Updated, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Mnota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill Tuday that legaliz gay marriage, makg the state the 12th to do so.
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) LAW
- MNOTA GAY RIGHTS GROUP REACTS TO JUDGE'S RULG
- MARRIAGE EQUALY MNOTA: A GAY-RIGHTS VICTORY THE MIDWT
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) LAW
The U.S. Constutn guarante equal protectn unr the law. As such, every person serv the same legal rights and protectns, no matter their sexual orientatn. The ACLU of Mnota works to promote equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr* dividuals both the text of the law and basic rights guaranteed to you by the U.S. * minnesota gay rights *
The ACLU of Mnota works to promote equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr* dividuals both the text of the law and practice. HistoryHomosexual activy Mnota?
MNOTA GAY RIGHTS GROUP REACTS TO JUDGE'S RULG
LGBT Rights Mnota, Uned Stat: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * minnesota gay rights *
Homosexual activy Mnota is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Mnota? The inti the LGBTQIA acronym — lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual — are relatively recent ventns.
Though they overlap some ways wh European Amerin terms like gay and transgenr, they are not equivalents of those words, and they exist on their own terms. The morn ncepts of genr inty and sexual orientatn did not yet exist, so the genr of your romantic partners did not mark you as a “type” of person (straight or gay or bisexual). It happened as sexology filtered down to laypeople, who began g the words “homosexual, ” “heterosexual, ” and “lbian.
Gay liberatn and HIV/AIDS, 1969–1994.
MARRIAGE EQUALY MNOTA: A GAY-RIGHTS VICTORY THE MIDWT
The inti the LGBTQIA acronym—lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual—are relatively recent ventns. This might at first suggt that people reprentg each of those tegori did not exist before the velopment of the terms themselv. But there have always been people Mnota, as the rt of the world, who have lived outsi perceived norms of genr and sexualy; the words ed to name them have jt changed over time. * minnesota gay rights *
Historians of sexualy cred multiple events — among them the rt at Compton’s Cafeteria San Francis (1966), protts at the Black Cat Tavern Los Angel (1967), and uprisgs at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn (1969) — wh herg an era of gay liberatn the Uned Stat. Many of them embraced the word “gay” and rejected the more clil-soundg “homosexual” as a relic of the past. It was the first gay rights anizatn the state.
” Stunts of Carleton College Northfield brought attentn to the movement the same year by foundg the Northfield Gay Liberatn Front. Even the phrase “gay pri” ught on part bee of a Mnotan: Thom Higgs, the wrer and FREE activist who later protted anti-gay mpaigner Ana Bryant by throwg a pie her face. Two events put Mnota at the center of a natnal nversatn about gay rights the early 1970s.
FREE’s print, Jack Baker, parted om other gay liberatnists (cludg many FREE) by prrizg marriage as a polil issue. State senator Allan Spear attracted addnal natnal attentn 1974 when he intified himself as gay an terview wh the Mneapolis Star. The announcement ma him the first openly gay person to serve a state legislature the US.
A Hennep County judge has dismissed a lawsu that sought to make gay marriage legal Mnota. * minnesota gay rights *
Alongsi Baker’s activism and Spear’s g out, Mnota anizatns tablished the 1970s brought gay and lbian issu to state polics.
The Mnota Commtee for Gay Rights (MCGR), found by Steven Enan and Jean-Nickols Tretter Mneapolis, lobbied lol bs for support and prsured policians to reveal their stanc on gay issu.