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

Contents:

• ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• GAY RIGHTS

ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'

Or even LGBTQIA+ History Month.The 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.(Subscriber exclive: Read our January 2017 issue dited to the shiftg landspe of genr.)Here’s a look at how that evolutn has happened—and why ’s all but certa the term will ntue to change.How lbianism got s nameOut of all the letters the acronym LGBTQ, the L was the first to e to existence. Over time, grew populary and was adopted by women who secretly, then proudly, loved other women.The 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 nstutn.In 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 terms.Gay: Reclaimg a slurIn the late 1960s, activists reclaimed a s-old slur, “gay.” Throughout the 20th century, same-genr attractn and sexual activy was largely outlawed, and this and other slurs that nigrated LGBTQ+ people were mon.

Though s origs are murky, “gay” was eventually embraced by men who fied the stat quo wh open exprsns of same-genr love.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. Whe attributed s growg populary to the fact that is “one of the few words that do not refer explicly to sexual activy.” It was ed both to refer to men who love men and anyone who exprsed same-genr preference or genr divergence.“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).But took longer to ga acceptance for another term that is now part of the morn acronym: “transgenr.” Though trans people have existed throughout history, the term only me to beg the 1960s. Image source, Stanford UniversyImage ptn, The study created pose fac judged most and least likely to belong to homosexualsA facial regnn experiment that claims to be able to distguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between s creators and two leadg LGBT rights Stanford Universy study claims s software regnis facial featur relatg to sexual orientatn that are not perceived by human work has been acced of beg "dangero" and "junk science" the scientists volved say the are "knee-jerk" reactns.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

Details of the peer-reviewed project are due to be published the Journal of Personaly and Social jawsFor their study, the rearchers traed an algorhm g the photos of more than 14, 000 whe Amerins taken om a datg ed between one and five of each person's pictur and took people's sexualy as self-reported on the datg rearchers said the rultg software appeared to be able to distguish between gay and heterosexual men and women.

"But their software did not perform as well other suatns, cludg a tt which was given photos of 70 gay men and 930 heterosexual asked to pick 100 men "most likely to be gay" missed 23 of s summary of the study, the Enomist - which was first to report the rearch - poted to several "limatns" cludg a ncentratn on whe Amerins and the e of datg se pictur, which were "likely to be particularly revealg of sexual orientatn".

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

"This rearch isn't science or news, but 's a scriptn of bety standards on datg s that ignor huge segments of the LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng) muny, cludg people of lour, transgenr people, olr dividuals, and other LGBTQ people who don't want to post photos on datg s, " said Jim Halloran, chief digal officer of Glaad, a media-monorg body. "The 'subtle' differenc uld be a nsequence of gay and straight people choosg to portray themselv systematilly different ways, rather than differenc facial appearance self, " said Prof Benedict Jon, who ns the Face Rearch Lab at the Universy of was also important, he said, for the technil tails of the analysis algorhm to be published to see if they stood up to rmed cricism.

Bin signed an executive orr that bats discrimatn on the basis of genr inty or sexual rulted the Department of Health and Human Servic prohibg provirs om discrimatg agast gay and transgenr dividuals and rtorg protectns for transgenr people seekg emergency shelter and homels servic. He was creded wh phg Print Barack Obama to exprs his support for gay marriage a few days Bin’s cisn to support same-sex marriage, after years of sayg that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman, was seen as a watershed moment for the untry’s lears on L.

GAY RIGHTS

Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought — and ntue to fight — for full equaly.

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.