June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr pri month, and the rabow flag -- that inic symbol for gay pri -- is flyg om Athens to San Francis to Brazil. Enter artist Gilbert Baker, the man who first me up wh the flag's sign some 34 years ago.
Contents:
- 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.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
Alan Turg broke the German Enigma durg World War II and vised the Turg mache and the Turg tt of puter telligence. Unabashedly gay, he mted suici after beg nvicted of homosexual acts. * who invented gay *
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.
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.
MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
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.