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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
* gay mary *
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.
HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * gay mary *
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.
MARY RENLT, THE BTSELLG GAY NOVELIST THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM
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. 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.
GAY MARRIAGE
While some gay activists sought the right to marry the early 1970s, others rejected marriage as “heterosexist” and saw as an outdated stutn.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
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.