The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.
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FAMO GAY PEOPLE
This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * gay figures from history *
Wh same-sex marriage now legal all parts of the UK, n sometime be easy to fet how different attus to homosexualy were the past, and how much change has taken place over the past 50 years.
For hundreds of years gay people have stggled to be accepted and treated the same as people who are not fact wasn't until 1967, that two men were able to be a relatnship together whout the fear of beg stands for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr.
30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Fascatg stori about the most famo gay people the world. From Michelangelo to Ellen DeGener, Out celebrat the liv of notable LGBT figur. * gay figures from history *
Sometim appears wh Q, meang queer and +, which is an clive symbol to mean 'and others' to clu people of all history month tak place Febary each year, to help te people on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, as well as the history of the gay and civil rights out more about some of those who have ma an impact both om the past and prent.
Alan TurgAlan Turg was not a well known figure durg his lifetime, but today he is famo and celebrated for the ccial part he played the victory over Nazi Germany was a mathematician who cracked somethg lled the Enigma , which is thought to have shortened the war by several was also a victim of mid-20th Century attus to homosexualy and 1952 was arrted bee beg homosexual was illegal Bra at this 2013 he was pardoned for this 'crime', and 2017 the ernment agreed to officially pardon men acced of 'crim' like this, meang they will no longer have a crimal pardong has e to be known as the Alan Turg 2019 Turg was named the most "inic" figure of the 20th Century and his face now appears on the £50 note. Osr WilImage source, Napoleon Sarony/Universal History ArchiveOsr Wil is one of the famo playwrights of all time, fact, you might even have studied 'The Importance of Beg Earnt' - one of his most famo plays - at was married to a woman and had two sons, but was later acced of beg homosexual.
Johnson was an Ain Amerin transgenr-rights activist, whose work the 1960s and 1970s had a huge impact on the LGBT this time, beg gay was classified as a mental illns the Uned Stat. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years old, police raid a gay bar New York lled The Stonewall Inn. Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anisatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s 's role the removal of the stigma of crimaly om homosexualy remaed his crowng achievement.
GAY RIGHTS
He began his reer as a journalist before workg for MI6, and beg prcipal of Aberystwyth was asked to jo the ernment's mtee lookg to homosexual offenc which led to the Wolfenn Report, which remend that havg a homosexual relatnship should no longer be a crimal laid the foundatns for a later law which partially crimalised male homosexualy for the first time England and Wal.
Gilbert Baker was an Amerin artist, gay rights activist who signed the flag to have eight strip stead of the six normally seen first ma an appearance back 1978 and has bee associated wh LGBT rights all over the world. Chris SmhImage source, Getty ImagIn 1984 Chris Smh beme the UK's first male openly gay MP and later, the first gay bet announcg that he was gay, he received a five-mute standg ovatn. Jt FashanuImage source, Getty ImagJt Fashanu was Bra's first openly gay footballer, and although 30 years have passed he remas the only male footballer to reveal his sexualy while playg profsnally the top reer was gog well, havg risen through Norwich Cy's youth ranks and 1981 he beme the untry's most expensive black player wh his £1m move to Nottgham stunned the football world 1990 by when he told a newspaper he was gay.