The Supreme Court Rulgs That Have Shaped Gay Rights Ameri | HISTORY

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign. In 1953, a publisher associated wh the Los Angel chapter of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first “homophile” groups, released somethg unique for s time: ONE: The Homosexual Magaze. The magaze, which is nsired by One Archiv Foundatn to be Ameri’s first wily-distributed magaze for gay rears, clud articl, edorials, short stori and other ntent.

Many people who feared the then-myster disease were “hyper-foced” on the ia that gay men were promiscuo and saw HIV-posive people as “sort of gettg what they served, ” says Maril.

The se revolved around an amendment to a Colorado law, which banned ci om passg anti-discrimatn laws that would protect gay and bisexual people. “Even if, as the state ntends, homosexuals n fd protectn laws and polici of general applitn, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the majory opn, “[the Colorado law] go well beyond merely privg them of special rights. In 1990, the Boy Suts of Ameri cid to expel Jam Dale, an assistant sutmaster and Eagle Sut, after he was intified a newspaper as a lear of Rutgers Universy’s Lbian/Gay Alliance.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

“The Boy Suts asserts that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the valu embodied the Sut Oath and Law, particularly those reprented by the terms ‘morally straight’ and ‘clean, ’ and that the anizatn do not want to promote homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr.

“It wasn’t until 2013 that the group cid to end s ban on gay children as members, but still ntued s ban on gay adult lears, ” Dale wrote a 2015 opn piece TIME. “This iative was wrong many ways: It was great that they weren’t excludg young members, but was wrong to tell someone that you n be gay when you’re a child, but you’re immoral as an adult.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

Unr the re of McGill and his partner, they "were thrivg, " and the urts saw , too, issug a 53-page verdict that said no uncerta terms "that gay people and heterosexuals make equally good parents. They billed as the "magaze for homosexuals, " and acrdg to the Los Angel Tim, the pag were filled wh edorials, articl, and stori — there were no suggtive photos, no X-rated ads...

But when went to the Supreme Court, wasn't a matter of privacy — was a matter of whether or not "the Feral Constutn nfers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage sodomy.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

It read (via The Washgton Post): "The grounds for this membership revotn are the standards for learship tablished by the Boy Suts of Ameri, which specifilly forbid membership to homosexuals. Two years later, they voted to remove a ban on gay lears, and 2017, they opened their doors to transgenr boys (via The Washgton Post), spe of the fact that some longtime sponsors — like the Mormon Church — were endg their associatn wh the Boy Suts. AdvertisementSKIP Wilson/The New York TimJune 19, 2019Begng before Stonewall and ntug the 50 years sce, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people have regularly turned to the urts for protectn agast mistreatment or to overturn laws that targeted them.

Olen – Uned Stat Supreme CourtIn a one-sentence opn, the Supreme Court provid nstutnal protectn for a gay magaze started by the Mattache Society, reversg a lower urt’s cisn that had found the publitn to be tr of marriage R. Hardwick – Uned Stat Supreme CourtAs the AIDS crisis h and anti-gay hysteria took over public pictns of gay men’s liv, the Supreme Court led that Geia’s crimal sodomy law was nstutnal — clarg that such laws “have ancient roots” and settg forth a pivotal rejectn of gay rights that took nearly 20 years to overturn. Kennedy’s seri of opns advancg gay rights was a cisn strikg down a Colorado amendment that banned ci om passg antidiscrimatn laws that protected gay and bisexual people.