A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements

Contents:

• GAYISM
• IS "GAYISM" A WORD OR NOT?
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

GAYISM

In his opn, inty studi should be avoid--the history of Ameri do not need to be slanted by femism, homosexualism, or any other "isms.

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- The legatn of Namibia at the UN Human Rights Council Universal Perdic Review of Namibia's human rights performance, March 2011To the Mlims, homosexualism ntraven the shariah penal I have to ask: What are we--the so-lled homophob--gog to do now, to fight revolutnary homosexualism?

IS "GAYISM" A WORD OR NOT?

Children were beg vad--by ias of munism and atheism the 1950s, by femism and homosexualism the 1960s and 1970s (not that any of the tegori is so clearly fed)--and the product was terrifyg.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned.

Homosexualy was not unmon ancient Greece and Rome, and the relatnships between adult and adolcent mal particular have bee a chief foc of Wtern classicists recent years. Others—om factns wh mastream Prottantism to anizatns of Reform rabbis—have advoted, on theologil as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relatnships.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn. The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, for example, classified “ego-syntonic homosexualy” (the ndn of a person ntent wh his or her homosexualy) as a mental illns 1973.

Nohels, some relig groups ntue to emphasize reparative therapy the attempt to “cure” homosexualy through prayer, unselg, and behavur modifitn.