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Contents:
- HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
From the Whe Hoe and the Supreme Court on down, gay rights advot have won a strg of victori this year. Many Amerins rema opposed to same-sex marriage, but support for gays and gay marriage has been risg — particularly among young people. * mariage gay 2013 *
Prr to last year's electns, gays and lbians had a civil right to marry only six stat. "This year reprented the te tippg pot, " says Eric Marc, thor of Makg Gay History.
" This has been "the gayt year gay history, " the words of Fred Saz, vice print of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, and not only bee dividual stat and the U. Supreme Court have extend greater protectns to gay upl. There have been substantive chang policy and personnel, wh Print Obama sentially doublg the number of openly gay dividuals who have served as feral judg and ambassadors.
This year has also seen symbolic ton, cludg Obama enshrg the e of gays the civil rights pantheon his send gural addrs, and the first profsnal athlet major sports g out.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * mariage gay 2013 *
None of which is to suggt that anti-gay discrimatn has gone away entirely, or that all Amerins are on board wh the trends. But an earlier Pew survey found that a majory of gay marriage opponents viewed s legal regnn as "evable. " And gay rights advot almost n't believe the progrs they've already ma.
A Long Time Comg As wh any great societal change, this year's victori for the gay rights movement took a long time to gtate.
Gays and lbians had once plaed about feelg visible, but as lns of dividuals have e out, they not only have ma their polil sir more tangible but also have won sympathetic alli among many straights. "It took the shape of a ln different nversatns that a newly out gay fay member had wh her parents or his siblgs, " Kenll says. Jt as the prence of gays Amerin life me to seem more monplace, so did same-sex marriage.