The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.
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STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS AMERI AND THE COLD WAR
This article is the send one of the seri ntag a tailed sight to the events of the Cold War and the evolutn of gay rights Ameri.. * gay rights during the cold war *
Durg the Cold War, homosexualy was associated wh munism and portrayed as a natnal secury threat.
The State Department’s 1950 purge of supposed homosexuals unr Print Harry Tman unleashed “the lavenr sre, ” which st thoands their jobs. In the face of the charg of beg “un-Amerin, ” historian Simon Hall argu, early gay-rights groups profsed patrtism and appealed to “the natn’s foundg ials of liberty and equaly. In the sprg and summer of 1965, for example, there were gay-rights protts at the Whe Hoe, Pentagon, Civil Service Commissn, and Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.
Activists held up signs readg “First Class Cizenship for Homosexuals;” “Ameri, the Land of the Free. For Homosexuals Too?
GAY RIGHTS
The activists argued that excludg homosexuals om ernment service, cludg the ary, actually weakened the untry by privg of well-qualified cizens who wanted to serve.