Very Early LGBT Activist

[+ azdr0710]

decades before Stonewall, the Mattachine Society, and the Society For Human Rights......interesting article about one of the earliest (before his death in 1922) activists.......I hope we remember the courage some of these people had......

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/historian-unearths-evidence-one-america-s-earliest-gay-rights-activists-n1026921

Edited July 8, 2019 by azdr0710

[LoveNDino]

interesting article about one of the earliest (before his death in 1922) activists.......I hope we remember the guts some of these guys had......

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/historian-unearths-evidence-one-america-s-earliest-gay-rights-activists-n1026921

From now on, I will identify as Uranian

[+ azdr0710]

besides the above-mentioned Mattachine Society and the Society For Human Rights, there are also these very early rights groups......

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONE,_Inc.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_Bilitis

 

again, I hope we remember the courage and patience of these early advocates.....don't know if I'd have the guts to do what they did

[LivingnLA]

Homophobia, like many institutionalized bigotries, stems from the overlap of power dynamics, greed, and other factors including "us vs them" tribalism, which goes back to the earliest days of humanity. As social primates, all of us have various biases in varying intensity. As our species has become ever more densely populated and social, tolerance has become a critical set of skills and adaptations to enable survival and growth over the last few hundred thousand years. Many bigotries are learned early. Research shows tolerance best develops when fostered early.

 

Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance,and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity [PDF Link]

Hating Gays: An Overview of Scientific Studies

Homosexuality may have evolved to aid social bonding (controversial idea, but I tend to agree with it)

Major Sociological Theories

 

As a species, we are reaching a critical crossroad where tolerance is no longer enough. We need to move toward Acceptance and we must seriously tackle our dysfunctional global hierarchy created by runaway capitalism built on millenia of classim that feeds the false belief of a "ruling class" being necessary, "natural, " or inevitable for our species.