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9:01 PM UTC</time></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Pete Williams</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">The Supreme Court led Monday that existg feral law forbids job discrimatn on the basis of <a href=" target="_blank">sexual orientatn or transgenr stat</a>, a major victory for advot of gay rights and for the nascent transgenr rights movement — and a surprisg one om an creasgly nservative urt.</p><p class="">By a vote of 6-3, the urt said Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which mak illegal for employers to discrimate bee of a person's sex, among other factors, also vers sexual orientatn and transgenr stat. It upheld lgs om lower urts that said sexual orientatn discrimatn was a form of sex discrimatn.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Equally surprisg was that the cisn was wrten by Print Donald Tmp's first Supreme Court appotee, Neil Gorsuch, who was joed by Chief Jtice John Roberts and the urt's four more liberal members to form a majory.</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src=" height="1080" width="1920"/></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="85051461512"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Breakg down Supreme Court cisn on LGBTQ rights and why Gorsuch joed majory opn</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>June 15, 2020</span><span>04:31</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Breakg down Supreme Court cisn on LGBTQ rights and why Gorsuch joed majory opn& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">"An employer who fired an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex," Gorsuch wrote for the urt. "Sex plays a necsary and undisguisable role the cisn, exactly what Tle VII forbids."</p><p class="">"Those who adopted the Civil Rights Act might not have anticipated their work would lead to this particular rult," he wrote, addg, "But the lims of the drafters' imagatn supply no reason to ignore the law's mands."</p><p class="">"Only the wrten word is the law, and all persons are entled to s benef," he wrote.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Across the natn, 21 stat have their own laws prohibg job discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty. Seven more provi that protectn only to public employe. Those laws rema force, but Monday's lg means feral law now provis siar protectn for LGBTQ employe the rt of the untry.</p><p class="">Gay and transgenr rights groups nsired the se a highly signifint one, even more important than the fight to get the right to marry, bee nearly every LGBTQ adult has or needs a job. They nced that sexual orientatn was not on the mds of anyone Congrs when the civil rights law was passed. But they said when an employer fir a male employee for datg men, but not a female employee who dat men, that vlat the law.</p><p class="">Print Donald Tmp, at a Whe Hoe roundtable on senr cizen issu, lled the cisn "very powerful" and said "we live wh" .</p><p class="">"They've led and we live wh their cisn. That's what 's all about, we live wh the cisn of the Supreme Court," he said.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Gay rights advot celebrated the lg.</p><p class="">“The Supreme Court’s clarifitn that ’s unlawful to fire people bee they’re LGBTQ is the rult of s of advot fightg for our rights," said Jam Esseks, director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr & HIV Project. "The urt has ught up to the majory of our untry, which already knows that discrimatg agast LGBTQ people is both unfair and agast the law.”</p><p class="">Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and CEO of GLAAD, said, "The cisn giv hope that as a untry we n une for the mon good and ntue the fight for LGBTQ acceptance.”</p><p class="">Democratic lears also praised the cisn, wh Hoe Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., llg "a victory for the LGBTQ muny, for our mocracy and for our fundamental valu of equaly and jtice for all."</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Former Vice Print Joe Bin, the prumptive Democratic printial nomee, said the lg was "a momento step forward for our untry," addg that the urt had "nfirmed the simple but profoundly Amerin ia that every human beg should be treated wh rpect and digny, that everyone should be able to live openly, proudly, as their te selv whout fear."</p><p class="">The lg was <a href=" target="_blank">a victory for Gerald Bostock</a>, who was fired om a unty job Geia after he joed a gay softball team, and the relativ of <a href=" target="_blank">Donald Zarda, a skydivg stctor who was fired </a>after he told a female client not to worry about beg strapped tightly to him durg a jump, bee he was "100 percent gay." Zarda died before the se reached the Supreme Court.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">Bostock, a release put out by the Human Rights Campaign, said, “There are tly no words to scribe jt how elated I am," addg that he was "vastated" when he was fired seven years ago. He said he was "scerely grateful" to the Supreme Court, his attorneys, advocy groups and others who supported him.</p><p class="">“Today, we n go to work whout the fear of beg fired for who we are and who we love," Bostock said. "Yet, there is more work to be done. Discrimatn has no place this world, and I will not rt until we have equal rights for all.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Bostock said an terview wh MSNBC's Katy Tur on Monday afternoon that the lg gave him "validatn" for the last seven years, which he said were not easy. He said that not only did he lose his source of e when he lost his job, but he also lost his health surance at a time when he was battlg prostate ncer.