTORY AND SYMBOLS OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM AT CORNELL UNIVERSY

To prott the creasg number of news articl agast the LGBTQ people San Francis 1969, 60 members of the Gay Liberatn Front and Society of Human Rights staged a rally on Halloween night. LambdaThe greek letter lambda was origally ed as the symbol of the Gay Activists Alliance of New York 1970 and 1974 was officially adopted as the symbol of gay and lbian rights by the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh, Stland.

The pk lor reprents same sex attractn (gay and lbian), the blue reprents attractn to the oppose sex (straight) and the rultant overlap lor purple reprents sexual attractn to both (bi). The key to unrstandg the symbolism of the Bi Pri Flag is to know that the purple pixels of lor blend unnoticeably to both the pk and blue jt as the "real world" where bi people blend unnoticeably to both the gay/lbian and straight muni. Although homosexuals were only one of the many groups targeted for extermatn by the Nazi regime, is unfortunately the group that history often exclus.

WHAT IS A SYMBOL SHOWG SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS THAT MAK CLEAR I AM A STRAIGHT SUPPORTER?

Paragraph 175, a clse German law prohibg homosexual relatns, was revised by Hler 1935 to clu kissg, embracg, and gay fantasi as well as sexual acts. Although homosexual prisoners reportedly were not shipped en masse to the ath mps at Achwz, a great number of gay men were among the non-Jews who were killed there. When the war was fally over, untls many homosexuals remaed prisoners the mps, bee Paragraph 175 remaed law Wt Germany until s repeal 1969.

Although lbians were not clud the Paragraph 175 prohibn of homosexualy, there is evince to dite that the black triangle was ed to signate prisoners wh anti-social behavr.

Others disagree, cg the e of lambda physics to note energy (the energy we have when we work ncert) or wavelength (are gays and lbians on a different wavelength? Although, like AIDS, breast ncer is certaly not an issue limed to the gay muny, the statistics of breast ncer are historilly higher women who do not bear children. The Human Rights Campaign, the largt natnal lbian and gay polil anizatn, envisns an Ameri where lbian and gay people are ensured of their basic equal rights—and n be open, hont and safe at home, at work and the muny.