Gale Ebooks - LGBTQ History and Current Issues [Login Info: Library Website>Research] LGBTQ Rights Milestones Fast Facts - CNN.com. Here is a look at LGBTQ milestones in the United States.
LGBTQ is an acronym meaning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning. The term sometimes is extended to LGBTQIA, to include intersex and asexual groups. Queer is an umbrella term for non-straight people; intersex refers to those whose sex is not clearly defined because of genetic, hormonal, or biological differences; and asexual describes those who don’t experience sexual attraction. 1924 - The Society for Human Rights is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago. Infobase: Issues and Controversies - LGBT Rights [Login Info: Library Website>Research] Gale U.S. History - Topic - LGBTQ+ Rights Movement [Login Info: Library Website>Research]
Gale eBooks - American Social Reform Movements Reference Library [Login Info: Library Website>Research] Gale Ebooks - The LGBT Rights Movement [Login Info: Library Website>Research] Teen Health and Wellness: Your Rights as an LGBTQ Teen [Login Info: Library Website>Research] Human Rights Watch: LGBT Rights. A 1969 Account of the Stonewall Uprising - The Atlantic. The conflict over the next six days played out as a very gay variant of a classic New York street rebellion.
It would see: fire hoses turned on people in the street, thrown barricades, gay cheerleaders chanting bawdy variants of New York City schoolgirl songs, Rockette-style kick lines in front of the police, the throwing of a firebomb into the bar, a police officer throwing his gun at the mob, cries of "occupy -- take over, take over," "Fag power," "Liberate the bar! ", and "We're the pink panthers! ", smashed windows, uprooted parking meters, thrown pennies, frightened policemen, angry policemen, arrested mafiosi, thrown cobblestones, thrown bottles, the singing of "We Shall Overcome" in high camp fashion, and a drag queen hitting a police officer on the head with her purse.
How The Stonewall Riots Changed The History Of Gay Rights - allthatsinteresting.com. New York's Stonewall riots of 1969 saw members of the LGBTQ community clash with police in what's widely known as the catalyst for the modern gay rights movement.
NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesCrowds clash with police just outside the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street during the Stonewall riots. The Stonewall riots put gay rights on the map — but when the first shot glass was thrown, nobody involved knew they were going to alter the course of history. Welcome To The Stonewall Inn. Gale Ebooks - The Stonewall Riots: The Fight for LGBT Rights [Login Info: Library Website>Research] ACLU: LGBT Rights. Gale Ebooks - LGBTQ Rights and the Law [Login Info: Library Website>Research]
LGBTQ Resources - GLAAD. National Center for Transgender Equality. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month Research Guides LGBTQ+ Studies: A Resource Guide This research guide serves as an introduction into the excellent collection of LGBTQ+ resources available at the Library of Congress.
A Survey of LGBT Americans - Pew Research. An overwhelming share of America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults (92%) say society has become more accepting of them in the past decade and an equal number expect it to grow even more accepting in the decade ahead.
They attribute the changes to a variety of factors, from people knowing and interacting with someone who is LGBT, to advocacy on their behalf by high-profile public figures, to LGBT adults raising families. At the same time, however, a new nationally representative survey of 1,197 LGBT adults offers testimony to the many ways they feel they have been stigmatized by society. Gale Ebooks - Critical Perspectives on Social Justice [Login Info: Library Website>Research]