CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction 4 Chapter 2 History 8 33 Chapter 3 Gay Rights Movement 16 Chapter 4 Gay Pride 20 Chapter 5 Progress in Many Fields 23 Chapter 6 Family 28 Biographies 31 Timeline 36 Glossary 41 For More Information 44 Index 46
Chapter 1 Introduction People experience love in all different kinds of ways People love their friends their family members their pets and even their belongings Romantic love is a certain kind of love Romantic love is the kind of love that people think of when they Young women celebrate LGBTQ people during a Pride Parade 4
Introduction think about people living together and sharing their lives together In romantic love sometimes women and men love each other This is called heterosexuality And sometimes women love other women and men love other men This is called homosexuality LGBTQ is an acronym or abbreviation for lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer Lesbians are women attracted to women Gay men are men attracted to men Bisexual people are attracted to both sexes Transgender people identify with the sex opposite of the anatomy they were born with In a very general way queer is merely a description of anyone who does not follow the system in which a person is either a man or a woman There are different names or terms for homosexuals Homosexual men are often called gay and homosexual women are called lesbians Recently the term gay is used to refer to anyone who is not heterosexual The term queer used to be an insult directed toward gay people but the gay community has adopted the word and now uses it as part of their vocabulary The term 5
