Thoands of people flocked to Hoton Cy Hall Saturday to celebrate Pri, and while was a fun, posive atmosphere, many of the LGBTQIA+ muny are fearful for the future of gay marriage.
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- TWENTY YEARS AFTER A BREAKTHROUGH TEXAS SE LNCHED A NEW ERA OF GAY RIGHTS, TRANS PEOPLE ARE STILL THE FIGHT
- LATT GAY NEWS
- HOTON NEWS ANCHOR SHAR HE'S GAY & MARRYG A WEATHERMAN ON SOCIAL
TWENTY YEARS AFTER A BREAKTHROUGH TEXAS SE LNCHED A NEW ERA OF GAY RIGHTS, TRANS PEOPLE ARE STILL THE FIGHT
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Jt days earlier, the two quiet men wh workg-class roots fed their nam to a pivotal moment Ameri’s gay rights movement.
Supreme Court overturned Texas’ ban on sodomy, lg that stat uld not crimalize homosexualy. A ban on gay sex remas on the Texas books the 20 years sce, advot have secured major victori and cemented key rights cludg marriage equaly, employment protectns and the abily to serve the ary — victori that likely would not have been achieved whout the foundatn of Lawrence v.
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Notably, transgenr people still face discrimatn and vlence at higher rat than their lbian, gay and bisexual recent years, as trans people have gaed visibily the public sphere, faiar anti-LGBTQ+ trop have emerged efforts to alienate this muny. “They were jt good, average guys jt tryg to get through life wh the hand that was alt ’em, ” said Lane Lewis, a longtime gay rights activist Hoton who intified their se as an opportuny to challenge the state’s sodomy polil climate which Lawrence and Garner were arrted for allegedly havg sex was not iendly to LGBTQ+ Hotonians, Lewis relled. In 1991, a 27-year-old Hoton rint named Pl Brosard was murred a gay-bashg cint.
In rponse, the Hoton Police Department anized an unrver operatn Montrose to tch gay-bashers, but the effort was quickly disntued bee of safety risks to officers. Furthermore, gay, lbian and bisexual Texans were not ee om some law enforcement officers’ disda for their muny. For s leadg up to that fateful arrt of Lawrence and Garner 1998, the Hoton Police Department sometim raid gay bars and harassed those ngregatg some of the only safe spac for LGBTQ+ people at the time.
There were simply no protectns agast those forms of discrimatn, he, the LGBTQ+ activist, said overturng Texas’ anti-sodomy law wasn’t the end goal for the gay rights movement. “Can you image the Supreme Court wantg to protect the marriage rights of gay and lbian cizens when gays and lbians were still nsired crimals 13 stat? ”Lawrence and Garner were released om jail the day after the Lewis was faxed the police report om the arrt, he was stunned bee for so long the gay rights movement had been wag for a se like this one to appear.
HOTON NEWS ANCHOR SHAR HE'S GAY & MARRYG A WEATHERMAN ON SOCIAL
The se was nsired a good one to challenge the nstutnaly of crimalizg homosexualy bee there was only one charge — based on Sectn 21. The State nnot mean their existence or ntrol their sty by makg their private sexual nduct a crime, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote his majory tablishg the precent that all of the nstutnal rights that were available to other people are now available for gay people — rights prevly nied unr the Bowers v. “He was a Black, feme, gay male, ” Lewis said.