Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.
Contents:
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS
- U.S. WILL PROTECT GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE AGAST DISCRIMATN IN HEALTH CARE
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
From s gay liberatn roots to today’s natnwi work of activists and supporters, the LGBTQ rights movement has always strived toward progrs. We celebrate the movement and every one of s members whose urageo ntributns and sacrific have steadily phed society the right directn. * lgbt rights movement ap gov *
Called to actn by gay actor and LGBTQ rights activist Gee Takei, thoands of gay men untered the bigotry of the Proud Boys by postg photos unr the hashtag wh their partners and children.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Born om the 1969 Stonewall uprisg, the nascent gay liberatn movement of the 1970s–᾽80s embraced a radilly tersectnal approach, lkg arms wh ntemporary femist and anti-racist movements to seek social transformatn.
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * lgbt rights movement ap gov *
” The equal protectn clse has served as the basis for most legal challeng to movementA civil rights movement which emerged the 1970s, dited to batg legal rtrictns on lbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, and queer cizens on the basis of Fourteenth Amendment protectns. Homophobic and transphobic vrl spewed onle has spilled over to real life, as armed hate groups timidate people at Pri march and drag performanc, and threaten doctors’ offic and children’s hospals that offer re to the LGBTQI+ muny.
U.S. WILL PROTECT GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE AGAST DISCRIMATN IN HEALTH CARE
Here are some notable events the history of the Amerin gay rights movement. * lgbt rights movement ap gov *
BIDEN JR., Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2023 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Pri Month. The Bottom LeThe Natnal LGBTQI Movement Report, published annually by MAP, exam revenue and expens, fundraisg and fundraisg efficiency, and other ditors of fancial health for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI) social jtice advocy, issue, legal, rearch and public tn anizatns. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.
(Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy.
Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. The gay rights movement was begng to w victori for legal reform, particularly wtern Europe, but perhaps the sgle fg event of gay activism occurred the Uned Stat.
In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly.
Groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power) the Uned Stat and Stonewall and Outrage! Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.