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Gay people have been the target of violence for their sexuality in various cultures throughout history. During the Holocaust, 100,000 gay men were arrested, and between 5,000 and 15,000 gay men perished in Nazi concentration camps. [163] Violence against LGBT people continues to occur today, fueled by anti-gay rhetoric. [164]
The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was one of the earliest LGBT (gay rights) organizations in the United States, probably second only to Chicago's Society for Human Rights. Communist and labor activist Harry Hay formed the group with a collection of male friends in Los Angeles to protect and improve the rights of gay men.
May 15, 1901, Seward, Nebraska - d. March 22, 1999, Arizona) [61] wrote the song, We Men Must Grow a Mustache; Abe Lyman appeared on the sheet music. Edgar Leslie and James V. Monaco wrote Masculine Women, Feminine Men [62] in Hugh J. Ward's 1926 production of the musical Lady Be Good. [62] Homosexuality also found its way into African-American ...
Nevertheless, there were some gay men who had an important impact on American history at this time, particularly literature. Walt Whitman, a prominent and influential American poet, is widely believed to have been gay or bisexual. [11] In the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, he published a cluster of homoerotic poems under the name Calamus. [12]
Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place. Attitudes to male homosexuality have varied from requiring males to engage in same-sex relationships to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death.
In 1967, the Sexual Offences Act was passed in the UK, decriminalizing private homosexual acts between men over 21. (The law was not changed in Scotland until 1980 or in Northern Ireland until 1982.)
It also researched support for same-sex marriage among Republican leaning voters in the United States. 61% of Republican leaning voters aged 18–29 supported allowing same-sex couples to marry, while only 27% of Republican leaning voters over 50 years of age were supportive. [50] 52% of Republican voters aged 18–50 supported same-sex marriage.
To many, gay culture is exemplified by the gay pride movement, with annual parades and displays of rainbow flags. Yet not all LGBT people choose to participate in "queer culture", and many gay men and women specifically decline to do so. To some it seems to be a frivolous display, perpetuating gay stereotypes.