Gay community

Pat O’Hara OAM Pat O 'Hara took pride in her role in forming the Queensland Association of Gay Law Reform (QAGLR) with Ted Kelk. Initially they published Queensland Gay Action News and lobbied Brisbane politicians from Cairns, but when Ted moved to Brisbane because of his health, and then the Brisbane branch of QAGLR took over the lobbying activities, Pat kept the home fires burning. A lifelong activist, Pat formed the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) along with three other women in 1975. Based…

Lately, we’ve gained a substantial amount of insight on the LGBTQ community. Even then, we still fail to develop a proper understanding of what it means to be part of such a large community, and in most cases people just don’t care to know. Whether you recognize yourself as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, or even queer, in America you aren’t treated fair. Automatically, if you are associated with being LGBTQ, one is given a strong and everlasting label. In the country we fail to…

Gay/ LGBT Rights Movements & the US The gay rights movement has been ongoing for over seventy years. From the rise in gay men and lesbians during the 1920s to today’s international policies on same-sex marriage. The US is instrumental, yet still lagging in the changing of how society views, treats, and the acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Historically in the US the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has had to endure social…

that identify with the LGBT Community. This community loosely represents people that identify with being lesbian, gay, bisexaul, transgender, as well as other sexual orientations. It is to be noted that most of the research done about the LGBT community is predominantly on those that identify as gay or lesbian, and that there is still a lot of research to be done on those that identify as Transgender or Bisexual in the LGBT Community. Those that identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or…

shouldn't the LGBT community have equal rights!? It's estimated that there is only two hundred and twenty nine million gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people in the world, that’s 5 percent of the seven billion people who inhabit this earth! However this number doesn’t stop hateful, disgusting bigots from saying that there is a "gay agenda" to turn their children gay. Egypt, Nigeria and Sudan are only three of the seventy nine countries in the world where being gay and lesbian is…

Bullying targeted towards the youth in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) community is a serious problem that is often overlooked. There is discrimination and bullying toward LGBT youth found in all sorts of settings including the home, work, and school. Many LGBT teens experience abuse at home and even being kicked out of their house. Finding a job is sometimes harder as their sexual orientation is unwelcomed by employers and fellow colleagues. LGBT youth also endure…

DeGeneres came out as gay on national television during an episode of her sitcom. She pioneered the way for gay and lesbian representation in public television. At first, the feedback was good and viewers were supportive, then the criticism of Ellen’s new lifestyle grew and the show ended up getting canceled after the last episode of the season. A year later in September 1998, a new gay character emerged on the popular sitcom, Will and Grace. Will Truman was the first openly gay male character…

1969, homosexual acts between consenting adults were illegal in all fifty states of America, which was reported in the article “The Stonewall Riots: June 28, 1969” (“The Stonewall Riots”). The Stonewall Inn is a gay bar in New York City. In 1969, it had no liquor license and held refuge for gay men and transvestites against the prejudiced police and laws. The laws were made to specifically On June 28th, these police raided Stonewall, which was not uncommon. But that night, for some unknown…

In the book “Ties that Bind”, Sarah Schulman discusses the terrible treatment of the LGBTQ community. She focuses on how the roots of homophobia originate in the house hold at the beginning of her book, then further explains the cruelty in which the group faces on an everyday basis. Sarah Schulman’s main argument of “Ties That Bind” is that the LGBTQ community has suffered enough, and in order to effectively make change homo/heterosexual individuals must bind together. One example is, if a…

Authorities Arresting and Killing Gay Men, Russian Paper Says” where he writes of the horrors taking place in which gay men are being arrested and some executed in taboo of their sexual orientation all around this Russian republic. “Homophobia in Kenya: is a change going to come?” is another article in the African country of Kenya where another mass…