The U.S. & Jamai are fightg over gay rights - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• 1968: AFTER DOZENS OF ACQUTALS, POLICE FORCED TO END RAIDS ON GAY HAVEN
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

GAY RIGHTS

FeaturedStonewall RtsConstant Raids at Gay Bars The 1960s and precedg s were not welg tim for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins.

For such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and […]Read more about Stonewall Rts.

1968: AFTER DOZENS OF ACQUTALS, POLICE FORCED TO END RAIDS ON GAY HAVEN

Homosexualy is legal for both male and femaleSeptember 6Same-sex adoptn be sgle 1Homosexual activy be legal. The 20th century saw a wave of anized activism to secure civil rights and eedoms for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people. In the years after World War II, activists across the natn formed anizatns, cludg the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis, to mpaign for civil rights for gay men and lbians.

The bar’s patrons, cludg transgenr and genr non-nformg people, lbians, and gay men, fought back, sparkg several days of protts. In the ensug s, lbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgenr people anized and fought on many onts for equaly and civil rights, cludg rights to employment, ary service, and marriage.

By the end of 1967, NACHO had outled a basic statement of purpose and fed self as a central force the future of the gay rights movement. Moled on the phrase “Black is betiful, ” the NACHO phrase aimed to “replace a wishy-washy negativism toward homosexualy wh a no-nonsense posivism. Service and discharge om the armed forc and eligibily for veterans’ benefs shall be whout reference to homosexualy.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The areas lled for ncrete societal or legal chang that would ensure the enumerated rights, such as the endg of police entrapment of gay men or haltg the practice of classifyg homosexualy as an illns.

The Homosexual Bill of Rights, and s acpanyg Areas for Reform, built on the ial Statement of Purpose passed prciple at the first NACHO meetg 1966. North Amerin Conference of Homophile Organizatns (NACHO)The Homosexual Bill of RightsNACHO and Gay LiberatnGay Rights and the 1972 Electn Gay Rights the Whe Hoe.

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

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LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

In the tumn of 1968, close to two dozen gay men were acquted of nsensual sodomy charg a seri of crimal trials on Long Island. They monstrated to the larger gay muny — then maly closeted — that gay people uld band together to rist police harassment. Cherry Grove is and was an important gay muny on Fire Island, which li off the southern shore of New York's Long Island.

It was an annual summer rual for police om Suffolk County, Long Island, to stage raids Cherry Grove, roundg up gay men engagg public sex. "Every year there was this tradn of raidg the gay muni of Fire Island and arrtg 25, 30, up to 40 fellas, and chargg them wh sodomy and other crim, " said Karl Grossman, who took a job at a daily newspaper lled the Long Island Prs 1964. He'd get a ll om the ps every summer and said the police were eager to feed him personal tails about the gay men they had arrted Cherry Grove.

And gay people lived a double life, " said Esther Newton, a retired anthropology profsor who wrote a history of Cherry Grove. Her book, Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town, chronicl Cherry Grove's growth om the 1920s on. NPR ntacted William Unrwood, a retired judge who prid over prosecutns of gay men arrted on Fire Island, and Howard Berler, a retired Suffolk County prosecutor who tried some of those s, but both men said they didn't remember the trials.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Author Esther Newton rerd an terview wh one gay man who was arrted the Meatrack for her book on Cherry Grove. The Mattache Society, an early gay rights group, played a key role anizg efforts to stop the police raids on Cherry Grove. The late Dick Lesch, who served as print of the anizatn, told Esther Newton that some Cherry Grove regulars rebuffed him and other Mattache volunteers who distributed flyers advisg gay men not to plead guilty if they got arrted the Meatrack.

"Benny said there's terrible crim on the maland of Long Island, murrs and rap, and here the ps go and they beat the bh and try to fd the gay fellas who are not harmg anyone, " said reporter Karl Grossman, who vered some of the trials for the Long Island Prs.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.