The print who signed the Defense of Marriage Act to law 1996 is now urgg the Supreme Court to strike down. Here’s a look back on Clton’s evolutn on gay rights. As you n see,Clton has long tried to have both ways--urtg the gay muny while also erng as a centrist.
Contents:
- PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999
- LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS DURG PRINT CLTON'S SEND TERM: A WORKG PAPER PUBLISHED BY THE CIZENS' COMMISSN ON CIVIL RIGHTS
- PROCLAMATN 7316—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 2000
- TIMELE: BILL CLTON’S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS
- CLTON’S LEGACY ON GAY RIGHTS
PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999
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“Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds. “I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially.
LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS DURG PRINT CLTON'S SEND TERM: A WORKG PAPER PUBLISHED BY THE CIZENS' COMMISSN ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Whout Hillary Clton’s efforts, the global stggle for equaly for gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people would not have proceed as fast as has the past several years, nor would the Uned Stat be seen today as a global lear that stggle. * bill clinton gay *
“It was the specter of homosexualy that provoked the first and only suici by a member of Congrs his Capol Hill office, ed Lyndon Johnson to et that his historil lead would evaporate, and seized the paranoid md of Richard Nixon send only to the plots of his ever-expandg enemi list, ” Kirchick wr.
PROCLAMATN 7316—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 2000
“To asss the full sle of the damage that the fear of homosexualy wrought on the Amerin polil landspe, one mt take to acunt not only the reers ed and the liv cut short, but somethg vaster and unquantifiable: the possibili thwarted, ” Kirchick wr.
Although openly LGBTQ people have ma their way to the hight ranks of ernment today, was not long ago that spected homosexuals workg for the feral ernment were hunted down, publicly huiated and termated wh the full force of the ernment.
TIMELE: BILL CLTON’S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS
Unr the new policy, gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins uld serve their untry, as long as they kept their sexual inty unr supporters of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” weled as a more liberal policy that would allow gay Amerins to serve their untry, gay rights activists plaed that forced the service members to secrecy, while dog ltle to bat the prejudice agast them.
CLTON’S LEGACY ON GAY RIGHTS
Dpe this policy, hundreds of thoands of gays and lbians served the ary throughout the next several s, keepg silent about their sexual inty for fear of beg discharged, losg their veterans’ benefs or worse. In 1981, the Department of Defense reaffirmed the ban, and durg the 1980s the ary branch discharged close to 17, 000 men and women unr the homosexual his 1992 printial mpaign, Bill Clton announced his tentn to end the ban on homosexuals the ary if elected.