The Gay/Trans Panic Defense: What It is, and How to End It

Contents:

• THE SHORT BUT FASCATG HISTORY OF “BE GAY, DO CRIM”
• WHERE DID THE PHRASE 'BE GAY, DO CRIME' ORIGATE? HERE'S A HISTORY OF THE INIC MEME, JT IN TIME FOR PRI MONTH
• BE GAY DO CRIME
• BE GAY DO CRIM
• WHAT DO THE SLOGAN "BE GAY DO CRIM" MEAN?
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• SOCIAL:BE GAY, DO CRIME
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
• THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT

THE SHORT BUT FASCATG HISTORY OF “BE GAY, DO CRIM”

Soon after, another Twter er (@isislovecft) told a story about two kids jumpg the BART turnstyle and shoutg “be gay, do crim. jt saw two teenage girls hop the bart turnstile and n up the stairs and start makg out and i uldn’t rist the urge to shout BE GAY DO CRIMES and they raised their fists and shouted back STONEWALL WAS A RIOT so i am rmg you that the kids are fact alright. While 2016’s “be gay, do crim” was enough of a statement and of self to ri on shock value, 2018’s “Stonewall was a rt” reprents a new sire to reclaim queer narrativ.

WHERE DID THE PHRASE 'BE GAY, DO CRIME' ORIGATE? HERE'S A HISTORY OF THE INIC MEME, JT IN TIME FOR PRI MONTH

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Be Gay Do Crime is a tchphrase and prott slogan ed by activists, members and alli of the LGBTQIA+ muny, promotg eedom om discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or beg non-cisgenr. Two days later, Twter[5] isislovecft tweeted, "jt saw two teenage girls hop the bart turnstile and n up the stairs and start makg out and i uldn’t rist the urge to shout BE GAY DO CRIMES and they raised their fists and shouted back STONEWALL WAS A RIOT so i am rmg you that the kids are fact alright. The act of breakg laws that have no personal nsequence to anyone, such as not payg for tickets on public transport, or crim that go agast a rpt system, while beg hood was the first person to tly enpsulate the phrase be gay do crim, as he stole om those who were rich at the expense of the poor, a rpt Hottgham Augt 20, 2019Flag.

BE GAY DO CRIME

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BE GAY DO CRIM

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The ntext is more "Dear God, we're so gay", and om another perspective, 's llg on queer all over the world to love unndnally and not be aaid of their sexual inty. The phrase also serv as a remr of how much sacrifice early queers have done, om the Stonewall rts 1969 to gay serial killers who are still roamg the street of Ameri and the world. The more advance we get, the more open-md the society be, but is sential to speak up, and the phrase Be Gay Do Crime is ep enough to let the world know that queer people are humans and they have the right to love whoever they want, and you are not a judge or even a god.

WHAT DO THE SLOGAN "BE GAY DO CRIM" MEAN?

LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts. Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns.

D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad. The acunts differ on the method of killg, and other acunts suggt lser penalti for homosexual acts, pendg on the circumstanc.

An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world.

YemenIn Yemen, the law stat that unmarried gay men will be punished wh 100 whip lash or one year prison, but married gay men face ath by stong. Gay women are to be imprisoned for up to three January 2019 a man Iran was hanged after beg found guilty of havg sex wh another man. In 2007, then-Print of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly said durg a vis to Columbia Universy: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like your untry.

SOCIAL:BE GAY, DO CRIME

Not only did ban gay marriage, but also banned the registratn of gay clubs, societi and other anizatns supportg the LGBT muny. While this law is applied across the entire untry, 12 northern stat have their own laws, punishg gay men and women wh ath by stong. In 2012, a newly adopted provisnal nstutn ma Somalia's terpretatn of Sharia law "the supreme law of the untry, " makg homosexualy a crime that n be punished by floggg or the ath penalty.

The legal lgo n be terpreted as makg all male homosexual terurse a pal crime but n also mean that 's only for forced male homosexual terurse. The untry's Penal Co stat that "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" — which n mean homosexualy, even though 's not explicly mentned — is punishable by a fe and/or imprisonment om two years to life.

For Rav Mykg, whose bety ed the pastor of a homophobic megachurch to oth at the mouth and clare the arrival of wolv to hunt his sheep, and ed the sheep to fall to the ground, speakg tongu and prayg for their absent god. For a we’ve followed , across borrs lguistic and arized, to fd the ras ( a sense alienable om, as Chris Chty argued, the word’s origary homoerotic implitns) who received this same transmissn: queer surrectn.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?

The slogan was primarily popularized by an ter meme on Twter of an 1800s polil rtoon origally created by Thomas Nast of a skeleton holdg a torch and scroll, wh the scroll eded to say "BE GAY DO CRIME!

THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT

The phrase is meant to imply some crime and civily may be necsary to earn equal rights nsirg the fact that beg gay was illegal the Uned Stat and is still illegal var other untri, along wh the fact that the Stonewall uprisg was a rt and was ccial advancements for LGBT rights.