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• AMERINS’ VIEWS FLIPPED ON GAY RIGHTS. HOW DID MDS CHANGE SO QUICKLY?
• GAY RIGHTS
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

AMERINS’ VIEWS FLIPPED ON GAY RIGHTS. HOW DID MDS CHANGE SO QUICKLY?

They didn't set out to change history; they weren't the first LGBTQ Amerins to mobilize agast the June 1969 uprisg by young gays, lbians and transgenr people New York Cy, clashg wh police near a bar lled the Stonewall Inn, was a val talyst expandg LGBTQ activism natnwi and abroad. In 1969, every state but Illois outlawed gay sex, psychiatric experts classified homosexualy as a mental disorr, and most gays stayed the closet for fear of losg jobs and, same-sex marriage is the law of the land the U.

LGBTQ Amerins serve as ernors, big-cy mayors and members of Congrs, and one — Pete Buttigieg — is wagg a spired mpaign for those lookg back wh marvel is Stephen Rutsky, 68, a lifelong New Yorker who joed rtg and protts sparked by a police raid targeted at gay patrons of Stonewall.

GAY RIGHTS

And jt last week, the High Court of Botswana rejected laws that meant up to seven years prison for those nvicted of havg gay sex, a landmark se for Ai gay sex is outlawed dozens of untri, while Asia and Ai each have only one natn that has legalized same-sex marriage.

Government astronomer Frank Kameny, who sued after he was fired for beg gay, took his anti-discrimatn se to the Supreme Court 1961 (the jtic cled to hear his appeal), and helped stage the first gay rights prott outsi the Whe Hoe 1966, Mattache Society members New York Cy succsfully staged a "sip-" to prott laws that banned bars om servg alhol to gays and lbians.

Supreme Court stck down all state bans activists suggt that the ph for marriage equaly nsumed too much of the LGBTQ rights movement's energy, divertg attentn om vlence agast transgenr people and the persistently high HIV fectn rate among gay and bisexual black men. But some of the largt nomatns — cludg the Roman Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Conventn and the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — refe to take those clive steps and still nsir gay sex Robson, who 2003 beme the first openly gay bishop the Epispal Church, says there's a spl on LGBTQ acceptance between many rank-and-file churchgoers and the lears of the big, nservative nomatns. 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.

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

” 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 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.