Living in a society that didn’t believe in LGBT wondering why until people made some changes. Being a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender was illegal in the U.S. People was getting upset because they had to be lowkey with it. When did the LGBT change the society now in the U.S.?
The true meaning of the letter LGBTQ are very interesting. All you here know in this society is people saying I’m bisexual, gay, transgender, queer or a lesbian and don’t know the meaning of them, well I’m here to tell you. The 20th century turned into the 21st Queers became popular (A2). Transgender is when you’re one sex and you want to be the opposite sex. Bisexual is someone who like males and females. If you are gay your someone who likes males. And lastly a lesbian is when you like females.
The seven people who really changed the LGBT is Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Barbara Gittings, Harvey Milk, Magnus Hirschfeld, Audre Lorde, Bayard Rustin, and lastly Christine Jorgensen. Karl was known as the first gay person to publicly speak out for homosexual rights. In 1867 he persuades the German government to recall homosexuality laws, which made himself as the pioneer of the gay rights movement. Barbara Gittings went to the New York branch of the Daughters of Bilitis in the 1950s. That was the USA’s first lesbian civil rights organization.
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In the 1970s, she was an important member of the American Psychiatric Association’s fight to get homosexuality removed from the list of psychiatric disorders. Harvey Milk moved to San Francisco in 1972 and that when he found is voice in gay rights activism. Milk was the first openly gay person elected to public office in 1977. Magnus Hirschfeld was an openly gay man and campaigned for gay rights in 1896. Audre Lorde describe herself as a black lesbian poet. Her work cover everything from civil rights and sexuality, to her battle with cancer.
In 2001 there was an Audre Lorde Award launched to honor works of a lesbian poetry. Bayard Rustin served time in prison for refusing to go to war. His prison records describe him as an “admitted homosexual” that’s why Rustin hasn’t received the same recognition as others in the civil rights movement. Lastly, Christine Jorgensen real name is George Jorgensen. Jorgensen took hormone treatment and gender for surgery in 1952. When Jorgensen was young he described himself as a woman in a man’s body. Jorgensen was pored over by the media and triggered national discussions about gender identity. Homosexuality was created in the 19th century by a German psychologist, Karoly Maria Benkert.
Some LGBT Rights Milestones you will learn some new thing about this. The society for human rights was founded by Henry Gerber (B1). Dwight Eisenhower signed order. Illinois became the first state to repealing the laws of the LGBTQ. Also Wisconsin became the first state to outlaw sexual conduct. Once some of these states outlawed the LGBTQ it started to change. Some people wasn’t scared to come out to say there gay, lesbian or transgender. There are nine states that ban same-sex marriage. Georgia is one of the nine states with no judicial action or pending legal decisions on the same-sex marriage. Louisiana is two out of seven states that the ban carry on in place pending Louisiana’s appeal of the state court ruling.
Last year in Kentucky a U. S District Court judge ruled that the states constitutional amendment banning gay marriages. Also last year in Michigan a U. S District Court Judge ruled year that the states same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional, resulting in the issuance of more than 300 marriage licenses. In Missouri a state court judge ruled in November in 2004 constitutional ban on gay marriage was illegal. In Mississippi a U.S. District Court judge allowed an injunction last year against the states same-sex marriage ban. Nebraska also thinks that the same-sex marriages was unconstitutional. In Ohio a federal Court judge approved a ban last year on same-sex marriages. In Tennessee, in November 2014, the Court of Appeals of the Sixth Circuit support the state’s ban.
