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LGBTQ+ Discrimination

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LGBTQ+ discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of LGBTQ+ people and communities due to their sexual or gender identities. This discrimination can take many forms, including the denial of legal rights, employment, and housing, education, and healthcare. It can also take the form of identity erasure, forcing someone to hide their queer identity in order to conform to societal expectations. In any form, confronting LGBTQ+ discrimination requires concerted efforts from individuals, communities, institutions, and governments to promote equality, foster inclusivity, and combat prejudice and bigotry in all its forms.

Collection Information

For more information on the materials in this gallery, see their holding institutions.

California Historical Society
Lesbians and Gay Men The Grand Jury's In Town

Center for the Study of Political Graphics
AIDSPHOBIA: Protect Yourself from Hollywood
Campaign for Military Service poster
Holy Homophobia!
Homophobia
It's Cake, for God's Sake
They Lie We Die
With a Little Makeup, A Straight White Man Can Play Anything!!

LAPL Photograph Collections
Gay Marriage Case

Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Art & Sciences
The Children's Hour
Dracula's Daughter
The Killing of Sister George
Rock Hudson
Rope
Tea and Sympathy
Thirteen Women

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Rock Hudson
Rope, 1947-1948
No on 6! Save our children from Hatred, Mistrust, & Bigotry!, 1978
HIV Discrimination sign, undated
The Children's Hour, 1961 Photograph of Shirley MacLaine, left, and Audrey Hepburn in a scene from The Children's Hour, and a letter from Arthur B. Krim to Eric Johnston regarding three films with homosexuality as a subject, including The Children's Hour, and requesting that the Code be amended. Photograph: Core Collection. Production files. Letter: Motion Picture Association of America Production Code Administration records.
Prop 8 What Should We Amend Next?, 2008
Thirteen Women, 1932
They Lie We Die, circa 1991
Homophobia, 1993
You Can’t Comb Over Homophobia, 2017
Campaign for Military Service poster, circa 1992
Gay Marriage Case in Court, 1979 Rob Brown, Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library. Photograph caption reads, "From left, attorney David M. Brown, plaintiffs, Anthony Corbett Sullivan, Richard Frank Adams. Sullivan and Adams are married, Adams a US citizen and Sullivan an Australian citizen. Both were issued a marriage license in Bolder [sic] Colorado and were married in Bolder [sic]. When Sullivan reapplied in Los Angeles in November 1975, the District Director of Immigration and Naturalization Service an immigrant visa. 'You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots', Dist Director."
With a Little Makeup, A Straight White Man Can Play Anything!! circa 1990s
AIDSPHOBIA : Protect Yourself from Hollywood, 1991
Holy Homophobia!, 1990
Tea and Sympathy, 1953-1956
Dracula's Daughter, circa 1936
It's Cake, for God's Sake, 2017