The Stonewall Riots

https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/the-stonewall-riots

• In the 1960s, the New York City police were allowed to arrest anyone wearing less than three pieces of clothing that matched the stereotype of their assigned gender.
• Bars that sold alcohol to known or suspected LGBTQ+ people could and would be shut down.
• By 1966, the LGBT+ community was allowed to be served alcohol.
• Holding hands, kissing, or dancing with someone of the same sex was illegal.
• Many gay bars were owned by mafia and did not have liquor licenses.
• The Genovese crime family bought Stonewall Inn in 1966, renovated, and reopened as a gay bar in 1967.
• The Stonewall Inn was registered as a “bottle bar” where people brought their own alcohol because there were still laws against LGBT people being served alcohol.
• There were raids but corrupt cops would inform bars run by the Mafia so they could hide alcohol and other illegalities (ex. gay dancing)
• On June 28, 1969, there was surprise raid on the Stonewall Inn.
• 13 people were arrested for selling alcohol and not wearing enough “gender appropriate clothing.”
• Female officers brought patrons suspected of cross-dressing into the bathroom to check their biological sex and count pieces of gender appropriate clothing.
• People were beat up and physically abused.
• An officer hit a lesbian over the head and she called for onlookers to take action.
• The crowd started throwing things(ex. bottles, stones, coins) at the officers and the riot began.
• The police and their prisoners barricaded themselves into the bar, the crowd tried to set it on fire.
• Protests continued for five days, especially after “The Village Voice” published their own account.
• In 2016 President Obama declared Stonewall Inn and the surrounding area of the riots as a national monument.

How unfortunate that this is our nation's history. Well, we can't change the past, but we can change the future. Let's make sure that this never happens again.

<3 u, Heather

Personal Pride Flag, Gender Edition

Hi! Heather here. So this post is to teach you how to make your own personal pride flag. This one will have a(hopefully) complete list of genders, definitions, and the corresponding flags. Your gender would go as the background of your flag. The circle is the sexual attraction, and the heart is the romantic attraction. Therefore, the flag below represents genderfluidity, asexuality, and panromanticism. Have fun making your own!

Find your gender below!

• Agender [No gender]: The green symbolizes gender and the varying white/grey/black represents the range from gender to no gender.

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• Androgynous [A blend of both binary genders]: The blue and pink represent masculinity and femininity, and the purple represents a blend of both. 

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• Aporagender [No particular gender, but vague gendered feelings]: The varying shades of pink, blue, and yellow represent femininity, masculinity, and all-encompassing gender, respectively.

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• Aquarigender/Genderflow [No particular gender, but there are labels which are close to feelings]: The infinity sign represents change and eternal flow, while the colors represent the gender's waterlike qualities and the different shades represent shades of gender.

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• Bigender [Identifying as two genders, either interchangeably or simultaneously]: The light shades of pink, blue, and purple represent the binary genders and their connection.

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• Cancegender/Agenderfluid [Mainly agender, but with vague overlapping and changing gendered feelings]: The background represents the agender identity while the patterns of color represent the ever-changing gendered feelings.

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• Cisgender [Identify with assigned gender]: The colors represent the binary genders accepted by society.

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• Demi-{insert gender} [partial identification with said gender]: The greys represent the partial identification while the other color represents the relevant part of the gender.

• (demi-androgyne)

• (demi-male)

• (demi-fluid, as in genderfluid)

• (demi-flux, as in genderflux)

• (demi-female)

• Gender Non-Conforming [non-binary, or doesn't conform to gender roles/stereotypes, can be non-binary]: The light pink and blue represent traditional gender identities and roles, while the other colors represent a larger scope of interpretation and identification.

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• Genderfluid [fluctuates between any and all genders]: The pink, purple, and blue represent binary genders and a combination of them, while the black and white represent the range of genders.

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• Intersex [possesses a combination of male and female physical characteristics]: The yellow represents all genders, and the purple represents gender in itself.

