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.
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
The followg timele lists the signifint events of the gay rights movement om 1924 to the prent. * gay rights 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.
GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
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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.
TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
June celebrat LGBT Pri Month, a look at some key moments gay rights. * gay rights 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. 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.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did. * gay rights timeline *
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.
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.
WHEN DID THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEG?
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.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
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. 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.