What’s Good about Beg Gay?: Perspectiv om Youth - PMC

Contents:

• GAY FUN FACTS
• WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
• FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
• GAY MARRIAGE FACTS GAY MARRIAGE FACTS – 10 FACTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

GAY FUN FACTS

1978 John Briggs drops out of the California ernor’s race, but receiv support for Proposn 6, also known as the Briggs Iniative, a proposal to fire any teacher or school employee who publicly supports gay rights.

1980 At the 1980 Democratic Natnal Conventn held at New York Cy’s Madison Square Garn, Democrats took a stance supportg gay rights, addg the followg to their plank: “All groups mt be protected om discrimatn based on race, lor, relign, natnal orig, language, age, sex or sexual orientatn.

WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH

The first Gay Rights Organizatn was the Society for Human Rights, started 1924 by Henry Gerber ChigoThe first Lbian Rights Organizatn was the Dghters of Bilis, stared 1955 San Francis. Illois beme the first state to crimalize homosexualy by repealg sodomy laws 1961Police raid the Stonewall Inn 1969, promptg a massive seri of monstratns that beme the morn gay rights 1969, The Advote adopted s current name and began publitn as the olst ntug LGBTQ publitn the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn fally remov homosexualy om ’s list of mental disorrs 1973 a heavily ntted vote.

Wisns beme the first state to outlaw discrimatn based on sexual orientatn 1993, Clton signs the disastro “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that only allows “closeted” homosexuals the 1996, Clton triangulat wh Republins to pass the Defense of Marriage, which is subsequently stck down many years DeGener me out Time Magaze and ma the world a ltle better first legal same-sex marriag are rried out Massachetts 2004. The sign was to reprent gay and lbian diversy around the, don’t thk he jt wanted to make somethg pretty like rabows and lors are symbolic as follows:Red Stands for lifeOrange stands for healgYellow Stands for the sunGreen Stands for natureBlue stands for harmonyPurple stands for the soul.

FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE

Twelve years later, Print Barack Obama expand the observance to clu the bisexual and transgenr muny, officially clarg the start of June 2011, Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri Month. Durg her fight to bee Japan's first-ever openly gay member of parliament, Otsuji and girliend Maki Kimura cid to get married Tokyo, durg a time when their unn was not regnized legally. "I want to give all kds of mori Japan a voice to exprs themselv the polil world … sgle mothers, the victims of domtic vlence, mon-law upl who do not have the same rights as married people — not jt gays and lbians.

The Centers for Disease Control and Preventn's Morbidy and Mortaly Weekly Report (MMWR) announced that five gay men Los Angel had ntracted a rare type of pnmonia, which would later be known as acquired immunoficiency syndrome, or AIDS.

Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC3326393NIHMSID: NIHMS358675AbstractThis article explor gay and bisexual male adolcents’ posive perceptns of their sexual orientatn inty. Addnal primary them and sub-them were intified wh each tegory that further illtrate how gay/bisexual youth were able to velop posive nceptualizatns of their sexual orientatn spe experiencg negative societal msag about beg gay/bisexual.

GAY MARRIAGE FACTS GAY MARRIAGE FACTS – 10 FACTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

Keywords: Bisexual, gay, male, riliency, sexual orientatn, youthAdolcence is a velopmental perd where young people are maturg physilly, emotnally and socially as they transn to adulthood (Erikson, 1980; Hill, 1983). When the fluenc are negative, psychologil distrs among adolcents may rult, pecially for those youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (Almeida, Johnson, Corliss, Molnar & Azrael, 2009; Hershberger & D’Augelli, 1995; Ueno, 2005). Th, this article tak a rilience-based approach to examg sexual orientatn inty among gay/bisexual male adolcents by sharg their perceptns regardg the posive aspects of beg gay/bisexual.

One study that addrsed this topic prented riliency strategi among lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) young people North Wt England and South Wal wh the ntext of hetero-normative environments (Surfield, Roen & McDermott, 2008). The thors assert that even though the young men were livg a hetero-normative Puerto Rin culture wh pervasive homophobia and cultural stigma, they veloped riliency strategi that helped them to overe potential obstacl.

This was one of the few studi found to prent riliency strategi veloped by gay/bisexual adolcents to bat negative social and cultural ntug rearch is need on the velopmental challeng faced by LGB adolcents, pecially those who are also members of other opprsed groups such as youth of lor, a parallel le of scientific quiry is also need to explore the strengths and rilienci monstrated by LGB youth.