Examples of Lesbian Feminism in the following topics:
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- The sexual revolution and the feminist movement of the 1960s establish a climate that fostered the struggle for gay and lesbian rights.
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies have a long history of campaigning for what is generally called LGBT 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.
- Nevertheless, in 1974, Kathy Kozachenko became the first openly lesbian woman voted into office in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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- These other movements included a new wave of feminism and a sexual revolution, as well as calls for Native American, Latino, and gay and lesbian rights.
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- Second-wave Feminism is a period of feminist activity that manifested in the United States during the early 1960s, lasting through the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
- Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e. voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
- Many feminists view the second-wave feminist era as ending with the intra-feminism disputes of the Feminist Sex Wars , which ushered in the era of third-wave feminism.
- This book is widely credited with having begun second-wave feminism.
- Second-wave feminism was largely successful, with the failure of the ratification of the ERA the only major legislative defeat .
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- Second-wave feminism distinguished itself from earlier women's movements in that it expanded to include issues of sexuality, family, and reproductive rights.
- Women's movements of the late 19th and early 20th century (later known as first-wave feminism) focused primarily on overturning legal obstacles to gender equality, such as voting rights and property rights.
- In contrast, the second wave of feminism in the 1960s, inspired and galvanized by the civil rights movement of the same era, broadened the debate of women's rights to encompass a wider range of issues, including sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
- Second-wave feminism radically changed the face of western culture, leading to marital rape laws, the establishment of rape crisis and battered women's shelters, significant changes in custody and divorce law, and widespread integration of women into sports activities and the workplace.
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- This new movement portrayed gays and lesbians as a minority group and used the language of civil rights.
- Gay and lesbian rights advocates argued that one's sexual orientation does not reflect on one's gender.
- Gays and lesbians were presented as identical to heterosexuals in all ways but for private sexual practices; from within this more conformist movement, butch "bar dykes" and flamboyant "street queens" were seen as negative stereotypes of lesbians and gays.
- 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.
- The federal government also overlooked the disease, and calls for more money to research and find the cure were largely ignored due to embedded social stigma against gays and lesbians.
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- The term "first wave feminism" describes the women's movements during the Gilded Age, which primarily focused on women's suffrage.
- First-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United States.
- Matilda Joslyn Gage of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), resembled the radicalism of much of second-wave feminism.
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- The 19th- and early 20th-century feminist activity that sought to win women's suffrage, female education rights, better working conditions, and abolition of gender double standards is known as first-wave feminism.
- The term "first-wave" was coined retrospectively when the term second-wave feminism was used to describe a newer feminist movement that fought social and cultural inequalities beyond basic political inequalities.
- Feminists did not recognize separate waves of feminism until the second wave was so named by journalist Martha Lear, according to Jennifer Baumgardner.
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- 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.
- American Indians, gays and lesbians, and women organized to change discriminatory laws and pursue government support for their rights; others, disenchanted with the status quo, distanced themselves from white, middle-class America by forming their own countercultures centered on a desire for peace, the rejection of material goods and traditional morality, concern for the environment, and drug use in pursuit of spiritual revelations.
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- 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).
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- "First-wave feminism" refers to the feminist movement of the nineteenth through early twentieth centuries, which focused mainly on women's suffrage, or right to vote.
- The earlier forms of feminism have been criticized for being geared toward and focused on white, middle-class, educated women, to the exclusion of the diverse experiences of other women.