The Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr People | Amerin Civil Liberti Unn

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Supreme Court says you n’t be fired for beg gay or Freeman for The New York TimThe Edorial BoardThe edorial board is a group of opn journalists whose views are rmed by expertise, rearch, bate and certa longstandg valu. It is separate om the an emphatic w for civil rights, equal jtice and mon sense, the Supreme Court led on Monday that feral law bars employers om firg workers for beg lbian, gay, bisexual or vote was 6 to 3. ” And “an employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex, ” Jtice Gorsuch wrote.

”In separate s nsolidated for argument, three platiffs — two gay men and a transgenr woman — had sued their employers for firg them after learng of their sexual orientatn or transgenr do not matter, the urt said, whether the employer might have had addnal reasons for the firg. ” In short, this particular victory for gay rights was based not on the fundamental equaly or digny of gay and transgenr Amerins, as prev Supreme Court cisns have been; was based on the meang of a sgle opn also hts at a potentially ser obstacle on the horizon: claims by employers that beg prohibed om discrimatg agast gay and transgenr workers vlat their relig nvictns.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Such claims are likely to fd a sympathetic ear among this Supreme Court’s nservative majory, which has repeatedly voted to protect if not promote relign and relig now, however, Monday’s cisn is a victory to savor, the next major step a le of gay rights cisns stretchg back nearly a quarter century, and until now wrten solely by Jtice Anthony Kennedy. Although he disagreed wh the majory’s opn, he wrote: “It is appropriate to acknowledge the important victory achieved today by gay and lbian Amerins.

Millns of gay and lbian Amerins have worked hard for many s to achieve equal treatment fact and law. He did not jo the dissent wrten by Jtice Samuel we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 30 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Rights Are Civil Rights. Gay rights movement, also lled gay liberatn movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons (i.e., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

(Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny.

This article will e the term the latter sense.) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy.

The begng of the gay rights movement Before the end of the 19th century there were srcely any “movements” for gay rights. Ined, his poem “Two Lov” (1894), Lord Aled (“Bosie”) Douglas, Osr Wil’s lover, clared “I [homosexualy] am the love that dare not speak s name.” Homosexual and bisexual men and women were given voice 1897 wh the foundg of the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (Wissenschaftlich-humanär Komee; WhK) Berl.