The Amerin Gay Rights Movement: A Timele

Contents:

• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
• GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
• TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• WHEN DID THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEG?
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE

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. The Stonewall rts transform the gay rights movement om one limed to a small number of activists to a wispread prott for equal rights and acceptance. 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.

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

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. 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. "Proposn 8 perpetuat the stereotype that gays and lbians are pable of formg long-term lovg relatnships and that gays and lbians are not good parents.

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.

TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

While the queen's approval is simply a formaly, her quick rponse clears the way for the first gay marriag to happen as soon as 2014 England and Wal.

It is important to note that there existed lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals, muni, and relatnships long before the terms beme monplace. Gay – 1955 – the term gay was ed throughout Europe earlier, but this is the year most agree that gay me to mean same-sex relatnships between men. 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.

” 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.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

1945 – German Homosexual men, signated by a pk triangle on their clothg, were the last group to be released om the Nazi ncentratn mps after liberatn by the Allied forc bee Paragraph 175 of the German Crimal Co stated that homosexual relatns between mal to be illegal. 1948 – Aled Ksey, an Amerin blogist and sexologist at Indiana Universy issu the first report, Sexual Behavr of the Human Male, was published and discsed male homosexualy (Also known as the Ksey report).

Congrs issu the report entled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government” is distributed to members of Congrs after the feral ernment had vertly vtigated employe’ sexual orientatn. ” They also had the power to keep lists of people who received such publitns; and had lists of homosexual men who received the publitn, “One Magaze. 1963 – Bayard Rt, an associate of Mart Luther Kg, and a gay Ain Amerin man helped anize the March on Washgton that culmated wh Kg’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.

In rponse to an unprovoked police raid on an early Saturday morng, over 400 people, cludg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight people protted their treatment and phed the police away om the area.

WHEN DID THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEG?

1970 – The first gay pri march were held multiple ci across the Uned Stat on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, cludg San Francis and Los Angel / Wt Hollywood. ” wrten by Jonathan Ned Katz, is performed for the first time New York and provis a historil perspective of gay life om the lonial perd to the prent.

1973 – The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, after nsirable advocy by Frank Kameny and members of the Mattache Society, changed the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr. The APA found that “the latt and bt scientific evince shows that sexual orientatn and exprsns of genr inty occur naturally…and that short, there is no scientific evince that sexual orientatn, be heterosexual, homosexual or otherwise, is a eewill choice. 1974 – Elae Noble be the first openly gay person to be elected as a state legislator; she served the Massachetts State Hoe of Reprentativ for two terms.

1977 – Ana Bryant, former Amerin sger and Miss Ameri Pageant wner formed a group lled “Save Our Children” to prott agast a Da County, Florida ordance preventg discrimatn agast homosexuals.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

Gay and lbian activists and anizatns, cludg Harvey Milk, nmned the actn and rponse, boytted Florida Cs Commissn products, for which Bryant was a spokperson.

1994 – Greg Louganis, four-time Olympic gold medalist and nsired one of the greatt divers history, publicly me out as gay as part of the Gay Gam New York Cy. 1997 – Ellen DeGener, a edian, TV actor and televisn host was one of the first popular entertaers who publicly me out as a lbian durg an terview on the Oprah Wey show and then beme the first openly gay character on the TV show, “Ellen.