This narrative review of the rearch lerature prents a summary about the key issu facg people wh tellectual disabily (ID) who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex or qutng (LGBTIQ). The aim of this review was to nsolidate rearch of the topic; to intify …
Contents:
- ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?
- ARE AMICS DISPROPORTNATELY GAY?
- SAT LOUIS GAY INTELLECTUALS MEETUP GROUP
- HOW A STUBBORN EX-FERAL EMPLOYEE LNCHED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- A NARRATIVE REVIEW OF THE LERATURE ABOUT PEOPLE WH TELLECTUAL DISABILY WHO INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, TERSEX OR QUTNG
ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?
In the 1970s, gay and lbian Wt Germans sought to answer the qutn of what meant to fe polil solidary om sexual inty. * gay intellectuals *
Although historians pot out ad nseam the so-lled appropriatens of applyg morn nstcts such as "gay, " "bisexual, " "homosexual, " or "queer" to an ancient kg like Alexanr, no ser historian doubts that history's penultimate warrr-monarch was attracted to men. By enablg Brish telligence to Enigma msag, Alan Turg also enabled the Alli to feat the Adolf Hler World War, the Brish ernment "thanked" Turg for his wartime efforts by arrtg him 1952 for the "crime" of homosexualy.
Soon after beg chemilly strated by orr of a Brish urt as punishment for beg gay, Turg died by suici, gtg cyani, addn to ventg morn putg, Turg also nceptualizied and created a scientific tt for nfirmg artificial telligence. The Universy of Illois at Sprgfield's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Allied Rource Office offers a tratg, however technilly accurate, asssment of the sexual ambiguy of the legendary sculptor and pater of the ceilg at the Siste Chapel Rome.
Before he was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Masne, Milk helped stave off a nservative backlash agast LGBT equaly the form of the so-lled Briggs Iniative, which would have barred gay people om teachg California's public was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.
ARE AMICS DISPROPORTNATELY GAY?
* gay intellectuals *
Sce Milk's victory, hundreds of LGBT ndidat have been elected across the were a few out gay and lbian ndidat elected before Milk, cludg Elae Noble to the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ and Kathy Kozachenko to the Ann Arbor, Mich., Cy Council, both 1974. For weeks 1997, Ameri wonred and ABC's publicy partment fueled speculatn about whether or not DeGener's character would follow the lead of the real-life lbian who played her by g wh clever humor cludg a gag about receivg a ee kchen appliance for exg the closet (an obv reference to the age-old homophobic notn that the LGBT muny "recs" members), the wily viewed g-out episo of Ellen ma televisn history — and ma a lghg natn measurably more fortable wh and acceptg of gay people general.
Dpe his personal undog followg his arrt, nvictn, and sentence of two years hard labor for the "crime" of homosexualy (technilly, "gross cency"), the wrer of classics such a The Importance of Beg Earnt and The Picture of Dorian Gray remas one of the wrten word's most famo and celebrated artists.
SAT LOUIS GAY INTELLECTUALS MEETUP GROUP
One participant, who intifi as a First Natns trans lbian, shared her experience: "They ll me sister and everythg else, they don't re if you're trans gay or lbian, don't matter what.
HOW A STUBBORN EX-FERAL EMPLOYEE LNCHED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis. His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. “Concealable Stigma and Occupatnal Segregatn: Toward a Theory of Gay and Lbian Occupatns” origally was published by Admistrative Science Quarterly and featured recently the London School of Enomics and Polil Science's Bs Review blog.
A NARRATIVE REVIEW OF THE LERATURE ABOUT PEOPLE WH TELLECTUAL DISABILY WHO INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, TERSEX OR QUTNG
Buildg on their earlier study of gay and straight workers, as well as the existg lerature on ncealable stigmas and stigma management, the thors veloped several hypoth about why certa kds of jobs -- cludg faculty posns -- reportedly employ a disproportnate number of gay men and women. Task pennce is likely to be particularly important for lbian and gay workers, the thors predicted, bee “they tend to see workers and supervisors as the most mon source of potential mistreatment and discrimatn the workplace.