Why has this gay related issue not been discussed here?

[Thorn]

It's not as if there have been any historical gay rights riots.

In other words, "The meek shall inherit the earth"...

Or, "If you're quiet and nice, you get buried".

Yes there has been in San Francisco during the Stonewall incident in 1969 where the pro-gay Mayor of San Francisco and another governmental official were assasinated, and then their murderors were given only manslaughter convictions. Gays and Lesbians stormed city hall burning things, breaking windows and rioting.

And also the riot (gays storming the building) that took place against the American Psychological Association to take the term homosexuality off the mental illness list.

[Ben Kenobi]

Rioting? If you can't convince, overthrow. Do you have any sources to confirm these riots, Thorn?

[Thorn]

John D'emilio's Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities ISBN: 0-226-14267-1

As for the storming of the APA, look it up online lots of gay related sites mention it.

[Dr Strangelove]

I thought the whole gay rights movement began with a riot in Greenwich Village in N.Y. in the 1970s?

I wonder how developmentally disabled the victim was. In my view taking advantage of a mentally retarded person is pretty darn heinous.

[chequita guevara]

EvC poorly worded his post, so that two seperate events look like one event. Stonewall and the "Harvey Milk" riots.

[Dr Strangelove]

Yes, the Stonewall riots were the ones I was trying to think of. There used to be an organization called "Act Up" that sponsored protests which sometimes got a bit violent too.

[Provost Harrison]

17 years for giving head? Land of freedom indeed. You lot need to question what your government and states do more...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Thorn


Actually the Sodomy laws (that are now void) for Kansas constitute life in prison, so his 17 years is for statutory rape.

No, he wasn't. Read your own effing article!

Matthew Limon is appealing a 17-year prison sentence he received because shortly after he turned 18 he performed consensual oral sex on another teenager at a residential school for developmentally disabled youth where they both lived in Miami County, Kansas. If he had instead performed oral sex on a female of the same age, he would have received no more than 15 months in jail under the Kansas law. But because the "Romeo and Juliet" law applies only to heterosexuals, Limon was convicted under the much harsher state sodomy law.

[Boris Godunov]

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall

[st_swithin]

I thought people could still marry underage cousins in Kentucky.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Rioting? If you can't convince, overthrow. Do you have any sources to confirm these riots, Thorn?

I'm sure the Suffragettes would still be waiting for their votes if they had only sat down to tea and asked politely for them... decade after decade, after decade...

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm a bit staggered teenagers get thrown in jail for having sex.

Only in America and Iran probably.

[Uncle Sparky]

Actually, I think in most mid-southern states & the bible belt you can only have sex with a minor legally if you're blood relatives 'n promised to them.


... and God didn't make Adam and Steve, but by biblical accounts Adam & Eve's children had to begat with each other !

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I'm a bit staggered teenagers get thrown in jail for having sex.

Only in America and Iran probably.

*Ahem* was it not the arrest of teenage gays in the U.K. that prompted the recent changes in the age of consent laws there?

[Alexander's Horse]

A lot Western countries have laws on the statute books including Australia but it would be unthinkable to give teenagers jail time for consensual sex in most cases. If you took the matter to the Police here you'd have a hard time getting them to even charge anybody if the "offenders" were close in age.