15 Old-Timey Nam for 'Gay'

Contents:

• GAY MARY ED MEANG
• HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
• MARY RENLT, THE BTSELLG GAY NOVELIST THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM
• GAY MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

GAY MARY ED MEANG

Many untri around the world have their own versn of queer slang, om Brish gay slang rived om the rhymg slang Polari to beki – the Philipp’ queer language that borrows om a slew of sourc, cludg pop culture, Japane, Spanish, and the untry’s lol languag. But the Onle Slang Dictnary c 1960s gay male culture as the earlit known source, particularly rtoonist Joe Johnson’s characters “Miss Thg” and “Big Dick”, which appeared early issu of The Advote. Homosexualy remaed illegal across the Uned Stat the mid-twentieth century – that is, until Illois beme the first state to crimalize same-sex relatns 1962.

In the 60s and 70s, gay men even had a “hanky ” – a system that volved wearg bandanas wh lors that signified whether you were a top, bottom, to BDSM, etc. In the 60s, Lesch was the print of a gay rights anizatn lled the Mattache Society and me up wh the “Sip-In” – a monstratn held at New York Cy bars that banned service to out gay people. Lesch scribed nti as “agg or middle-aged homosexuals, offtim effemate character” and people of “settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts”.

The drag fai beme a refuge for gay, trans, and genr non-nformg youth who were turned away by their own fai or experienced homelsns due to poverty. US public opn has shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019. Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl.

HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE

The gay rights movement the US n be traced back to the Stonewall Rts that occurred followg a police raid on the Stonewall Inn New York Cy at 3 a. The Stonewall Rts marked the begng of a polil movement for gay rights durg a time when was illegal to have homosexual sex all stat except for Illois. While some gay activists sought the right to marry the early 1970s, others rejected marriage as “heterosexist” and saw as an outdated stutn.

1973 when the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn classified homosexualy as a mental disorr and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn did the same 1975. One high-profile opponent of gay rights was sger and former Miss Oklahoma Ana Bryant who found the group Save Our Children and mpaigned to repeal lol ordanc that prohibed discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. The current natnal bate on gay marriage was sparked by the Supreme Court of Hawaii’s 3-1 lg on May 5, 1993 that the state uld not ban same-sex marriag whout “a pellg reason” to do so.

MARY RENLT, THE BTSELLG GAY NOVELIST THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM

Although a gay marriage was never performed Hawaii, the issue gaed natnal attentn and prompted over 40 stat over the next to pass Defense of Marriage Acts (DOMAs) that fed marriage as a legal unn between one man and one woman.

The feral DOMA statute ensured that no state would be forced to regnize gay marriag performed other stat and prevented same-sex upl om receivg feral protectns and benefs given to married heterosexual upl. On May 17, 2004, the first legal gay marriage the US was performed Cambridge, MA between Tanya McCloskey, a massage therapist, and Marcia Kadish, an employment manager at an engeerg firm.

On July 14, 2004, an effort the US Senate to pass a nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage received only 48 vot of the necsary 60 vot for the proposal to proceed.

GAY MARRIAGE

30, 2004, the US Hoe of Reprentativ also rejected a nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage by a vote of 227 to 186, 49 vot shy of the necsary two-thirds majory. California, wh the natn’s largt and most racially diverse gay and lbian populatn, has played a proment role the morn gay marriage bate. 13, 2010 speech, Pope Benedict XVI exprsed his opposn to gay marriage, sayg the Roman Catholic Church “nnot approve of legal iativ that imply a re-evaluatn of the life of the uple and the fay.

11, 2010, CNN released the rults of the first natnal poll to show a majory support for gay marriage, wh 52% agreeg that “gays and lbians should have a nstutnal right to get married and have their marriage regnized by law as valid. On May 9, 2012, Print Obama beme the first stg US print to clare his support for gay marriage, statg: “At a certa pot, I’ve jt nclud that for me personally is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I thk same-sex upl should be able to get married. Perry that proponents of California’s Proposn 8 lacked “standg” to fend the anti-gay marriage measure after had been led unnstutnal by a District Court.

Wdsor cisn, gay marriage bans were overturned by urt lgs several stat, but those lgs were put on hold pendg appeals to the US Supreme Court. 6, 2014, the Supreme Court cled to hear appeals om five of those stat, and the cisn immediately cleared the way for legal gay marriage Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virgia, and Wisns. Six other stat which gay marriage bans had been overturned, Colorado, Kansas, North Carola, South Carola, Wt Virgia, and Wyomg, were also affected by the Supreme Court lg bee they were the jurisdictns of the lower urts that had overturned the gay marriage bans.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Hodg about whether or not gay marriage is a right guaranteed by the US Constutn, and whether or not gay marriag performed stat where has been legalized mt be regnized stat that ban the practice.

Several unty clerks rigned or refed to issue marriage licens to gay upl (or to grant marriage licens to anyone), cg ernment gement on their personal relig beliefs.