The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn.
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THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
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The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence. The ACLU Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Project seeks to create a jt society for all LGBTQ people regardls of race or e.
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youth shouldn’t have to fear gog to school, g a public rtroom, or standg up for their rights wh ernment officials or police. The ACLU LGBTQ Project helps protect young people’s right to exprs themselv, start gay-straight alliance clubs, have their genr inty rpected, and be tght a safe environment.
The ACLU of Nevada is mted to workg for the full legal and social equaly of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr employe, stunts, upl, and other dividuals. * aclu lgbt *
The stggle of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people for equal rights has moved to center stage. Gay and lbian people are featured movi and on televisn – not as novelty characters, but as full participants society. Ary – openly discrimat agast gays and lbians.
Mothers and fathers lose child ctody simply bee they are gay or lbian, and gay people are nied the right to marry. One state even tried to fence lbians and gay men out of the procs ed to pass laws.
In 1992 Colorado enacted Amendment 2, which repealed existg state laws and barred future laws protectg lbians, gay men and bisexuals om discrimatn.
The ACLU of Illois firmly believ that rights should not be limed based on a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. We stand support of clive polici that strengthen rights for LGBT dividuals. After securg the eedom to marry for gay and lbian upl Illois, the ACLU of Illois has ntued to protect gay and lbian upl om * aclu lgbt *
We mt nclu that Amendment 2 classifi homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else. The morn gay rights movement began dramatilly June 1969 New York Cy’s Greenwich Village. Durg a typil “raid, ” police tried to arrt people for their mere prence at a gay bar, but the patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back – and the gay rights movement was lnched.
The ACLU of Florida works to create a Florida ee of discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. This means a Florida where lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people n live openly, where our inti, relatnships and fai are rpected, and where there is fair treatment on the job, schools, hog, public plac, health re, and * aclu lgbt *
Usg many of the grass-roots and ligatn strategi employed by other 20th century activists, gay rights advot have achieved signifint progrs:. Sodomy laws, typilly ed to jtify discrimatn agast gay people, once existed natnwi; they are now on the books only 18 stat and Puerto Ri. But the creased empowerment of LGBT people has brought about even more open and vilent anti-gay hostily:.
Vlent hate crim, such as the 1998 murr of Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepherd, pict a grisly backlash agast LGBTs or people perceived to be gay.
In 1986, after more than two s of support for lbian and gay stggl, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn tablished a natnal Lbian and Gay Rights Project. Workg close llaboratn wh the ACLU’s affiliat natnwi, the Project ordat the most extensive gay rights legal program the natn. This Amendment protects the right to anize and urge ernment to end discrimatn, to regnize lbian and gay relatnships, and to adopt laws prohibg discrimatn the private sector.