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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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Startg the 1970s, however, a few state urts upheld ctody rights for transgenr, gay, and lbian parents, though some still required that they not live wh a partner or engage “homosexual activi.
GAY RIGHTS
Bill Jon, a gay man, 1968 beme the first sgle father to adopt a child California and one of the first natnally—although, as he told NPR 2015, he was obliquely advised by a social worker not to mentn that he was gay.
It wasn’t until 1997, however, that New Jersey beme the first state to allow same-sex upl to adopt jotly statewi, and not until 2010 did the last state, Florida, overturn a ban on adoptn by gay men and lbians. ) The same year, a Brish gay uple had children through surrogacy California, where a urt for the first time allowed two gay dads to be on their children’s birth certifite.