N.Y. Pass Gay Rights Bill After 15-Year Debate - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• N.Y. PASS GAY RIGHTS BILL AFTER 15-YEAR DEBATE
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• NEW YORK CY GAY RIGHTS BILL OF 1986
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• IT ISN'T A 'GAY RIGHTS' BILL
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

N.Y. PASS GAY RIGHTS BILL AFTER 15-YEAR DEBATE

Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived New York Cy Council end an often tense and emotnal 15-year battle last night and approved a homosexual rights bill by an unexpectedly wi marg of 21 to Council vote, which me after a long and dramatic but unually ro Council hearg, was greeted by cheers and tears om supporters, their arms raised jubilatn or wrapped around each other. ''It's not revolutnary, but 's somethg that's gog to brg a lot more peace to this cy, '' said Andrew Humm, a lear of the Coaln for Lbian and Gay Rights.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Stoddard and 75 other supporters or opponents of the bill had listened quietly through the more-than-four-hour meetg, a ssn marked ntrast to the bter, often vuperative Council heargs on homosexual rights bills the past. Foster set many people the gallery to cheerg when he said: ''In the spir of Christ I mt love my homosexual brothers and sisters, even though I don't unrstand them.

A victim of bias uld file a plat wh the Cy Commissn on Human bill provis exceptns for pani wh fewer than four employe, owner-occupied dwellgs of one or two fai and relig ci, 12 unti and the state of Wisns have already enacted homosexual rights legislatn. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS BILL IS PASSED BY CITY COUNCIL IN 21-TO-14 VOTE. Vlatns rry a maximum penalty of $500 and a year though New York has the natn’s largt homosexual populatn, was the 51st cy the natn to pass anti-sexual discrimatn legislatn, said Ron Najman, an official of the Natnal Gay Task Force.

NEW YORK CY GAY RIGHTS BILL OF 1986

Givg people protectn so that your personal sexual life, whether you’re heterosexual or homosexual, will no longer be a factor your gettg a job or rentg an apartment or gog to a rtrant or a theater or any public place of acmodatn. November 11Homosexual activy be illegal (imprisonment as punishment) terurse between two nsentg male adults is punishable by twenty-five (25) years imprisonment.

")Augt 8Equal age of nsent be age of nsent sce homosexual (male-and-male) activy was legalised wh the mencement of the Homosexual Law Reform Act on 8 Augt 1986.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Legalised wh the mencement of the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986, troduced as a bill by former member of Parliament Fran 27Homosexual activy be 1Same-sex adoptn be Feral law. Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny.

Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

"The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of... Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".

"It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says.

IT ISN'T A 'GAY RIGHTS' BILL

"It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy".

The New York Cy Gay Rights Bill was an anti-discrimatn bill passed on March 20, 1986, a New York Cy Council vote of 21–14[1][2] as Lol Law 2 of 1986.

Even though New York Cy at the time had the largt homosexual populatn the Uned Stat, beme the 51st cy the untry to pass and enact anti-discrimatn legislatn. Opponents of the bill claimed that was promotg homosexual “liftyl”, argued that provid ways for homosexuals to receive special treatment, or tablished affirmative actn quotas for hirg homosexual employe. In jtifyg their opposn to the bill's employment protectns, the Fire Officers' Associatn referred to gay people as "perverts" and "viat", and another statement, urged that “All members of the [firefighter] team have to be a man’s man.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

[10] In 1973, another stance of Cue's opposn reigned, when eight cy uncil members signed a petn troduced by the Gay Activists’ Alliance to retroduce the bill. One of the first actns they took to garner support for the bill was through a report entled “Employment Discrimatn Agast Homosexuals”, which they sent to the NYC Commissn on Human Rights Febary 1971. [13] The report, produced by the Fair Employment Commtee branch of the Gay Activists Alliance, tailed the stanc of personal discrimatn of employe var workplac; such as the Metropolan Taxi Bure, var New York Cy public schools and even large sle pani such as IBM.

The report ntaed documentatn of discrimatory practic ma by employers, as well as scriptns of the Gay Activist Alliance's own strategi terms of lobbyg efforts for the Gay Rights Bill; such as how to amass public support, prsg for public heargs, and prsurg officials and the mayor. This turn, was also their way of workg towards passg the Gay Rights Bill, sce mass misrmatn was what turned parts of the public away om supportg the bill.

As a rult, the Gay Activists Alliance nducted zaps at Sharison's rince between September 30 and October 3, 1971, orr to ph Sharison to release the bill. Their goal was to fend and ensure the rights of the gay and lbian populatn through “legislative, judicial, admistrative and budgetary procs of ernment” as stated Article I of their Constutn. The aln also partnered wh var anizatns, cludg relig anizatns such as the Catholic Coaln for Gay Civil Rights, to hold prs nferenc at Cy Hall, wh prits and nuns who supported the bill.