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

Contents:

• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• GAY RIGHTS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Other acronym variatns that are sometim ed clu LGBTIQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and queer) and LGBTQQIP2SAA (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, pansexual, two-spir (2S), androgyno, and asexual). Where a variety of orientatns and inti had prevly been referred to as "the gay muny" and later "the gay and lbian muny, " the acronym eventually evolved as a way to be more clive of other inti.

GAY RIGHTS

“Coverage of LGBTQ issu has moved beyond simplistic polil dichotomi and toward more fully realized reprentatns, not only of the diversy of the LGBTQ muny, but also of LGBTQ people’s liv, their fai, and their fundamental cln the fabric of Amerin society, ” explas GLAAD, or the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. If you are terted learng more about what terms and phras should be avoid, GLAAD, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, has a reference page that offers helpful rmatn on LGBTQ terms as well as rmatn on terms that are specific to the transgenr muny. On June 1, 2021, the Bin-Harris Admistratn champned LGBTQ+ equaly wh a proclamatn affirmg June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pri Month, markg a time of hope, progrs, and promise for LGBTQ+ Amerins and their alli across the untry.

LGBT History Month was started by Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, 1994, and has sce been endorsed by GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, the Natnal Edutn Associatn and other natnal anizatn.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

The anizer of that prott, Craig Rodwell, along wh Barbara Gtgs (mother of the gay rights movement) and Kay Tob Lahen (gay rights pneer and photojournalist), marched Philalphia annually – their march beme known as “the Annual Remrs. The events, cludg a police raid of a gay, lbian and transgenr bar at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, fundamentally changed the disurse surroundg LGBTQ+ activism the Uned Stat – many say Stonewall sparked the “Gay Revolutn.

Dick Lesch: A print of the Mattache Society (the first gay and lbian rights group) of New York om 1964 to 1972, and bt known for leadg a well-planned prott 1966 lled the “sip-, ” which was directly spired by the earlier lunch unter s-s of the Black civil rights movement the Amerin South.

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

Craig Rodwell: In addn to marchg on Philalphia and foundg the first gay bookstore New York, Rodwell was the one who lled the New York Cy newspapers to garner prs verage of the Stonewall Uprisg as was takg place. The PBS Documentary, Stonewall Uprisg, n be streamed at Jt one year after Stonewall, LGBTQ+ activists hosted the first Gay Pri Paras  New York Cy, Chigo, San Francis and Los Angel.

Then, 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA), after nsirable advocy by Frank Kameny (father of the gay rights movement who fought agast the feral ernment after beg fired bee he was a homosexual) and members of the Mattache Society, changed the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr. In 1987, the APA found that “the latt and bt scientific evince shows that sexual orientatn and exprsns of genr inty occur naturally…and that short, there is no scientific evince that sexual orientatn, be heterosexual, homosexual or otherwise, is a eewill choice.

The march aimed to ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, urgg then Print Jimmy Carter to sign a bill to stop all discrimatn agast gays and lbians the ary and feral jobs and mandg Congrs to clu sexual orientatn the Civil Rights Act of 1954. “Globally, we see an crease pared to two years ago the proportn of people who have a relative or a iend or a worker, who is eher gay or lbian, or bisexual or trans or non-bary, ” Boyon said. In a world which stunts are expelled for handg out Pri flags to prott Florida's "Don't Say Gay Bill, " the need to show support for LGTBQ+ rights—publicly as well as privately—is as important as ever.