How Special Are “Gay Rights”? | The Wanrer Newspaper

Contents:

• HOW SPECIAL ARE “GAY RIGHTS”?
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• EQUAL RIGHTS VS. SPECIAL RIGHTS: RIGHTS DISURS, FRAMG, AND LBIAN AND GAY ANTIDISCRIMATN POLICY WASHGTON STATE
• HOW SPECIAL ARE “GAY RIGHTS”?
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

HOW SPECIAL ARE “GAY RIGHTS”?

For example, s “Media Reference Gui, ” the Gay and Lbian Alliance agast Defamatn (GLAAD) scrib the term “special rights” as a “rhetoril ventn of anti-gay extremists seekg to create a climate of fear by portrayg the pursu of civil rights for LGBT people as sister, ” and specifi the followg:. ” Anti-gay extremists equently characterize civil rights and equal protectn of the law for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins as “special rights” an attempt to energize opposn to anti-discrimatn and equal opportuny laws.

GAY RIGHTS

This has already occurred Canada, where the Canadian Rad, Televisn and Telemunitns Commissn (CRTTC) has forbidn licensed statns to broadst any programs portrayg homosexuals or homosexualy a negative light for any reason whatsoever. For example, the Canadian homosexual group EGALE (Equaly for Gays and Lbians Everywhere) has e-mailed threateng not to pro-fay webs and has openly discsed the tactic of filg an avalanche of harassment lawsus agast them.

…” Hours later, Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lbian, Transgenr and Supporters Alliance nmned her statement, llg “heteronormative, ” and mand that future speakers be allowed to speak of man-woman fai only if they also approved of homosexual “marriage. Homosexual activist groups have mand that those who oppose gay “marriage” be forbidn to n for public office, be banned om workg for ernment any pacy, be barred om attendg law school or om practicg law, and be fired om their jobs whout reurse. Partly due to this murr, the homophile group SMUG (Sexual Mori Uganda), assisted by the Amerin group Center for Constutnal Rights (CCR), filed a lawsu agast Pastor Lively Feral urt, accg him of “crim agast humany, ” as well as nspiracy and “vlatg the laws of natns.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

”27 To get around the problem of Scripture vers such as Romans 1, the homosexuals have even published their own versn of the Bible lled the “Queen Jam Versn” (QJV), which is sanized of all passag that might be terpreted as beg cril of homosexualy.

A [naturally] anonymo homosexual an open sexual relatnship wh his male “partner” brought a Human Rights Tribunal plat agast the Anglin Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, Reverend Ross Bay, for not allowg him to bee a prit. Homosexuals have mocked and ridiculed the Catholic fah for s, often parodyg s most cherished beliefs, such as the Holy Mass, through blasphemo plays and “street theater” (see the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” if you have a st iron stomach, at and). ” While homophil mand the right to relentlsly and thlsly stereotype anyone who oppos any element of their agenda for any reason whatsoever as “homophob, ” “haters” and “bigots, ” they claim that anyone who dar stereotype gays any manner mt be charged wh a felony hate crime.

[6] Homosexuals and their sympathizers also nmn all other “straight pri” events, cludg “heterosexual awarens month, ” and attempt to prevent dividuals (pecially stunts) om exprsg any opposn to the gay rights agenda, cludg punishg high schoolers who wear “straight pri” T-shirts (see the Wikipedia entry on “Straight Pri” for many exampl). Diversy and tolerance are human rights; (2) To speak out for all gay, bi-sexual, genrls and transgenr people who are not reprented by any character Avatar; (3) To te people about Evolutn and humany’s transn to transgenrism. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

EQUAL RIGHTS VS. SPECIAL RIGHTS: RIGHTS DISURS, FRAMG, AND LBIAN AND GAY ANTIDISCRIMATN POLICY WASHGTON STATE

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

HOW SPECIAL ARE “GAY RIGHTS”?

" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event.

Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn. In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U.

Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. Gay Marriage Legalized Massachetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, and the first legal same-sex marriage was performed on May 17, 2004—a day when seventy-seven other upl across the state also tied the knot. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.

) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.

In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.