Short summary about the history of lgbtq community

Overview

Around the world, people are under attack for who they are.

Living as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans person or intersex (LGBTI) person can be life-threatening in a number of countries across the globe. For those who do not live with a daily immediate risk to their life, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression and sex characteristics, can have a devastating effect on physical, mental and emotional well-being for those forced to endure it.

Discrimination and violence against LGBTI people can appear in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to organism denied a job or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also deal with suppression across the globe. 

The range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging and could be based on:

• your sexual orientation (who you’re attracted to)
• gender identity (how you self-identify, irrespective of the sex assigned at birth)
• gender expression (how you express your gender, for example through your clothing, hair or mannerisms),
• sex characteristics (for example, your genitals, chromosomes, reproductive

  A Brief LGBTQ History of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer People

  The First Evidence of Homosexuality

  Contrary to some beliefs, homosexuality is not a recent phenomenon—but a part of human culture for thousands of years. From prehistoric cave art to ancient texts, the narrative of homosexual relationships runs deep in our history, speaking volumes about human sexuality's diverse nature.

  The first recorded depiction of homosexual partners can be traced back to the Mesolithic rock art in Sicily, Italy, around 9600 BCE. The ancient drawings discovered by historians paint a profound picture of phallic male figures in pairs, engaged in what appears to be intimate behavior.

  This illustration moves us beyond the presumption that heterosexuality was the norm during prehistoric times. It suggests that lgbtq+ relationships existed, even then and might have been accepted or acknowledged in prehistoric societies.

  The evidence of homosexuality extends to about 8000 BCE in Zimbabwe. The cave artwork from this African region reveals a similar narrative. A cursory look at the drawings cones you with scenes of homosexual intercourse and partnerships. These pictorial
  
  

  The early 1990s saw a major expansion of the Council of Europe membership due to the implode of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. In 1989, for example, there were 22 member states whereas by 2010 this had risen to 47.

  To join the Council of Europe, new member-states must undertake certain commitments, including conforming their criminal laws to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). As we know from the situation in Northern Ireland described in Dudgeon above, the ECHR right to privacy prohibits the criminalisation of same-sex exercise. By the time candidate states from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc applied for membership of the Council of Europe, it was a condition of their accession to decriminalise.

  By way of example, the following countries decriminalised at or around the time they joined: Lithuania (joined the Council of Europe in 1993; decriminalised in 1993), Estonia (1993; 1992), Romania (1993; 1996), Serbia (2003; 1994), Ukraine (1995; 1991), Albania (1995; 1995), Latvia (1995; 1992), Macedonia FYROM (1995; 1996), Moldova (1995; 1995), Russia (1996; 1993), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002; 1998-2001), Georgia (1999; 200

  Christina B. Hanhardt

  Among the first lessons instructors teach in queer woman , gay, bisexual, gender non-conforming (LGBT) history classes is about the changing definitions and uses of the word queer. Up through the nineteenth century the pos was primarily used to mark individuals considered odd or outside social norms. Queer carried particular currency in scandal from the lingo of newspaper exposés and gossip columns to private epistolary speculation. It was often but not always offered as epithet and ascribed to others rather than claimed for oneself; and by the twentieth century it was most commonly used for reasons of perceived sexual or gender non-conformity. In the 1960s and 1970s, a new social movement called for the rejection of labels such as queer and even homosexual (itself seen as pejorative and medicalizing) in favor of proud proclamations like “Gay Is Good.”

  Many lesbians, same-sex attracted men, and those who would increasingly claim the category transgender who had felt the sting of the homosexual insult were quite surprised, then, to encounter the term’s reemergence in the 1990s, spurred both by a political formation of militant and creative LGBT activists and by a new cadre of academi

  Government Persecution of the LGBTQ Community is Widespread

  The 1950s were perilous times for individuals who fell outside of society’s legally allowed norms relating to gender or sexuality. There were many names for these individuals, including the clinical “homosexual,” a phrase popularized by pioneering German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. In the U.S., professionals often used the term “invert.” In the mid-19th Century, many cities formed “vice squads” and police often labeled the people they arrested “sexual perverts.” The government’s preferred term was “deviant,” which came with legal consequences for anyone seeking a career in widespread service or the military. “Homophile” was the term preferred by some preceding activists, small networks of women and men who yearned for community and found creative ways to resist legal and societal persecution. 

  With draft eligibility officially lowered from 21 to 18 in 1942, World War II brought together millions of people from around the country–many of whom were leaving their home states for the first time–to fill the ranks of the military and the federal workforce. Among them were gays and lesbians, who inaudibly formed kinships on m