Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights.
Contents:
- GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- FAMO GAYS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
- THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * gay throughout history *
Ancient Tim: Cultur such as the Indian, Che, Egyptian, Greek and Roman acmodate homosexualy and crossdrsg among a mory of s cizens sce the earlit rerd tim.
One of the earlit Egyptian pharaohs associated wh homosexualy is Kg Neferkare, who is scribed havg an affair wh his top ary manr, Sase, durg the Sixth Dynasty. Eighth-century Greek epics like the Iliad and Odyssey portray homosexual unns between gods and young men such as Zs and Ganyme, Poseidon and Pelops, Apollo and Hyacth, etc.
India’s Manmri (Manu Samha) lists homosexual behavr as a mor offense for ordary, twice-born mal and for unrage, unmarried girls but do not nmn otherwise.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
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The Dark Ag: Wh the advent of Christiany, homosexualy and crossdrsg are crimalized the Roman Empire but rema wily accepted throughout the rt of the world. The Middle Eastern ctom of stratg homosexual slav and hoe servants be monplace the East Roman Empire (Byzantium) and is troduced to northern Cha and India.
Seventy-five homosexuals are sentenced to ath and garroted the Cy Hall cellars of Holland durg a harsh mpaign to extermate that untry of sodomy “om top to bottom.
London’s most popular playwright, Osr Wil, is nvicted of “gross cency” (homosexual acts not amountg to buggery) and sentenced to two years of hard labor a highly-publicized trial.
FAMO GAYS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
In June, homosexual rts break out on Christopher Street at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy as a rponse to route police harassment, markg the begng of the morn gay rights movement.
A prehensive study of female-female seagull pairg on Santa Barbara Island (California) creat a sensatn as the first publicized observatn of homosexualy the animal kgdom. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn remov homosexualy om s list of mental and emotnal disorrs, followed two years later by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.
Chris Vogel and Rich North, a gay uple om Wnipeg, Canada, shock the world by beg the first homosexual uple to publicly marry a church and file a legal challenge to the untry’s ban on same-sex marriage. Morn gay movements beg to effect change Lat Ameri and parts of Asia while most Ain, Middle Eastern and East European untri are held back by anti-gay relig fundamentalism. LGBTQ+ HistoryA look at the long road through love, discrimatn, visibily, propaganda, activism, acceptance, and hope the LGBTQ muny around the world and throughout all the progrs the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement has ma recent years, many see acceptance as the way of the future and homophobia as a marker of the past.
THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
While 's te queer people through the urse of history have been margalized and opprsed many cultur, there were many plac and tim history when beg gay was celebrated, or at least unrstood as a normal part of life. The rerd history of homosexualy is rather short; the bary of "straight" and "gay" is a newly rerd and talked about ncept, globally speakg, and before the troductn of tolerant relig moral s, most pre-lonial societi had more fluid ncepts of genr rol. Here's a quick lson on homosexualy throughout greenworlr / Wikimedia Commons / Public DomaFemale-female relatnships are largely undocumented ancient Greece, wh one signifint exceptn.
Many prent-day Ain natns have strict anti-homosexualy laws place, but ntrary to assertns by the former Print of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe, homosexualy is not "anti-Ain" — and far om .
Most trib had unique words for different LGBTQ+ dividuals and practic, and many trib shared the belief homosexualy was jt somethg adolcents engaged as natural part of the velopment procs. In a society that was known for their sacred ncub, ndong ter-faial relatnships, and believg afterlife terurse, homosexualy was seen as nothg out of the ordary. In addn to lnchg the New York chapter of the lbian anizatn, Dghters of Bilis (which she ran form 1958 to 1963), she eded their natnal magaze and was known for standg ont and center picket l prottg anti-gay discrimatn.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
He won a spot on the Cy-County Board 1977 after earng the nickname "Mayor of Castro Street, " makg him the first openly gay elected official California.
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below14 Jam BaldwGetty ImagBaldw was wrg gay and bisexual characters years before the LGBTQ movement fully took form and up until his ath 1987. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below17 Karl Herich UlrichsAlamyRevered as a pneer of the morn gay rights movement, Ulrich was a German wrer creded as the first person to publicly "e out" 1862.