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- ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
- MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
Kertbeny's role fightg for gay rights is rarely mentned. His one lastg legacy was that he was the man who vented homosexualy, or to be more precise, the one who ed the terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual." * who invented gay *
Or even LGBTQIA+ History terms for the muny of people that enpass people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual are as broad as that muny self: As society’s unrstandg, regnn, and cln of diverse sexual inti and genr exprsns has grown, so has s acronym. Over time, grew populary and was adopted by women who secretly, then proudly, loved other dawn of “homosexualy” and “bisexualy”Karl Herich Ulrichs, a 19th century German lawyer and wrer who may have intified as gay, was the first to try to label his own muny.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
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In 1869, the Pssian ernment ntemplated addg language that forba male same-genr sexual activy to s rponse, Kertbeny wrote a passnate, anonymo open letter to the Pssian mister of jtice llg the proposed law “shockg nonsense” and g the word “homosexualy, ” which he had prevly ed a private letter to Ulrichs.
Early gay rights groups and practners of the growg field of psychology eventually adopted the Reclaimg a slurIn the late 1960s, activists reclaimed a s-old slur, “gay. Activists also began g other terms like social variant, viant, and “homophile, ” which means “same love, ” an effort to sistep monly ed slurs, emphasize the lovg relatnships of same-genr relatnships, and prott discrimatory laws. The words were ed “as the means whereby dividuals uld make sense of their own experienc, their active-unrgog of beg homosexual a homophobic environment, ” wr soclogist J.
MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
“Transgenr” be part of LGBTIn the 1990s, the longstandg bonds between lbian, gay, and bisexual people both daily life and liberatn activism led to the wispread adoptn of the LGB acronym (lbian, gay and bisexual) took longer to ga acceptance for another term that is now part of the morn acronym: “transgenr. Issu the morn-day regardg genr inty and civil rights for members of the LGBTQ muny are a relatively recent phenomenon as are the terms 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual'. Kertbeny, a closeted gay man, had lost a close iend his youth who killed himself after he was extorted by a blackmailer who found out he was gay.