History of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender social movements
Gay Rights
One day after that landmark verdict, the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban against openly gay leaders and employees. And in , it reversed a century-old ban against gender non-conforming boys, finally catching up with the Girl Scouts of the USA, which had long been inclusive of Diverse leaders and children (the organization had accepted its first transgender Girl Scout in ).
In , the U.S. military lifted its forbid on transgender people serving openly, a month after Eric Fanning became secretary of the Army and the first openly gay secretary of a U.S. military branch. In March , President Donald Trump announced a new transgender policy for the military that again banned most transgender people from military service. On January 25, —his sixth afternoon in office—President Biden signed an executive order overturning this ban.
Though LGBTQ+ Americans now have gay marriage rights and numerous other rights that seemed farfetched years ago, the work of advocates is far from over.
Universal workplace anti-discrimination laws for Diverse Americans is still lacking. Gay rights propo
During the nineteenth century, the first gay liberation thinkers laid the groundwork for a militant movement that demanded the end of the criminalization, pathologisation and social rejection of non-heterosexual sexuality. In , the Swiss man Heinrich Hössli () published in German the first essay demanding recognition of the rights of those who followed what he called masculine love. Nearly three decades later, the German jurist Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs () wrote twelve volumes between and as part of his “Research on the Mystery of Love Between Men” (“Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe”). He also circulated a manifesto to create a federation of Uranians (), a term which designated men who loved men. He was engaged in the struggle to repeal § of the German penal code, which condemned “unnatural relations between men,” and in publicly declared he was a Uranist during a congress of German jurists. He died in exile in Italy before the birth of the liberation movement which he had called for.
A first gay liberation movement emerged in Berlin in , revolving
LGBT History Month
Origins
Originally organized as Gay and Lesbian History Month, it was started in by an out, gay high school educator, Rodney Wilson (LGBTQ Nation). In the United States, October is recognized as LGBT History Month, coinciding with National Coming out Day on Oct. 11 and in honor of the first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in
In the UK, February is used because that was the month a bill banning the "promotion" of homosexuality was repealed in (American Psychological Association).
Difference from Pride Month
Pride is a protest, a battle wail, whereas History Month is a celebration.
LGBTQ Nation
June -- LGBTQ+ Pride Month -- arose from remembrance and celebration of the Stonewall uprising. On June 28, , police raided the Stonewall Inn lgbtq+ bar in New York City, but the patrons resisted. The protest attracted thousands from around the city and lasted about a week. The first pride was celebrated on the one-year anniversary. ("Today in History - June 28," Library of Congress)
This, the first U.S. Male lover Pride Week and Ma
LGBT History Month
Before AIDS : Gay Health Politics in the s
The AIDS crisis of the s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to care for the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest resources in finding a fix. Yet this widely accepted narrative, while accurate, creates the trace that the gay community lacked any capacity to address AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking manual, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease.
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With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within homosexual woman and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture.
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