The human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, 2-spir and tersex persons

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977
• GAY RIGHTS BATTLEFIELDS SPREAD TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
• SCHWARZENEGGER VETO GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• COURT NOMEE ADVISED GROUP ON GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, 2-SPIR AND TERSEX PERSONS
• ROBERTS DONATED HELP TO GAY RIGHTS CASE

GAY RIGHTS

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HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977

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GAY RIGHTS BATTLEFIELDS SPREAD TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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SCHWARZENEGGER VETO GAY MARRIAGE BILL

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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTJune 9, 2005Embolned by the polil right's growg fluence on public policy, opponents of school activi aimed at tg stunts about homosexualy or promotg acceptance of gay people are mountg challeng to such programs, at dividual schools, at stateho and among the targets are sex tn programs that clu discsns of homosexualy, and after-school clubs that brg gay and straight stunts together, two iativ that gaed assent numero schools over the last many s, the opponents have been succsful. In Montgomery County, Md., for example, parents went to urt to block a health tn urse that offered a discsn of homosexualy, while Cleveland, Ga., gay and lbian stunts were barred om formg a high school club of gay and straight youths. "The growg nflicts are centerg on three issu: whether classrooms are an appropriate venue to explore issu of homosexualy, whether schools should lend sanctn to extracurricular activi which gay culture is a foc and whether textbooks that acknowledge homosexual relatnships are suable for younger sprg, one stance of the nservative rponse, the Alliance Defense Fund anized s first natnal Day of Tth for high school stunts unfortable wh the Natnal Day of Silence, an event sponsored for ne years by the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network to prott discrimatn schools.

Kev Jenngs, founr and executive director of the gay tn work, said more than 3, 700 junr and senr high schools took part his group's Jenngs and other gay rights lears say the growg opposn to their efforts is keepg wh a predictable trend set off by disput over issu like same-sex marriage that are playg out on the natnal stage. "The are a bunch of people who very much want to remove om public disurse any mentn of homosexualy, " said Jam Esseks, ligatn director of the Lbian and Gay Rights Project of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn. "The stggl have broken out month Montgomery County, Md., a parents' group, alarmed bee revisns to a health tn urse for 8th and 10th gras clud a discsn of homosexualy and a vio that monstrated how to e a ndom, went to feral urt and gaed a rtrag orr to halt them.

COURT NOMEE ADVISED GROUP ON GAY RIGHTS

The rolutn implor Baptist church to terme whether schools their area have "homosexual clubs or curricula or programs" and, if so, to enurage parents to remove their children om the schools. Shortt, a Hoton lawyer who is a -thor of the clubs known as Gay-Straight Allianc, which draw together stunts to share mon experienc and ncerns, have bee a particular source of nflict.

Feral law often owns on admistrators' barrg some clubs while allowg others, but Cleveland school officials told the stunts that they would abolish all after-school anizatns before allowg a gay-straight alliance.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Issue probably will go to state Supreme CourtSchwarzenegger noted that a state appeals urt was nsirg whether the state's ban on gay marriage is nstutnal and that the issue would likely be cid by the California Supreme Court. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court nomee, gave advice to advot for gay rights a ago, helpg them w a landmark 1996 lg protectg gay men and lbians om state-sanctned Roberts, at the time an appellate lawyer for the Washgton firm of Hogan & Hartson, did not wre legal briefs or argue the se, lawyers volved said. By a 6-to-3 vote, the Supreme Court stck down a provisn of the Colorado Constutn that nullified existg civil rights protectns for gay men and lbians and also barred the passage of new antidiscrimatn laws.

Kennedy, the urt said the Colorado provisn had put the state's gay men and lbians a "solary class, " sglg them out vlatn of the Constutn's equal protectn guarantee a manner that was so sweepg as to be explible on any basis other than anim. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L.

THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, 2-SPIR AND TERSEX PERSONS

The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn.

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ROBERTS DONATED HELP TO GAY RIGHTS CASE

Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L. McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple.