Gay Liberation movement

Examples of Gay Liberation movement in the following topics:

• The Gay Rights Movement

  • The Gay Rights movement grew out of the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970's, pursuing equality through the framework of civil rights.
  • From the anarchistic Gay Liberation Movement of the early 1970s arose a more reformist and single-issue Gay Rights Movement of the 80s and 90s.
  • This new movement portrayed gays and lesbians as a minority group and used the language of civil rights.
  • This proved to be a major set-back in the Gay Rights movement.
  • In Canada, the coming into effect of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1985 saw a shift in the Canadian gay rights movement, as Canadian gays and lesbians moved from liberation to litigious strategies.

• Gay and Lesbian Rights

  • Various communities have worked together, but also have worked independently of each other, in various configurations including gay liberation, lesbian feminism, the queer movement, and transgender activism.
  • Lesbian feminism emerged around the same time that gay liberation groups were forming.
  • Many women of the gay liberation movement felt frustrated at the domination of the movement by men and formed separate organizations.
  • The most famous event in the gay rights movement took place not in San Francisco but in New York City.
  • Shortly thereafter, the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists’ Alliance were formed and began to protest discrimination, homophobia, and violence against gay and transgender people, promoting LGBT liberation and pride.

• The Movement for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights

  • The LGBT rights movement refers to the efforts of LGBT advocates to improve their legal and social status.
  • The LGBT Rights Movement refers to the attempts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocates to improve the legal and social status of LGBT people.
  • Homophile organizations were clubs of gay men and lesbian women who sought equality for gays and lesbians.
  • This coincided with a period in which sexual mores were generally liberalized in the U.S.
  • An issue that has been central to the LGBT rights movement since the late 1980s is same-sex marriage.

• Examples of Social Movements

• New Social Movements

  • The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy), which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm .
  • Secondly, these movements are significantly different from previous social movements of the industrial economy.
  • The primary difference is in their goals, as the new movements focus not on issues of materialistic qualities such as economic well-being, but on issues related to human rights (such as gay rights or pacifism).
  • The concept of new politics can be exemplified in gay liberation, the focus of which transcends the political issue of gay rights to address the need for a social and cultural acceptance of homosexuality.
  • The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy), which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm.

• The Beats

  • The publishers won, and publishing in the United States was liberalized.
  • Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York.
  • Spiritual liberation, sexual revolution or liberation (i.e., gay liberation, which somewhat catalyzed women's liberation and black liberation);
  • Many of the original Beats remained active participants, notably Allen Ginsberg, who became a fixture of the anti-war movement.
  • Beyond style, there were changes in substance: the Beats tended to be essentially apolitical, but the hippies became actively engaged with the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement.

• LGBTQ Civil Rights

  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) people have attained many civil protections, but are still subject to discrimination.
  • The LGBTQ rights movement refers to the efforts of individuals and organizations to improve the social and legal standing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people.
  • The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are often thought to mark the starting point of a worldwide LGBTQ rights movement.
  • Although gay marriage is legal nationally, and no federal law protects LGBTQ people from discrimination.
  • Identify the historical origins and issues relevant for the LGBTQ rights movement

• Conclusion: Change in the 1960s

  • The African American civil rights movement made significant progress in the 1960s.
  • Although the African American civil rights movement was the most prominent of the crusades for racial justice, other ethnic minorities also worked to seize their piece of the American dream during the promising years of the 1960s.
  • The Mexican American civil rights movement, led largely by Cesar Chavez, also made significant progress at this time.
  • The emergence of the Chicano Movement signaled Mexican Americans’ determination to seize their political power, celebrate their cultural heritage, and demand their citizenship rights.
  • Influenced and inspired by the civil rights movement, organizations and student groups formed across the country to protest the Vietnam War, advocate for women's rights, and stand up against discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

• Clinton and Domestic Policy

  • The audience included several figures from the Civil Rights movement, including Congresspersons John Lewis, Maxine Waters, Jim Clyburn, Juanita Millender-McDonald, Patsy Mink, and Robert Filner.
  • Although Clinton had campaigned as an economically conservative New Democrat, he was thought to be socially liberal and, just days after his victory in the 1992 election, he promised to end the 50-year ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military.
  • Instead of lifting the longstanding ban, the armed forces would adopt a policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell”: those on active duty would not be asked their sexual orientation and, if they were gay, they were not to discuss their sexuality openly or they would be dismissed from military service.
  • This compromise satisfied neither conservatives seeking the exclusion of gays nor the gay community, which argued that homosexuals, like heterosexuals, should be able to live without fear of retribution because of their sexuality.

• The Clinton Administration

  • Socially, the administration began with efforts by Clinton to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, which culminated in a compromise known as "Don't ask, don't tell," theoretically allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the military if they did not disclose their sexual orientation (the policy was later repealed in 2010).
  • However, Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, considered by many to be a blow to the LGBT rights movement.
  • Clinton oversaw the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, D.C., which aimed at establishing peace between the warring nations by granting limited self-government of Palestinians in parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
  • The Clinton presidency also saw the passage and signing of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which was a bipartisan measure expressing support for regime change in Iraq.