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.
Contents:
- THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN ILLOIS: A HISTORY
- GAY RIGHTS
- RIGHTS OF LBIANS, GAYS, BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS
- NEW LAW REQUIR ILLOIS SCHOOLS TEACH NTRIBUTNS OF GAY, TRANSGENR PEOPLE: ‘IT IS PAST TIME CHILDREN KNOW THE NAM OF LGBTQ+ PNEERS’
THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN ILLOIS: A HISTORY
The vote favor of civil unns is one a long strg of achievements for the gay rights movement Illois, gog back nearly 90 years. * lgbt history law illinois *
{mosads}The law requir all schools the state clu “the role and ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people the history of this untry and this State” official textbooks.
" It stat that "the teachg of history the Uned Stat shall clu a study of the rol and ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people the history of this untry. Dpe this new wave of efforts to tegrate LGBT ntent to the classroom, six stat – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carola and Texas – still have laws prohibg the "promotn of homosexualy. Alabama law, for example, stat that when discsg sexual health tn, "class mt emphasize, a factual manner and om a health perspective, that homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual nduct is a crimal offense unr the laws of the state.
In honor of Pri Month, the Commissn is highlightg some of the most important legal ton for the LGBTQ muny Illois, cludg Illois’ place as the first state to crimalize homosexualy. January 1, 2006 – The Illois Human Rights Act is amend to bar discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr persons employment, hog, public acmodatn, and certa fancial transns.
GAY RIGHTS
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. * lgbt history law illinois *
In 1924, German immigrant Henry Gerber found the Society for Human Rights, which served a goal to teach others about the gay muny and attemptg to change laws that ma homosexualy illegal. The anizatn only lasted a short time before thori shut down, but gay and lbian Chigoans were visible the 1920s and enjoyed acceptance among the artists, poets and bohemians of Towertown, an area of the Near North Si jt wt of the Magnificent Mile.
Around the same time on the Near South Si, a substantial Ain-Amerin gay and lbian muny also formed, equentg the barets Bronzeville, acrdg to the encyclopedia. By the send half of the 20th century, gay muni were tablished on the Near North Si, Old Town, Hy Park, and a part of the Lakeview neighborhood centered at Clark Street, Diversey Parkway and Broadway known as New Town.
As the gay and lbian populatn grew number, so did the equency of police raids on gay bars, which rulted arrts for beg "mat of disorrly ho, " or breakg a law agast cross-drsg, acrdg to the Encyclopedia of Chigo. The Mattache Midwt Society was one such anizatn, which helped wh the fense of those arrted the raids and set up a 24-hour hotle for gays and lbians, acrdg to the encyclopedia. In 1970, another anizatn, Universy of Chigo-based Chigo Gay Liberatn, challenged laws forbiddg on same-sex dancg by anizg a dance at the Colism, the stadium formerly at 16th Street and Wabash Avenue, the Wdy Cy Tim reported.
RIGHTS OF LBIANS, GAYS, BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS
LGBT Rights Illois, Uned Stat: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * lgbt history law illinois *
Mayor Jane Byrne beme the first Chigo mayor officially to regnize the GLBT muny, and her succsor, Mayor Harold Washgton, was the first mayor to headle a gay rights rally and began the cy's first Commtee on Gay and Lbian Issu. Bernard Hansen, then of the 44th Ward, said a bill makg illegal to discrimate agast gays and lbians, as well as Ain-Amerins, Latos, people wh disabili and ex-nvicts was necsary to ensure jtice for all. The Moody Church also fought the ordance, sayg "puts homosexual behavr on par wh heterosexual behavr, " acrdg to the book Rogu, Rebels and Rubber Stamps by polil scientist Dick Simpson.
"It's a great honor for me to be here, so 's not jt a polil exprsn – also 's a personal exprsn, alg wh the gay and lbian muny; what they have given to the Cy of Chigo, " Mayor Daley said at the 1989 para.
NEW LAW REQUIR ILLOIS SCHOOLS TEACH NTRIBUTNS OF GAY, TRANSGENR PEOPLE: ‘IT IS PAST TIME CHILDREN KNOW THE NAM OF LGBTQ+ PNEERS’
Illois public schools will be required to teach about historil ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people startg next year. That's the rult of a newly signed law. * lgbt history law illinois *
Gay rights activists faced a far greater challenge gettg a statewi law approved forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, but January 2005, they succeed when an amendment to the Illois Human Rights Act was approved. Opponents of the state law, notably cludg former Illois Fay Instute executive director Peter LaBarbera, charged that the statewi law curtailed the First Amendment rights of any person or church that was agast homosexualy.
"The arguments this time around were not the arguments we had the '80s and '90s, when people would talk about (generally speakg) the moraly of homosexualy, etc. In public schools only, the teachg of history shall clu a study of the rol and ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people the history of this untry and this State. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat.
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.