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FINAL PAPER: THE GAY/LESBIAN COMMUNITY

  • Gay/Lesbian Rights Social Movement = 20 points
  • History of the Pride Parade = 10 points
  • History of Rainbow Pride Flag & what each color representative = 10 points
  • Describe in which the manner of which gay/lesbians are discriminated against = 20 points
  • How are gay/lesbians viewed by persons of various religion = 20 points
  • What are the current laws regarding persons who are gay/lesbians as it relates to marriage, civil marriage, domestic partnerships and civil union = 20 points
  • Must have 6 resources on reference page
  • APA format

Please feel free to express your personal views as it relates to oppression and discrimination

Due: 08/23/2018 at 6:00 pm

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The Gay and Lesbian Community
Gay and Lesbian Rights Social Movements
The Stone Wall Riots in Greenwich Village in New York are still considered as a pivotal
moment that marked the beginning of the gay and lesbian movements. Despite the event having
been violent, it gave people more strength, galvanized the gay community and catapulted the gay
rights to become proactive in their approach and pursue a more assertive and political strategies
in dealing with the challenges that they faced ranging from discrimination by authorities, lack of
recognition, stigma, and sexual and physical assault in various settings among others. From that
incident in Stonewall in 1969, social movement won full acceptance, they moved a step further
and gained support from liberal state’s social contracts and the members pressed on demanding
changes and the movement began to defeat the four horsemen which are the descriptions of the
oppressions and designations that they were given namely crazy, sinful, criminal, and subversive.
Nevertheless, some of the earliest gay and lesbian movement can be traced to the mid1940s to late 1960s when they preferred the tag of homophile movement to signify the love as
opposed to sexual inclinations. The homophile movement existed in the U.S, Britain, France,
Netherlands, and Germany and lobbied for greater influence of the political systems with the
main goal of social acceptance. The number of such groups increased tremendously in the U.S in
the early 1970s. The gay liberations movement started in the late 1960s and was inspired by
successful movements in other spheres like the Black Power, the Anti-Vietnam War movements
and the Women Movements. Among the earliest organizations that were formed in the aftermath
of the 1969 protests included the Gay Liberations Front (GLF), and the Gay Activist Alliance
(GAA) that rode on the attention and unity created following the Stonewall Riots. The Street
Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), the Queen Liberation Front (QLF), Transsexual

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Activist Organization were formed in the 1970s by the transgender communities that were not
factored into the gay movements.
The pride parades debuted in the 1970s with the first LGBT pride march and the
Christopher Street Liberation Day March and also gave birth to the week-long events that
revolved around the pride marches. More social groups developed like the National Bisexual
Liberation Group in New York which changed focus to more reformed strategies based on a
single issue of gay activism. Lesbian Feminism was also another social movement that focused
mainly on empowering women to put more energy on women issues and increased in
prominence in the 1980s period. The protest, like Add the Words in Idaho in 2014, were also
instrumental in the push for acceptance of different sexual orientations and employed strategies
such as civil disobedience and arrests. A big boost to the social movement that was also
instrumental in the unification of the LGBTQ groups was the PRIDE an acronym that refers to
Personal Rights in Defense and Education (PRIDE) which organized the demonstrations
(Peterson et al. 2018).
History of the Pride Parade
The LGBTQ pride parades are held annually in the summer periods and are described as
a type of ritualistic procession of non-conventional sexual orientations and other gender
identities, and are coordinated with the help of activists in the grassroots levels of the movement
(Drissel, 2016). The history of the gay pride parade especially in North America can be traced
back to the late 1960s during the time of the Stonewall Riots which marked the start of
community organization (DRPS, n.d). The group had before that been subject of many cases of
Police brutality and harassments, however, on the patrons of the Stonewall bar in New York
organized a group of gays who would rise up and protest the arrests and humiliation. When the

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New York Police descended on the Stone Wall Inn in Greenwich Village the patrons did not
disperse but instead fought back hurling stones, cans, bottles to the police turning the raid into a
full-blown riot which carried on for two consecutive nights (Peterson et al. 2018). What started
off as a simple act of defiance led to the event and subsequent political activities in the early
1970s which led to the first Pride March that was also to mark the remembrance of the Stonewall
Riots organized by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (DRPS, n.d).
Stonewall Riots had not been the first gay riot, but it was the event that galvanized the
gay resistance and also what formed the catalysis of modern...


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