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• Librafluid [partially agender, and the rest fluctuated between male and female]: The grey and black represent lack of gender, while the pink/blue gradient represents the fluctuation between male and female.

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• Pangender [identifies as any and all genders that may or may not be known, simultaneously, in combinations, or over time]: the yellow represents all genders and the white represents the lack of acknowledgement or awareness towards some gender(s).

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• Paradoxigender [identifying as one or more genders which are in paradox with each other. Eg. both male and female]: the shape is a paradox, and the pink, yellow, and blue represent femininity, all genders, and masculinity, respectively.

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• Polygender [more than three genders, at the same time or interchangeably]: The black and grey stand for intensities of gender, while the pink, blue, and yellow stand for femininity, masculinity, and all genders, respectively.

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• Transgender [does not identify as assigned gender]: The degrees of color and white represent the different genders that one might be, and the white represents the lack of connection between sex and gender.

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• Trigender [identifies as three genders, either individually or at the same time]: The colors just generally represent different gender identities. This flag is less symbolic than most.

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• Varumgender/Avarumgender [either fitting under many labels or not feeling the need to associate with any]: the shades of purple represent the shades of gender.

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I hope you found your gender on this list. If so, use it as the background of your flag, as seen at the top of the post. If not, send us the gender, definition, and flag at 20percenttime.tolerance@gmail.com.
<3,
Heather

Homophobia

Apparently there seems to be minor categories of 'Homophobia' 

-Lesbophobia
-Transphobia
-Biophobia 

We also need to stop using the word 'gay' as an insult. Being called gay isn't much of an insult as it is just a remark that they could think of in the moment. You shouldn't be offended by this either, both responding and saying things about 'gay' are not an insult to you but more of an insult to the gays, and others. 

Slavery

Today is better than the past. In the past slavery was a large problem. It left people of color in bondage, working in plantations and farms for powerful white men who were making profits. In slavery the only cost it had was feeding the slaves poor food and purchasing the slaves themselves. Slaves were used as servants farmers and other non-ethical things. They were objects for trade, not human beings. In this time slaves were prone to disease due to horrible living conditions and infection of cuts. This caused the land owners to have to buy more slaves and pay more money than just taking care of them better. 

Racism is the thinking of ones race is superior compared to others.
-Liz

Survey Results, Part II

Hi! Heather is back! Sorry I've been gone... I've been busy with school and stuff. Today, I'm continuing what I was working on last post. Here are more interesting details about the survey that we took.

Although 67.6% of respondents claimed to be accepting to all people and 93.9% claimed never to have accidentally discriminated against others, only 14.7% feel completely safe at school, and 50% feel completely safe at home. This creates a strange conclusion: most everyone is accepting and kind to others, and yet the majority of people feel unsafe or uncomfortable being themselves. There are only a few ways to explain this. First, people are uncomfortable with themselves and their own identity. Second, there are outside factors(parents, administrators, etc.) who were not surveyed and who cause respondents to feel uncomfortable. The third and most probable of my theories is that respondents are actually not as accepting and inclusive as they believe they are being. One way this could manifest is that they are totally comfortable with what they say and do, but others interpret actions or words differently and in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable.

Another issue(that we were not able to address in this project due to lack of resources and time), is social pressures. One respondent noted that they didn't always feel included. This is interesting because the respondent has not been a victim of obvious discrimination to their knowledge, but feels somewhat uncomfortable at school and in public. 

Ultimately, this survey taught us a lot not only about the subject(s) of the survey, but about the people we were surveying. Many of them conformed to societal expectations for most of or all of the survey. Also, a few of them did not appear to care about the goals of the survey, or the project behind the survey. A link is here if you would like to take the survey and help us out a little(If we get enough data, we'll do a new round of results and conclusions). 
https://goo.gl/forms/zk9ECLGnf9DHm35f2

Sorry this was so short. Bye!
<3, Heather