Elizabeth Warren Is Fightg For “Gay Reparatns” ⋆ Elizabeth Johnston

Contents:

• GAY REPARATNS? ELIZABETH WARREN TRODUC BILL TO PAY CERTA SAME-SEX UPL
• GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE
• ELIZABETH WARREN TTG ‘REPARATNS’ FOR GAYS: ‘AND YOU GET REPARATNS! AND YOU GET REPARATNS!’
• WARREN MAK THE CASE FOR GAY REPARATNS
• DEMOCRATS ADD ‘GAY REPARATN’ TO STLY SCHEM THAT EXTORT WARRG TRIB
• ‘POHONTAS’ WARREN PH FOR ‘GAY REPARATNS’ — IMMEDIATELY REGRETS IT
• WARREN COM OUT FOR ‘GAY REPARATNS’
• ELIZABETH WARREN INTRODUCED A BILL TO PAY GAY REPARATNS
• ELIZABETH WARREN OFFERS REPARATNS TO GAY UPL WHO ULDN'T FILE JOT TAX RETURNS
• DEMOCRAT HOE UNANIMOLY OKS ‘GAY REPARATNS’ BILL GIVG TAX REFUNDS TO SAME-SEX UPL
• WARREN PROMIS REPARATNS FOR GAY COUPL
• ELIZABETH WARREN IS FIGHTG FOR “GAY REPARATNS”
• ELIZABETH WARREN ENDORS “GAY REPARATNS”
• WARREN TRODUC BILL TO UNLOCK LNS TAX REFUNDS NIED TO GAY UPL

GAY REPARATNS? ELIZABETH WARREN TRODUC BILL TO PAY CERTA SAME-SEX UPL

"Warren troduced a bill last week — lled the "Refund Equaly Act" — that would perm gay married uple to amend past tax returns to receive the addnal tax breaks they would have received had they been allowed to file tax jotly wh their partner. It may seem surprisg to Amerin rears, but one of the most vibrant human rights movements around the world today is “gay reparatns, ” or polici tend to make amends for the legacy of systemic discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty. In the last alone, Canada, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Spa, and the Uned Kgdom have embraced gay reparatns.

A gay pri flag hangs at half-staff durg a memorial service for the victims of Florida’s Pulse nightclub shootg San Diego, California, on June 12, 2016.

The polici hardly prise a homogeno experience, and they do not entail givg people money simply for beg gay, as some spect. In most untri, gay reparatns are limed to a ernment apology to the LGBTQ muny for past wrongs and a promise to do better the future. In 2008, the German ernment opened a monument to gay victims of the Holot, an unknown number whom perished Nazi ncentratn mps, many of them victims of gome medil experiments tend to eradite their homosexualy.

GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE

In still other untri, gay reparatns have centered on a pardon to anyone nvicted unr laws that crimalized same-sex attractn, as the Uned Kgdom, which 2017 issued a posthumo pardon to those nvicted of “gross cency, ” cludg Alan Turg, the mathematician creded wh shorteng the end of World War II; or even fancial pensatn for wag or pensns lost due to havg spent time prison or a mental stutn bee of a homosexual offense, as Spa sce 2009 and Germany sce 2016. The clost the untry has e to embracg gay reparatns was 2019, when, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, the New York Police Department issued a belated apology for the raid that triggered the rebelln.

ELIZABETH WARREN TTG ‘REPARATNS’ FOR GAYS: ‘AND YOU GET REPARATNS! AND YOU GET REPARATNS!’

Surely, the absence of gay reparatns—or even a discsn of them— the Uned Stat is not out of a rosy history ee of systemic discrimatn toward the LGBTQ muny, although a valid argument n be ma that this history is not particularly well known, save, perhaps, for “don’t ask, don’t tell. ” That famo 1993 policy allowed gays, lbians, and bisexuals to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexual orientatn a secret. Des before “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” om the 1920s through at least the 1960s, there was the policy of “entrapment, ” which volved unrver police officers sendg flirtat signals to other men they prumed to be homosexual the hop of ensnarlg them to illic activy.

Acrdg to the historian Eric Cervi’s book The Deviant’s War, War, which is about gay rights pneer Frank Kameny, the 15 years after World War II, “homosexual arrts—cludg those for sodomy, dancg, kissg, or holdg hands—occurred at the rate of one every ten mut, ” for a grand total of 1 ln arrts.

WARREN MAK THE CASE FOR GAY REPARATNS

Entrapment was followed by the Lavenr Sre, the midcentury persecutn of feral workers spected of beg homosexual. Perhaps as many as 10, 000 people were fired or expelled om their feral jobs durg the 1950s and 1960s bee they were homosexual or spected of beg homosexual based on evince as flimsy as how they drsed, talked, or looked. C., where they were forced to unrgo such humanizg treatments as lobotomi, sul-duced as, and gay nversn therapy, wh the aim of changg their sexual orientatn.

