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Contents:
- THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- SF GAY HISTORY
- HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY
THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS
Homosexualy has been a source of discrimatn for s, but the most famo gay policians have proven that your sexual orientatn don’t have to stand the way of your profsnal succs... * gay political figures *
His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. As a drag performer, a sex worker, and a self-intified transvte, Johnson played a major role the historic Stonewall rts 1969 that jump-started the gay liberatn the rts, Johnson beme a lear the muny and ed the power to open Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari, which helped transgenr youth.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay political figures *
Baker also served as a spy for the French durg World War II, passg along secrets she heard while performg for German Herich Ulrichs Ulrichs is regard by some as the pneer of the morn gay movement and the first person to publicly “e out. Cárnas helped start the stggle agast gay prejudice Mexi and fought for equal rights for everyone, no matter their NkoliSimon Nkoli is seen by many as the central hero of the gay and lbian stggle South Ai. Five years later, Nkoli clared his HIV posive stat and began workg to stigmatize HIV/ NasimIfti Nasim was a gay Pakistani poet who moved to the Uned Stat to avoid persecutn for his sexualy.
GAY RIGHTS
* gay political figures *
Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
“Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream, ” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.
SF GAY HISTORY
But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas, Parsi liv exile Canada, where he has found the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refuge, which supports and provis guidance to LGBTQ asylum seekers om the Middle East. About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health stggle highlighted the discrimatn and homophobia still rampant the sports world, but Sam has gone on to share his story and ntu to champn change.
HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY
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