LGBT history

he LGBT community saw many slow, but monumental changes during its ascent to the gay civil rights movement. At the start of the 20th century, homosexuality (as it was referred to at the time) was considered a mental illness and could land a person either in jail or a psychiatric hospital. As early as the 1910s, the gay community took strides in protecting themselves, while expressing and mingling with other gay people by means of inconspicuous gay clubs and bars. During this time, drag shows…

majority of the Australian population supports marriage equality (72%) and because the Liberal government is so reluctant on passing the bill, it may be a way to gain support for the next election. Another stakeholder in the issue is, quite obviously the LGBT…

The idea of having diversity in world-wide unique system has been controversial for decades. In England and Wales where ‘the white men’ stereotype was predominant from the beginning was highly debated; and not everyone agreed on changing this culture. Groups including disabled lawyers, BME- black minority, LGB – lesbian, gay, bisexual, women, persons with different religious views or persons from disadvantaged social backgrounds, with lower family income had always struggled to secure experience…

The LGBT culture has become a common culture throughout the United States. With such expression of differences this culture is speaking out in a much more modern style than the past. It is clearer throughout history and throughout the world, that people are having sex with other people of the same gender (Burleson, 2014). Through art, anthropology and documented history has opened closed doors to same sex sexual practices. Although exposed, it’s still quite challenging to understand the full…

Throughout LGBTQ activism and political pursuits, the queer community has fostered distinct approaches to organization, evident in its political organization around identities and its political organization around issues. While both of these approaches possess individual strengths, they have also been a topic of contention within the community, as opinions vary in regard to whether the use of coalitional or identity politics is most effective in the pursuit of equal rights. In this paper, I will…

Throughout history and across the globe and across many cultures, those with same-sex desires have been a part of and accepted and sometimes welcomed by their communities (ancient Greece is a fantastic example.) It was not until the beginning of the 20th century did homosexuality become associated with negative things such as communism, destruction of the sanctity of marriage, and most importantly the destruction of family values. Throughout the years, homosexuality has been judged as a mental…

citizens in a protest or peaceful assembly is critical to a functioning demonstrations shows at the core of the First Amendment. Sadly, law enforcement officials tend to violate this right through means intended to thwart free public expression. In history,…

on WAMU 88.5 journalist Xorje Olivares explains how hard this hit him he also being Latino and gay, “ "I just kept hearing Latin night, LGBT club, and all of it happening during Pride. It really hit close to home. It was one of those things that I thought, wow, they really went for us." (In Songs,) In society being gay is hard to be accepted with the way history reflected on homosexuality.…

After much consideration, I have decided to dedicate this space in my application to a man named Harvey Milk, the first openly gay non-incumbent to be elected to a public office in U.S. history. Through his dedication to the LGBT community and the gay rights movement, Harvey Milk overcame many challenges and showed true leadership through his persistence, courage, and focus on making a better future for all. With the help of the gay community and his own determination, Milk was elected to the…

In the epilogue of Michael Bronksi’s A Queer History of the United States (2011), Bonski asserts that the recent battle for marriage equality may in fact undermine the LGBT movement’s original intention to “fight to eliminate or limit the state’s involvement in consensual relationships” by insisting that it forces queer people take on the classic American lie: we are “just like you” (pp. 240, 241). Implicit in this claim is the belief that most queer people are not interested in establishing…