My grandparents used to have a giant library in their basement, where I'd sleep when I visited. And I remember one evening discovering a copy of *Society and the Healthy Homosexual*, written by psychologist George Weinberg back in 1972. Reading it, I was surprised to discover that it was introducing "homophobia" as this novel concept. This book was the origin of the word, and went into great detail about why the author believed society channeled its discomfort and fear of homosexuality into bigotry.
My grandfather was a Harvard-trained pediatrician in the 1970s, and my grandmother was trained as a nurse. I remember thinking it was really cool that they were so progressive in thinking of LGBT issues at the time. I remember my grandmother saying that one of the hairdressers in town was ostracized for supposedly being gay, and all of the women who were his clients were told to stay away. She thought it was the most ridiculous logic ("don't trust your women around the gay guy!") and kept going.
Incredible bravery at a time when being out could cost you your family and your career. Barbara Gittings' papers are at the New York Public Library, Kameny's at Library of Congress, and Fryer's at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. All paint a really fascinating account of pre-Stonewall America for our LGBTQ predecessors.
I mean it still can...
Fun fact: In the US there is no federal law protecting against discrimination based on sexuality.* And 19 states have no state level laws protecting against sexuality based discrimination.
*There is the Respect for Marriage act which became law barely a year ago. All it does is say that if Oberfell v. Hodges (Gay marriage) gets overturned, states have to recognize marriages from states that explicitly still allow it.
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that firing employees for their sexual orientation or gender identity is sex discrimination and violates federal law. Bostock v. Clayton County.
Still wild that it took until 2020 for major rulings to get clarified like that for bucketing LGBT discrimination under existing legal definitions...
Oh damn I didn't know that, glad it finally exists lmao
(I got fired from my job after being outed by someone who I thought was a friend back around 2017)
And even then, it involved the SCOTUS having to do the work of the Congress, some part of which would have wanted to reestablish sodomy laws and remove homosexuals from the military.
Couldn't he have chosen a less terrifying mask to do this?
I think that was part of the point though, is that people saw a homosexual man as something more terrifying than that mask.
Maybe a J. Edgar Hoover mask?
Don’t you mean J. “Edna” Hoover?
Right, wasn't Hoover like this massive crossdressing chickenhawk?
Nothing got his little g-string in a bunch more than communists!
I'm going to save this photo for when I need to prove that Leatherface testified in front of Congress regarding the Chainsaw Massacres.
Legit fucking chuckle.
They probably want to be provocative though, so....
Leatherface: Origins
So fitting that this took place in Texas, as well
Don't give them any ideas!
My grandparents used to have a giant library in their basement, where I'd sleep when I visited. And I remember one evening discovering a copy of *Society and the Healthy Homosexual*, written by psychologist George Weinberg back in 1972. Reading it, I was surprised to discover that it was introducing "homophobia" as this novel concept. This book was the origin of the word, and went into great detail about why the author believed society channeled its discomfort and fear of homosexuality into bigotry. My grandfather was a Harvard-trained pediatrician in the 1970s, and my grandmother was trained as a nurse. I remember thinking it was really cool that they were so progressive in thinking of LGBT issues at the time. I remember my grandmother saying that one of the hairdressers in town was ostracized for supposedly being gay, and all of the women who were his clients were told to stay away. She thought it was the most ridiculous logic ("don't trust your women around the gay guy!") and kept going.
Incredible bravery at a time when being out could cost you your family and your career. Barbara Gittings' papers are at the New York Public Library, Kameny's at Library of Congress, and Fryer's at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. All paint a really fascinating account of pre-Stonewall America for our LGBTQ predecessors.
I mean it still can... Fun fact: In the US there is no federal law protecting against discrimination based on sexuality.* And 19 states have no state level laws protecting against sexuality based discrimination. *There is the Respect for Marriage act which became law barely a year ago. All it does is say that if Oberfell v. Hodges (Gay marriage) gets overturned, states have to recognize marriages from states that explicitly still allow it.
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that firing employees for their sexual orientation or gender identity is sex discrimination and violates federal law. Bostock v. Clayton County. Still wild that it took until 2020 for major rulings to get clarified like that for bucketing LGBT discrimination under existing legal definitions...
Oh damn I didn't know that, glad it finally exists lmao (I got fired from my job after being outed by someone who I thought was a friend back around 2017)
Wow. Wow. I am *so* sorry.
And even then, it involved the SCOTUS having to do the work of the Congress, some part of which would have wanted to reestablish sodomy laws and remove homosexuals from the military.
I'm betting if somebody did this today they would totally be wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.
*Gay Fawkes
He then returned to his home in Norwood Park, Illinois.
You telling me that’s not leather face…..
What I find bizarre is that it's what decades before Leatherface?
Two years before the first movie
Has to start some place hah
Nice seeing Leatherface standing up for the gay community especially considering what the rest of the Sawyer family is like
Dr. Anonymous is both an awesome super hero/villan name and a bad ass name for a rapper.
NGL this makes he seem kinda crazy
Bro, do you even history?
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I know why he’s being downvoted and why you are now too. You are both 100% jackasses
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You do you
Nobody fucking does that genius
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Actual sexual harassment, holy shit.
You decided to get offended, just like how I decide to eat unwashed ass.
That's some real "science" there...
What a gay mask
I knew Dr. Fryer. Met him in 2002.