History of the Gay Rights Movement

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

GAY RIGHTS

There is no better time to support lol and natnal nonprofs protectg LGBTQ rights and servg the LGBTQ+ muny, and while there are far too many anizatns dog great work to list them all, here is a list of key anizatns servg the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) amplifi the voice of the LGBT muny by empowerg real people to share their stori, holdg the media acuntable for the words and imag prents and helpg grassroots anizatns munite effectively.

Natnal Center for Lbian Rights (NCLR) is a nonprof legal anizatn mted to advancg the civil and human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people and their fai through ligatn, legislatn, policy, and public tn.

Servic and Advocy for Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Elrs (SAGE) is dited to improvg the liv of LGBT olr adults by focg on arts and culture, health and wellns, trag agg provirs, velopg nsumer rourc and advotg for public polici to support LGBT olr people. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

The law prevented the ernment om grantg feral marriage benefs to same-sex upl and allowed stat to refe to regnize same-sex marriage certifit om other marriage rights backtracked, gay rights advot sred other victori. In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U.

Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. Gay Marriage Legalized Massachetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, and the first legal same-sex marriage was performed on May 17, 2004—a day when seventy-seven other upl across the state also tied the knot.

ILGA World – the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn – is a worldwi feratn of more than 1, 600 anisatns om over 150 untri and terrori mpaigng for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex human rights. Their missn is to relieve poverty for lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) refuge livg Turkey by providg the basic necsi of life; and to relieve poverty by sponsorg, providg fancial and rettlement assistance to LGBT refuge Turkey who have fled bee of persecutn for their sexual orientatn or genr intifitn and, as victims of human rights ab; and to unrtake activi ancillary and cintal to the attament of the above charable purpose. Kaleidospe Tst works to uphold the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT+) people untri around the world where they are discrimated agast or margalised due to their sexual orientatn, genr inty and/or genr exprsn.

As the largt natnal lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn, HRC envisns a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and n be open, hont and safe at home, at work and the muny. The Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutors Network is the largt natnal anizatn of parents, tors, stunts and other ncerned cizens workg to end homophobia K-12 schools, and to ensure all stunts are valued and rpected, regardls of sexual orientatn. Found 1998 by the creators of the Amy Award®-wng short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leadg natnal anizatn providg crisis terventn and suici preventn servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer & qutng (LGBTQ) young people unr 25.

Found 1973, Lambda Legal is the olst and largt natnal legal anizatn whose missn is to achieve full regnn of the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and everyone livg wh HIV through impact ligatn, tn and public policy work.

At the send board meetg 1989 Boston, the LGBT Bar, then known as the Natnal Lbian and Gay Law Associatn (NLGLA), had 293 paid members, and iated a mpaign to ask the ABA to clu protectn based on sexual orientatn to s revisn of the Mol Co of Judicial Conduct for Judg.

The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) Natnal Help Center, found 1996, is a non-prof, tax-exempt anizatn that provis val peer-support, muny nnectns and rource rmatn to people wh qutns regardg sexual orientatn and/or genr inty.

Laws affectg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people vary greatly by untry or terrory and may clu legal issu such as employment discrimatn, hog rights, fay law, and health law.

Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force advot on behalf of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny by trag activists, anizg broad-based mpaigns to feat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislatn, and generatg groundbreakg rearch through the NGLTF Policy Instute. The urt found 303’s ADF’s rightwg advocy extends further, however, as the anizatn has donated to more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortn found that the ADF donated $85, 000 to the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, a group which, acrdg to a Poli report, helped Florida Republins shape the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law, which prohibs discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty group has also sued two school districts Florida over issu relatg to the rights of trans youth. “Many of those, while not specifilly tied to a church, are rooted the nservative Christian, biblil sense of human sexualy, ” said Stt McCoy, the terim puty legal director for LGBTQ rights and special ligatn for the SPLC and the SPLC Actn Fund, the group’s polil actn simply holdg a relig belief that views homosexualy or transgenr inty as sful do not tomatilly land a church or an anizatn on the SPLC’s list of hate groups.

If you’re lookg for a lol support work, also ntact one of PFLAG’s more than 400 chapters the Uned Interventn/Suici PreventnThe Trevor Project: 866-488-7386 The Trevor Project is the leadg natnal anizatn providg crisis terventn and suici preventn servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng (LGBTQ) young people ag 13-24. Text om anywhere the USA to text wh a traed Crisis Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Natnal Hotle: (888) 843-4564 Provis telephone, onle private one-to-one chat and email peer-support, as well as factual rmatn and lol rourc for ci and towns across the Uned GLBT Natnal Youth Talkle (youth servg youth through age 25): (800) 246-7743 Provis telephone, onle private one-to-one chat and email peer-support, as well as factual rmatn and lol rourc for ci and towns across the Uned InformatnThe Natnal Runaway Safele: 800-RUNAWAY (800-786-2929) Provis advice and assistance to naways, cludg rourc, shelter, transportatn, assistance fdg unselg, and transng back to home life.

NRS ontle staff will also act as advot and mediators if/as Te Colors Fund: (212) 461-4401 The Te Colors Fund is workg to end homelsns among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng youth, creatg a world which all young people n be their te Abe Fally Ends (S. 973-509-5428 E-mail WebseTe Colors Fund The Te Colors Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprof anizatn workg to end homelsns among lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youth, creatg a world which young people n be their te selv. E-mail WebseBs DevelopmentNatnal Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce – NGLCC The NGLCC is the bs voice of the LGBT muny, the largt advocy anizatn dited to expandg enomic opportuni and advancements for LGBT people, and the exclive certifyg body for LGBT-owned bs.