LGBTQ+ RIGHTS MOVEMENTS

 Lately Florida has taken some actions that feel against the LGBTQ+ community. This has been on the news and all around the internet. People are concerned for their child, we can't understand why is this necessary because it is not necessary at all. People around the world are ready to stand up and make all the LGBTQ+ voices be heard.

It is important to remember that we all deserve the same rights and opportunity, not matter what our sexual orientation, our religion, or our race is. Nowadays there are still 64 countries that criminalize LGBTQ+ people.

In history there are different movements looking for the rights they deserve.

1. In Berlin the first movement registered was advocating the law to get rights.

2. Night clubs appeared and people were safe there.

3. In the USA new organizations were created. To make people of the community visible and to show there was nothing wrong about them. 

4.  After 1969 (Stonewall) people started a pride movement every june in different countries to conmmemorate, and protest for their rights.

5.  In Florida people have started a movement against the new bill. They want to make sure people know that there is nothing wrong, that they should live like every other person and not be shown as someone to make fun of or to evidence.

After 1980 LGBTQ+ people started being visible in politics. Candidates for certain positions in governments were showing the world who they were. This is not like a movement, but it shows how the society has changed for better. 

Nowadays the community has represantation in books, movies and series. It is still banned in some countries, but people know it is normal, and they are not alone. They can talk about it with their friends, some can talk with their parents, or they don't even have to talk about it, they are just free to do what they want. 

People deserve their own privacy, their rights, and the liberty of being free. They are in their right to love and change their lifes if that is what they want to. 

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