Stonewall. No, I’m not talking about the Confederate general during the American Civil War. I’m talking about the Stonewall Uprising — the dawn of the modern day gay rights movement. During the 1960’s, homosexuals unwillingly complied with police forces and yielded to the homophobic American laws. This was true until the 1969 police raid of Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar located in New York’s Greenwich Village. In the early morning hours of June 28, members of the New York Police Department’s Public
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Just after 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn–a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street–turns violent as patrons and local sympathizers begin rioting against the police. Although the police were legally justified in raiding the club, which was serving liquor without a license among other violations, New York’s gay community had grown frustrated of the police department targeting gay clubs, a majority of which had already been closed earlier that year
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Imagine this, the LGBTQ community and heterosexuals switch places in society. Straight people are treated the way gay people are treated now. You are one of the straight people. You are out in public. People see you with your partner and they look away or shoot you a dirty look. Sometimes even throw a slur or two at you. Maybe even chase you down the street, threatening to kill you. Imagine this: You are in a bar, with some of your other straight friends. Just having a good time, relaxing. Next thing
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service providers who interact with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. In the state of Pennsylvania the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) has mandated that service providers be trained to ensure accountability for providing inclusive services. The ultimate goal is to create respectful inclusive environments for LGBT youth enter our programs (City of Philadelphia, 2017). LGBT youth often find themselves victimized in schools, and this has been well
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In the 1950’s it was shameful to be a gay person because people were seen as a mentally ill person and many gay people died for being gay. Many of them would not go out with there partners out in public because they were afraid of what people would do or say to them if they found out that they were gay. Its crazy how now many makeup artist are gay, and show people how to put on makeup. Many of them are influencers in the makeup industry and followed by many people how want to know if the product
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Homosexuals should be allowed to marry because the disallowance of it violates their constitutional rights. Marriage is an institution long recognized by our government under the right to pursue happiness, and denying that right to any couple, regardless of gender, is unconstitutional. This argument, though, is not disputed. In fact, none of the arguments raised in opposition to the allowance of homosexual marriages takes into account the constitutional rights afforded to all humans. The arguments
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BP4 – QLD Towards the end of 2009, following a series of incidents involving OMCGs Queensland introduced the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 (QLD) (the QLD Act), on the 3rd of December. After a number of concerns from the QLD legal profession strongly opposing the legislation and speculations of it leading to police corruption, the QLD Act was amended in 2011. The Criminal Organisation Amendment Bill 2011which broadened the criminal intelligence provisions and sought to avoid any High Court challenges
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Another way we are insensitive to those who do not follow gender norms is how we portray those who are trans women. Moreover, this is due to our assumptions that gender and sex are the same which can have devastating effects. According to Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook, the way that media acts in response to trans murders is that transwomen are deceptive gay men, seeking to trick innocent heterosexual men into homosexuality (Schilt & Westbrook 2017, p. 54). Moreover, this quote is important
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I have identified as queer for around two years now and transgender for over a year and a half; as soon as I got into Berkeley, I knew I would be an LGBT studies minor. I took this class initially for that requirement, but also because I wanted to find my space and feel out the differences between the Berkeley queer community and the San Diego queer community, where I had found my niche before college. Before I took this class, I was already something of a radical. I had participated in several protests
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2. How did they attempt to gain their rights? There were many negative situations and actions towards the LGBTQ community especially in the 1960’s. Many people did not respect lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and queers. In 1964, the first LGBTQ organization was formed in San Francisco which was called National Transsexual Counseling (NTC) and was later developed into the Society of Individual Rights (SIR) that opened up in 1966. The organization helped the LGBTQ community gain many
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