June celebrat LGBT Pri Month, a look at some key moments gay rights.
Contents:
- THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
- GAY RIGHTS
- GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
- TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
The followg timele lists the signifint events of the gay rights movement om 1924 to the prent. * american gay rights movement timeline *
This timele provis rmatn about the gay rights movement the Uned Stat om 1924 to the prent: cludg the Stonewall rts; the ntributns of Harvey Milk; the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy; the first civil unns; the legalizatn of same-sex marriage Massachetts, Connecticut, New York; and more.
John Briggs drops out of the California ernor's race, but receiv support for Proposn 6, also known as the Briggs Iniative, a proposal to fire any teacher or school employee who publicly supports gay rights.
At the 1980 Democratic Natnal Conventn held at New York Cy's Madison Square Garn, Democrats took a stance supportg gay rights, addg the followg to their plank: "All groups mt be protected om discrimatn based on race, lor, relign, natnal orig, language, age, sex or sexual orientatn.
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. * american gay rights movement timeline *
Print Clton's origal tentn to revoke the prohibn agast gay men the ary was met wh stiff opposn; this promise, which has led to the discharge of thoands of men and women the armed forc, was the rult.
GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
Here are some notable events the history of the Amerin gay rights movement. * american gay rights movement timeline *
The Massachetts Chief Jtice nclud that to “ny the protectns, benefs, and obligatns nferred by civil marriage” to gay upl was unnstutnal bee nied “the digny and equaly of all dividuals” and ma them “send-class cizens.
TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
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. * american gay rights movement timeline *
The urt l that the state nnot ny gay and lbian upl the eedom to marry unr Connecticut's nstutn, and that the state's civil unn law do not provi same-sex upl wh the same rights as heterosexual upl. It is the first state to legalize gay marriage through the legislature; the urts of the other stat which the marriage is legal—Massachetts, Connecticut, and Iowa—gave approval.
In the lg, the urt says, the law "operat wh no apparent purpose but to impose on gays and lbians, through the public law, a majory's private disapproval of them and their relatnships.
1907 – Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician and sexologist, ttified at a trial Germany about a gay relatnship and stated, “homosexualy was part of the plan of nature and creatn jt like normal love.
THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
* american gay rights movement timeline *
” Some of the lbian, gay or bisexual people of this movement clud wrers and poets such as Langston Hugh, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston; Profsor Ala Locke; mic cric and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and entertaers Ma Raey, Bsie Smh, Ethel Waters and Gladys Bentley.
Gay and lbian people joed as well – men the ary livg same-sex dorms, and women as part of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) and factori on the home ont found themselv same-sex surroundgs as well.