Chapter 18 Section 4 For Homosexuality - Increasingly Tolerant

Western views of homosexuality before the 1950s: religious sin, legal crime, medical disease.These concepts lead to the suppression of men, and are also one of the backgrounds and reasons for the extreme uniformity of clothing. The religions that have ruled the West for a long time, whether it is Catholicism or Christianity, oppose homosexuality, and the Old and New Testaments have always regarded homosexuality as a crime.The "Bible" passages quoted are "Leviticus" 18:22 and 20:13, and it is believed that homosexual behavior is essentially a violation of the order created by God, and a violation of nature and humanity. Romans 1:24-27, "So also men, leaving the natural use of women, burnt with lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error."

There are countless examples of executions for homosexuality in Europe, so I won't repeat them here.Even in modern America, it is still not acceptable.The world's first industry code of conduct restricting film content, the Hayes Code, was born in Hollywood in 1934.The strong Puritan tradition makes this code of conduct take the responsibility of defending the purity of the screen, so in addition to strictly prohibiting the appearance of kissing scenes longer than 3 seconds, homosexual sexual perversion and other scenes and content are also resolutely eliminated in the review. Even mainstream society in the United States is the same.We know that the United States is a democratic regime, and the president's decisions are largely in line with the main trends of society. Shortly after taking office in 1953, President Eisenhower signed an executive order that "prohibits homosexuals from serving in the government and military." It also required companies with contractual relationships with the government to detect and fire their gay employees.Countless teachers, medical workers, and state and city employees lost their jobs because of the policy.Homosexuals are denied civil rights.

Beginning in the 1960s, a series of anti-social movements launched by young people in Europe and America provided a strong social foundation for homosexuals to fight for their rights.They fought a series of struggles, which aroused widespread discussion in the society.Homosexuality first won the support of the legal profession. In 1962, the American Law Institute abolished the "Sodomy Law". In 1962, Illinois legalized homosexuality, taking the first step in the United States. The federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 abolished legal discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, and national origin. The "Stonewall Riots" of June 27, 1969 are considered the starting point of the publicizing of the modern gay movement.Homosexuals organized on a large scale to demand equal social rights, participate in social affairs, and began to raise funds to support political elections. In 1973, the National Congress of the American Psychiatric Association voted 58% in favor, with 4% abstaining, to remove "homosexuality" from the list of mental illnesses. In 1975, the ban on homosexuals holding federal office was lifted.European society’s laws on homosexuality were earlier. In 1951, Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1961, and the United Kingdom in 1967 all promulgated laws allowing homosexuality.

As a result, homosexuality began to be widely accepted in Western society.Neutral dress appeals began to appear in large numbers, which cleared the way for the diversification of modern men's clothing.