2011 timele of major events LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rights history, cludg homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- 2011: AN EXTRAORDARY YEAR FOR GAY RIGHTS
- A VERY LGBTQ : GAY MARRIAGE, TRANS RIGHTS AND A 'RABOW WAVE'
- 2011: A GOOD YEAR TO BE GAY
- GAY RIGHTS
2011: AN EXTRAORDARY YEAR FOR GAY RIGHTS
* gay rights in 2011 *
'A Good Year To Be Queer' Among those appldg the recent stris gay rights is lumnist and activist Dan Savage, who told Sheir that was a "good year to be queer. He was standg next to a gay uple he didn't know, and one of the men asked Savage, "We're always happy for them, would kill them to be happy for ? September 20Servg openly ary be 't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly serve.
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A VERY LGBTQ : GAY MARRIAGE, TRANS RIGHTS AND A 'RABOW WAVE'
NBC Out reflects on the major legal, cultural, and historic LGBTQ events of the 2010 , cludg the legalizatn of gay marriage and DADT repeal. * gay rights in 2011 *
Not 8Same-sex marriage be not homosexualy is a punishable offense, same sex marriage is also not legalJune 16Same-sex adoptn be step-child adoptn June 16, 2011, the Slovenia Natnal Assembly voted 43 to 38 favor of repealg the prev law makg adoptn illegal for same-sex 25Same-sex marriage be n/ May 2011, a qutn to amend the Mnota Constutnal is placed on the November 2012 ballot by the state legislature. At the dawn of the year 2010, few Amerins uld predict that the g would revolutnize the legal and cultural landspe for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people.
After all, was only 2003 that homosexualy was crimalized across the untry, thanks to a landmark Supreme Court the past 10 years, the Uned Stat saw the natnwi legalizatn of same-sex marriage, the emergence of transgenr rights as the central ontier the LGBTQ rights battle and the troductn of PrEP to fight the HIV epimic. -2010-'Don’t ask, don’t tell' repeal signed to lawFollowg through on a mpaign promise, Print Barack Obama on December 22, 2010, signed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” the 1994 Clton admistratn policy that banned ary service by openly gay people.
2011: A GOOD YEAR TO BE GAY
From marriage equaly to the end of don't ask, don't tell, this has been an extraordary year. Here, Aaron Hickl, edor--chief of Out magaze, looks forward to the end of gay culture * gay rights in 2011 *
Hillary Clton: 'Gay rights are human rights'In an echo of her inic 1995 speech Beijg as First Lady, where she clared that "human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights, " Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clton livered a speech on Dec. "-2012-Bin announc support for gay marriageAhead of Print Obama's wily telegraphed "evolutn" on same-sex marriage, Vice Print Joe Bin a May 2012 appearance on NBC News' "Meet the Prs" announced that he was "absolutely fortable" wh same-sex approv Tvada as HIV PrEPTvadaAnthony Correia / NBC NewsIn July 2012, the Food and Dg Admistratn approved Tvada as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to prevent HIV acquisn high-risk dividuals, particularly gay men and transgenr women. In 1998, when she was elected to the Hoe of Reprentativ, she beme the first gay woman and the first openly LGBTQ noncumbent elected to eher chamber of Congrs.
Supreme Court lg legaliz gay marriageCg s 2013 cisn that overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, the Supreme Court the landmark June 2015 Obergefell v. In a subsequent trial of the shooter's wife, tails emerged showg that the gay club Pulse was chosen randomly after heterosexual clubs appeared to be too securely mak Stonewall a Natnal MonumentThe still-nng New York Cy gay bar beme the first Natnal Park Service-operated natnal monument dited to LGBTQ rights on June 24, 2016. Wilkg, Craig Lassig / Getty Imag / AP Imag for Human Rights CampaignThe LGBTQ ndidat who saw victory November 2018's "rabow wave" clud Democrat Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat, and Democrat Sharice Davids, who flipped her district Kansas agast a four-term cumbent to bee the first openly LGBTQ member of Congrs om Kansas and one of the first two female Native Amerins elected to Congrs.
GAY RIGHTS
50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprisgOn June 28, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the New York Cy rt that sparked the morn gay rights movement, #Stonewall50 transformed to a giant global celebratn of LGBTQ rights. After s which gay rights have polarised US opn, the untry barely shgged September when a two- old law prohibg gay men and women om servg openly the ary was fally repealed, promptg thoands of gay soldiers to post g-out vios on YouTube – jt one more example of how the web has transformed gay visibily. To put that ntext, there are more people livg New York than the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalise same-sex stggle for marriage equaly has been one of the most bterly divisive issu Ameri, but after a seri of feats for gay-rights advot, the ti appears to be shiftg irrevobly their directn.