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WHAT MAK MONDAY’S GAY RIGHTS RULG SO HISTORIC

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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWhat Mak Monday’s Gay Rights Rulg So HistoricInspired by the civil rights movement, was s the R Smh/RtersCharl KaiserMr. Kaiser is the thor or “The Gay Metropolis, The Landmark History of Gay Life Ameri.

And worked: The last 25 years have been a perd of extraordary progrs for the rights of gays and lbians and transgenr people Ameri. )All three s challenged the right to fire employe simply bee they are gay or lbian or trans. Job discrimatn agast homosexuals was first enshred by an executive orr signed by Print Dwight Eisenhower 1953, which prohibed their employment by the feral ernment and feral ntractors.

In 1957 the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn clared that was not wh s “provce” to “evaluate the social validy of laws aimed at the supprsn or elimatn of homosexuals. Frank Kameny, a Harvard-traed astronomer, was hired by the Army Map Service 1957 — then fired, a few months later, when the Army disvered he had been arrted on a morals charge San beme the first gay feral employee to openly challenge the ernment’s policy.

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In a brief he submted to the Supreme Court 1961, he scribed the l banng homosexuals om feral employment as “a stench the nostrils of cent people, an offense agast moraly, an abandonment of reason, an afont to human digny, an improper rtrat upon proper eedom and liberty, a disgrace to any civilized society, and a vlatn of all that this natn stands for. As reunted a newly published bgraphy of Kameny, “The Deviant’s War, ” he was the first person to nvce homosexuals that jt bee they were gay did not mean they were sick.

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Eventually he led the fight to persua the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to remove homosexualy om s list of disorrs 1973 — a victory that helped make all of the movement’s subsequent progrs would take another 23 years before the Supreme Court would issue s first important pro-gay cisn, Romer v. Evans, which Jtice Kennedy led a six-to-three majory to throw out a Colorado state nstutnal iative strippg gay people of anti-discrimatn protectn.

But that lg didn’t end discrimatn for gay people — “ jt stopped the right to take away, ” said Matt Col, who led the gay rights project at the A. ”Charl Kaiser is the thor of “The Gay Metropolis, The Landmark History of Gay Life Ameri. “The worry is that this provis a green light to any bs owner that they n refe service to any person on the basis of their inty, whether they’re gay or lbian, or Jewish or Black, or anythg, bee they have an objectn to those sorts of people beg their bs,” said Kathere Franke, a profsor at Columbia Law School.