Members of San Francis’s gay muny prott the Supreme Court’s cisn upholdg a sodomy law Geia on July 17, 1986.

Two lgs particular reveal the anim that Amerin jurispnce has the past shown toward gays, lbians, and bisexuals. Supreme Court lg that upheld the state of Geia’s sodomy laws, the urt termed that the Constutn did not protect the rights of gays, lbians, and bisexuals to engage private, nsensual sexual relatns, bee, the jtic nclud, homosexual sex has no nnectn to fay, marriage, abortn, or procreatn.

DEMOCRATS ADD ‘GAY REPARATN’ TO STLY SCHEM THAT EXTORT WARRG TRIB

Burger quoted the 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone’s characterizatn of homosexual sex as an “famo crime agast nature, ” worse than rape, and “a crime not f to be named. ” Homosexualy remaed crimalized the Uned Stat until the Supreme Court overturned the Hardwick lg 2003. Acts of state-sponsored anti-gay discrimatn sent an unambiguo msage to ordary Amerins that was acceptable to mean and monize LGBTQ people, and even to engage acts of vlence agast them.

The famo and bloody history of societal attacks on the Amerin LGBTQ muny clus sger and spokperson Ana Bryant’s 1977 Save Our Children csa, which picted gay men as pedophil; Evangelist Jerry Falwell’s “claratn of war” on homosexualy, a rhetoril tactic employed durg the 1980s to raise funds for Falwell’s Moral Majory anizatn; and the 2016 attack on Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

Prr to Pulse, there was the now largely fotten 1973 arson fire at Upstairs, a gay bar New Orleans’ French Quarter, which left 32 people ad. The thick homophobia of the era preclud even an acknowledgement of the tragedy by the mayor of New Orleans or Louisiana’s ernor. Left: Sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant talks about her “Save Our Children” csa to nullify a gay rights ordance Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb.

‘POHONTAS’ WARREN PH FOR ‘GAY REPARATNS’ — IMMEDIATELY REGRETS IT

Given the terrible history of reprsn of LGBTQ people the Uned Stat, the absence of gay reparatns is puzzlg.

Canada, a untry wh a cidly ls troubled history when to homosexualy, issued an apology to the gay muny 2017. The apology me wh a multiln-dollar payout to pensate victims of the “gay purge, ” those fired om the ary bee of their sexual orientatn, and thorized a memorial to the victims of those persecuted for their sexual orientatn the pal cy of Ottawa.

WARREN COM OUT FOR ‘GAY REPARATNS’

An obv factor behd the layed arrival of gay reparatns the Uned Stat is that the subject of reparatns is particularly vexg Amerin society, stemmg om the still-unsettled legacy of slavery and om racism. Some crics of gay reparatns such as the nservative polil mentator Michael Medved have mataed that gay people are not servg of reparatns bee unlike Black Amerins, gay people are not victims of multigeneratnal damage, meang that whatever ills homophobia may have ed the past, the ills are not the same as those left behd by slavery, as they do not rry over om generatn to generatn.

ELIZABETH WARREN INTRODUCED A BILL TO PAY GAY REPARATNS

Medved also pots to the enomic succs of some the Amerin LGBTQ muny (which has generated the mythil notn that LGBTQ Amerins are more affluent than the populatn at large) as a reason for why gay reparatns are rndant. As argued by a wrer for the right-wg webse RedState, gay reparatns would allow for reparatn claims by the “obe, the disfigured, the disabled, the short, the bald, ” and also by “[m]igrants who weren’t treated kdly when they tried to enter the U.

Seen om a global perspective, though, there appears to be more pellg reasons the Uned Stat is a gay reparatns laggard. Gay reparatns movements abroad, pecially Spa, Bra, and Germany—untri that pneered the gay reparatns movement—have waged their stggl as a human rights csa.

ELIZABETH WARREN OFFERS REPARATNS TO GAY UPL WHO ULDN'T FILE JOT TAX RETURNS

Inspired by human rights activism, gay reparatns activists have emphasized the need for reparatns as a moral obligatn tend to rtore digny to LGBTQ people. They have also leveraged historil narrativ of homosexual reprsn to fluence public opn and policy toward the LGBTQ muny, such as the opprsn of gays and lbians unr Nazi Germany or unr the homophobic laws of the Francis Fran regime Spa, and shamed public officials for failg to stand up for the human rights of LGBTQ people. A ls apparent factor the Uned Stat’ laggg on gay reparatns li wh the Amerin LGBTQ rights movement self.

DEMOCRAT HOE UNANIMOLY OKS ‘GAY REPARATNS’ BILL GIVG TAX REFUNDS TO SAME-SEX UPL

Yet recent s, gay rights activism the Uned Stat, when seen through ternatnal lens, has been relatively nservative. That latter argument me to be known as “the nservative se for gay marriage, ” which ntend that Amerin society, cludg nservativ, should support same-sex marriage bee would bolster tradnal valu.

Framg the stggle for same-sex marriage around such most goals as strengtheng homosexual hoeholds wasted a great opportuny to engage society a broad bate about the role of LGBTQ people society. It also ma harr for gay activists to expand the stggle for LGBTQ rights beyond marriage and to such areas as transgenr rights and gay reparatns. The shortgs, however, should not portend the end of gay reparatns the Uned Stat beyond the Stonewall apology.

It took the Uned Kgdom more than a century to reckon wh s own persecutn of gay men unr the charge of gross cency. Asi om rtorg digny to the victims of state-sponsored polici of anti-gay discrimatn and vlence, gay reparatns hold the promise of puttg an end to the history of opprsn of LGBTQ people while remdg future generatns of the sacrific and stggl that me before them. Frh off of holdg a wily panned hearg on reparatns for black people last week, Democrats went ahead and took their panrg to the next level by phg for what are beg scribed by some as reparatns for homosexuals.

WARREN PROMIS REPARATNS FOR GAY COUPL

Elizabeth Warren unveiled a bill, the so-lled Refund Equaly Act, that would, if signed to law, effectively force the ernment to dole out reparatns to gay upl. On the basis that the gay upl who were married before gay marriage was legalized natnally were robbed of the tax benefs that they allegedly serve. “If the act pass, LGBTQ+ upl married stat where their unn was regnized before gay marriage was legalized natnwi 2013 uld amend their past tax returns to receive IRS refunds, ” an overview of the law posted to Mic reads.

It wasn’t until marriage equaly beme law that gay & lbian upl uld jotly file tax returns—so they paid more tax. Ever sce Warren unveiled this plan Thursday, she’s faced a barrage of cricism on social media, some of om the gay muny self. As much as I agree that gay upl should be able to claim jot / married tax stat, the shear $’s you are lookg to throw around your mpaign is gettg ridiculo.

Perhaps the most high-profile persecutns of gays were those perpetrated by the Nazis durg the send world war. Thoands of gay men were sent to ncentratn mps where they were forced to wear a pk triangle and ultimately killed. From the 12th century, gays Christian Europe were strated, pated, drowned swamps and burned at the stake.

ELIZABETH WARREN IS FIGHTG FOR “GAY REPARATNS”

There are still 71 untri that crimalise nsensual gay sex — half of which are Commonwealth natns — but thankfully this number is gog down.

They n also clu memorialisg the victims of state-sponsored reprsn of gays, as Germany did 2008 when unveiled a memorial to gay victims of the Holot.

ELIZABETH WARREN ENDORS “GAY REPARATNS”

In 2017, for stance, the UK issued posthumo pardons to thoands of gay and bisexual men nvicted of “gross cency” the past, cludg Alan Turg, the mathematician who famoly broke the Germans’ Enigma s durg the send world war. Ocsnally, gay reparatns n volve fancial pensatn for wag or pensns lost due to time spent prison or a mental stutn bee of a homosexual offense.

Homophobic hate speech by policians is on the rise many plac, and Poland, nearly 100 loli have clared themselv “anti-LGBTQ” zon. Omar G Enrnacn, a US scholar who wrote the new book The Case for Gay Reparatns, intified five arguments ed by opponents agast gay reparatns:.

is wrong to apply today’s valu to the historic persecutn of gays bee the discrimatn perpetrated agast gays the past was generally legal at the time. gay reparatns lack jtifitn bee, unlike the se of racial discrimatn, there is ltle evince of tergeneratnal damage lked to anti-gay discrimatn. Enrnacn systematilly refut each of the arguments, notg that crics of gay reparatns are misrmed about the purpose of acknowledgg and repairg the wrongs perpetrated agast LGBTQ people.

WARREN TRODUC BILL TO UNLOCK LNS TAX REFUNDS NIED TO GAY UPL

Their arguments rely on stereotyp and flawed parisons between gays and other groups that have been persecuted (pecially Ain Amerins), and generally show a lack empathy for the gay muny.

There is a clear trend towards untri crimalisg homosexualy wh Bhutan, Angola, Gabon, Botswana, Mozambique, the Seychell and Tridad and Tobago all abolishg the laws recent years. It is time all untri acknowledge and offer reparatns for the mistak of homophobic laws that have targeted gays and stroyed lns of liv.

In 2016, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, a world first, apologised for the homophobic laws of the past his state. Durg Gay Pri Month, she apparently believ the gay muny is greedy, selfish and uld be relied upon to thk only of themselv. “Cg a tax that was ‘discrimatory’ agast non-heterosexual married upl, Warren tweeted Saturday, ‘It wasn’t until marriage equaly beme law that gay & lbian upl uld jotly file tax returns — so they paid more tax.