Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

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. 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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. 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.

After sayg ''I do, '' the upl, all of them male, were given certifit of their ceremoni, followed by the tradnal throwg of rice and nfetti, were held on the day a new natnal law went to effect makg Denmark the first untry to legalize homosexual unns.

GAY RIGHTS TIMELE

Advot said that Swen last year beme the first untry to provi some mimum rights to homosexual upl, cludg rights volvg herance, but that the Swedish law equat homosexual upl wh unmarried heterosexual the Uned Stat, San Francis will have a measure on the November ballot that would give legal regnn to the ''domtic partnership.

'' The measure would allow upl nontradnal relatnships to register their partnerships wh the cy, much the same way that upl apply for marriage York's hight urt expand the legal fn of a fay July, lg that a gay uple who had lived together for a uld be nsired a fay unr New York Cy rent-ntrol the ceremony here today, Eigil and Axel Axgil, who have lived together sce 1950 and taken syllabl om their first nam to form a mon surname, were among those legally uned. But other bishops were quoted as sayg that bee the law stated that homosexual upl were enterg to a partnership and not a marriage, the bate was irrelevant bee the church uld bls only Else Slange, chairman of the Danish Natnal Organizatn for Gays and Lbians, said the fact that Denmark beme the first untry to adopt such a law had ''somethg to do wh our relig tradns.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

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

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.