Host Michel Mart and Judy Bradford of the Center for Populatn Rearch LGBT Health discs the Instute Of Medice's report fdgs, as well as the LGBT muny's most prevalent health issu. Demographer Gary Gat also jos the nversatn. He is bunkg famo sex rearcher Aled Ksey's claim that 10% of mal the U.S. are gay. He talks about this percentage, the real number of Ameri's LGBT people, and challeng to gatherg accurate data.
Contents:
- HOW ALED KSEY ARMED THE EARLY GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT WH REARCH
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
HOW ALED KSEY ARMED THE EARLY GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT WH REARCH
Even early gay rights activists wouldn't have known jt how many people they were fightg for whout him. * alfred kinsey gay *
There was a time when one out of every two Amerins Gallup polled knew Aled Ksey’s name, and to gay men, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenr pneers cludg Louise Lawrence and Christe Jensen he was a livg hero. Sadly, for the last quarter century or so, llg Aled Ksey “the man who ma the homosexual movement possible” has e not om that movement but the anti-gay dtry.
Ksey’s role is traceable to the rebirth of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat after the first effort by Henry Gerber and his Society for Human Rights was smothered to ath by thori Chigo 1925. Next to Ksey on the Wall, late fellow honoree Harry Hay had long dreamed of an anizatn of gays and gave Ksey and his rearch cred for mobilizg him 1948.
So, wh my py [of the book] unr one arm, a sheaf of papers unr the other, I go through the entire gay muny as I know at that time – which isn’t much. Hay, still married himself, hosted several gathergs ostensibly to discs the book everyone was talkg about but actually to promote his ias for anizg; fdg ltle tert, even mockery and hostily, until November 1950 when he and four others found the Mattache Society, the first endurg gay rights group the Uned Stat.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The Senate submtee vtigatg employment of ‘homosexuals and other moral perverts’ by the Feral Government had better read the Ksey report before go very far. In 1952 and 1953, Mattache applied Ksey statistics the ver letter to the first-ever gay qutnnaire sent to polil ndidat – “there are at least 150, 000 such persons the Los Angel area alone” – which was, turn, quoted an article the Los Angel Mirror about the group that was posive enough that Mattache distributed thoands of pi.
Ksey agreed to bee an rmal adviser to Mattache 1953 after they agreed to help him fd terview subjects for his next planned book, Sex and the Law: gays “who had had any ntact wh the police, whether led to nvictn or not.
They asked him about the “flood gate” argument that crimalizatn would lead to an crease homosexualy and the “Rake’s Progrs” argument that would rult more homosexual adults pursug sex wh mors. Ksey told them that crimalizatn (or ls enforcement) other untri and his study of over 6000 mal wh homosexual experienc monstrated there was no reason to believe such fears. He add that, “We have never seen a person [wh predomately homosexual experienc who has] been affected by penal punishment or clil treatment to further velopment of an exclively or primarily heterosexual pattern.