In the 21st century, the rights of the LGBTI community are repeatedly violated. And despite this, many steps have been taken and many doors have been opened for the group and the path has not been easy. For this reason, it is worth remembering the history of LGBT: The fight for equalityduring the celebration of Gay Pride 2022.
This year, as we know, Gay Pride 2022 will be held from June 25 to July 4.
The history of LGBT: the fight for equality
The history of LGBT: The fight for equality It begins by defining the acronyms that accompany the collective’s flag. Namely: L (lesbians), G (gay), T (transsexuals) Y B. (bisexuals). A group that has historically been mistreated and despised but that, little by little, has been conquering milestones until reaching unthinkable rights not too long ago.
The history of LGBT: the fight for equality is a history of injustice, of aggressions, of murders and of how a whole minority group rebelled against a society that could not help but accept them. Despite this, this same society continues to deprive them of other milestones to add to their achievements, but the LGBTI community continues to fight.
In fact, During the month of June, most of the protest and symbolic acts of the collective take place.. Of course, they are complemented by several days of festivities in full celebration of Gay Pride. The choice of the month is not accidental and is loaded with symbolism, as we will see later.
First of all, it’s time to go back to the end of the 19th century when the first vindictive attempts of the homosexual group began. By then, homosexuality was a crime in many countries, so gays hid their status, at least most of the time.
Obviously, the first conspiracy of the collective was seek decriminalization of their condition. In fact, at the beginning of the 20th century, the first groups of people asking for homosexuality to stop being a crime began to form. Interestingly, it was in Germany where all these movements were conceived, thanks to people like Heinrich Hössli or Károly Mária Kertbeny.
The union of these groups reached such an extent that people of opposing political ideologies met in them, but united by a common goal, the recognition of the rights of the LGTB collective.
Thus, with more and more people joining the cause, these associations began to carry out cultural actions in order to settle in society. It worked. They held meetings, watched movies or read homosexual-themed books. Such was the impact that the German Government decriminalized homosexuality but fate wanted it to come the Crack of 29 and everything will be paralyzed.
And worse still, after the crisis of 1929, the rise of the Nazi Party, the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and all the cultural and social advances achieved, disappeared, giving way to a World War II that would be fateful for Germany.
With Hitler dead and the Nazi Party defeated, the LGTB Movement recovers its projects and in 1945 what they came to call the ‘Movement homophile‘. Basically, someone homophile is someone who loves a similar. The group’s discourse, more than on the same sex, was based on love, tolerance and respect.
Despite being a moderate and low-profile movement, Germany laid the foundations for the Homophile Movement in other countries. USA, Holland, UK and Denmark, also joined the demands of Germany. And they also did it from a cultural perspective, making the leap to gay-themed magazines. A real revolution.
However, it is in the United States where the event that will change history takes place. happened in Greenwich Village, New York, on June 28, 1969. That same year, the community had started the so-called Gay Liberation Movement.
In the Stonewall Inn, a place with a New York atmosphere, there was a brutal police raid that led to riots for the next 72 hours. It was the first time that the homosexual group stood up to police abuse. It was the spark that lit the fuse they had been waiting for decades.
From that moment on, the birth of LGBT organizations multiplied. The impact was such that they decided to form the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the heart of New York, where the incident with the police had taken place. The message was clear, the collective had rebelled and they were not going to take a step back.
Besides, the citizenshipuntil then oblivious to the matter, began to get involvedto give an opinion, even to collaborate with the group.
Echoes of the Stonewall Inn incident began to spread around the world. The initiatives that were being taken in New York were copied in countries like Canada, countries Low, Belgium, France, Kingdom United, Argentina either Australia, among others. The demands were simple and clear: to have the same rights as any other citizen.
And so, with the LGBT community coordinated, motivated and mobilized, One year after the Stonewall Revolt. Obviously, the day that changed everything, he deserved a name day in style. So it was. The GLF organized a peaceful march throughout New York attended by more than 5,000 people. Something unthinkable not so long ago.
Since then, June 28, 1970, it became a tradition to commemorate the Stonewall Revolt, now converted into Gay Pride Day. However, the festival has become such a benchmark that it lasts for several days, with June 28 as the big day, around which everything revolves.
As of today, the Homosexuality is no longer considered a crime in most European and American countries so, obviously, the claims have taken a leap in quality. Now, the LGTB collective seeks its right to marriage either Union civil, whatever you want to call it, between people of the same sex. A demand that, in Spain, has been approved since October 2004.
On the other hand, the LGTB group also aspires to real equality of rights in terms of inheritances, adoptions either security Social. That is to say, the fight for equality continues and the history of LGTB continues to be written.
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