A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?
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GAY RIGHTS
The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn. * supporting gay rights *
The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence. In 2019, a majory (56%) of Amerins said they oppose allowg a small bs owner their state to refe products or servic to gay or lbian people if providg them would vlate their relig beliefs, cludg 25% who strongly oppose this policy. About four ten (39%) Republins oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs, pared to a majory (55%) who support such a policy.
Black Amerins (63%) are likelit to oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs, followed by Hispanic (58%), Asian Amerin and Pacific Islanr (58%), multiracial (56%), and whe (54%) Amerins. Ls than half of other nonwhe Prottants (45%), whe evangelil Prottants (44%), Mormons (43%), and Jehovah’s Wns (42%) oppose allowg small bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian ctomers if dog so vlat their relig beliefs.
A slim majory of liberal Republins (51%), and a pluraly of morate (48%) Republins, oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs. Nonwhe Republins and pennts are more likely than their whe -partisans to oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people bee of their relig beliefs. At least six ten rints of Hawaii (64%), Connecticut (63%), Mae (63%), Oregon (62%), New Hampshire (61%), New York (61%), California (60%), and Massachetts (60%) oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian ctomers.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * supporting gay rights *
Notably, relig affiliatn serv as the largt pennt predictor of strongly opposg a policy that allows small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people bee of their relig beliefs. Majori of nearly every major Amerin mographic group have nsistently favored or strongly favored nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people sce 2015.
The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. 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.
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. * supporting gay rights *
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.
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”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.