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