The Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, and Queer community is a group of people who face discrimination everyday all around the world. LGBTQ civil rights and liberties are abused by those who do not like or understand the community. The discrimination the LGBTQ community face has become a momentous civil rights movement throughout the United States history. An organization that continuously fights for the rights of the LGBTQ community is the American Civil Liberties Union. The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by a small group of people who wanted to stand up against the government in the 1920s. This group focused on human rights as stated in the United States constitution. The ACLU has almost 2 million members and is the nation's largest …show more content…
identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). Of that 10.7 million, 1.4 million adults in the U.S. identify as transgender and 5.35 million adults identify as bisexual. According to Williams Institute 52 percent of the LGBTQ community are females and 48 percent are males. Based off of race and Ethnicity, 61 percent of white people are a part of this community, while 15 percent are Hispanic, and 11 percent are Black. The average age is around 39.7 years old in the LGBTQ community while the average for heterosexuals is 47.3 years old. The spread of the LGBTQ community is all across the United States, but the District of Columbia has the highest percentage of about 10.8 percent with Vermont following at 5.8 …show more content…
The 1950s was a conservative era, which promoted the spread of the lavender scare. The Lavender scare was when federal and state governments investigated and fired many employees suspected to be a part of the LGBTQ community. This scared the government because they feared what they did not know and they created the notion that LGBTQ people were communists. Of course, doing this created a backlash against the government because more people started to fight for their rights and started creating and joining more organizations. In 1952 Christine Jorgenson is first American who publicly had sex reassignment surgery, which sparked major controversy because the term transgender was not well known. The idea of changing ones sex was a foreign concept to the American public, so Jorgenson’s transition was a huge and highly unwanted