As the Supreme Court nears a cisn on same-sex marriag, observers of Court history have noted that June 26 already has special signifince for cisns that have favored gay rights landmark s.
Contents:
- WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT
- WILL JUNE 26 BE OFFICIALLY SIGNATED "GAY DAY"?
- GAY STRASBOURG
WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT
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As the Supreme Court nears a cisn on same-sex marriag, observers of Court history have noted that June 26 already has special signifince for cisns that have favored gay rights landmark s. “[W]hat jtifitn uld there possibly be for nyg the benefs of marriage to homosexual upl exercisg ‘the liberty protected by the Constutn’? Surely not the enuragement of procreatn, sce the sterile and the elrly are allowed to marry, ” Slia wrote back 2003, “What jtifitn uld there possibly be for nyg the benefs of marriage to homosexual upl?
On Friday the Supreme Court led that gay Amerins had the right to marry every state the untry. Bee June 26 isn’t jt an important date for gay Amerins– ’s a date that symboliz how rapidly change n happen Ameri, how quickly our attus n evolve, and how, when ed rrectly, our system is one that propels all towards a more equal state. Only 11 years ago, 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to allow gay upl to marry.
In a ltle over a , gay marriage has gone om a provotive pipe dream to a legal and nstutnal right. June 26 isn’t jt a symbol of marriage equaly or gay rights– ’s a day that memorat a llective change of md, the Amerin abily to choose eedom and equaly.
WILL JUNE 26 BE OFFICIALLY SIGNATED "GAY DAY"?
It's an important date not jt for gay Amerins, but for all * june 26th lgbt *
The jtic are meetg Tuday to offer the first public ditn of where they stand the dispute over whether stat n ntue fg marriage as the unn of a man and a woman, or whether the Constutn giv gay and lbian upl the right to marry. Already 2020, the jtic have led that a bar on sex discrimatn the workplace extends to gay, lbian and transgenr workers.
GAY STRASBOURG
Some are llg for a new feral holiday to mark three major Supreme Court lgs on gay rights that all arrived on the same day * june 26th lgbt *
On June 28, 1969, New York Cy police nducted a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar Greenwich Village. The raid was ostensibly bee the place lacked a liquor license—thori didn’t often approve them for gay bars—but was the latt a long le of actns taken specifilly to persecute the cy's LGBTQ muny. The so-lled “Stonewall Rts” (or “Stonewall Uprisg”) weren’t the first time the untry’s LGBTQ muny had fought openly agast systemic opprsn and human rights vlatns; fact, the first gay rights mpaign the U.