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.
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- 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
The Court led favor of gay rights as early as 1958. But s cisns haven't always sid wh the LGBT muny. * 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. 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.
8 LANDMARK S FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US
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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.