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GAY RIGHTS
Read about key moments the history of the LGBTQ fight for rights Ameri, om the first gay rights group to prent day. * lgbtq civil rights movement events *
”Durg a time when most bars refed to serve gay people, the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first gay rights anizatns, staged a “Sip-In, ” durg which activists entered a New York Cy bar, announced they were gay, orred drks, and waed to be Braerd/The Denver Post via GettyJune 28, 1969: The Stonewall rts spark the begng of the LGBT the early morng hours on June 28, 1969, police performed a raid of the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar — and the ctomers and their supporters took a stand. Those “Stonewall rts” are largely nsired the start of the LGBTQ civil rights movement the Uned Hir/Getty1973: Homosexualy is no longer clared a mental years of studi, analysis, and changg cultural attus, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s board of directors removed homosexualy om the official list of mental illns, known as the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, a move that was upheld wh a vote by the associatn’s membership. ), voluntarily me out as gay, makg him the send openly gay member of ngrs, and the first to e out voluntarily, the untry’s, 2000: Vermont tak a huge step toward same-sex marriage legalizatn.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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. * lgbtq civil rights movement events *
Armed, 2013: SCOTUS strik down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which beme a law 1996, clared that marriag between gay or lbian upl were not regnized by the feral ernment, meang those upl uld not receive legal benefs — like Social Secury and health surance — that straight married upl uld.
Senators Jeff Merkley, Tammy Baldw, and Cory Booker, as well as Reprentative David Cicille formerly troduced The Equaly Act, which would make LGBTQ dividuals a protected class and grant them basic legal protectns areas of life cludg tn, hog, employment, cred, and, 2016: The Stonewall Inn will bee a natnal Obama admistratn announced that they are preparg to signate New York’s Stonewall Inn, the se of those historic rts 1969, the first-ever natnal monument dited to gay, 2016: The Obama admistratn publicly supports transgenr the midst of anti-transgenr movements throughout the untry, Print Obama and his admistratn issued a directive to all public schools that transgenr stunts should be allowed to e the rtrooms that reflect their genr inty.
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. * lgbtq civil rights movement events *
(Persistence, Rpect, Iniative, Dependabily, and Empathy), gay pri or simply pri, is the promotn of the self-affirmatn, digny, equaly, and creased visibily of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as a social group. In June 2011, Print Barack Obama issued a proclamatn clarg June as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month and said, "I ll upon the Uned Stat to elimate prejudice everywhere exists, and to celebrate the great diversy of the Amerin people.
It memorat the genoci that rulted the ath of an timated 6 ln Jews, 1 ln Gypsi, 250, 000 mentally and physilly disabled people, and 9000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and s llaborators. The Day of Silence is the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network's (GLSEN) annual day of actn to prott the bullyg and harassment of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) stunts and their supporters. The Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia (or "IDAHO") tablished the IDAHO Commtee to ordate grassroots actns different untri, promote the day, and lobby for the official regnn of May 17.
Gay pri, or LGBT pri, is the posive stance agast discrimatn and vlence toward lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmatn, digny, equaly rights, crease their visibily as a social group, build muny, and celebrate sexual diversy and genr variance.
Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights. * lgbtq civil rights movement events *
The Stonewall rts were a seri of spontaneo, vlent monstratns by members of the gay muny agast a police raid that took place the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York Cy. Among early supporters and members of the first ordatg mtee was Kev Jenngs of the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN); Kev Boyer of Gerber/Hart Gay and Lbian Library and Archiv Chigo; Pl Varnell, wrer for the Wdy Cy Tim; Torey Wilson, Chigo area teacher; John Boyce, women's studi major at Columb State Universy and Jsea Greenman of UC-Berkeley. NCOD was found 1988 by Robert Eichberg, a psychologist om New Mexi and founr of the personal growth workshop, The Experience, and Jean O'Leary, an openly gay polil lear om Los Angel and then head of the Natnal Gay Rights Advot.
Gilbert Baker, who scribed himself as the “gay Betsy Ross, ” created the first pri flag om strips of fabric dyed trash ns the attic of San Francis’s Gay Communy Center before the cy’s 1978 pri para. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.