How is the struggle for gay rights related to other civil rights movements?
Noting the connections between the treatment of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people and other oppressed groups offers the possibility for a shared movement challenging all forms of oppressions a step in advancing progressive social change. It is important to view discrimination against gay, lesbian, and bisexual people as stenuning from many of the same sources as the victimization of transgender people, people of colour, Latinos and Latinas, Asians, Jews, women, people with disabilities, older and younger people, and others. For example, homophobia may be viewed as an extension of sexism, in which gay men are oppressed and devalued as ‘women.” It must also be acknowledged that though there are many similarities, there are significant differences in the ways in which particular target groups experience oppression. By connecting our experience of oppression with other forms of oppression, we suggest that part of the solution to homophobia lies in our ability to link up with other groups t
