https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2022-05-23 15:47:51 UTC 2022-05-26 04:56:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3f3-1f308.png 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2196174637 2022-05-23 16:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2196174637 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2196175594 Published on June 4, 2019, this novel takes place during the peak of the AIDS crisis in New York City, 1989. Reza (the protagonist) is adjusting to his new life as an immigrant, but is afraid that others might find out he is gay and not accept him before he can even come to terms with accepting himself. This story combines both the history of the lgbtq+ with teenage romance. ]]> 2022-05-23 16:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2196175594 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2196180562 2022-05-23 16:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2196180562 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197919745 Published in 2019, this novel covers the power, protests, and pride that led to the LGBTQ+ community's firm sense of unity and strength it has today. 

This book records the distinct movements / events in U.S. History that shaped the LGBTQ+ community today, highlighting photographs that had been taken at the time of the event (i.e. people fighting for the Stonewall Inn parade, people, the front headlines of newspapers during the 1980s AIDS epidemic and photographs of the people protesting against the decisions of the president to avoid helping them, etc.) ]]> 2022-05-24 15:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197919745 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197926035 Published on February 21, 2012, this novel follows the story of Aristotle 'Ari' Mendoza, a cynical and bitter 15-year-old boy who meets and befriends Dante Quintana, a friendly, outgoing, and confident boy in the local pool one summer. The novel focuses in on the topics of Mexican-American identity, gender roles, homosexuality, friendship and family dynamics. ]]> 2022-05-24 15:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197926035 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197936293 2022-05-24 15:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197936293 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197939793 2022-05-24 15:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197939793 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197940318 2022-05-24 15:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197940318 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197941688 2022-05-24 15:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197941688 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197942915 2022-05-24 15:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197942915 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197944163 2022-05-24 15:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197944163 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197944999 2022-05-24 15:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197944999 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197953196 Members of Mattachine Society, who participated in the "sip-in" of 1966. They challenged bars who refuse to serve open members of the LGBTQ+ community.]]> 2022-05-24 16:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197953196 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197954507 The movie talks about Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man who had been voted into America's major public office. He is seen as someone who changed the meaning of what's a fighter for human rights. His victory was for gay rights and the forged coalitions across the political system. ]]> 2022-05-24 16:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197954507 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197960762 With the history of 'homosexual acts' being illegal in all states during the 20th century, in the hot summer months of June and July, 1969, police officers had gone in and raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village, New York, well-known as a secret haven for the city's gay, lesbian, and transgender people. As these people of the LGBTQ+ community grew tiresome of the constant assaults, this evening, they had stood up for themselves and their rights, and resisted, fighting back police force.


]]> 2022-05-24 16:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197960762 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197965184 October 14, 1979, the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay rights, took place with an estimate of 200,000 people attending. ]]> 2022-05-24 16:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197965184 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197966965 During the early 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic had made itself known, the minority that was heavily affected being gay and bisexual men, the ACT UP was created in late 1987 by a group of activists protesting against the ignorance of the president during that time, Ronald Reagan, who treated this crisis as a joke, labeling it as a "gay plague" and not taking responsibility in his own hands to help slow the contraction of HIV which can then become AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) or to even find a possible cure for the disease which was killing thousands of people. ]]> 2022-05-24 16:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197966965 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197975879 Born as Farrokh Bulsara on September 5, 1946, Freddie Mercury is known as the songwriter and frontman of the British rock band Queen, who created beloved songs such as "Killer Queen", Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody to love", "We Are The Champions", "I Want to Break Free", and more.  

Despite Mercury having been in relationships with both men and women, his sexuality has always been something that has been speculated; with many people claiming that he was bisexual because of his attraction to both males and females while others considered that he might have been gay because of how he presented himself when in concert. However, Mercury himself had never confirmed what his sexual orientation was, which is his choice -- one that is completely valid. 

