The History of Gay Liberatn | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• GAY LIBERATN
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: ONE VICTORY AT A TIME
• THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
• GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage).

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

Nearly 50 years ago, LGBTQ+ activists achieved what was lled the “greatt gay victory” of the time: succsfully phg members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) to remove the diagnosis of homosexualy om the official classifitn of mental illns, the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM).

The classifitn of mental illns was born om the legacy of multiple systems of power: the Amerin legal system crimalized homosexual behavr; feral and state ernments had not yet dified protectns for queer and trans people seekg employment and hog; and an sistence on heteronormative genr rol stigmatized anyone who viated om their role as a “woman” or a “man. Stone, Internatnal Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavral Scienc (Send Edn), 2015Gay Liberatn and Lbian FemismAlthough the growth of the gay liberatn movement is often attributed to the rt at the Stonewall Inn, the strength of the movement probably rulted om the dramatic rise radilism the late 1960s.

GAY LIBERATN

This antism was buoyed by the assassatn of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office polics of gay liberatn the Uned Stat was quickly bet by iologil differenc, cludg a divi between revolutnary iologi, redistributive polil iologi, and sgle-tert polics (Armstrong, 2002).

By the early 1970s, the morn gay movement stggled to clu diversy wh the muny; although the iologil emphasis of the movement was ‘uny through diversy, ’ this diversy was often limed to sexual and iologil differenc between whe gay men (Armstrong, 2002) this time, many lbians beme volved lbian femism rather than gay liberatn. ” Many lbians foced on buildg separate women-only muni rather than engagg wh male-domated gay liberatn, although by the end of the 1970s some lbians had phed for more cln the gay liberatn movement, which was creasgly referred to as the ‘gay and lbian movement’ (Armstrong, 2002). Miller, Verta Taylor, Internatnal Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavral Scienc (Send Edn), 2015The Polil Potential of DragDurg the 1969 Stonewall rts New York, which sparked the morn gay liberatn movement, drag queens and transgenr women were among the most ant protters agast police discrimatn and btaly toward gay muni.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: ONE VICTORY AT A TIME

However, the polil role of drag queens and drag kgs gay and lbian muni has warranted creased scholarly attentn, wh the rise of queer theory and the growg field of genr studi sce the primary assertn of queer theorists is that drag problematiz the unrstandg of genr as naturally attached to particular bodi and that the socially nstcted nature of genr is revealed through drag (for more rmatn, see Butler, 1990; Rupp and Taylor, 2003).

THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

Through the aroal of sire across l of genr and sexualy, drag queens seek to blur and stabilize distctns between heterosexualy and homosexualy (for more rmatn, see Rupp et al., 2010; Taylor and Rupp, 2006; Rupp and Taylor, 2003) kgs, on the other hand, often challenge sexual and genr norms through the explic enactment of multigenred sir on the stage. Tunten are part of a stigmatized subcultural muny that engag explicly exprsed polil activy, ntrary to their glamoro drag queen unterparts whose impersonatns of celebri warrant them a great al of prtige the ntemporary gay muny of Berl, which emphasiz smopolan nsumerism and dividualy (Balzer, 2004) full chapterURL: RightsE. What stands out about s methodology are s genero quotatns of lerary texts, the most notable of which are the poems of Abu Nuwas, the eighth-/nth-century Arab-Persian poet known for his praise of we and the love of boys and such as this have often been ployed by partisans of both sis of the sentialism/social nstctn bate regardg the history of homosexualy.

Likewise, John Boswell, his foundatnal study for lbian and gay studi, would wre 1980:Although the Qur'an and early relig wrgs of Islam display dly negative attus toward homosexualy, Islamic society has generally ignored the pretns, and most Mlim cultur have treated homosexualy wh difference, if not admiratn.

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GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

2) a lbian uc is probably the bt way to attack gay guys’ male chvism, and challenge the straightns of women’s liberatn; 3) as mal we mt be sensive to their velopg inti as women, and rpect that; if we know what our eedom is about, they certaly know what’s bt for them. The gay liberatn was able to e persuasn wh self directed, that they are created, led, and populated primarily by those who perceive themselv to be disposssed and are stgglg primarily for personal eedom, equaly, jtice, and rights, and wh other directed, that they are created, led, and populated primarily by those who do not perceive themselv disposssed and are stgglg for the eedom, equaly, jtice, and rights of others.

GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

Soon they were advotg nothg ls than “gay liberatn”.From nscns-raisg groups to fundraisg danc, protts outsi hostile newspapers to refug for homels trans and queer people, this surge LGBTQ+ anisg took many forms, and as the first anniversary of the rts me to view, some the muny began discsg how bt to mark what was beg regard as the “Bastille day” of gay rights. For s a bate has raged between different elements of the muny: is Pri supposed to be a prott, or a party?The roots of that bate go back to s earlit days, and suggt that Pri and the Stonewall rts have always been part of a ntent battle for inty and ownership – a battle that has helped produce the very ia of what beg a lbian, gay, bisexual , transgenr or queer person might mean.The Stonewall rts were not the birth of the gay rights movement.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

Seven years before that, when police had raid Coopers, a donut shop the cy ntled between two gay bars, LGBTQ+ patrons had attacked officers after the arrt of a number of drag queens, sex workers and gay men.There had been a gay rights movement the US among people scribg themselv as “homophil” sce the late 40s. It wasn’t the first such movement the world; was preced by the prewar mpaigng Weimar Germany around sexologist Magn Hirschfeld’s Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, which had mpaigned for creased rights for, and study of, sexual and genr-variant people.Hirschfeld’s scientific approach, bed wh his sympathetic treatment of LGBTQ+ people – he was himself homosexual – had been key velopg the ia that their shared experienc uld be unrstood not jt as discrete sexual (and crimal) acts, nor as psychiatric illns, but as a legible sexual and genr inty, which uld be afford civil rights.