Gay rights timele: Key dat the fight for equaly

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
• RIGHTS FOR GAY COUPL DENMARK
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS TIMELE
• GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST 50 YEARS

GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY

It’s worth notg that as a largely homogenised untry wh a strong welfare system (and therefore mimal wealth equaly), the approach to the issu is often ls tersectnal than necsarily is more populo, diverse untri; somethg that is now shiftg. Among the founrs were gay activists Eigil and Axel Axgil (then Eigil Eskildsen and Axel Lundahl-Madsen), who would later bee the first gay uple to enter to a registered partnership anywhere the world. This year, I thought I would highlight some laws related to LGBTQ rights Denmark, given that June is also “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month” here the Uned Stat.

Three years after World War II, when Axel Lundahl-Madsen (he would later change his surname to Axgil, a batn of his and Eigil's given nam) helped found the first Danish gay-rights anizatn, even the word homosexual was still taboo, which is why the group lled self the Associatn of '48.

RIGHTS FOR GAY COUPL DENMARK

McDarrah / Getty ImagFrom s begng wh rts agast police opprsn of gays New York Cy more than 40 years ago, the fight for gay rights ntu today on new onts: over marriage, therapi to “cure” homosexuals and one of the untry's most popular stutns, the Boy Suts of week, the U. But while we've reached the tippg pot on marriage, there's still a ways to go for full LGBT equaly, like endg bullyg schools and workplace discrimatn, ” Kev Nix, a spokman for the LGBT advocy group, Human Rights Campaign, said a statement earlier this is a look at some of the key moments Amerin LGBT history:June 28, 1969: Start of the gay rights movementThe Stonewall Rts beg after police raid a popular unlicensed gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, New York Cy's Greenwich Village. 1970 gay pri para Boston, 27-28, 1970: First gay pri parasOn the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, the natn's first gay pri paras are held four ci – New York, Chigo, San Francis and Los Angel.

1973: Homosexualy no longer classified as a mental disorrThe Amerin Psychologil Associatn’s Board of Tste vot to remove homosexualy om s diagnostic manual of mental disorrs, fluenced by psychologist Dr. DeGener won an award for outstandg wrg for a edy seri forSan Sterner / AP fileApril 30, 1997: 'Yep, I'm gay' -- DeGener out Ellen DeGener out on her televisn show, "Ellen, " an episo that drew 42 ln viewers. 2003: Anti-sodomy law stck downThe Supreme Court strik down a Texas anti-sodomy law, reversg an earlier cisn ma another se 17 years earlier that Jtice Anthony Kennedy said “means the liv of homosexual persons.

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His announcement me one day after voters North Carola passed a nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriage as well as civil unns for gay and lbian 4, 2012: In a first, gay marriage ws at the ballot boxVoters Mae approve same-sex marriage the first vote brought by supporters, while voters Maryland and Washgton uphold state legislatn allowg gays and lbians to wed. Jennifer Tyrrell of Bridgeport, Oh, a Cub Sut n lear who was kicked out 2012 for beg openly gay, embrac her son Cz Burns, 8, before a news nference at the Great Wolf Lodge May 23, 2013 Grapeve, Texas. The Boy Suts' ban on gay adult lears remas 20, 2013: 'Ex-gay' group shuts downExod Internatnal, a group that claimed uld cure same-sex attractn via prayer and therapy, announc will close s doors after more than three s.

GAY RIGHTS TIMELE

The anizatn's lear, who admted to his own "ongog same-sex attractns, " apologized to gays, sayg, “I am sorry that some of you spent years workg through the shame and guilt you felt when your attractns didn’t change. Common to the laws agast homosexualy was that they were aimed almost exclively at gay men, as the mon thought was that women lacked sex drive, which ma relatively unproblematic for two women to live together a discreet relatnship.

GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST 50 YEARS

Although Houmark portrayed homosexualy several of his novels, cludg "For Guds Aasyn" om 1910, was not until 1950 that he posthumoly acknowledged his sexualy publicly the book "When I Am Dead". The Gay Liberatn Front ( Danish: Bøssern Beielsont) is formed wh the purpose of munitg and rmg about homosexualy and gay polics to the general populatn by settg up street mpaigns and gay ravans around the untry. Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived what gay rights advot hailed as the first unns of their kd the world, six homosexual upl were legally joed today ''registered partnerships'' that gave them most rights of married heterosexuals, but not the right to adopt or obta jot ctody of a of the upl entered a small room the ornate Cy Hall, and civil r that differed om those of heterosexuals only the scriptn of the unn were asked by Mayor Tom Ahlberg if they wanted to be '' partnership'' wh each other.