He was what he was, simply because he didn't have a label didn't make him any less than, he was still a part of the LGBTQ+ community and continues to serve as one of the most popular icons for it. ]]> 2022-05-24 16:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197975879 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197982948 On June 26, 2015, a monumental piece of history took place. The U.S. Supreme Court took down state bans on same-sex marriage, making it legal in all fifty states. ]]> 2022-05-24 16:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197982948 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197989697 Born as Reginald Kenneth Dwight on March 25, 1947, Elton John is known for his impact on the music industry in the 1970s as well as for his flamboyant stage presence, with wild and colorful costumes. 

Similarly to Freddie Mercury, whom he had met and became friends with, over the course of his lifetime, he too had been in relationships with both men and women, most of them ending abruptly. In 1976, John had publically came out as bisexual during an interview with the Rolling Stones though through the years following this when he had explored and became comfortable with his self-identity, in 1992 during another interview with the Rolling Stones, had admitted that he felt it more fitting for his sexuality to be gay; from 1993 to present-day, Elton John has been in a relationship with an advertising executive, David Furnish, who he had two young boys with in 2010 and 2013 through surrogacy, before becoming married on December 21, 2014.]]> 2022-05-24 16:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2197989697 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2198706944 A show about a boy’s life with autism and his struggles, but shows other forms of representation as well. Like his sister, Casey,  who is figuring out her sexuality. The character is played by Brigette Lundy-Paine, who is a part of the lgbtq+ community themselves. ]]> 2022-05-25 03:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2198706944 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2198719044 Born as Dorthy Miranda Clark, Dodie is an English indie-artist who wrote their song "She" which talks about a girl having feelings for another girl, but knows that those same feelings wouldn't be returned. 

She is an openly bisexual person, who also uses the pronouns she/her as well as they/them (combining together as she/they).]]> 2022-05-25 03:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2198719044 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199588962 'It's A Sin' a British miniseries streaming on HBO Max, created by Russell T. Davies (who himself is a part of the LGBT community), follows the lives of four gay men, Ritchie Tozer (played by Years & Years lead vocalist, Olly Alexander, an openly gay man), Roscoe Babatunde (played by Omari Douglas), Colin "Gladys Pugh" Morris-Jones (played by Callum Scott Howells), and Ash Mukherjee (played by Nathaniel Curtis) as they move to London at the beginning of the 1980s' AIDS crisis. 

The show follows their journey of what it means to love people, to have healthy tight-knit friendships, and explores what it is like to grieve, mourn, and deal with the death of those you are close to. ]]> 2022-05-25 15:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199588962 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199592296 Adapted from the graphic novel of the same series by English author Alice Oseman (she/they), Heartstopper follows the story of Charlie Spring, a 15-year-old boy who had just recently been outed. The show focuses on not only the struggles of Charlie spring, but the struggles of his friends as well. Whether it be about their sexuality, gender identity, relationships, or all of the above. The show itself gives good insight of the lives of those who are apart of the lgbtq+ community. ]]> 2022-05-25 15:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199592296 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199609282 The history of lgbtq+ community and how through out the years more representation was shown. Along with the community creating safe places and starting to demand rights, creating movements. ]]> 2022-05-25 16:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199609282 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199616479 Documentary talks about how the community found their safe place at the Stonewall Inn. Including how the riots made a turning point in the lgbtq+ rights movement. ]]> 2022-05-25 16:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199616479 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199627009 Strangers who are apart of the LGBTQ+ community write their secrets and others read them. It gives an inside view of how others live with fear of not being accepted, to the point that they could be killed. Along how they have to hide their true self because of how the world might see them. ]]> 2022-05-25 16:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2199627009 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2200290256 The article talks about how the U.S. has become anti-lgbtq, especially after the Covid-era. Such as Florida passing the "don't say gay" law.]]> 2022-05-26 03:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2200290256 1847654 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2200293172 Gay Times, a monthly magazine-subscription based in London, was first established in 1975 and has, since then, used daily updates for the whole of the LGBTQ+ community, including content regarding pop culture (films, television programs, music, singers and artists) along with endorsing a variety of social media platforms. ]]> 2022-05-26 03:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2200293172 1746498 https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2200302471 This article talks about how cross-cutting discrimination existed within the community, but also how they came to together not only to help each other but for progress. ]]> 2022-05-26 03:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1847654/lgbtqrights/wish/2200302471