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 TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
- THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
- TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
- WHEN DID THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEG?
- GAY RIGHTS HISTORY: A TIMELE
GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
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1907 – Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician and sexologist, ttified at a trial Germany about a gay relatnship and stated, “homosexualy was part of the plan of nature and creatn jt like normal love.
” 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.
THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
The followg timele lists the signifint events of the gay rights movement om 1924 to the prent. * gay rights history timeline *
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. 1948 – Aled Ksey, an Amerin blogist and sexologist at Indiana Universy issu the first report, Sexual Behavr of the Human Male, was published and discsed male homosexualy (Also known as the Ksey report).
Congrs issu the report entled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government” is distributed to members of Congrs after the feral ernment had vertly vtigated employe’ sexual orientatn.
1963 – Bayard Rt, an associate of Mart Luther Kg, and a gay Ain Amerin man helped anize the March on Washgton that culmated wh Kg’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.
TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
Des of pa and perseverance San Francis's gay muny fally led to vditn the Bay Area and across the natn. This is a timele of historil events. * gay rights history timeline *
In rponse to an unprovoked police raid on an early Saturday morng, over 400 people, cludg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight people protted their treatment and phed the police away om the area.
1970 – The first gay pri march were held multiple ci across the Uned Stat on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, cludg San Francis and Los Angel / Wt Hollywood.
A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement. * gay rights history timeline *
1973 – The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, after nsirable advocy by Frank Kameny and members of the Mattache Society, changed the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr.
WHEN DID THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEG?
June celebrat LGBT Pri Month, a look at some key moments gay rights. * gay rights history timeline *
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. 1977 – Ana Bryant, former Amerin sger and Miss Ameri Pageant wner formed a group lled “Save Our Children” to prott agast a Da County, Florida ordance preventg discrimatn agast homosexuals. Gay and lbian activists and anizatns, cludg Harvey Milk, nmned the actn and rponse, boytted Florida Cs Commissn products, for which Bryant was a spokperson.
GAY RIGHTS HISTORY: A TIMELE
1994 – Greg Louganis, four-time Olympic gold medalist and nsired one of the greatt divers history, publicly me out as gay as part of the Gay Gam New York Cy.
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.
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.