Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights - A Brief History of Civil Rights the Uned Stat - HUSL Library at Howard Universy School of Law

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
• GAY HISTORY MONTH – OCTOBER 11TH, 1987: THE SEND NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS – VIOS
• HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

The people cheered when Juana Ramos and Armando Gaetan spoke English and then Spanish: “Greetgs you betiful multilor people… Greetgs om this Chino om Massachetts… Greetgs om Lato lbians and Lato gays…” Some turned out to hear California-based activist Howard Wallace, who clared that day, “A new day is g, [and] will e so much sooner if we st out the great thorarian father figur hoed our mds.

” When an ICP fan named Jab Robida attacked a gay bar Massachetts 2006, the band's manager Alex Abbiss posted to the band webse, “It's que obv that this guy had no clue what beg a Juggalo is all about. A five-pot platform for the march lled for passage by Congrs of a “prehensive” lbian and gay civil rights bill; a printial executive orr banng discrimatn based on sexual orientatn the feral workforce, the ary, ferally ntracted private employers; repeal of all anti-gay/lbian laws; an end to discrimatn child ctody disput for gay and lbian parents; and protectns for gay and lbian youth agast discrimatn at home or schools. Items add to the platform beyond those clud for the 1979 march clud a ll for legal regnn of lbian and gay relatnships; repeal of sodomy laws applyg to nsentg adults; an end to discrimatn agast people wh HIV/AIDS; reproductive eedom for women; and an end to racism the U.

GAY HISTORY MONTH – OCTOBER 11TH, 1987: THE SEND NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS – VIOS

While march anizers were generally optimistic over a Clton Whe Hoe, some exprsed ncern that the new print appeared to be backg down om his promise to lift the ban on gays the ary followg opposn to the proposal by many Congrs. Another vol msage livered at the march was strong opposn to Colorado’s Amendment 2, a ballot measure passed by voters that banned ci and unti the state om adoptg anti-discrimatn laws protectg gays and lbians.

In a break om the first three ‘gay’ Washgton march, which were iated by dividual activists, the Millennium March was iated by the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s largt LGBT civil rights group, and the Rev. Rather than seek put om grassroots activists and lol LGBT groups, HRC and Perry formed a march mtee on their own and hired lbian edian and events producer Rob Tyler, who had been llg for another gay march, as the march’s executive producer.

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS

In a prs release announcg the march, the mtee boasted that rporate sponsors were beg led up to help fance the march and a long list of celebri, most of whom were gay or lbian, would be performg at a ncert durg the weekend of the planned march. Longtime gay rights advote David Mixner is creded wh iatg the march an effort to build on the groundswell of LGBT activism on social media generated by the approval by California voters of Proposn 8, a ballot measure that overturned the state’s same-sex marriage law.

San Francis gay rights lear Cleve Jon, founr of the Nam Project that created the AIDS Memorial Quilt, beme volved as one of the lead anizers along wh lbian activist Rob McGehee and gay activist Kip Williams. Feral employe had recently endured the “Lavenr Sre, ” where, while Senator Joseph McCarthy was tryg to ot munists, the ernment was also tryg to remove gays om their employment and the cy.

GAY RIGHTS

[5] Gay feral employe were targeted as a “secury risk” multiple s, and an vtigative submtee Congrs, the Hoey Commtee, was formed to vtigate and make a list of gay employe and the prumed dangers of employg them.

The both paved the way for sexualy creria to be clud Executive Orr 10450, "Secury Requirements for Government Employment, ” which meant gays and lbians uld be easily banned om feral employment or om beg nsultants on ernment projects. [7] It’s timated that between “5, 000 and tens of thoands of gay workers lost their jobs” durg the Lavenr Sre, and that Maccubb knew that the fear of unemployment would keep rints away om the march—and th lsen s impact.

[15] But once the march was really unrway, the monstrators moved along to proclaim “Gay love is good love, ” and “The lord is my shepherd, and he knows I’m gay”[16] as they passed by the Capol Buildg, the FBI, the Department of Jtice, and the Whe Hoe, where they had, jt a few years earlier, been targeted for expulsn om the feral ernment durg the “Lavenr Sre. Brother Joseph Izzo, a mister who worked wh an anizatn for lbian and gay Catholics, siarly cricized The Post, sayg “Your treatment do a great disservice to the e of equaly for the gay muny and only served to foster the stereotypic, homophobic attus that so many people flict on lbians and gay men. “[The Anti-Homosexualy Act] clus a duty to report clse that would require doctors, landlords and even fay members to report anyone that they have reason to spect is homosexual and that basilly creat a surveillance state for all LGBTQI+ persons jt for beg, ” she add.

The statement, however, noted Ugandan “dividuals believed to be rponsible for, or plic , unrmg the mocratic procs Uganda” and specifilly referenced human rights ab agast LGBTQ and tersex people and the Anti-Homosexualy Act.