History of the Gay Rights Movement

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

GAY RIGHTS

For the first time s four- history, Ameri’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn has clared a natnal state of emergency for members of the LGBTQ+ muny, the Human Rights Campaign said Tuday.

“In many s they are rultg vlence agast LGBTQ+ people, forcg fai to uproot their liv and flee their hom search of safer stat, and triggerg a tidal wave of creased homophobia and transphobia that puts the safety of each and every one of at risk. The Natnal LGBTQ Task Force is dited to achievg eedom and jtice for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer people, and their fai through proactive, targeted, change-ducg iativ.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

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Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury lawHong Kong anisers of the Gay Gam are unr prsure om some foreign officials and participants who say they will stay away om the November event to avoid “accintally” breachg the cy’s strict natnal secury ncerns have e on top of recent lls by some LGBTQ activists Hong Kong for the event to be ncelled, and protts by nservative only four months to go, the anisers have pledged to prs on, hopg to h their target of 3, 000 participants for the first edn of the gam to be held Gam ambassadors pose for a photo March. ChengUned Stat-based Shamey Cramer, an honorary life member of the ternatnal Feratn of Gay Gam, told the Post there was “a safety and secury issue” Hong Kong. Unpackg Hong Kong’s natnal secury law, 3 years onTaiwan’s gam affiliate said earlier that would not take part the Hong Kong event, wh Kev Yang Chih-chun, print of the Taiwan Gay Sports and Movement Associatn, also cg worri about the natnal secury secury mister Rega Ip, nvenor of the cy’s key cisn-makg body, the Executive Council, dismissed the ncerns raised by those refg to travel to Hong Kong.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The last edn was held Paris 2018, attractg 10, 000 Hong Kong event was meant to be held last year, but was postponed bee of the Covid-19 panmic, and the targeted number of participants was entire st would be fund by sponsorship, private donatns and participant fe, the anisers one-year untdown to the Gay Gam is held November.

Among those attendg were Hong Kong Gay Gam -chair Alan Lang (fourth om left), top adviser Rega Ip (centre) and Lan Kwai Fong Group chairman Allan Zeman (fourth om right). ”The natnal secury law targets secsn, subversn, terrorism and lln wh foreign Kong Gay Gam anisers refe to ncel event face of activists’ warngMeanwhile, there have been at least three recent stanc of nservative groups prottg agast the gam beg held Hong rint who preferred to rema anonymo told the Post he saw three lol women who gathered near the Polytechnic Universy mp on July 13 nounce the Gam.

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

“There was a woman wh a megaphone sayg the Gay Gam and gay culture were poisong teenagers Hong Kong, ” he other protts volvg small groups happened this month, cludg one near the Legislative Council prottg at the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR statn on July 12 had a flier claimg they had support om 15 groups, mostly associated wh anisers said they did not believe the protts signalled growg opposn. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. (Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny.

) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. ” Homosexual and bisexual men and women were given voice 1897 wh the foundg of the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (Wissenschaftlich-humanär Komee; WhK) Berl. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power.

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.

In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.

The gay rights movement was begng to w victori for legal reform, particularly wtern Europe, but perhaps the sgle fg event of gay activism occurred the Uned Stat. In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly.

Groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power) the Uned Stat and Stonewall and Outrage!

Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons. In the Uned Stat, gay activists won support om the Democratic Party 1980, when the party add to s platform nondiscrimatn clse a plank cludg sexual orientatn.

This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat.

In addn, 2019 Lori Lightfoot beme the first openly gay person to be elected mayor of Chigo, and two years later Pete Buttigieg beme the first openly gay bet member Amerin history. Large ci Europe also were fertile grounds for succs for openly gay policians; for example, Bertrand Delanoë Paris and Kls Wowere Berl were both elected mayor 2001. At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment.

In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006).