Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

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• GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
• GAY RIGHTS
• TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE

GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY

Supreme Court — and the urt led favor of gay rights for the first time, makg a major landmark se LGBTQ history.April 21, 1966: The Mattache Society aniz a gay rights “Sip-In.”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 served.Brian Braerd/The Denver Post via GettyJune 28, 1969: The Stonewall rts spark the begng of the LGBT movement.In 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 Stat.Ben Hir/Getty1973: Homosexualy is no longer clared a mental illns.After 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.1987: Barney Frank be send openly gay member of Congrs.After spendg six years on Capol Hill, Rep.

Barney Frank (D-Mass.), voluntarily me out as gay, makg him the send openly gay member of ngrs, and the first to e out voluntarily, the untry’s history.April, 2000: Vermont tak a huge step toward same-sex marriage legalizatn.Vermont beme the first state the untry to give same-sex upl the right to enter to civil unns — legal partnerships which would grant those upl the same rights and benefs as those legal marriag.October, 2009: The Matthew Shepard & Jam Byrd Jr. The new law expand prev hate crime legislatn to officially tegorize crim motivated by actual or perceived genr, sexual orientatn, genr inty, or disabily as hate crim.Steve Liss/The LIFE Imag Collectn/GettySeptember, 2011: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is over.Print Obama officially revoked the anti-gay, discrimatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which prevented openly gay Amerins om servg the U.S.

Armed forc.June, 2013: SCOTUS strik down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).The 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.

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This le went to effect, but now-Print Donald Tmp rcd this right, aga banng transgenr people om the ary as of April, 2019.July 23, 2015: The Equaly Act is troduced.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 more.May, 2016: The Stonewall Inn will bee a natnal monument.The 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 rights.May, 2016: The Obama admistratn publicly supports transgenr stunts.In 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. McDarrah / Getty ImagFrom s begng wh rts agast police opprsn of gays New York Cy more than 40 years ago, the fight for gay rights ntu today on new onts: over marriage, therapi to “cure” homosexuals and one of the untry's most popular stutns, the Boy Suts of week, the U. But while we've reached the tippg pot on marriage, there's still a ways to go for full LGBT equaly, like endg bullyg schools and workplace discrimatn, ” Kev Nix, a spokman for the LGBT advocy group, Human Rights Campaign, said a statement earlier this is a look at some of the key moments Amerin LGBT history:June 28, 1969: Start of the gay rights movementThe Stonewall Rts beg after police raid a popular unlicensed gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, New York Cy's Greenwich Village.

TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

His announcement me one day after voters North Carola passed a nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriage as well as civil unns for gay and lbian 4, 2012: In a first, gay marriage ws at the ballot boxVoters Mae approve same-sex marriage the first vote brought by supporters, while voters Maryland and Washgton uphold state legislatn allowg gays and lbians to wed.

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The Boy Suts' ban on gay adult lears remas 20, 2013: 'Ex-gay' group shuts downExod Internatnal, a group that claimed uld cure same-sex attractn via prayer and therapy, announc will close s doors after more than three s. 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.

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.