LGTB COMMUNITY CIVIL

RIGHTS
Nicolas Gracia
 History
+ Some years ago, in 1969, when LGTB people
didn’t concord with the roles established by the
society and LGTB community was repressed
(As the last 2000 years), many LGTB people
used to meet on a bar, Stonewall In, in New
York. LGTB people usually on that times didn’t
fight for them rights; they just were used to
hide them identity.
 History
+ However, the 28th of June of that year, something
happen, provoking the beginning of a movement in
order to claim LGTB rights. The event occurred on
the bar, on which, as usual, policemen enter to make
illegal detentions to this community, and even, they
“register” transexual women (Private Organs). This
day, the difference was that everyone on the bar
refused to be registered or detainee, so a brutal fight
began, provoking lots of LGTB people to begin to
fight for them rights. This is why nowadays the 28th
of June is the pride day.
What about
nowadays?
+ Even though many countries have included on
their laws a prohibition to discrimination toward
the LGTB community, others many still
maintain on their law the consideration of this
community as illegal. In fact, there’re some
countries on which the penalty for being LGTB
is death, such as Arabia Saudi. However, USA
laws posses an antidiscrimination section to
LGTB community, but it’s not as good as other
countries.

(Countries on which LGTB marriage is

legal)
What about
nowadays?
+ From a social point of view, it depends on
people moral. Anyways, this is usually
depending on the country on which you live.
For example, in Spain is seen as a normal thing
(Even though there’re still some discrimination
from someone to others, in fact, no so long ago,
a men had been assassinated just for been gay),
but on countries as Brunei, as it isn’t accepted,
LGTB discrimination is normal.

(LGTB Social acceptance in Europe)

 First Leaders
+ Gilbert Baker  Born in 1951, he was an LGTB
activist which is considerate one of the “fathers” of
LGTB movement. He designed the actual LGTB
flag.
+ David P. Brill  Born in 1955, he was an LGTB
activist which was in charged of the creation of the
first LGTB news movement, the Gay community
news.
+ Stephen Donaldson  Born in 1946, He was an
LGTB activist which fought in order to make a
prison reform so that LGTB people don’t go to Jail
on the USA.

(Stephen Donaldson)
Nowadays Leaders
+ Alice Knom  She is an activist and human rights lawyer which fights for
LGTB rights in Cameroon, a country on which this community still being
illegal.
+ Sylvia Rivera She is an LGTB activist which has achieved to transform
many people into a more inclusive thinking for accepting LGTB people
+ Michael Sam  Being the first NFL player declaring openly gay, he had been
changing from team to team because of discrimination, provoking nowadays
to be an activist which searches the elimination of this type of discrimination
on NFL players.
 Nowadays Leaders
+ Edith Winsor  She’s an activist which has
achieved the same-sex marriage on the US. Her
case began with her engagement with Tyer Spyer,
which lasted over 40 years until she married her on
Canada on 2007. However, they moved to the US,
where they weren’t recognized as wives, so in
2013, Windsor to the supreme court, which
accepted to seen them as wives, and changing the
law in order to permit same-sex marriage on the
US, expanding LGTB civil rights. Nowadays, she
(Edith Winsor)
fight in order to achieve this in other countries were
same-sex marriage it’s still not recognized.
Some organizations
+ ILGA  Operation in 150 different countries, it’s one of the
most powerful organization fighting for LGTB rights
+ GATE  One of the biggest international organizations which
aim is to protect to all intersexual and transgender people with
justice
+ The Kaleidoscope Trust  It’s one of the principal organizations
which centers on reducing discrimination to LGTB people in
countries which is a common thing
+ GSA Network  This organizations looks up to young people in
order to educate them for respecting every LGTB people
Subjective opinion
+ From my opinion, although LGTB discrimination has been reduced all
over this years, it is still existing, in some cases, on a brutal way (As
mentioned on some countries which penalty for being LGTB is death).
Also, socially acceptance has been improved, but it didn’t disappear the
discrimination. For improving this, I suggest to every single country to
create laws in order to ban this type of discrimination, and, for
improving the social acceptance, to provide educational services on
which people teach to others to be respectful with this community,
because they don’t do anything wrong, Love is Love!
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+ Ricee, Susanne. “68 Important LGBTQ Organizations You Must Know.” Diversity.social, Diversity.Social Diversity
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+ Arwen Armbrecht. “Explainer: The State of LGBT Rights Today.” World Economic Forum, 4 Jan. 2016,
www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/explainer-the-state-of-lgbt-rights-today/.
+ Wikipedia Contributors. “Gilbert Baker (Artist).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Oct. 2021,
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+ Wikipedia Contributors. “Stephen Donaldson (Activist).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Dec.
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+ “15 LGBTQ Activists of the Past and Present You Should Know.” Global Citizen, 14 May 2015,
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