Gay muny - Cizendium

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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY
• GAY MUNY
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny (LGBTQ muny), also lled LGBTQ+ muny, any untry, regn, cy, or other loly, a group of persons who intify as lbian, gay ( the narrow sense of beg a male who is sexually or romantilly attracted to other mal), bisexual, transgenr, or queer and who feel some gree of empathy and solidary wh each other based on their shared experience of prejudice, discrimatn, and disrpect or their awarens of the historil and ntemporary opprsn of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) persons. The historil and ntemporary stggl of LGBTQ muni for equal legal and civil rights are discsed the article gay rights movement; see also same-sex marriage.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

Consirg a recent survey by the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) found that 12 percent of the populatn intifi as LGBTQIA+, 's more ccial than ever to unrstand the termology around this growg muny. Until somewhat recently, variatns of the term "gay muny" were ed to enpass the entirety of the group that we now refer to as LGBTQIA+. Magaze, the first acronym to take shape the 1990s was "GLBT, " ed to scribe those who intified as eher gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr.

" This notatn clus space for those intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (and some s, "qutng"), tersex, asexual (and sometim "ally"), and the "+" is for a plethora of other orientatns and inti. Before the latter half of the 19th century, the word "gay" simply referred to someone who was "reee, " "cheerful, " or "bright and showy, " acrdg to The Oxford Dictnary of Difficult Words. Sce then, the word "gay" has fully replaced the term "homosexual, " which many found to be too clil and was riddled wh stigma.

Acrdg to the Universy of Illois, "gay" is still ed to scribe a number of thgs, cludg the LGBTQIA+ muny as a whole, a sgle dividual who do not intify as straight, and men who are attracted to other men a "romantic, erotic and/or emotnal sense. (And, while this should go whout sayg, the ia that intifyg as bisexual is a "way statn" om straight to gay is an accurate and hurtful stereotype.

GAY MUNY

The "A" LGBTQIA+ n also refer to the term "ally, " which is ed to fe someone who "nonts heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, heterosexual, and genrstraight privilege themselv and others, " acrdg to the Universy of Illois. The gay muny is a socially nstcted llective reference that refers to those people society who are homosexual, and who teract to some gree wh other homosexual people, the pursu of some mon homosexual-related tert. The ncept of a 'gay muny' is a relatively recent nstct, whereby people who are homosexual, or, broar terms, people who are of a GLBT (Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr) sexual or genr orientatn, are perceived as havg some monaly of tert, and some level of teractn or nnectedns wh each other, often to advance perceived mon objectiv - whether social, polil, sexual or others.

Prr to the Stonewall rts New York Cy 1969, there existed a ls visible form of gay muny that ually operated behd closed doors and was centered around socializg. Polil and social advancement of what might now be seen as gay civil rights issu was an early, or non-existent, state of velopment prr to this time most untri.

There were gay people before 1969 who might today be tegorized as gay activists, but they lacked general gay muny support, as many GLBT people were ncerned at this time about beg public about their sexualy due to fear of beg discrimated agast. The same regn of the USA provis a eful illtratn of the evolvg and 'sporadic' rat of change social acceptance experienced by gay people var regns around the world. [3] Reflectg shiftg Amerin attus towards the gay muny, the 2002 ballot saw fundg to reta the new anti-discrimatn laws beg provid by var rporatns, and, on this send ocsn, voters rejected the attempt to overturn the laws that provi certa legal protectns to GLBT people the regn.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

As wh other llective groupgs society, the gay 'muny' is prised of many different dividuals wh many different dividual circumstanc life, often wh unique and very different personal backgrounds. To suggt that there is a sgle 'gay muny' necsarily subsum the dividual's experience to the llective reprentatn, which is of urse simplistic but nohels may be eful nsirg how the liv of GLBT people n be different om - as well as the same as - the mastream experience.

One mon bond between most members of the gay muny is the fact that homosexualy most cultur is the exceptn rather than the social norm. This aspect of 'otherns' om mastream society n create a monaly of experience that is shared by many members of the gay muny across geographil boundari, legal systems and cultural backgrounds. Some dividuals who happen to be lbian or gay prefer to not see themselv as formg part of the llective groupg known as 'the' gay muny, although by teractg wh to even a limed extent their daily liv they may nohels ntribute to s existence, even where they might disavow beg a member of .

It is possible to ntend that not all homosexual people should necsarily be viewed as members of 'the gay muny', as some may live liv not volvg any signifint teractn wh other homosexual people at all, the sense of not teractg wh other people who are behavg durg any such teractns as 'members' of the gay muny themselv. The very ncept of belongg to a gay muny is also one that is, on differg ocsns, both embraced as well as disrpected by many who might be nsired to be members of .