Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights.
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GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement is the stggle for equaly and marriage rights for gay, lbian and transgenr people. Learn about the Stonewall Rts, Harvey Milk, the Pri flag and more. * gay rights timeline wiki *
One month after the monstratns at the Stonewall Inn, activist Marty Robson speaks to a crowd before the first mass march support of gay rights New York on July 27, W.
McDarrah / Getty ImagFrom s begng wh rts agast police opprsn of gays New York Cy more than 40 years ago, the fight for gay rights ntu today on new onts: over marriage, therapi to “cure” homosexuals and one of the untry's most popular stutns, the Boy Suts of week, the U. But while we've reached the tippg pot on marriage, there's still a ways to go for full LGBT equaly, like endg bullyg schools and workplace discrimatn, ” Kev Nix, a spokman for the LGBT advocy group, Human Rights Campaign, said a statement earlier this is a look at some of the key moments Amerin LGBT history:June 28, 1969: Start of the gay rights movementThe Stonewall Rts beg after police raid a popular unlicensed gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, New York Cy's Greenwich Village. 1970 gay pri para Boston, 27-28, 1970: First gay pri parasOn the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, the natn's first gay pri paras are held four ci – New York, Chigo, San Francis and Los Angel.
1973: Homosexualy no longer classified as a mental disorrThe Amerin Psychologil Associatn’s Board of Tste vot to remove homosexualy om s diagnostic manual of mental disorrs, fluenced by psychologist Dr. A few years later, gay members of the APA formed the Associatn of Gay and Lbian 27, 1978: Assassatn of Harvey MilkMilk beme the first openly gay man elected to office a major U. DeGener won an award for outstandg wrg for a edy seri forSan Sterner / AP fileApril 30, 1997: 'Yep, I'm gay' -- DeGener out Ellen DeGener out on her televisn show, "Ellen, " an episo that drew 42 ln viewers.
GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
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. * gay rights timeline wiki *
" Her “g out” herald an era of other gay celebri followg su, and LGBT leadg ladi and men have the last year said they felt was unnecsary to reveal their sexual preference. 2000: Boy Suts n ban gaysThe Supreme Court l that the Boy Suts of Ameri n bar gay Suts and lears om membership, sayg that as a private youth anizatn has the right to do so. 2003: Anti-sodomy law stck downThe Supreme Court strik down a Texas anti-sodomy law, reversg an earlier cisn ma another se 17 years earlier that Jtice Anthony Kennedy said “means the liv of homosexual persons.
His announcement me one day after voters North Carola passed a nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriage as well as civil unns for gay and lbian 4, 2012: In a first, gay marriage ws at the ballot boxVoters Mae approve same-sex marriage the first vote brought by supporters, while voters Maryland and Washgton uphold state legislatn allowg gays and lbians to wed.
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WHEN DID THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEG?
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The Boy Suts' ban on gay adult lears remas 20, 2013: 'Ex-gay' group shuts downExod Internatnal, a group that claimed uld cure same-sex attractn via prayer and therapy, announc will close s doors after more than three s. The anizatn's lear, who admted to his own "ongog same-sex attractns, " apologized to gays, sayg, “I am sorry that some of you spent years workg through the shame and guilt you felt when your attractns didn’t change. 1907 – Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician and sexologist, ttified at a trial Germany about a gay relatnship and stated, “homosexualy was part of the plan of nature and creatn jt like normal love.
” Some of the lbian, gay or bisexual people of this movement clud wrers and poets such as Langston Hugh, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston; Profsor Ala Locke; mic cric and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and entertaers Ma Raey, Bsie Smh, Ethel Waters and Gladys Bentley. Gay and lbian people joed as well – men the ary livg same-sex dorms, and women as part of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) and factori on the home ont found themselv same-sex surroundgs as well.
1945 – German Homosexual men, signated by a pk triangle on their clothg, were the last group to be released om the Nazi ncentratn mps after liberatn by the Allied forc bee Paragraph 175 of the German Crimal Co stated that homosexual relatns between mal to be illegal. 1948 – Aled Ksey, an Amerin blogist and sexologist at Indiana Universy issu the first report, Sexual Behavr of the Human Male, was published and discsed male homosexualy (Also known as the Ksey report). Congrs issu the report entled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government” is distributed to members of Congrs after the feral ernment had vertly vtigated employe’ sexual orientatn.