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Contents:

• TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
• GAY SWZERLAND

TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

March 26, 1973 - First meetg of “Parents and Friends of Gays, ” which go natnal as Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) 1982. December 15, 1973 - By a vote of 5, 854 to 3, 810, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn remov homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs the DSM-II Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

January 9, 1978 - Harvey Milk is gurated as San Francis cy supervisor, and is the first openly gay man to be elected to a polil office California. November 30, 1993 - Print Bill Clton signs a ary policy directive that prohibs openly gay and lbian Amerins om servg the ary, but also prohibs the harassment of “closeted” homosexuals.

December 3, 1996 - Hawaii’s Judge Chang l that the state do not have a legal right to prive same-sex upl of the right to marry, makg Hawaii the first state to regnize that gay and lbian upl are entled to the same privileg as heterosexual married upl.

June 9, 2015 - Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announc that the Milary Equal Opportuny policy has been adjted to clu gay and lbian ary members.

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE

July 27, 2015 - Boy Suts of Ameri Print Robert Gat announc, “the natnal executive board ratified a rolutn removg the natnal rtrictn on openly gay lears and employe. The Human Rights Campaign timat that there are at least 41 openly lbian, gay and bisexual Olympians – up om 23 that participated London 2012. November 6, 2018 - Democratic US Reprentative Jared Polis ws the Colorado ernor’s race, beg the natn’s first openly gay man to be elected ernor.

Rchie Torr and Mondaire Jon, elected to serve New York’s 15th and 17th districts, will bee the first Black men elected to Congrs who intify as gay. June 21, 2021 - Carl Nassib, a fensive leman wh the Las Vegas Rairs, be the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay.

Swzerland will hold a referendum on whether to ph ahead wh same-sex marriage after opponents forced the ernment to hold a bdg vote on a 2020 law allowg gay upl to Swiss parliament passed a bill regnisg same-sex marriage last December, several years after most other wtern European Tuday, the untry’s feral chancellery announced that crics of the law had gathered 61, 027 valid signatur favour of puttg the matter to a natnal Swzerland’s system of direct mocracy, members of the public n veto parliamentary cisns via a referendum if they manage to llect 50, 000 valid signatur wh 100 days of the official publitn of the feral chancellery will May set a date for the plebisce, which would not be held before September.

GAY SWZERLAND

Here is a look at some of the key moments LGBTQIA+ history and the fight for equal New York Daily NewsThough police raids on gay bars were mon the '60s, on June 28, 1969, patrons of New York's Stonewall Inn said "enough.

Wh six months, two gay activist anizatns were formed New York, and three newspapers were lnched for gays and, FILEHarvey Milk beme one of the first openly gay men elected to public office the Uned Stat when he won a seat on the board of supervisors 1977. He was assassated at Cy Hall jt a year Reste/Getty ImagHundreds of gay rights activists took to the Natnal Mall 1979 for the first Pri rally to ph to for equal rights the gay muny and the eedom to live Alpert/Getty Imag, FILEReverend John Kuiper, right, the first gay man Ameri to w the right to adopt a child, is shown wh his partner Roger Hooverman, durg a Gay Rights March, 1979, New Agosti/Liaison/Getty Imag, FILEStartg 1981, gay advocy groups began to form to talk about how the ernment was handlg the AIDS crisis, a new disease that manifted as pnmonia and was found mostly gay men.

He beme the face of the disease, which at the time was wily believed to only be a disease transmted between gay men, and helped break the stigma of beg only a "gay disease. "Joyce Naltchayan/AFP/Getty Imag, FILEBill Clton promised to lift the ban on gays servg the ary durg his mpaign for print, but he was unable to w enough support. She then lnched a daily talk show, "The Ellen Degener Show, " which ran for 19 Agosti/Getty Imag, FILEA ndlelight vigil is held for sla gay Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard New York, Oct.

Bh lled for a nstutnal amendment banng gay NewsPrint Barack Obama be the first stg print to clare his support of same-sex marriage, durg an exclive terview wh ABC News, May 9, 2012. William Alatriste/AP, FILENew York Cy Council Speaker Christe Qun beme the first female and first openly gay person to hold the posn the cy. Colls would later sign wh the Brooklyn Nets and bee the first openly gay active player the Pl/Getty Imag, FILEIn the '90s, Congrs passed the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, fg marriage, for feral purpos, as a unn between one man and one woman, allowg stat to refe or not regnize same sex marriag.

Brandon Wa/AP, FILEMissouri senr fensive leman Michael Sam me out as gay after graduatg and beame the first openly gay player to be drafted to the NFL. He and boyiend Vo Cammisano stirred media ntroversy after a kiss they shared durg the 2014 NFL Draft when Sam was drafted to the Rams was emed appropriate by anti-gay Antonov/AFP/Getty Imag, FILEPeople celebrate outsi the U.

Supreme Court, June 26, 2015, after the high urt led that same-sex upl have the right to marry all 50 statAP, FILEOn June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and 58 were wound when a gunman entered Pulse nightclub, a popular gay club Orlando, and opened fire the fal mut of "Lat Night. The global ftival, which chang ci yearly, was held NYC to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts that sparked the gay rights Somovilla/Getty Imag, FILEThe U.

E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. (Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy.

Ined, his poem “Two Lov” (1894), Lord Aled (“Bosie”) Douglas, Osr Wil’s lover, clared “I [homosexualy] am the love that dare not speak s name. ” Homosexual and bisexual men and women were given voice 1897 wh the foundg of the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (Wissenschaftlich-humanär Komee; WhK) Berl. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power.