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The increasing expansion of a global LGBT rights movement suffered a setback during the 1980s, as the gay male community was decimated by the Aids epidemic, demands for compassion and medical funding led to renewed coalitions between men and women as well as angry street theatre by groups like Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Queer ...
Over the past decades, the focus of LGBTQ activism has shifted and evolved, from the AIDS crisis in the 1980s to the fight for marriage equality to the focus on transgender rights today. Peter Hegarty, PhD, author of the book “A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology: From Homophobia to LGBT,” discusses how psychological research has ...
Book details. Follow the journey of a boy from a small Kansas town who made his gray life sparkle, unfurling a rainbow of color to galvanize the gay rights movement. Includes a Reader Note that provides more in-depth discussion of the beginnings of the gay rights movement and a more detailed look into Gilbert Baker's place in our shared history.
Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes. Sexual orientation also refers to a person’s sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions.
Why individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender are especially susceptible to being placed at a socioeconomic disadvantage. LGBTQ Concerns and International Psychology Resources for international LGBTQ human rights advocacy, including civil societies and the International Network on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns and ...
Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation. That’s the simple answer. But explaining why it happens is more complicated. The human brain naturally puts things in categories to make sense of the world.
This is the tipping-point argument and the silent majority argument. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a pretty brilliant organizer. One of the things he did to help the civil rights get act, get passed, et cetera, was he was very strategic when he was working with local communities. The civil rights movement had been going on for years and years and ...
Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics. “Trans” is sometimes used as shorthand for “transgender.”. While transgender is ...
Description: This book follows the journey of Gilbert Baker from a small Kansas town to San Francisco, where he helped create the pride flag and galvanize the gay rights movement. It was the fifth and sixth grade finalist in the 2019 Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards, the National Council for the Social Studies Children’s Book Council ...
Abstract. This symposium reviews the rapid evolution of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues globally, both favorable and unfavorable, with a focus on Latin America and former Soviet Union countries, and the implications for psychology. The papers 1) review sociopolitical issues pertaining to LGBT people that have evolved ...