</p><p class="">"In this this time of uncertaty, and certaly some dark days wh a civil unrt gog on around , my hope is that this this brgs a ltle b of sunshe to the dark days, bee what tells me is there is hope," Bostock said. "I had fah the system and I had fah that the jtic would do the right thg. And I thk this is jt one step layg the groundwork, though, bee unrsr given everythg gog on our untry today that we still have more work to do."</p><p class="">In their statements, Pelosi and the Human Rights Campaign lled for Senate passage of Hoe-passed legislatn lled the Equaly Act, which would prohib discrimatn agast LGBTQ people employment as well as hog, tn and other areas.</p><p class="">The transgenr se led on by the urt volved <a href=" target="_blank">Aimee Stephens, who was dismissed om her job at a Michigan funeral home</a> two weeks after she told the pany was transgenr. She said her boss explaed to her she was fired bee she failed to follow the drs .</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">"He said, this is not gog to work," Stephens said. "And he hand me a letter firg me and offerg me what I took to be hh money to keep my mouth shut."</p><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank">Stephens did not live to see the se cid</a>. She died May 12 while unrgog hospice re for kidney disease, but her survivg spoe rried on the legal fight.</p><p class="">The ACLU told the urt hers was a clear se of sex discrimatn, bee if she had been assigned female sex at birth she would not have been fired for wantg to e to work drsed as a woman. Instead Stephens was assigned male sex and was fired bee she failed to nform to the sex stereotyp of her employer, argued.</p><p class="">The funeral home said treatg men and women equally do not require employers to treat men as women.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">"It is not sex discrimatn for an employer to apply a sex-specific drs or provi sex-specific changg and rtroom facili based on blogil sex rather than one's ternal sense of genr," the pany told the urt, addg that s actns did not disfavor one sex pared to the other.</p><p class="">The <a href=" target="_blank">Tmp admistratn had urged </a>the urt to le that <a href=" target="_blank">Tle VII do not ver s like the</a>, a reversal om the posn the ernment took durg the Obama admistratn.</p><p class="endmark">"The ordary meang of 'sex' is blogilly male or female; do not clu sexual orientatn," the Jtice Department said. "An employer who discrimat agast employe same-sex relatnships th do not vlate Tle VII as long as treats men same-sex relatnships the same as women same-sex relatnships."</p><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><div class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--has-image expand-byle__thumbnail"><a href="><picture><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="48" width="48"/></picture></a></div><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Pete Williams</a></span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-twter"></span></a></span><div class="expand-byle__b-wrapper"><p class="byle-b expand-byle__b">Pete Williams is an NBC News rrponnt who vers the Jtice Department and the Supreme Court, based Washgton.</p></div></div><div class="expand-ntributors">Adam Elman<!-- --> and <!-- -->Rebec Shabad<!-- --> <!-- -->ntributed<!-- -->.</div></div></div></div><div class="article-body--right-rail-ntaer"><div class="article-body__right-rail layout-grid-em grid-l-4_5-l grid-l-3_5-xl grid-l-ph-half-xl"><div class="ad article-body__right-rail--ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxrail" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[300,250],[360,360]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="10" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="body-bottom-remend"><div class="ad ad--midrponsive ad-ntaer dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="midrponsive" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[700,1],[5,5]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="300" data-reh-terval="0" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te"></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div><div id="hfs-footer" class="dn-prt" data-activy-map="hfs-footer"><footer class="hfsf" ><div class="ner"><div class="logo"><a href="><svg class="peack" viewBox="578 62 67 39" xmlns=" fill="currentColor"><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M597.563 75.863l9.442 21.613-19.478-13.35c-4.887-3.24-3.896-8.79-1.19-11.237 3.83-3.24 9.245-2.12 11.226 2.97"></path><path class="feather" d="M610.57 70.93l-3.433 24.19-9.772-23c-2.113-5.75 2.64-9.516 5.81-9.583 3.632-.396 8.188 2.38 7.396 8.394"></path><path class="feather" d="M625.494 72.103l-9.707 23.067-3.102-20.82c-.265-3.17 1.716-3.237 2.443-3.832-.133-.463-1.124-.463-1.124-.463h-1.848c-.198-5.42 4.028-7.8 7.462-7.535 3.697.132 7.856 4.428 5.876 9.583"></path><path class="feather" d="M635.338 84.167L615.86 97.584l9.177-21.348c2.775-6.742 9.245-5.42 11.556-2.842 2.51 2.51 3.235 7.6-1.255 10.773"></path><path class="feather" d="M637.448 99.9h-22.515l18.29-12.756c4.49-2.975 9.244-.266 10.498 3.635 1.327 4.36-1.65 9.12-6.27 9.12"></path></g></svg></a></div><nav class="lks"><ul class="lks__wrap" data-l-2="14" data-l-3=15><li><a href=" target="_self">About</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Contact</a></li><li><a href=">Help</a></li><li><a href=">Careers</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ad Choic</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy Policy</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Do Not Sell My Personal Informatn</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CA Notice</a></li><li><a href=">New Terms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)</a></li><li><a href=">NBC News Semap</a></li><li><a href=">Advertise</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Shoppg</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Personal Fance</a></li></ul></nav><div class="py"><p>© 2023 NBC UNIVERSAL</p><div class="brands"><a href="><svg viewBox="0 0 120 20" fill="none" xmlns=" aria-labelledby="nbc_news_logo"><tle class="nbc_news_logo">NBC News Logo

