The Stonewall rts turn 50 this year. But gay liberatn was play years before — even Wisns — as a new book by Dick Wagner chronicl.
Contents:
- THE GAY PEOPL UNN, FOUND 50 YEARS AGO, LEFT A MARK ON MILWKEE'S LGBTQ+ MUNY
- THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
- GAYT PLAC IN WISNS FOR 2020
THE GAY PEOPL UNN, FOUND 50 YEARS AGO, LEFT A MARK ON MILWKEE'S LGBTQ+ MUNY
Wisns, once known as the "Gay Rights State," has a long legacy of LGBTQ+ figur and activism. * wisconsin and gay rights *
But they don't know that, for example, Wisns was lled the ‘Gay Rights State’ and was the first state to pass the nondiscrimatn law.
Their book clus everyone om early LGBTQ+ dividuals who were attacked for exprsg themselv, to the many activists and groups who cid to speak out the growg movement for gay rights.
Other LGBTQ+ Wisns history found creative ways to be te to themselv a society that didn’t accept them: The gay thor (and “prolific partier”) Glenway Wtt wrote fictnal versns of his life to his short stori, Kalvais said — like one which a male character drs up as a woman so he n go to a Halloween party as another man’s date. And the book tails the “magic group” n by Ted Pierce the 1950s, which beme a way for gay men to gather a safe muny. As the thors pot out the book, even as attus toward gay rights have shifted quickly, legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people are nsistent, and many still face discrimatn for their inti.
THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
The ‘parental rights’ movement is leadg to a growg sense of dread for gay and transgenr children while providg fuel to the right. * wisconsin and gay rights *
Proell scribed himself as a “saved” Christian who believ domnism, a form of Christian natnalism, and claims is a s to be gay or transgenr.
And nearly all “of the actual homophobia (and) transphobia that’s purposefully targeted towards queer people is om adults. In two of the school-based challeng, WILL has partnered wh Alliance Defendg Freedom, a Christian natnalist juggernt that has supported crimalizg gay sex and sterilizg transgenr people.
After gettg sued, the Kettle Morae School District announced a legal analysis had prompted them to vise a new terpretatn of a longstandg district policy, which now prohibs, among other thgs, staff om hangg gay pri flags on mp or cludg their own personal pronouns their email signatur. Evers is a proponent of same-sex marriage and has vowed to protect rights of gay people if the Supreme Court were to overturn the 2015 lg Obergefell v. ” The Michels mpaign did not rpond to qutns on whether he supports rtrictg LGBTQ+ materials K-12 schools or what efforts, if any, he'd take as ernor to rtrict gay rights.
GAYT PLAC IN WISNS FOR 2020
Sce takg the oath of office 2019, Evers has orred a flag symbolizg gay pri to be flown over the state Capol regnn of Pri Month. "He's even dodged qutns when asked whether he would take steps to lim the rights of gay people as ernor.
Baldw, who is the first openly gay senator and has been workg on gay rights issu sce she first entered state polics 1986, says the “world has changed, ” pecially sce the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. ” He said later that he believ “there is zero chance, below zero chance, that the Supreme Court or anyone is gog to outlaw gay marriage this untry. He has supported same-sex marriage sce 2013, when he announced that one of his sons is gay and that he believ people should be rpected for who they are.
When the Defense of Marriage Act passed the Senate 1996, only 14 Democrats opposed Stacy, a lead lobbyist for the Human Rights Campaign, says advot for same-sex marriage faced many setbacks the early 2000s, cludg state ballot measur to ban gay marriag. Today, Schwamb is the founr of the Wisns LGBTQ History Project and has spent s advotg for the gay muny Milwkee.