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.
Contents:
- HUMAN RIGHTS HERO: GAY J. MCDOUGALL
- GAY MCDOUGALL
- THE ELECTN OF GAY MCDOUGALL TO THE UN COMMTEE ON THE ELIMATN OF RACIAL DISCRIMATN
- GAY J. MCDOUGALL
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS
- PROF. GAY MCDOUGALL’S CAREER-LONG FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
- THE ROLE OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
HUMAN RIGHTS HERO: GAY J. MCDOUGALL
Inic photographs of Nelson Manla and Gay McDougall together are sourc of spiratn the stggle agast opprsn and discrimatn. * gay mcdougall civil rights movement *
On April 27, 1994, Gay McDougall stood next to Nelson Manla as he st his first vote ever a mocratic electn South Ai after spendg 27 years prison for anti-apartheid activi. I would like to ngratulate law profsor Gay McDougall on her electn as an pennt expert to serve on the UN Commtee on the Elimatn of Racial Discrimatn (CERD). Gay McDougall is an attorney who has been stmental craftg human rights legislatn for emergg mocraci.
Distguished Scholar--Rince, Lener Center for Internatnal Law and Jtice, Fordham Universy School of LawGay McDougall’s work has nsistently challenged equaly. Gay McDougall, New York, was a recipient of the MacArthur “Geni” Award for her work pursu of global human rights and 2015 the Government of South Ai btowed on her their natnal medal of honor for non-cizens, the Orr of O.
GAY MCDOUGALL
Lawyer Gay McDougall was born on Augt 13, 1947 Atlanta, Geia to Inez Johnson and Louis Johnson. After graduatg om Booker T. Washgton High School 1965, McDougall beme the first Ain Amerin stunt to attend Agn Stt College. She transferred to Benngton College 1967, and received her B.A. gree social science om there 1969. McDougall went on to receive her J.D. gree om Yale Universy 1972 and her L.L.M gree ternatnal law om the London School of Enomics 1978. * gay mcdougall civil rights movement *
Gay rights movement, also lled gay liberatn movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons (i. 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.
THE ELECTN OF GAY MCDOUGALL TO THE UN COMMTEE ON THE ELIMATN OF RACIAL DISCRIMATN
Gay McDougall’s work has nsistently challenged equaly. She has worked on the flt-l of race, genr and enomic exploatn the Amerin ntext and untri around the world. * gay mcdougall civil rights movement *
(Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny.
) 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. The begng of the gay rights movement Before the end of the 19th century there were srcely any “movements” for gay rights.
Ined, his poem “Two Lov” (1894), Lord Aled (“Bosie”) Douglas, Osr Wil’s lover, clared “I [homosexualy] am the love that dare not speak s name.
GAY J. MCDOUGALL
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 mcdougall civil rights movement *
” Homosexual and bisexual men and women were given voice 1897 wh the foundg of the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (Wissenschaftlich-humanär Komee; WhK) Berl.
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. Ined, acrdg to some historians, the number of gay bars and perdils Berl the 1920s exceed that New York Cy six s later.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Council Conclus General Debate on the Promotn and Protectn of All Human Rights, Civil, Polil, Enomic, Social and Cultural Rights, Includg the Right to Development The Inpennt Expert on mory issu, Gay McDougall, this morng prented her reports to the Human Rights Council, which was followed by an teractive dialogue wh her. The Council also nclud s general bate on the promotn and protectn of all human rights, civil, polil, enomic, social and cultural rights, cludg the right to velopment. * gay mcdougall civil rights movement *
Dpe the formatn of such groups, polil activy by homosexuals and bisexuals was generally not very visible. 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.
However, there was also greater polil activy among gays, aimed large measure at crimalizg sodomy. The gay rights movement sce the mid-20th century Begng the mid-20th century, an creasg number of gay anizatns were formed.
GAY RIGHTS
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. 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.
The gay rights movement was begng to w victori for legal reform, particularly wtern Europe, but perhaps the sgle fg event of gay activism occurred the Uned Stat. In the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, was raid by the police.
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. Groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power) the Uned Stat and Stonewall and Outrage!
PROF. GAY MCDOUGALL’S CAREER-LONG FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
In addn, the transnatnal Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn was found Coventry, England, 1978. 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.
In the Uned Stat, gay activists won support om the Democratic Party 1980, when the party add to s platform nondiscrimatn clse a plank cludg sexual orientatn.
THE ROLE OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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. The first openly gay ernment officials the Uned Stat were Jerry DeGrieck and Nancy Wechsler Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1974 Wechsler was replaced on the uncil by Kathy Kozachenko, who, havg n openly as a lbian, th beme the first openly gay person to w office after g out.