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Contents:
- THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
- 8 LANDMARK S FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
* gay landmark case *
The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign. The first se will nsir the dismissals of a unty ernment employee and a skydivg stctor, who were fired for beg gay.
8 LANDMARK S FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US
The Supreme Court led that feral law forbids job discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and transgenr stat, a major victory for advot of gay rights — and a surprise om an creasgly nservative urt. * gay landmark case *
In 1953, a publisher associated wh the Los Angel chapter of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first “homophile” groups, released somethg unique for s time: ONE: The Homosexual Magaze. The magaze, which is nsired by One Archiv Foundatn to be Ameri’s first wily-distributed magaze for gay rears, clud articl, edorials, short stori and other ntent. In s cisn, the Supreme Court tossed out a lower urt’s lg, and tablished that material aimed at a gay dience was not herently obscene.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
, statn travel guis wh a gay perspective. * gay landmark case *
“The urt went out of s way to make clear that gay people uld be crimalized unr the provisns, and there was nothg wrong wh that. Many people who feared the then-myster disease were “hyper-foced” on the ia that gay men were promiscuo and saw HIV-posive people as “sort of gettg what they served, ” says Maril.
The se revolved around an amendment to a Colorado law, which banned ci om passg anti-discrimatn laws that would protect gay and bisexual people. “Even if, as the state ntends, homosexuals n fd protectn laws and polici of general applitn, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the majory opn, “[the Colorado law] go well beyond merely privg them of special rights. In 1990, the Boy Suts of Ameri cid to expel Jam Dale, an assistant sutmaster and Eagle Sut, after he was intified a newspaper as a lear of Rutgers Universy’s Lbian/Gay Alliance.