For generatns, livg openly as a gay person the Uned Stat was difficult, and often dangero. But there's been a dramatic change public attus toward gay people. This week, we explore one of the most strikg transformatns of public attu ever rerd. And we nsir whether the strategi ed by gay rights activists hold lsons for other groups seekg change.
Contents:
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- RADILLY NORMAL: HOW GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CHANGED THE MDS OF THEIR OPPONENTS
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
- BRAS OF GAY PEOPLE REMBLE THOSE OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE OF OPPOSE SEX
- GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
* brain on gay rights *
Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.
RADILLY NORMAL: HOW GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CHANGED THE MDS OF THEIR OPPONENTS
Tensns are risg after Jamai refed to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat. * brain on gay rights *
”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.
”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.
”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. For at least 20 years, nroscientists have been tryg to disver whether there are specific anatomil differenc between heterosexual and homosexual men and women.
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
Bra sns show siari shape and nnectns between gay bras and straight on om the oppose sex. * brain on gay rights *
An early post-mortem study found that a small regn of the anterr hypothalam was smaller homosexual men than heterosexual men, and no different om heterosexual women.
Overall, the specific bra regns homosexual mal tend to be siar to heterosexual women (more female‐typil), while the same bra regns homosexual women tend to be siar to heterosexual men (more male‐typil). Many of the early imagg studi were limed by small sample siz and did not clu female, both heterosexual and homosexual, parison groups.
Essentially, the differenc bra anatomy that distguish heterosexual mal and femal were prent, however they were ls pronounced when parg male and female homosexuals. The bra regn that showed the most nsistent sexual orientatn‐related differenc both male and female homosexuals was the lre sulc. Geic factors that are associated wh variatns some rtil stctur showed oppose effects on rtil volume male vers female homosexuals who reported same-sex sexual behavrs.
BRAS OF GAY PEOPLE REMBLE THOSE OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE OF OPPOSE SEX
In other words, the bra regns of tert this study beme larger homosexual femal and smaller homosexual mal, as pared to their heterosexual unterparts.
In 1988, the GSS began askg Amerins to share their thoughts on another topic: whether gay people should have the right to marry. In 2018, 68 percent of those surveyed said that gay upl should have that right. "There's more and more rapid change attus towards gay rights the past thirty years the Uned Stat than there ever has been rerd attus the Uned Stat on any issue.
Given the long history of discrimatn agast gays the Uned Stat and abroad, this change has social scientists scratchg their chs. Ttg a Theory of Public Reactns to Activist Vlence, " by Brent Simpson, Robb Willer, and Matthew Feberg, 2018 The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle, by Lilian Farman, 2015 "Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy, " by John Boswell, 1980 Why Civil Ristance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonvlent Conflict, by Eri Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan The Makg Gay History podst featur archival terviews wh gay rights activists nducted by historian Eric Marc.
GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX
Rumors are swirlg that tensns between Jamai and the Uned Stat are risg after the former refed to grant accredatn to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat – whose inty has not been ma public – sce same-sex marriage is not legal the Caribbean natn. Equalx reports that addn to same-sex marriage beg illegal, homosexualy among men remas outlawed Jamai and n be punished wh up to seven years prison. Homosexualy among women is not explicly illegal, but sodomy between any two humans is punishable wh up to 10 years prison.