VIOLENCE AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAY MEN | Office of Jtice Programs

Contents:

• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
• 10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE
• HATE CRIM AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN. ISSU FOR REARCH AND POLICY
• LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY FDS
• VIOLENCE AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAY MEN
• HETERONEGATIVISM? THE ATTUS OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS TOWARD HETEROSEXUALS

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

Not only was a touchg moment, but powerfully brought back the '80s, when lbians and gay men were actually uned , whout any of the rifts that have long characterized those two strands of the muny. The group furly brought gay men, lbians, and others together, all uned the war agast the powers-that-be for ignorg the horror of the AIDS epimic.

Not many lbians had been stricken wh the disease, but the women were still out force, fiercely reactg to the LGBT vastatn and the need to rally for than gays vers lbians, beme gays and lbians vers the homophobic other, and I thought the batn would rock our brother/sisterhood the time, a gay pund wrote a stgg magaze article wonrg why lbians were so volved ACT UP, but I never wanted to qutn , elated that they had joed the surgence while helpg create a unified ont. At queer nightclubs, the ia of a mixed crowd died long ago, and fact, not only do gays and lbians have separate hangouts, but those plac are for nich wh the groups. The tth is that so many partyg gay men are foced on beg wh mirror imag that they shun their Sapphic sisters, feelg no more nnectn wh them than they do wh anybody 's not jt at the bars.

Gay guys (jt like straight guys) are obvly too driven by their genals, and nversely, the prence of men uld remd lbians of the patriarchal society that's been rammed down their throats and ma them numb.

TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY

Peter Staley--one of ACT UP's founrs--agre that "ACT UP was probably our most empowered moment of gay men and lbians workg together, " but he don't feel that was the end of the uny. ) Northrop feels the severe lack of chemistry I'm talkg about is a male/female thg more than a gay/lbian one, and fact she thks the absence of a sexual charge between lbians and gays mak easier for them to e together than their straight unterparts.

I don't even hear dismissive remarks about "dyk" anymore--lbians are simply not on many gay mal' radar at all, unls they turn up as an ocsnal Fire Island DJ or an awards show host. "A one-person Pri para, Lady Gaga brought her lavish gay pep rally the Art Pop Ball to Atlantic Cy this weekend, where a bunch of prs people thrilled to the mix of Sid & Marty Krofft-style theatrics and yay-gay stayed at the sleek Bata, dropped by the r club HQ, then ded at Caar's Palace's Nero rtrant, where Atlantic Cy's openly gay mayor Don Guardian told me he saw 100 twks led up on the boardwalk when he was ridg his bike that morng and realized, "Lady Gaga! " The edge of glory said that sce she played the town six years ago, so much has changed terms of gay visibily and acceptance--"So we're here to celebrate the kgdom of the Ltle Monsters and the force you've been along the way.

STORY HIGHLIGHTSColumnist expos lbian stereotyp and tri to set rerd straightThere's not always a "man" or "woman" role played lbian uplNot all lbians hate men, lgerie or their fathersBeg gay is not always easier than beg straight (The Frisky) -- There are a lot of misnceptns about lbians. After all, there are still gay men who don't exactly rejoice at beg a room wh lbians; as they so eloquently put , they'd rather not be around "fish, " thank you! Conversely, there are some lbians who pla about how gay men are ivolo and sex crazed, which cements the lbians' drive to stay an sular world that's way more female than trans people rent drag queens for havg male privilege and for donng the garb of the oppose sex as a performance piece, one they put on and off at will.

10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE

And shockgly, there was a petn last year to remove the T om LGBT, the reasons behd cludg everythg om the alleged appropriatn of Stonewall history to the marked difference between sexual orientatn and genr inty, which supposedly should keep gays and transsexuals that's not all! While gay men and women, drag queens, and trans people have all been proclaimed the "hot thg" at one pot or another, the media hasn't picked up on bi visibily and given the mass-appeal glow that uld help s acceptance. What's worse, bisexuals are routely disunted by gays and lbians, some of whom clearly feel that the "B" "LGBT" is strictly out of petty ms remds me of the environment I grew up as an Italian-Amerin, hearg some of the neighbors nstantly monize Jews, blacks, and other relig, ethnic, and racial groups orr to elevate themselv.

") And then you have your gay Republins who'll unqutngly back a ndidate who's agast same sex rights--bee they'll be good for the enomy!

