QUE PASA "GLBTT"

In 2019, companies and organizations still, have the right to discriminate against you for who you love or who are. The above stories aren't one-off occurrences. In fact, according to studies from the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, up to 43% of LGBTQ people have experienced workplace discrimination and harassment. For trans men and women, the number is even more staggering at 90%.  And it's not just in the workplace, members of the LGBTQ community face discrimination in education, housing, credit and public accommodations to name a few. Earlier this year the House introduced the Equality Act which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include members of the LGBTQ community. The bill will be voted on later this year, but it already has hit a roadblock as Senator Joe Manchin has already suggested he would vote against it when the bill made it to the Senate. Thus, until this federal paralysis is broken it now falls to the states to...

Las identidades gay (y las que se fueron sumando a través de las siglas LGBTIQ) se moldearon en un perímetro occidental, tomando como base para la identificación de sus sujetos el consumo y la producción en masa. Por el impacto global estadounidense y europeo, a través de películas, marchas, series televisivas e incluso instrumentos internacionales de derechos humanos, la identidad gay se ha vuelto viral (que no universal), imponiendo modelos estáticos y de comportamiento. Lo "gay" ha sido una identidad afirmativa que cambió la vida de millones de personas. Nombrarse gay reemplazó modos de designación peyorativa de anteriores etiquetas: maricón, sodomita, pecador, nefando, marica, uranista , farifo, del otro lao, güero , y sobre todo homosexual , término que desde su invención en el siglo XIX por parte del discurso médico volvía enfermedad (luego delito) esa forma de habitar el cuerpo fuera de la obligatoria heterosexualidad. (editado) El siguiente ensayo define esta e...