lgbt rights movement quizlet

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.

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THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, 2-SPIR AND TERSEX PERSONS

Canada stands up for the protectn and promotn of the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, 2-spir and tersex (LGBTQ2I) people globally. * lgbt rights movement quizlet *

Canada stands up for the protectn and promotn of the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, 2-spir and tersex (LGBTQ2I) people human rights of all persons are universal and divisible. Combattg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty (SOGI) has lks to rourc cludg UN rolutns on SOGI, reports on SOGI issu and activi battg discrimatn based on 2011, the UN Human Rights Council passed s first rolutn regnizg LGBT rights, followg which the OHCHR issued a report documentg vlatns of the rights of LGBT people, cludg hate crim, crimalizatn of homosexual activy and 2016, an pennt expert on sexual orientatn and genr inty has also been mandated by the uncil to:asss the implementatn of existg ternatnal human rights stments aimed at overg vlence and discrimatn agast persons on the basis of their SOGIintify and addrs the root of SOGI-based vlence and discrimatnCanada is also member of the UN LGBTI Core Group, an rmal, cross-regnal group of UN member stat tablished 2008.

Its ma goal is to work wh the UN amework to ensure universal rpect for the human rights and fundamental eedoms of LGBTI exam LGBTI and health-related advot for creased awarens on homophobia and transphobia the tnal World Health Organizatn draws lks between sexual health, human rights and the 2016, the World Bank appoted s first adviser on sexual orientatn and genr inty ternatnal anizatns also support programmg the area of LGBTQ2I rights, cludg the:Global Equaly FundGlobal Philanthropy ProjectArc FoundatnRegnal anizatnsCanada is a foundg and active member of the Organizatn of the Amerin Stat (OAS) LGBTI Core Group.

The followg anizatns also work on LGBTQ2I human rights issu:Amnty InternatnalARC InternatnalEgaleÉgisEquasFondatn ÉmergenceHuman Digny TstHuman Rights WatchILGA WorldKaleidospe TstOutRight Actn InternatnalRabow RailroadThe Royal Commonwealth SocietyNews2023-05-30 - Statement by the Equal Rights Coaln on the Anti-Homosexualy Act Uganda2023-05-29 - Statement on Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act2022-11-24 - Statement by the Equal Rights Coaln on the ban on the discsn and sharg of rmatn about LGBTIQ+ people and their human rights the Rsian Feratn2022-09-08 - Equal Rights Coaln – Global LGBTI Conference Declaratn2022-08-28 - Diplomats for Equaly Jot Statement – 2022 Capal Pri Ftival Report a problem on this page Thank you for your help!

THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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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 LIBERATN MOVEMENT

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. * lgbt rights movement quizlet *

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. The story of how this particular night and this particular bar me to signify global gay rebelln is a story of how llective memory works and how social movements anize to memorate their gas.

HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY

Crage tail four prev police raids on gay bars ci across the Uned Stat that prompted activist rpons—and lol gas—but that eher fad om lol memory, did not spire memoratns that lasted, or did not motivate activists other ci. For example, San Francis activists mobilized rponse to police raids on gay bars the early 1960s, which me to a head durg a raid on a New Year’s Eve ball 1965 that eventually brought down the police missner.

HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE

The cy’s gay tablishment did not participate, however, and distanced themselv om the transgenr and street youths and their polil anizatn, Vanguard, behd the “vlent” prott. The ordated march Los Angel, New York, and Chigo 1970 were the first gay pri paras, and sparked an ia that spread around the untry—to 116 ci the Uned Stat and 30 untri around the world. As Armstrong and Crage have wrten, “whout the existence of homophile anizatns elsewhere, many of them found only the late 1960s, a natnal event would have been unthkable.

” Unlike the Annual Remr, which addrsed the state assertg the siary of homosexuals wh heterosexual cizens, para participants celebrated their differenc and aimed to change mds, not laws. As activists memorate the Stonewall Rts 2019, perhaps they should also lay plans for next year, to remember the fiftieth anniversary of the first gay pri para 2020.

The seri begs wh the headle “There are probably 2, 700 homosexuals at Cal”, and go to tail about how police officers have been crackg down on the "homosexual activy" on mp, cludg removg every other door the men’s rtroom, so that would stop people om drillg glory hol the stalls. The Gay Liberatn Front was a polil anizatn, and they foced their attentn on the radil unter-culture to help fight discrimatn agast gays “dtry, the mass media, ernment, schools, and church” (Gay Liberatn Movement).

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