Proclamatn 7203—Gay and Lbian Pri Month, 1999 | The Amerin Princy Project

homosexuality in 1999

1999 timele of major events LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rights history, cludg homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.

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JIM HORMEL SWORN AS AMERI’S FIRST GAY AMBASSADORA PHILANTHROPIST WH A LAW GREE OM THE UNIVERSY OF CHIGO LAW SCHOOL, JIM HORMEL WAS A FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND AND WAS ON THE BOARD OF THE AMERIN FOUNDATN FOR AIDS REARCH. IN 1995, PRINT CLTON APPOTED HIM TO SERVE ON THE UNED NATNS COMMISSN ON HUMAN RIGHTS, AND 1996, HE SERVED ON THE U.S. LEGATN TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.BUT WHEN CLTON NOMATED HIM AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LUXEMBOURG 1997, WH APPROVAL OM THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATNS COMMTEE, ANTI-LGBTQ+ RELIG ZEALOTS REFED A FLOOR VOTE, CLAIMG HORMEL WAS PRO-PORNOGRAPHY BEE HE FUND AN LGBTQ+ HISTORY SECTN AT THE SAN FRANCIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. CLTON GAVE HIM A RECS APPOTMENT MAY 1999, AND HE WAS SWORN AS AMERI’S FIRST GAY AMBASSADOR BY SECRETARY MALE ALBRIGHT JUNE 1999 WH HIS THEN-PARTNER, TIMOTHY WU.JIM HORMEL WAS SWORN AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LUXEMBOURG BY SECRETARY OF STATE MALE ALBRIGHT JUNE 1999. COURTY OF THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT.“UNTIL THE TIME THAT PEOPLE ACCEPT THAT ALL OF ARE BORN TO OUR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND INTY, LGBT CIZENS WILL STILL ENDURE DISCRIMATN AND SELECTIVE APPLITN OF THE CONSTUTN’S PROTECTNS,” HORMEL WROTE AN OP-ED FOR CNN ON NOVEMBER 16, 2011.TOM DUANE TAK OFFICE AS FIRST GAY NEW YORK STATE SENATOR

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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.

GAY RIGHTS

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. * homosexuality in 1999 *

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.

PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999

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. ”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.

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