GAY RIGHTS AND ACTIVISM Crit A Nicole Anatolevna
THE MOVEMENT AND
ACTIVISM OF GAY
RIGHTS
Nicole Anatolevna, yr 10
RESEARCH
Gays and lesbians sometimes suffer unjustly and unfairly because of people’s misconceptions about them. More often than not, the people who they would usually count on to receive support and consideration and love don’t get these things, and instead are misunderstood and alienated from people who are simply ignorant and do not understand what they are going through. Some of the problems faced by gay people are things like their landlords evicting them, getting fired by their employers, arrested for going to gay bars and sometimes they are even physically attacked, and these attacks are often violent. Statistics show that gay people are 116 times more likely to be murdered and 24 times more likely to commit suicide than other people [SameSexAttraction.org, 2014]
Gay people started fighting back to this mistreatment in the 1960’s. It was in this time that they wanted the general public to allow them to live their lives peacefully and without fear of being targeted because of who and what they are. Oftentimes activism and movements start out peacefully, with the parties’ involved using dialogue and reason to try and get their message across. Sometimes, though, this doesn’t work, so they start people start organizing social protest strategies. Following the social protest strategies of the era, gay people turned social issues into political issues. Gay people took the behavioral definition of being homosexual and begun to expand it so as to make it a class of people [SameSexAttractiong.org, 2014].
Over the course of time since the 60’s, gay people have begun to form organizations to advance their efforts in getting equal treatment as anyone else would get. However, gay activism is different to gay movement. Gay activism is sometimes taken to the extremes when violence and vandalism is used to try and change the public opinion on gay people.
The normalization of homosexuality began when gay
ACTIVISM OF GAY
RIGHTS
Nicole Anatolevna, yr 10
RESEARCH
Gays and lesbians sometimes suffer unjustly and unfairly because of people’s misconceptions about them. More often than not, the people who they would usually count on to receive support and consideration and love don’t get these things, and instead are misunderstood and alienated from people who are simply ignorant and do not understand what they are going through. Some of the problems faced by gay people are things like their landlords evicting them, getting fired by their employers, arrested for going to gay bars and sometimes they are even physically attacked, and these attacks are often violent. Statistics show that gay people are 116 times more likely to be murdered and 24 times more likely to commit suicide than other people [SameSexAttraction.org, 2014]
Gay people started fighting back to this mistreatment in the 1960’s. It was in this time that they wanted the general public to allow them to live their lives peacefully and without fear of being targeted because of who and what they are. Oftentimes activism and movements start out peacefully, with the parties’ involved using dialogue and reason to try and get their message across. Sometimes, though, this doesn’t work, so they start people start organizing social protest strategies. Following the social protest strategies of the era, gay people turned social issues into political issues. Gay people took the behavioral definition of being homosexual and begun to expand it so as to make it a class of people [SameSexAttractiong.org, 2014].
Over the course of time since the 60’s, gay people have begun to form organizations to advance their efforts in getting equal treatment as anyone else would get. However, gay activism is different to gay movement. Gay activism is sometimes taken to the extremes when violence and vandalism is used to try and change the public opinion on gay people.
The normalization of homosexuality began when gay