Why June 26 is already a landmark day for gays and the Supreme Court | Constutn Center

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• KNSET SCRAPS BILLS FOR LGBT COMMUNY AFTER MARKG GAY RIGHTS DAY
• TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

GAY RIGHTS

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Printial victory, 2016 was a turbulent year for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people and transgenr rights took more promence than ever the global media spotlight after several high-profile legal battl, and celebry and cultural LGBTQ people worldwi still face discrimatn many aspects of life such as employment, tn and health re, and are subjected to wispread vlence, advot say.

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KNSET SCRAPS BILLS FOR LGBT COMMUNY AFTER MARKG GAY RIGHTS DAY

Horac Villalobos / Corbis via Getty ImagMalta beme the first untry Europe to ban nversn therapy, a much-cricized and discreded practice that aims to change sexual orientatn, genr inty or genr southern Mederranean island natn crimalized nversn practic -- often referred to as "gay cure" therapi -- wh s parliament llg a "ceptive and harmful act" who prcribe or perform the therapy n be punished wh f of up to 10, 000 ros ($10, 400) and one year is wily nsired as one of the most progrsive natns Europe when to LGBTQ rights, havg ma a raft of legal and social chang recent has troduced LGBTQ-clive tn, passed same-sex civil unns and allowed transgenr people to change their legal genr whout any medil or state terventn. 4) Belize scraps lonial-era anti-homosexualy lawBelize LGBTQ Activist Caleb OrozCaleb OrozBelize's Supreme Court September led that a lonial-era law crimalizg homosexualy was unnstutnal, a judgment LGBTQ activists say will boost efforts to abolish anti-gay laws other former Brish loni the law, which punished gay sex wh up to 10 years prison, was scrapped after years of advocy by the gay rights activist Caleb Oroz of the Uned Belize Advocy Movement. RELATED: Belize Supreme Court Overturns Anti-Gay LawBelize beme the third untry to crimalize gay sex 2016, along wh the South Pacific island of N and the Seychell, an Indian Ocean archipelago, acrdg to the U.

5) Bety pageants, film dtry she spotlight on LGBTQ issuFrom the first openly lbian Miss Ameri nttant and Israel's gural transgenr bety pageant to Emmy awards for the h transgenr TV seri "Transparent", the entertament dtry is shg a bigger spotlight on LGBTQ stars and populary of shows recent years like "Orange Is the New Black" and movi such as "The Danish Girl", which feature transgenr stars or foc on issu facg gay and transgenr people, have seen LGBTQ rights bee mastream the this succs amid ntroversy wh the LGBTQ muny over how transgenr people are portrayed, and over the stg of straight men and women transgenr rol. December 3, 1996 - Hawaii’s Judge Chang l that the state do not have a legal right to prive same-sex upl of the right to marry, makg Hawaii the first state to regnize that gay and lbian upl are entled to the same privileg as heterosexual married upl. Yet his words me jt after his party passed a platform that activists lled extremely regrsive on gay rights issu, wh language that fed marriage as "the unn of one man and one woman" and language that activists terpreted to support nversn therapy for gay youth.

TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

” Some of the lbian, gay or bisexual people of this movement clud wrers and poets such as Langston Hugh, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston; Profsor Ala Locke; mic cric and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and entertaers Ma Raey, Bsie Smh, Ethel Waters and Gladys Bentley.

WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT

Gay and lbian people joed as well – men the ary livg same-sex dorms, and women as part of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) and factori on the home ont found themselv same-sex surroundgs as well.

1945 – German Homosexual men, signated by a pk triangle on their clothg, were the last group to be released om the Nazi ncentratn mps after liberatn by the Allied forc bee Paragraph 175 of the German Crimal Co stated that homosexual relatns between mal to be illegal. The APA found that “the latt and bt scientific evince shows that sexual orientatn and exprsns of genr inty occur naturally…and that short, there is no scientific evince that sexual orientatn, be heterosexual, homosexual or otherwise, is a eewill choice. 1997 – Ellen DeGener, a edian, TV actor and televisn host was one of the first popular entertaers who publicly me out as a lbian durg an terview on the Oprah Wey show and then beme the first openly gay character on the TV show, “Ellen.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

This was one of the most notor anti-gay hate crim Ameri and rulted a feral law passed 10 years later 2009 lled the “Hate Crim Preventn Act”, a feral law agast bias crim directed at lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr people. Texas (Supreme Court Decisn)Ruled by a vote of 6-3 that a Kansas law crimalizg gay or lbian sex was unnstutnal clarg the importance of nstutnal liberty and privacy nsistent wh the due procs clse of the Fourteenth Amendment. The term "lear" clus the office of print, speaker and puty speaker of parliament, bet mister, member of parliament, judicial officers, ambassadors, electoral missners, missner of police, chief jtice, 3Homosexual activy be May 2016, the parliament enacted the "Crim Act 2016" which do not nta provisns crimalizg same-sex sexual activyJuneLegal regnn of non-bary genr be vari by provc allowed "X" as a genr inty on drivers licens and birth certifit.

May 27LGBT hog discrimatn be no employment discrimatn be no 20Same-sex marriage be Marriage beme legal Campeche on May 20, 2016 after a vote of 34-1May 19Homosexual activy be illegal (imprisonment as punishment). Homosexualy is currently 14LGBT discrimatn be 12Same-sex marriage be Marriage was legal Sonora for 6 days before the ernor announced to keep the policy before which was to get a urt marriage be Marriage beme legal Jalis on May 12, 2016 after The Mexin Supreme Court legalized the stateMay 11Same-sex marriage be civil unns wh all the rights of marriage exept adoptnSame-sex marriage be civil 's parliament has backed same-sex civil unns.

Civil unns gave gay upl all the rights and duti of marriage except jot 9LGBT hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr 17 Febary 2016, the ernment troduced anti-discrimatn bill, which prohibs discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn, among others, polil, enomic, social, cultural, civil and other areas.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.