This week's Supreme Court cisn regnizg same-sex marriage marks a 180-gree turn om attus not so long ago. It's been nearly 50 years sce CBS News first took on the subject of gay rights a documentary, "The Homosexuals." Steve Hartman tak a look back.
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- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- CRIL MEDIA PROJECTABOUTCMP MISSNCMP TEAMCONNECT WH CMPCOMMON COREFAIR USEHOW TO CELEARN & DOWHY INTY MATTERSMEDIA LERACIPLAYLISTSDIY ACTIVIUSEFUL LKSGLOSSARYCMP ACTNCMP SCHOOLSCMP PROGRAMSSTUNT MEDIACONFERENCIMPACTTTIMONIALSREPORTS & PRSDONATEAGECLASSDISABILYGENRLGBTQRACE & ETHNICYRELIGNALL QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY: THEN VS. NOW
- GAY THEN VS. GAY NOW: WILL AND GRACE CLASH WH A WORLD HELPED CHANGE
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.
CRIL MEDIA PROJECTABOUTCMP MISSNCMP TEAMCONNECT WH CMPCOMMON COREFAIR USEHOW TO CELEARN & DOWHY INTY MATTERSMEDIA LERACIPLAYLISTSDIY ACTIVIUSEFUL LKSGLOSSARYCMP ACTNCMP SCHOOLSCMP PROGRAMSSTUNT MEDIACONFERENCIMPACTTTIMONIALSREPORTS & PRSDONATEAGECLASSDISABILYGENRLGBTQRACE & ETHNICYRELIGNALL QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY: THEN VS. NOW
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Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.
In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.
GAY THEN VS. GAY NOW: WILL AND GRACE CLASH WH A WORLD HELPED CHANGE
“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.
“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Gay men? Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.
“Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr. Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are. ” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.