LGBT social movements

Africa has been publically battling human rights violations and homophobia, both political and culturally, targeted at the LGBT community in Africa. This battle has gained worldwide media coverage and garnered support to help fight confront the contention and contempt felt through the community. In Africa under the apartheid homosexual acts were punishable by death and years within prison. Black lesbians were under a constant threat of being raped and activists were injured and even murdered; as…

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…

Cultural Competency Assignment: The LGBT Culture Throughout its history, the United States has symbolized equality of opportunity for people of all races, origins, religions, and creeds. Despite these founding principles of equality and acceptance, the United States has also had a long history of denying basic rights to certain groups of people that live within the land. Still, most Americans describe our culture as the “melting pot” in which people from around the world contribute their own…

society a social problem that we face it the mistreatment of members of the LBGT community. People who are a part of this community have faced so much negativity for their sexual preference. For example: Transgenders that have not had their surgery to change their gender completely are now being forced to use restrooms of the gender they had at birth. There needs to be a reformist movement started so that the rights of these people can be protected and not taken advantage of. This reformist…

the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and their allies. However, many members of the LGBT community have criticized the disproportionate political-agenda focus of the national LGBT community on marriage equality, arguing that this narrow national focus sidesteps other urgent community issues like racism, class conflicts, transphobia, youth homelessness, and others (Spade and Willse 2013; Duggan 2012a; Warner 1999). Moreover, many LGBT activists and scholars, some of whom…

I had a great discussion with some friends the other day, and I felt like writing about it. It’s no secret that I care a lot about social justice, even if I’m far from an expert. So of course I heard about Patricia Arquette’s Oscar speech (meh) and her elaboration afterwards (ugh). I don’t want this post to be about her comments though, so I’ll just redirect you to Amanda Marcotte’s great overview at Slate instead. The key thing Arquette is: And it’s time for all the women in America and all the…

you were in the LGBT community during the 1800-1900s you would of been thrown in jail and fined up to $1,000. Being attracted to a member of the same-sex could of landed you in jail with a $1,000 fine back then. If an individual was gay in the military you had to keep it a secret from other, especially your enemy because they may target you due to your interest in a partner. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements is a political ideology and social movement that advocate…

Women and LGBT Equality Ever since the 1900s and earlier for women, the women and LGBT communities strived in order to gain social and legal equality in the United States. Following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment that gave women the right of suffrage, women in the United States fought to stop discrimination based on sex. The first movement for LGBT rights started in 1924. While women have successfully achieved social and legal equality in the US from the 1960s to present time,…

together for a common cause. The formation of social movements created a voice for the men, women and children who, by themselves, had no say in what they could or couldn’t do. Social movements made the population notice what was truly wrong with the ways these people were being treated. Harsh treatment wasn 't held to just one type of population, it…

Pride Events to the LGBT Community” was written by Eileen Patten a researcher for the Pew Research Center in 2013. This article provides the reader with statistics on individuals that are actively participating in LGBT events that are also known as “Gay Pride” events. The author incorporates the importance of the LGBT events, because she wants the reader to realize that community in particular is one that is growing at rapid rates. This article gives accounts on how events in the LGBT community…