gay liberation movement
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- noun
- /ɡeɪ ˌlɪbəˈreɪʃən ˈmuːvmənt/
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movimiento de liberación gay
- The latter of these characterizations places both the gay liberation movement and the current queer movement squarely in the postmodern framework that embraces alternate epistemologies, anarchy, and some would say complete chaos.
And then, thank goodness, gay liberation movement, gay liberation movement, basically, we're not going to run away from this.
- And then, thank goodness, gay liberation movement, gay liberation movement, basically, we're not going to run away from this.
Examples
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The gay liberation movement fights for equal rights and protections for LGBTQ+ individuals.
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The gay liberation movement
Blog text (31) -
"Put all these currents of change together, and the gay liberation movement seems like an event waiting to happen."
Academic text (1997) -
Whitman did not know his work would inform a gay liberation movement.
Academic text (2007) -
It grew to become the "gay liberation movement"; now it is the "marriage equality" campaign.
Blog text (34) -
In what follows, I trace the historical past of the gay liberation movement up to the 2003 Lawrence decision and the critiques of the case.
Academic text (2011) -
Perhaps not coincidentally, we've had a gay liberation movement, but not a liberation movement.
Blog text (4) -
Many people credit the Stonewall riots as the beginning of the gay liberation movement in the United States.
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Activists from the gay liberation movement organized events to raise awareness about discrimination against homosexual people.
Synonyms
A movement that fights for the rights of people attracted to the same sex
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
gay + liberation + movement
The phrase is a straightforward composition: 'gay' (describing homosexual people) + 'liberation' (freedom from oppression) + 'movement' (a collective campaign). The combined meaning — a social/political movement seeking freedom and rights for gay people — follows standard noun-noun modification patterns and is likely inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Gay liberation movement comes from the late 1960s and 1970s when many gay people and supporters protested for equal rights. They used liberation to mean 'freedom from unfair laws and public shame', so the name shows a group working to win freedom and rights for gay people.