Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights.
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
* gay rights day 2016 *
It lerally took a mute and 44 sends, ” said Kev Beckner, who 2008 beme the first openly gay man elected to that panel and went to work dismantlg wh the backg of some high-profile iends, cludg the Tampa Bay Bucneers. 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.
However, gay and transgenr rights groups are beg creasgly backed, and are fightg to change polici and laws to protect LGBTQ people om vlence and are five of the biggt gas for LGBTQ rights 2016:1) Uned Natns appots first LGBTQ rights vtigatorV Muntarbhorn speaks wh the UN prs Lohr-Jon - Pacific Prs / LightRocket via Getty ImagThe Uned Natns September appoted s first LGBTQ rights pennt vtigator to help protect sexual and genr mori worldwi om vlence and Muntarbhorn's three-year role was created by the U. 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.
KNSET SCRAPS BILLS FOR LGBT COMMUNY AFTER MARKG GAY RIGHTS DAY
2016 timele of major events LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rights history, cludg homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights day 2016 *
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.
TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * gay rights day 2016 *
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.
WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT
Likud's Amir Ohana, the Party's First Gay Lawmaker, Left the Plenum Whout Votg. * gay rights day 2016 *
” 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.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
June celebrat LGBT Pri Month, a look at some key moments gay rights. * gay rights day 2016 *
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.
As the Supreme Court nears a cisn on same-sex marriag, observers of Court history have noted that June 26 already has special signifince for cisns that have favored gay rights landmark s. * gay rights day 2016 *
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.