SAMHSA Releas New Data on Lbian, Gay and Bisexual Behavral Health | SAMHSA

Contents:

• LGBTQIA+ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR,QUEER/QUTNG, INTERSEX, ALLY/ASEXUAL +) STUDI: HOME
• LBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENR AND QUEER (LGBTQ)
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER/QUTNG (LGBTQ) PERCEPTNS AND HEALTH CARE EXPERIENC
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• INTERNATNAL LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATN
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG

LGBTQIA+ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR,QUEER/QUTNG, INTERSEX, ALLY/ASEXUAL +) STUDI: HOME

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L.

LBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENR AND QUEER (LGBTQ)

She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance. In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s. Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER/QUTNG (LGBTQ) PERCEPTNS AND HEALTH CARE EXPERIENC

Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr. Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic. “Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful.

Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr. It was Washgton — not Bethda, Md., where is we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lilli Vcenz, a Trailblazer the Gay Rights Movement, Di at 85.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

“In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own stggle wh shame and anger, ntemporary rearch, and stori om his patients to passnately scribe the stag of a gay man’s journey out of shame and offers practil and spired strategi to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-featg behavr. This forceful and eply affectg narrative—Part Er Brockovich, part Milk, part Still Alice—chronicl how this grievg man and his lawyer, agast overwhelmg odds, troduced the most important gay rights se U.

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

“The sweepg story of the stggle for gay and lbian rights—based on amazg terviews wh policians, ary figur, and members of the entire LGBT muny who face the challeng every day: “This is the history of the gay and lbian movement that we’ve been wag for” (The Washgton Post). The fight for gay and lbian civil rights—the years of outrageo jtice, the early battl, the heart-breakg feats, and the victori beyond the dreams of the gay rights pneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the prent day.

In “the most prehensive history to date of Ameri’s gay-rights movement” (The Enomist), Lillian Farman tells this unfished story through the dramatic acunts of passnate stggl wh sweep, pth, and feelg. “A pellg read of a ltle-known part of our natn’s history, and of dividuals whose stori range om heart-wrenchg to spirg to enragg to motivatnal” (Chigo Tribune), The Gay Revolutn pats a nuanced portra of the LGBT civil rights movement.

INTERNATNAL LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATN

Overview: Lambda Legal, a 501(c)(3) nonprof, is a natnal anizatn mted to achievg full regnn of the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and everyone livg wh HIV through impact ligatn, tn and public policy work. ” Lacey lls the “one-drop le” approach to sexual fluidy, and here’s how she scrib : “If a man has sex wh one man and 100 women, we will still erroneoly view him as gay and not bisexual, or sexually fluid, or even jt a heterosexual man who experimented wh a man and me to the ncln that he didn’t like men.

The goal study of this was to explore attus, health knowledge, and experienc wh healthre settg and provirs among gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng (GLBTQ) dividuals and to intify areas for improvement. It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc. Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG

Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010). From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy. When her straight male roommate’s twentysomethg girliend, Francis, qutns why Leila is so terrified to tell anyone that she has sex wh both men and women, Leila tells her ’s plited bee ’s “a gay thg.

Adapted om gay director Jt Simien’s breakout film of the same name, about black llege stunts g to terms wh a “post-racial Ameri, ” the seri explor them of race, genr, and sexualy by skewerg jt about everyone for hypocrisy and double standards.