Stigma Management and Gay Inty Development on JSTOR

Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)
• GAY MEN’S CONSTCTN AND MANAGEMENT OF INTY ON GRDR

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)

Trans people face pecially sharp barriers to advancement the workplace, and their experience is distct om that of cisgenr people who also intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or queer. As societi across many parts of the world are makg legal and cultural progrs to embrace the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans muny (LGBT+ hereafter), 1 many pani are still laggg behd this procs.

Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), beg gay is punishable 70 UN member stat by imprisonment, torture or even ath and not one grants the same rights to LGBT+ people as their heterosexual unterparts. Take the example of same-sex marriage: In a survey on European views of mori, the majory of people are favor of gay and lbian marriage Wtern European untri, 2 almost all of which have now legalized the practice.

Dpe legal gas, most lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people choose not to disclose their sexual orientatn. For centuri, people have grown up absorbg homophobic language, don’t blame them for that, culture don’t change the blk of an eye. Gay and lbian activism has gaed more tractn the 20th century than ever before history.

GAY MEN’S CONSTCTN AND MANAGEMENT OF INTY ON GRDR

A turng pot for gay liberatn happened 1969 when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York, fought agast a police raid. This event triggered protts for gay liberatn and is annually memorated wh today’s “pri march.

In the mid-1980s, the gay male muny beme the LGB movement sce the word “gay” was perceived as not aquate to scribe everyone the muny. Neverthels, LGBT+ is easier to pronounce and remember than LGBTQQIP2SAA (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, Intersex, Pansexual, Two-Spir, Asexual and Alli).