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

GAY ROOTS. AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY HISTORY, SEX, POLICS, AND CULTURE
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

GAY ROOTS. AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY HISTORY, SEX, POLICS, AND CULTURE

Essays, fictn, and poetry origally published by Gay sunshe journal and Gay Sunshe Prs * gay roots *

The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned.

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LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng, tersex, asexual, and more. The terms are ed to scribe a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. * gay roots *

Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn. The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri. The Ksey report of 1948, for example, found that 30 percent of adult Amerin mal among Ksey’s subjects had engaged some homosexual activy and that 10 percent reported that their sexual practice had been exclively homosexual for a perd of at least three years between the ag of 16 and 55.

GAY ROOTS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY HISTORY, SEX, POLICS AND CULTURE, VOL. 2

All about Gay Roots: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Polics and Culture, Vol. 2 by Wston Leyland. LibraryThg is a talogg and social workg se for booklovers * gay roots *

After the 1969 Stonewall rts, which New York Cy policemen raid a gay bar and met wh staed ristance, many homosexuals were embolned to intify themselv as gay men or lbians to iends, to relativ, and even to the public at large. In rponse to their activism, many jurisdictns enacted laws banng discrimatn agast homosexuals, and an creasg number of employers Ameri and European untri agreed to offer “domtic partner” benefs siar to the health re, life surance and, some s, pensn benefs available to heterosexual married upl. In one such stance, Albania repealed s sodomy statut 1995, and gay upl Amsterdam 2001 were legally married unr the same laws that ern heterosexual marriage (rather than unr laws that allowed them to “register” or form “domtic” partnerships).

DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC

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However, most shared wh gay men the sire to have a secure place the world muny at large, unchallenged by the fear of vlence, the stggle for equal treatment unr the law, the attempt to silence, and any other form of civil behavur that impos send-class article was most recently revised and updated by Alison Eldridge. “A lot of people want to unrstand the blogy of homosexualy, and science has lagged behd that human tert, ” says William Rice, an evolutnary geicist at the Universy of California, Santa Barbara, who also was not volved the work. It is not unmon to hear homosexualists (those both "gay" and "straight" who promote the legimizatn of homosexualy) characterize "gay rights" as the natural third wave of civil rights activism (followg blacks and women).

Communy of the Special which created and shaped what would bee the Nazi persona, and was the loathg which the "Butch" held for effemate homosexuals ("Femm") which led to the ternment of some of the latter slave labor mps the Third Reich. Rector wr that, as a young man, Hler was often lled "r Schoen Adolf" (the handsome Adolf) and that later his looks "were also to some extent helpful gag big-money support om Ernst Ro[e]hm's circle of wealthy gay iends" (Rector:52).

One of Hler's valets, Schneir, ma no explic statement about the relatnship, but he did fd strange that whenever Hler got a prent he liked or drew an archectural sketch that particularly pleased him, he would n to Hs -- who was known homosexual circl as "Frle Anna" -- as a ltle boy would n to his mother to show his prize to her... Reportedly, Hler Youth lear, Baldur von Schirach was bisexual; Hler's private attorney, Reich Legal Director, Mister of Jtice, butcher Governor-General of Poland, and public gay-hater Hans Frank was said to be a homosexual; Hler's adjutant Wilhelm Bckner was said to be bisexual;.. He stat that Hler's chffr and one-time personal secretary, Ee Mrice, for example, was homosexual, as well as the pornographer Juli Streicher, who "was origally a school teacher, but was dismissed by the Nuremberg School Authori, followg numero charg of perasty brought agast him" (Igra:72f).

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by Anatoly Liberman The qutn about the orig of gay “homosexual” has been asked and answered many tim (and always rrectly), so that we needn’t expect sensatnal disveri this area. The adjective gay, first attted Middle English, is of French scent; the fourteenth century meant both “joyo” and “bright; showy.” The OED giv no atttatns of gay “immoral” before 1637. * gay roots *

The law agast homosexual nduct had existed Germany for many years prr to the Nazi regime as Paragraph 175 of the Reich Crimal Co, to w: "A male who dulg crimally cent activy wh another male, or who allows himself to participate such activy, will be punished wh imprisonment" (Burleigh and Wipperman:188). It will never be known how many non-homosexuals were charged unr this law, but is disputable that the Nazis ed false accatns of homosexualy to jtify the tament and imprisonment of many of their opponents.

Homosexualist Jam Steakley acknowledg the "Butch/Femme" aspect of the cint, sayg that some German homosexuals "uld nceivably have approved of the measure, particularly if they were Nazi sympathizers or male supremacists" (Steakley:105). Hler feigned disgt and outrage about the homosexualy of the murred SA lears to jtify himself to the German people; was a tactic he had ed prevly to allay public spicns about the sexual viancy of his ner circle.

GAY RIGHTS

From s gay liberatn roots to today’s natnwi work of activists and supporters, the LGBTQ rights movement has always strived toward progrs. We celebrate the movement and every one of s members whose urageo ntributns and sacrific have steadily phed society the right directn. * gay roots *

The formal accatns agast Roehm and those arrted wh him centered on their homosexual activi, which Hler had of urse known about for fifteen years and shgged off, beg alleged that the activi disgraced the party.

" That was his his speech to the Reichstag he admted that one of the motiv for orrg the massacre was to get rid of the moral perverts his party and that they were traors bee they practiced homosexualism. Nobody asked him to expla how was that, if his purpose was to get rid of homosexuals, he really didn't rid himself of them but ed them as the stments of his own murr lt and still retaed most of them as members of his personal entourage, as well as key posns of the party anizatn and the ernment. More signifintly, many of the guards and admistrators rponsible for the famo ncentratn mp atroci were homosexuals themselv, which negat the proposn that homosexuals general were beg persecuted and terned.

Hans Blueher, one of the leadg theoreticians of the Communy of the Special, "mataed that Judaism had supprsed the homosexual aspect of s culture, wh nant hypertrophy [enlargement] of the fay" (Johansson:816). Middle English gay mt have hered both sens, but one beme “standard, ” whereas the other (bee of s negative nnotatns) led an undignified life as part of low slang, until me to the surface and oted the ia of merriment.