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Contents:
- “LGBT AMERINS FOR”: PRINTIAL ELECTNS AND THE MOVEMENT FOR GAY RIGHTS, 1980-2020
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- GAY RIGHTS ARE ON THE MIDTERM BALLOT AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS OPN, SAYS NEW GLAAD AD
- POLIL ISSU: GAY RIGHTS
- GAY RIGHTS AND PRINTIAL ELECTNS
- PRINT OBAMA AND GAY RIGHTS: THE 2008 AND 2012 PRINTIAL ELECTNS
- ABORTN, GUNS AND GAY RIGHTS ON THE DOCKET FOR SUPREME COURT'S NEW TERM
“LGBT AMERINS FOR”: PRINTIAL ELECTNS AND THE MOVEMENT FOR GAY RIGHTS, 1980-2020
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * gay rights presidential election *
” Two-thirds of LGBTQ voters say the rults of the 2020 printial electn have them feelg optimistic about the future; though 77% exprs ncern that the new Supreme Court will overturn marriage equalyIssu Impactg the LGBTQ Vote: COVID-19 rponse, healthre, racial jtice, followed by LGBTQ equalyCOVID-19 Rponse is the Number One Issue for LGBTQ Voters: 36% Face Mental Health Issu after COVID-19New York, NY – GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, released the fdgs of s 2020 Post-electn Poll of LGBTQ registered voters, cludg a phenomenal turnout of the LGBTQ vote, a surge of first-time LGBTQ voters, an overwhelmg vote for Print-elect Bin, wh vot motivated by three top issu urgently mandg a more robt rponse om our natn’s lears: COVID-19, healthre and racial jtice.
Perhaps most notably, g out at the age of thirty-three 2015, jt five years ago, he was also the first, openly gay person to serly ntend for the hight US office. While some wh the LGBTQ+ muny have bated the signifince of Buttigieg’s mpaign for the ongog movement for gay equaly, his succs gettg as far as he did, not least beg the first gay ndidate to w a printial nomatg ntt wh his narrow victory Iowa, nohels reprented how far the gay rights movement has e polilly the past forty years. Electns Campaigns Archive at the VHL sheds light on the trajectory of gay rights issu om the margs to the centre of mastream polics durg this perd.
[ii] His Rabow Coaln speech, livered at the Democratic nventn San Francis July 1984, was the first to mentn gay and lbian Amerins at a natnal nventn.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
* gay rights presidential election *
[iii] After losg the nomatn to Walter Mondale (D-MN), Jackson ran for print aga 1988, and gave his first speech after announcg his send printial bid at the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights October 1987.
GAY RIGHTS ARE ON THE MIDTERM BALLOT AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS OPN, SAYS NEW GLAAD AD
Electns Campaigns Archive therefore speak to the tersectnal and reciprol aln-buildg that took place between those fightg agast palism, racism, sexism, imperialism, homophobia and for social jtice this .
”[viii] While factns of the gay rights movement have long bated how much weight to place on the fight for marriage equaly, as well as the fight to serve openly the ary, for the broar stggle for LGBTQ+ equaly and rights, both issu ntued to ame the polil bate to the twenty-first century. Obama gaed the support of LGBTQ+ voters part through his revokg of the Clton-era “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prohibed gay, lbian, and bisexual Amerins form servg unls they remaed closeted 2010, and, 2015, durg his send term office, the Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage the landmark se Obergefell v.
POLIL ISSU: GAY RIGHTS
While the legislative velopments show how far attus towards gay rights have evolved sce the early 1980s, a majory of stat still do not have explic laws protectg LGBTQ+ Amerins om discrimatn, siar to feral laws that exist on race, relign, sex, natnal orig, age or disabily on their books. [iii] Alex Bollger, “How Jse Jackson helped brg gay rights to the Democratic mastream, ” LGBTQ Natn, Febary 28, 2018, accsed 5 March 2020, [iv] Ey K. Hobson, Lavenr and Red: Liberatn and Solidary the Gay and Lbian Left (Berkeley: Universy of California Prs, 2016), 168.
[vii] Memo: Workers World, “Workers World Printial Candidat Support Lbian and Gay Freedom Day, Demand Immediate Government Actn on Lbian and Gay Rights, ” June 18, 1984, 30; Workers World, “Statement by Larry Holm and Gloria La Riva Front of Feral Electns Commissn, ” January 27, 1984, 1-2, MSS.
GAY RIGHTS AND PRINTIAL ELECTNS
Bin, 77, grew up an era when homosexualy, the word routely ed at the time, was often viewed as a s and even a n slip to dated generalizatns about gay and lbian life, as he did an terview wh Anrson Cooper at an L.
Talkg about what San Francis was like “15, 20 years ago, ” he said that the cy, wh s large muny of gay men and lbians, was “all about, well, you know, gay bathho, ” addg, “It’s all about round-the-clock sex.
PRINT OBAMA AND GAY RIGHTS: THE 2008 AND 2012 PRINTIAL ELECTNS
“There’s no polil barometer that would have told him to get ahead of the Whe Hoe on this, ” said Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is gay and ran agast Mr.
ABORTN, GUNS AND GAY RIGHTS ON THE DOCKET FOR SUPREME COURT'S NEW TERM
Bin, then a Delaware senator, lent his name to legislatn that me to be known as one of the biggt legislative setbacks for the gay rights movement s history.
His mg about gay men and lbians as secury risks 1973, and his support for a measure rtrictg how homosexualy was prented to schoolchildren, reflects the kd of attus that gay and lbian activists had to battle durg the early s of the movement. Tmp’s admistratn, by ntrast, urged the Supreme Court, unsuccsfully, not to extend the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s protectns agast workplace discrimatn to gay and transgenr people. Bin’s own history on gay rights — along wh llg Mike Pence, the nservative vice print, a “cent guy” — ma him vulnerable to cricism om the left as he sought the Democratic printial nomatn.