LGBTQ+ Advocacy

Sexual Orientations: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Omnisexual, Polysexual, Asexual spectrum, and more...

Gender Identity: Transgender, Non Binary, Agender, Femme, Masc, Demigirl, Demiboy, Two-Spirit (Indigenous third gender), and more...

Trans people can have any sexuality, just like cis people

Gender ≠ Sex

Gender and Sexuality are like race in that they are not a choice

• People may figure out their gender/sexuality at any point in their lives as they learn more about themselves, but it is not chosen

In a 2016 survey, about 4.1% of adults in the U.S. identified as LGBT, and this is rising

Marriage Equality was extended nationwide by the Supreme Court in 2015

13 countries in the United Nations still allow the death penalty for same-gender sexual acts

Nearly one-third of LGBTQ+ high school students drop out, about three times the national average

40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ+ and homeless because of their sexual or gender identity

Conversion Therapy (trying to make people straight) is scientifically disproven

Chick-fil-a has donated millions to anti-LGBTQ+ organizations

The Salvation Army is very anti-LGBTQ+

Lesbian: non-man who loves non-men

Sapphic: love related to same-sex attraction between women (or femme -aligning people)

Gilbert Baker, AKA “Gay Betsy Ross,” designed rainbow pride flag

• Red: sexuality, orange: life/healing, yellow: the sun, green: nature, blue: art, indigo: harmony, and violet: the spirit

During the WWII/ the Holocaust, in Nazi Concentration Camps, Gay men were identified with pink triangles (sometimes lesbians were identified by black triangles)

2020 elections turned out a record number of LGBTQ+ people now serving in the U.S. Congress

Sarah McBride is the first transgender senator in the U.S.

Pride was started by the Stonewall Riots in 1969

• Police raided the Stonewall Inn (LGBT+ Bar), in Greenwich, NY, and the city’s LGBTQ+ community decided to fight back one night, led by Marsha P. Johnson

Stonewall Riots were a huge turning point for LGBTQ+ Rights

There is a history of bi-erasure within and outside of the LGBTQ+ community

Microaggression examples:

• “So you’re straight/gay now?” -when a bi person starts dating

• “You just haven’t met the right girl/boy yet” -when someone comes out as gay/lesbian

• “It’s probably just a phase/trend” -when someone comes out

• And more

Trevor Project has a notional hotline focused on saving LGBTQ+ teens’ lives

• Trevor Hotline: toll-free, confidential suicidal hotline

• 1-866-488-7386

GLAAD: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

PFLAG: Parents & Friends of LGBTQ+

• Resources, information, etc…

GLSEN: Works for LGBTQ+ students to have a safe environment to learn and grow in at school

There have been same-sex relationships recorded in almost every culture throughout history