In a polil first, two gay ndidat face off ngrsnal electn

Contents:

• HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
• GAY DEM
• FEATURED STORI
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• GAY DEM BLASTS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE FOR GOG AFTER DRAG SHOWS AT HEARG
• GAY DEM WHISTLEBLOWER TTIFI IRS BLOCKED FROM INVTIGATG BIN FAY
• IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
• AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

It was the send time the Democratic-led Hoe had passed the measure, known as the Equaly Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add explic bans on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people both public and private spac.

People n be discrimated agast bee of who they are, or who they love, ” said Reprentative David Cicille, an openly gay Democrat om Rho Island and the lead sponsor. Several Republins assailed the Equaly Act as dangero, leadg one top Democrat, Reprentative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to acce them of believg that gay and transgenr people “are morally ferr, and that firg should be permted.

Maloney, the openly gay chairman of Hoe Democrats’ mpaign arm.

GAY DEM

”In a landmark cisn June, the Supreme Court led that the 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn, and that the language of the law, which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex, also appli to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. Chamber of Gay Stolberg ntributed reportg. Supreme Court support of anti-gay 's male ers may not reflect the larger LGBTQ muny which largely vot Democrat, and LGBTQ voters may have soured on Tmp havg seen his admistratn's handlg of queer pollg also suggts that most LGBTQ voters will oppose Tmp.

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FEATURED STORI

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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).

GAY DEM BLASTS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE FOR GOG AFTER DRAG SHOWS AT HEARG

By cg homosexualy as a mental illns, the APA and s members stigmatized LGBTQ+ people, and non-normative sexuali and genr exprsns. Declassifitn, as the years-long effort was known, culmated 1973, when May, LGBTQ+ voic were heard at the annual APA nference, and later the APA Board of Tste voted to remove homosexualy om the DSM.

The change signaled to the untry that there was not an herent lk between mental illns and homosexualy.

GAY DEM WHISTLEBLOWER TTIFI IRS BLOCKED FROM INVTIGATG BIN FAY

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.

In makg heterosexualy the “norm, ” the APA effectively ma homosexualy the “other. The mpaign to remove the “homosexualy” diagnosis om the DSM began earnt the 1960s, backed by a growg civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights movement across the untry. Dubbed the “homophile” movement, gay and lbian rights anizatns major ci like New York Cy, San Francis, and Philalphia started to prsure elected officials and lnch public mpaigns for LGBTQ+ visibily and rights.

Gay liberatn efforts were occurrg on a number of onts, and the APA classifitn effort was one part of the movement for equaly and acceptance. Activists ramped up their efforts after years of mpaigng om the outsi: they cid to go straight to the APA nferenc where practners attend panels and discsns of psychiatry and psychology—and uld prs to classify homosexualy. Karla Jay, a lbian activist who participated disptg a panel discsn on “sex problems” that advoted shock treatment to “cure” homosexualy, said that prottors shouted to the APA members, “off of the uch and to the streets!

IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN

In 1972, at the first nference that actually featured a panel discsn on homosexualy led by LGBTQ+ people, a gay practner, John Fryer, ttified on behalf of the classifitn mpaign.

Given the risk volved wh openly intifyg as a gay psychiatrist, Fryer prented himself as “Dr. “Pull your urage up by your bootstraps and disver ways which you as homosexual psychiatrists n be appropriately volved movements which attempt to change the attus of both homosexuals and heterosexuals toward homosexually, ” Fryer plead. The ver of The Gay Liberator, 1974, om the Reveal Digal “Inpennt Voic” llectn on JSTOR.

AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

As they had years past, gay activists dispted panels and gave speech. One of the more famo speech offered at the May 1973 APA nference Honolulu was by a gay activist named Ronald Gold, who told the APA members, “Stop , you’re makg me sick.