The expiratn of a promise al reached amid North Carola's 2016 HB 2 bacle has left the state's gay and trans muni right back where they started.
Contents:
- HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- IN SOME STAT, VERSNS OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE
- WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights. * 2015 gay bill *
By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.
As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996. Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori.
Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken. Gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, jt like anyone else. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
Supporters and crics of the "Don't Say Gay" bill differ on whether would prevent the "stctn" or "discsn" of sexual orientatn or genr inty * 2015 gay bill *
Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans. As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men.
He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs.
"Jtice Alo asked, well then why not marry four gay men together? The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns.
IN SOME STAT, VERSNS OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE
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Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. Ernment to provi the same benefs to both gay and heterosexual upl. “The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch.
The Supreme Court’s cisn overturns the lower urt’s cisn, lg that the bans vlated the nstutnal right of gays and lbians to equal protectn unr the law. A new bill uld fundamentally change what means to be gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr Ameri. Stat still lack val civil-rights protectns that apply to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people.
WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
It's an extraordary sign of shiftg natnal polics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thoands of same-sex upl who have married sce the Supreme Court's 2015 cisn that legalized gay marriage natnwi. * 2015 gay bill *
“A majory of stat our untry do not have laws that protect LGBT dividuals agast discrimatn, ” wrote Cicille, who was elected to both Congrs and a prev mayoral race as an openly gay polician. ”On his first day office, Bin signed an executive orr directg feral agenci to implement the Supreme Court’s Bostock lg and to enforce any regulatns banng sex discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, as last October, Bin told Philalphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal that passg the Equaly Act would ensure “no future print n ever aga roll back civil rights and protectns for LGBTQ+ dividuals. LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng.
At least 20 stat have troduced “Don’t Say Gay” laws this year. But a handful of stat, versns of the legislatn have existed for s. * 2015 gay bill *
It is the first documented gay rights anizatn. 1950 - The Mattache Society is formed by activist Harry Hay and is one of the first staed gay rights groups the Uned Stat. The Society foc on social acceptance and other support for homosexuals.
April 1952 - The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s diagnostic manual lists homosexualy as a socpathic personaly disturbance.
Eisenhower signs an executive orr that bans homosexuals om workg for the feral ernment, sayg they are a secury risk. July 1961 - Illois be the first state to crimalize homosexualy by repealg their sodomy laws.