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LOUISIANA GAY RIGHTS NEWSWIRE

LGBT Rights Louisiana, Uned Stat: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * louisiana gay right *

HistoryHomosexual activy Louisiana?

LOUISIANA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS, ADVANC TO SENATE

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Homosexual activy Louisiana is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Louisiana?

Gay rights prottors march through a French Quarter street to prott sger Ana Bryant performg New Orleans on June 18, 1977.

LOUISIANA GAY RIGHTS GROUP PLANS TO CHALLENGE STATE'S SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN

Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights anizatn, nmns the Louisiana Hoe for passg HB… * louisiana gay right *

Rints who would now intify as “queer” have existed Louisiana sce before s foundg, but the polil movement for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) rights emerged slowly throughout the late twentieth century, as pared to other Amerin stat wh sizable queer populatns.

LOUISIANA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASS, ADVANC TO SENATE

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As Republin-drafted legislatn that prohibs school employe om teachg sexual orientatn or genr inty the classroom mounts, Louisiana lawmakers advanced their own “Don’t Say Gay” bill Tuday. * louisiana gay right *

Into the 1970s “gay polics” was often nsired a dangero phrase Louisiana society, where same-sex acts had been illegal sce 1805.

Natnal movements such as Gay Liberatn experienced early rejectn to the 1960s, but a grassroots polil awakeng did occur 1977, when anti-homosexual spokperson and sger Ana Bryant vised New Orleans and spired a massive gay prott. The 1980 foundg of the Louisiana Lbian and Gay Polil Actn Cc, popularly known as LAGPAC, gave the state s first staable gay polil group. In 1991 LAGPAC led a aln that secured the passage of a nondiscrimatn ordance protectg homosexuals New Orleans.

Statewi efforts, however, would be largely stymied wh the exceptn of a hate-crim law protectg gays and lbians, which passed 1997. Prr to World War II, “homosexualy, ” as flourished wh the state’s cultural herage, lacked a fg amework or even an agreed-upon language.

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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed an anti-discrimatn orr on Wednday protectg the rights of gay and transgenr people, aligng his state on the liberal si of a polil divi playg out across the U.S. South. * louisiana gay right *

It wasn’t until World War II, when draft boards intified homosexualy as a disqualifyg “4-F” characteristic, that the medil term “homosexual” entered mon age. Likewise, Louisianans rejected the words “gay” and “lbian” to the 1970s, as their e of eher was nsired an act of advocy for then-crimal behavr. As secrecy erned same-sex behavr for several centuri, Louisiana’s earlit gay history mostly exists the form of crimal rerds for flagrant offens.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As Republin-drafted legislatn that prohibs school employe om teachg sexual orientatn or genr inty the classroom mounts, Louisiana lawmakers advanced their own “Don’t Say Gay” bill Tuday. * louisiana gay right *

One of the first rerd stanc of homosexualy Louisiana dat to 1724.

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Heterosexual cizens who attacked or robbed sex “viat” (a mon midcentury term ed by police and public officials to scribe homosexuals) were rarely charged or nvicted, as such victims were nsired to be outsi the law’s protectn.

For example, 1958 a Mexin tour gui named Fernando Rs was lured om a Bourbon Street gay bar and then ambhed and beaten to ath. Lol harassment ordanc to “drive out the viat” expand amid the anti-munist hysteria followg World War II, unterg a postwar populatn boom that occurred when a generatn of gay men who’d served foreign nflicts moved to ci like New Orleans.

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