Wisns, once known as the "Gay Rights State," has a long legacy of LGBTQ+ figur and activism.
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
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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.
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 *
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.
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.
GAYT PLAC IN WISNS FOR 2020
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.