A pellg and timely visn for gay reparatns the Uned Stat In the last two s many natns have adopted gay reparatns, or polici tend to make amends for a history of discrimatn, stigmatizatn, and vlence on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty.
Contents:
- GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE
- GAY REPARATNS? ELIZABETH WARREN TRODUC BILL TO PAY CERTA SAME-SEX UPL
- THE CASE FOR GAY REPARATNS
GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE
A brief history of gay persecutn.
Perhaps the most high-profile persecutns of gays were those perpetrated by the Nazis durg the send world war.
Thoands of gay men were sent to ncentratn mps where they were forced to wear a pk triangle and ultimately killed. But the history of gay persecutn predat the Holot, and has ntued after the Nazi regime end. From the 12th century, gays Christian Europe were strated, pated, drowned swamps and burned at the stake.
GAY REPARATNS? ELIZABETH WARREN TRODUC BILL TO PAY CERTA SAME-SEX UPL
There are still 71 untri that crimalise nsensual gay sex — half of which are Commonwealth natns — but thankfully this number is gog down. What are gay reparatns? There are numero forms that gay reparatns n take.
They n also clu memorialisg the victims of state-sponsored reprsn of gays, as Germany did 2008 when unveiled a memorial to gay victims of the Holot. Gay reparatns often clu pardons to those nvicted of the “crime” of beg gay. In 2017, for stance, the UK issued posthumo pardons to thoands of gay and bisexual men nvicted of “gross cency” the past, cludg Alan Turg, the mathematician who famoly broke the Germans’ Enigma s durg the send world war.
Ocsnally, gay reparatns n volve fancial pensatn for wag or pensns lost due to time spent prison or a mental stutn bee of a homosexual offense. What are the arguments agast gay reparatns? There is strong ristance to the ia of gay reparatns some untri, pecially the Uned Stat.
THE CASE FOR GAY REPARATNS
Some of the opposn is rooted n-of-the-l homophobia. Homophobic hate speech by policians is on the rise many plac, and Poland, nearly 100 loli have clared themselv “anti-LGBTQ” zon. But the arguments agast gay reparatns are more nuanced.
Omar G Enrnacn, a US scholar who wrote the new book The Case for Gay Reparatns, intified five arguments ed by opponents agast gay reparatns:. is wrong to apply today’s valu to the historic persecutn of gays bee the discrimatn perpetrated agast gays the past was generally legal at the time. gay reparatns are divisive and take inty polics and “victimhood” to a new level.
gay reparatns lack jtifitn bee, unlike the se of racial discrimatn, there is ltle evince of tergeneratnal damage lked to anti-gay discrimatn. they are rndant bee of the enomic succs of the gay muny. Enrnacn systematilly refut each of the arguments, notg that crics of gay reparatns are misrmed about the purpose of acknowledgg and repairg the wrongs perpetrated agast LGBTQ people.