People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully.
Contents:
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- 20 ROLUTNS FOR FIGHTG THE GAY AGENDA
- THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT AGAST GAY RIGHTS
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
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I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier. Cultural tradns and valu that terme heterosexual behavr as ‘normal’ ntribute to the formatn of heterosexism and var phobias towards gay people.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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It is worth explag to the rears of your gay rights activist say that this ncept assum that the sexual orientatn is not viant or pathologil, jt like natnal or polil mori. Sce the parameters may not ci wh each other and n be manifted differently at var stag of life, an unambiguo divisn of dividuals to hetero-, homo- and bisexual groups, as well as their number, is very problematic.
The term ‘homosexualy’ was first ed 1869 an anonymoly published pamphlet wrten German by the Atrian publicist Karl-Maria Kertbeny. For example, was ed by the psychotherapist Albert Ellis to refer to homosexuals the popular book The Intelligent Woman’s Gui to Man-Huntg (1963).
In an say on gay rights vlatn Rsia, you may mentn that pre-Petre time, ser penalti for ‘sodom’ were not practiced, unlike Wtern Europe.
20 ROLUTNS FOR FIGHTG THE GAY AGENDA
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * how to argue for gay rights *
Although same-sex sexual activy between nsentg adults private was crimalized 1993, homosexualy is disapproved of by most Rsians, and same-sex upl and hoeholds head by same-sex upl are eligible for the legal protectns available to oppose-sex upl. Before Hler me to power Germany, there was a stggle between the untry’s learship and the gay muny, which advoted the aboln of crimal punishment for people of ‘unnatural’ sexual orientatn. An important fact to scribe rearch say on gay rights is that Europe, the 1970s, the activists adopted the official symbol of LGBTQ, the rabow, as well as veloped a ncept wh basic polil requirements, namely the legalizatn of same-sex relatnships and the right to marry.
Sce gays and lbians are a sexual mory, there are certa problems associated wh their discrimatn, which n be scribed the LGBT rights argumentative say. The movement for the rights of sexual and genr mori that emerged the middle of the 20th century was marked by the gradual posive change of attu towards homosexuals.
THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT AGAST GAY RIGHTS
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Equal treatment impli the aboln of the crimal prosecutn for homosexualy as well as prohibns on particular profsns, and provisn of the right to marry and adopt the children to same-sex upl.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
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It is worth mentng a gay rights persuasive say that many homosexuals, for example, Elton John, Domeni Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, Ricky Mart, Alan Turg, and others are well-known personali. In different untri, there are stereotyp that attribute riture featur to homosexuals, for stance, peculiar tonatns of speech and gtur.
Dpe the existence of numero anizatns fightg for the rights of homosexuals, many gays and lbians prefer not to advertise their sexual preferenc and sometim even wear the mask of homosexualy opponents.
The enomist Richard Florida claimed that acrdg to his rearch, the prence of gays and lbians has a beneficial effect on the urban environment.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
The prehensn of sexualy general and homosexualy particular science and journalism is maly nnected wh the polemic of two fundamental approach: sentialist and nstctivist.
Another theoretil perspective more suable for an anti gay rights say is based on the cultural analysis of sexualy proposed by the French philosopher Michel Fouult his work Еhe History of Sexualy. Th, some ancient classil cy-stat of Greece, a certa type of homosexual relatnship (between an adult man and adolcent) was ialized as a social practice no ls important than the tradnal marriage between a man and a woman. Morn unrstandg of homosexualy as a particular sexual orientatn was explaed by Fouult not as a scientific tth but only as a product of an epoch and a picture of the world characteristic of this epoch.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Havg adopted the ias of Fouult, morn rearchers ma a signifint ntributn to the velopment of the anti-sentialist approach, which views homosexualy as a soc-historil nstct.
At the begng of the XX century, the fundamental directn of scientific views on homosexualy was set by the works of Sigmund Frd who believed that a person is bisexual by nature and that heterosexual preferenc are formed early childhood while children wh some psychologil malfunctns bee homosexuals. At the same time, Frd was cled to treat homosexualy very tolerantly and believed that therapy should be aimed not at changg sexual orientatn but at rrectg the nsequent mental disfort and acceptance of their own personaly by the patient. Many reprentativ of the natural scienc believe that homosexualy is a blogil feature of an anism termed by geic or other nate factors.