HATE CRIM AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN. ISSU FOR REARCH AND POLICY

A gay wrer wrote an edorial at the time, wonrg why on earth lbians had joed the fight agast AIDS when, acrdg to him, they weren't very much at risk. And here's the real shock--that was one of the last tim I saw gays and lbians together a large room (except for the Out 100 event, of urse)! As gays dis lbians and so on, the haters stand on the sil, lghg and appldg at the self-sabotagg gog on, pecially when we hypocrilly ask the world for equaly and passn.

LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY FDS

Wr Grey, who me out publicly People magaze jt last year, "I had powerfully phed the ia down for so long that when I eventually tried to live that [gay] world, I wasn't very good at . A group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexuals get that tra om their oppose-sex parents: A lbian will almost always get the tra om her father, while a gay man will get the tra om his heredary lk of homosexualy has long been tablished, but scientists knew was not a strictly geic lk, bee there are many pairs of intil tws who have differg sexuali. Scientists om the Natnal Instute for Mathematil and Blogil Synthis say homosexualy seems to have an epigeic, not a geic thought to have some sort of heredary lk, a group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexualy is lked to epi-marks — extra layers of rmatn that ntrol how certa gen are exprsed.

In homosexuals, the epi-marks aren't erased — they're passed om father-to-dghter or mother-to-son, explas William Rice, an evolutnary blogist at the Universy of California Santa Barbara and lead thor of the study. "There is pellg evince that epi-marks ntribute to both the siary and dissiary of fay members, and n therefore feasibly ntribute to the observed faial herance of homosexualy and s low nrdance between [intil] tws, " Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics. Evolutnarily speakg, if homosexualy was solely a geic tra, scientists would expect the tra to eventually disappear bee homosexuals wouldn't be expected to reproduce.

VIOLENCE AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAY MEN

But bee the epi-marks provi an evolutnary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals om unrexposure to ttosterone and mothers of homosexuals om overexposure to ttosterone while they are gtatn. "The epi-marks protect fathers and mothers om excs or unrexposure to ttosterone — when they rry over to oppose-sex offsprg, n e the masculizatn of femal or the femizatn of mal, " Rice says, which n lead to a child beg gay.

Rice not that the markers are "highly variable" and that only strong epi-marks will rult a homosexual scientists have long spected some sort of geic lk, Rice says studi attemptg to expla why people are gay have been few and far between. " Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he 's mol still needs to be tted on real-life parent-offsprg pairs, but he says this epigeic lk mak more sense than any other explanatn, and that his team has mapped out a way for other scientists to tt their work.

Even before the shootg rampage at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people were already the most likely targets of hate crim Ameri, acrdg to an analysis of data llected by the Feral Bure of Invtigatn. Senator Mch McConnell of Kentucky, the majory lear, has omted any mentn of gays when talkg about the massacre, and Reprentative Pete Ssns of Texas has said the se of the shootg was not a gay club.

HETERONEGATIVISM? THE ATTUS OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS TOWARD HETEROSEXUALS

Last summer, ls than two months after the Uned Stat Supreme Court led favor of same-sex marriage, a New York Cy man was arrted and charged wh a hate crime for attackg Larry and Daniel Lennox-Choate, the first gay uple to be married at Wt Pot Milary Amy. In March of this year, Ellt Moral was nvicted of murr as a hate crime for killg Mark Carson, a gay black man, Manhattan three years earlier. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidThe scene at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn on Saturday, as reported by multiple wns on social media, showed how long-simmerg tensns between transgenr women of lor and whe gay men have boiled over durg the celebratn of World Pri and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall unintified woman wanted to addrs the crowd si the Greenwich Village gay bar where patrons fought back agast police harassment 50 years ago, birthg the LGBTQ movement.

I would like to say the dience was rpectful, but there was que a b of chatter and a few jeers, ” wns Aspen Eberhardt, fance manager of the gay rights group PFLAG, wrote on many gay men, this weekend’s celebratn is about fally beg able to live their te liv, unaaid to clare who they love and beg grateful for achievg virtual equaly, at least plac like Greenwich Village, where the rebelln many transgenr women of lor, reprentg the T the LGBTQ muny, have seized the moment to air their grievanc, such as sufferg om higher levels of unemployment and homelsns as their cisgenr gay and lbian brethren.