As the bate over gay marriage rag on, the parallels between the stggle for civil rights and the fight for gay marriage bee more obv. Commentator Mark Anthony Neal is an associate profsor of Ain and Ain Amerin Studi at De Universy.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- #FLASHBACKFRIDAY – THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. [VTAGE VIO CLIPS]
- THE ROLE OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- NEW COALN PLEDG TO FIGHT GAY MARRIAGE
- THE GAY ‘SIP-IN’ THAT DREW OM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO FIGHT DISCRIMATN
- PARALLELS BETWEEN CIVIL RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE
- CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: GAY TEXAS COUPLE APPLY FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE, GET ARRTED INSTEAD
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement is the stggle for equaly and marriage rights for gay, lbian and transgenr people. Learn about the Stonewall Rts, Harvey Milk, the Pri flag and more. * gay rights movement civil disobedience *
Rather than subm to the ual and unremarkable arrts and shakedowns of the New York Cy police that were monplace at gay tablishments at the time, the patrons of the Stonewall Inn said together: “Enough!
Though earlit s were intified 1981, by the late 80s, the ernment rponse-om the Center for Disease Control, the Natnal Instute of Health and the Feral Dg Admistratn-was still lackadaisil, impotent and wholly sufficient to addrs the tens of thoands of annual aths that were ravagg the gay muny. Johnson, a proment activist New York Cy’s gay muny, is creded by some as one of the first people to throw a projectile durg the Stonewall Rts, although Johnson personally nied the claim. Durg the AIDS crisis, ncerns grew that existg Gay Rights groups were not dog enough to prsure the ernment and dg pani to velop affordable, effective treatments for people wh HIV/AIDS.
When terviewed about Fci’s role durg the COVID-19 epimic, ACT UP member Jim Eigo remembered that “Fci, spe beg straight and Catholic, was not only not homophobic, which much of medil practice still was the late 1980s, he also wouldn’t tolerate homophobia among his lleagu. The Supreme Court’s June 15, 2020 cisn to protect gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn marks another important landmark LGBTQ+ rights, but there is still work to be done.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
June is Pri Month, a celebratn of LGBTQ+ inty that dat back to the 1969 Stonewall rts. Read more about the history of the gay rights movement. * gay rights movement civil disobedience *
E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power.
#FLASHBACKFRIDAY – THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. [VTAGE VIO CLIPS]
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay rights movement civil disobedience *
In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.
THE ROLE OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Ryan Jam Yezak has released another spectacularly eded montage of vtage news clips that weav the narrative of the feral ban on blood donatn by gay… * gay rights movement civil disobedience *
In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.
NEW COALN PLEDG TO FIGHT GAY MARRIAGE
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. * gay rights movement civil disobedience *
In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly. Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.
THE GAY ‘SIP-IN’ THAT DREW OM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO FIGHT DISCRIMATN
Kenh D. Wald, Jam W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, The Polics of Gay Rights Amerin Communi: Explag Antidiscrimatn Ordanc and Polici, Amerin Journal of Polil Science, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Nov., 1996), pp. 1152-1178 * gay rights movement civil disobedience *
This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat. At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment. In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006).
PARALLELS BETWEEN CIVIL RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE
In 1966, three men walked to a bar, stated they were gay and orred drks. When they were nied service, a movement began. * gay rights movement civil disobedience *
Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary.
Hodg), and 2020 the Court termed that firg an employee for beg homosexual or transgenr was a vlatn of Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964), which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex (Bostock v.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: GAY TEXAS COUPLE APPLY FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE, GET ARRTED INSTEAD
Nearly 50 years ago, LGBTQ+ activists achieved what was lled the “greatt gay victory” of the time: succsfully phg members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) to remove the diagnosis of homosexualy om the official classifitn of mental illns, the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM).