The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR STUDI
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- GAY RIGHTS
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR STUDI
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Studi Mor Program, Unrgraduate * lgbt history degree *
Jt as Women's Studi, for stance, is not only by, about, and for women, LGBT Studi is not only by, about, or for lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr people — clus all humany s purview. The field of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Studi both addrs the particulari of the morn forms of sexualy we ll lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (forms of sexualy that have only recently been able to claim for themselv the right to ser amic study) and further addrs the phenomenon of sexualy self all s historil and cross-cultural diversy.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
* lgbt history degree *
Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp.
However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary.
GAY RIGHTS
Whe, male, and Wtern activists whose groups and theori gaed leverage agast homophobia did not necsarily reprent the range of racial, class, and natnal inti plitg a broar LGBT agenda. Most historians agree that there is evince of homosexual activy and same-sex love, whether such relatnships were accepted or persecuted, every documented culture.
Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy. The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida.