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'''Gay liberation''' is largely a [[Marxist]] and [[Western civilization|Western]] movement to legitimize [[homosexuality]]. Its premise is that [[LGBT]] people are no different than heterosexuals, much as blacks are the same as whites and women are the same as men.

'''Gay liberation''' is largely a [[Marxist]] and [[Western civilization|Western]] movement to legitimize [[homosexuality]]. Its premise is that [[LGBT]] people are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, much as blacks are entitled to the same as whites and women the same as men.

The gay liberation movement, originally designed to "liberate" gays from oppression and discrimination by [[heterosexual]]s, quickly devolved into controversy when [[bisexual]]s sought to be included. Additionally, gay libbers were charged with [[sexism]] because it excluded [[lesbian]]s.  Some debate erupted if lesbians were in fact gay, and it was eventually decided to allow females to retain their own [[identity politics|identity]] as lesbians, although many women consider themselves gay. Then, the alleged most "oppressed" group of all, [[transsexual]]s, also sought inclusion. Over many years and decades the issues were incrementally resolved by establishing, first, the Lesbian-Gay alliance, with the traditional patriarchal cultural deference afforded to the female of the species (over the protests of some [[feminist]]s) by putting "lesbian" before "gay, to which some nominal heterosexuals were included into the LGB [[coalition]], and eventually, because of charges of [[bigotry]] within the movement, transexuals were also included into the modern [[LGBT]] movement.  The terms transexual and transgender where initially used interchangeably to allow persons whose sexual identity was defined with a diagnosis of a psychological disorder into the movement, however the debate over the difference between transsexuals and [[transgender]]s is far from over.

The gay liberation movement, originally designed to "liberate" gays from oppression and discrimination by [[heterosexual]]s, quickly devolved into controversy when [[bisexual]]s sought to be included. Additionally, gay libbers were charged with [[sexism]] because it excluded [[lesbian]]s.  Some debate erupted if lesbians were in fact gay, and it was eventually decided to allow females to retain their own [[identity politics|identity]] as lesbians, although many women consider themselves gay. Then, the alleged most "oppressed" group of all, [[transsexual]]s, also sought inclusion. Over many years and decades the issues were incrementally resolved by establishing, first, the Lesbian-Gay alliance, with the traditional patriarchal cultural deference afforded to the female of the species (over the protests of some [[feminist]]s) by putting "lesbian" before "gay, to which some nominal heterosexuals were included into the LGB [[coalition]], and eventually, because of charges of [[bigotry]] within the movement, transexuals were also included into the modern [[LGBT]] movement.  The terms transexual and transgender where initially used interchangeably to allow persons whose sexual identity was defined with a diagnosis of a psychological disorder into the movement, however the debate over the difference between transsexuals and [[transgender]]s is far from over.