People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS
- BREAK WH CATHOLIC CHURCH : DIGNY ‘MANIFTO’ CALLS GAY SEXUALY A ‘HOLY GIFT’
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
GAY RIGHTS
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Wele to the Digny Boston CommunyDigny Boston is a progrsive and clive Catholic muny for people of all sexual orientatns, genrs and genr inti, cludg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex persons, our fay, iends and supporters. Stephen’s Church at 419 Shawmut Avenue Boston’s south end typilly at 5 pm on a the first wav of the Gay Liberatn movement that followed the Stonewall Rts, Digny Boston has been providg a home for gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (GLBTQI) Catholics, our iends and supporters sce 1972. Helped fight for passage of the Gay and Lbian Stunts’ Rights Bill to protect the rights of our youth the public schools of “Each of Us Beloved, ” a nference put on by the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual Speakers Bure of Boston regardg issu of sexualy and Massachetts’ Gay/Straight Youth Pri March, the first such march for the rights of GLBT youth the for marriage equaly and protectns for transgenr persons om a Catholic social jtice perspective.
BREAK WH CATHOLIC CHURCH : DIGNY ‘MANIFTO’ CALLS GAY SEXUALY A ‘HOLY GIFT’
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * dignity gay organization *
DignyHoton wel and works for rpect and jtice for people of all sexual orientatns, genrs, and genr inti - pecially lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr persons - the Catholic Church and the world through worship, tn, advocy and support. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Digny, the embattled anizatn of gay Roman Catholics, recently adopted a "manifto" on sexual ethics that mak a sharp parture om tradnal church teachg and celebrat gay sexualy as a "holy gift." * dignity gay organization *
Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.
And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.
Digny was found 1969 San Diego by Fr. Patrick Nidorf, an Augtian prit and psychologist who felt that the pastoral needs of his cy's gay Catholic muny were beg ignored. * dignity gay organization *
”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.
In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.
They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.