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.
Contents:
- THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
- ACLU OF FLORIDA DENOUNC ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (HB1557), SIGNED TO LAW BY GOVERNOR DESANTIS
- GAY HISTORY NEVADA AND LAS VEGAS, 1969-2009, BY DENNIS MCBRI, CRYSTAL VAN DEE, AND PL ERSHLER
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. ”ACLU Today The ACLU has been active on a number of recent issu, cludg affirmative actn, gay rights, and protectns to immigrants and ter ers. 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.
ACLU OF FLORIDA DENOUNC ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (HB1557), SIGNED TO LAW BY GOVERNOR DESANTIS
The ACLU has worked for equaly and jtice for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) people for over 75 years. We fight discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr stggle of LGBTQ+ people for full equaly is one of this generatn’s most important and galvanizg civil rights movements. Dpe the many advanc that have been * aclu gay *
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 In 1992 Colorado enacted Amendment 2, which repealed existg state laws and barred future laws protectg lbians, gay men and bisexuals om discrimatn.
We mt nclu that Amendment 2 classifi homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else.
GAY HISTORY NEVADA AND LAS VEGAS, 1969-2009, BY DENNIS MCBRI, CRYSTAL VAN DEE, AND PL ERSHLER
The ACLU of Geia works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence. * aclu gay *
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. Usg many of the grass-roots and ligatn strategi employed by other 20th century activists, gay rights advot have achieved signifint progrs:.
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 gay *
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.
The ACLU of Arizona is dited to protectg the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people our state. Our work clus fightg for fair treatment by the ernment; protectg LGBT people om discrimatn jobs, schools, hog, and public acmodatns; and workg for equal rights for same-sex upl and their you * aclu gay *
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.
It also clus the rights to form social and polil anizatns, to socialize bars and rtrants, to march or prott peacefully, to produce art wh gay them and to speak out publicly about LGBT issu.