The Amerin Gay Rights Movement: A Timele

Contents:

• TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
• GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS
• THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center Natnal History Archive"Found 1990 by volunteer archivist Rich Wanl, the archive provis a look to the liv and experienc of LGBT people throughout the years. "ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari"ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari is the largt reposory of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer (LGBTQ) materials the world.

In the 1960s and '70s, the gay muny disvered s polil power, wh the passg of anti-discrimatn laws and the electn of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man sworn to elected vastated the muny the 1980s and '90s, but galvanized the muny to further Supreme Court regnized marriage equaly 2015 and feral workplace protectns for LGBT Amerins is a timele of LGBT rights Ameri, om the 1960s to Bs Insir's homepage for more stori. Bryant was the spokperson for the Florida Cs Commissn, and gay activists and celebry alli lled for a boytt of Florida orange a prs nference October 1977, Bryant was h the face wh a banana cream pie by an activist posg as a reporter. After the march, hundreds of participants met wh dozens of senators and reprentativ to exprs their support for gay rights event galvanized atten and showed the untry how large the LGBTQ muny was.

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE

While gay upl had been fightg for legal regnn of their relatnships for s, was Vermont's passage of the untry's first civil-unns law 2000 that started the long path to feral marriage 1997, three gay upl sued the state after beg nied marriage licens. Durg the 2008 printial mpaign, Barack Obama advoted a full repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the policy barrg gay and lbian service members the US March 3, 2010, the Senate voted 65 to 31 to repeal DADT, cludg eight Republins. " "Sex plays a necsary and undisguisable role the cisn, exactly what Tle VII forbids, " Gorsuch lg centered on three s volvg an employee who been fired after they me out: Gerald Bostock was a child-welfare advote Geia until he was fired after jog a gay softball Zarda, a skydivg stctor New York, was fired days after he me out as gay.

Zarda died Monday cisn serv as a blow to the Tmp admistratn, which has argued sce 2017 that the existg statute did not protect dividuals om employment discrimatn based on their intifyg as homosexual or landmark cisn also marks the biggt w for the LGBT muny sce the urt led 2015  a 5-4 cisn that the Fourteenth Amendment required all stat to grant and regnize same-sex. Here is a look at some of the key moments LGBTQIA+ history and the fight for equal New York Daily NewsThough police raids on gay bars were mon the '60s, on June 28, 1969, patrons of New York's Stonewall Inn said "enough. Wh six months, two gay activist anizatns were formed New York, and three newspapers were lnched for gays and, FILEHarvey Milk beme one of the first openly gay men elected to public office the Uned Stat when he won a seat on the board of supervisors 1977.

GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY

He was assassated at Cy Hall jt a year Reste/Getty ImagHundreds of gay rights activists took to the Natnal Mall 1979 for the first Pri rally to ph to for equal rights the gay muny and the eedom to live Alpert/Getty Imag, FILEReverend John Kuiper, right, the first gay man Ameri to w the right to adopt a child, is shown wh his partner Roger Hooverman, durg a Gay Rights March, 1979, New Agosti/Liaison/Getty Imag, FILEStartg 1981, gay advocy groups began to form to talk about how the ernment was handlg the AIDS crisis, a new disease that manifted as pnmonia and was found mostly gay men. Colls would later sign wh the Brooklyn Nets and bee the first openly gay active player the Pl/Getty Imag, FILEIn the '90s, Congrs passed the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, fg marriage, for feral purpos, as a unn between one man and one woman, allowg stat to refe or not regnize same sex marriag. He and boyiend Vo Cammisano stirred media ntroversy after a kiss they shared durg the 2014 NFL Draft when Sam was drafted to the Rams was emed appropriate by anti-gay Antonov/AFP/Getty Imag, FILEPeople celebrate outsi the U.

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Supreme Court, June 26, 2015, after the high urt led that same-sex upl have the right to marry all 50 statAP, FILEOn June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and 58 were wound when a gunman entered Pulse nightclub, a popular gay club Orlando, and opened fire the fal mut of "Lat Night.

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.

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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.

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.

THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

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).