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Contents:
- BRGG PEOPLE HOPE: HARVEY MILK AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AMERI
- PRI FLAGS 101: EVERYTHG YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY, TRANS, AND OTHER PRI FLAGS
- THE K-AND-OKI KE ROXANE GAY SWEARS BY
BRGG PEOPLE HOPE: HARVEY MILK AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AMERI
Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.
There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.
PRI FLAGS 101: EVERYTHG YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY, TRANS, AND OTHER PRI FLAGS
The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". In 1977, San Francis polics was taken by storm when gay rights activist Harvey Milk was elected to the Board of Supervisors. As the first openly gay man elected to public office the Uned Stat, Milk’s electn was a triumph over anti-gay stereotyp.
Milk’s abily to mobilize gays and straights alike rulted the feat of a statewi proposn to severely lim gays’ employment rights. Though Milk was assassated 11 months after he was elected to office, his legacy of fightg for gay rights has spired a new generatn of civic activists across the Uned Stat, fightg for sexual equaly and the expansn of civil liberti for gays and lbians.
In the mid-twentieth century, homosexuals were legally and socially discrimated agast the Uned Stat.
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However, 1969 durg a police raid on a gay bar New York Cy, stead of nng om the thori, gays chose to prott their right to vis gay bars.
The rts that followed the raid, which beme known as the Stonewall Rts, led to the public exposure of police btaly, sparkg the first gay rights anizatn the U. S., the Gay Liberatn Front, which took on a cidly anti-war, pro-civil rights, anti-tablishment inty. It was durg this time that Ameri’s gays moved to the wt ast en masse, and particular, to San Francis.
However, even this “tolerant” area, the gay muny faced discrimatn om lol bs, as both nsumers and employe. From the history of other mory groups Ameri, Milk knew that the only way to tly achieve equaly would be for a gay person to be elected to public office. Acrdg to Milk, “There is a major difference – and remas a val difference – between a iend and a gay person, a iend office and a gay person office…It’s not enough anymore jt to have iends reprent .