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Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton.

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THE OBAMA LEGACY: THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE

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It was not, for lack of better words, unmon world history to engage homosexual acts.

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In the aspects of Gre-Roman culture, historians have found evince of equent displays of homosexualy.

OBAMA PRAIS SUPREME COURT'S DECISN TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE NATNWI

Police first noticeably began ensurg the practice of homophobia the U. Engagg homosexual acts was nsired a crime by 1791 all 13 stat after ratifyg the Bill of sodomy laws, the name given to laws and rtrictns toward certa sexual acts, remaed a nstant form of discrimatn for the LGBT muny, stigma surroundg homosexualy emerged to be jt as toxic and unhealthy for those dividuals. Durg the middle of the 20th century wh the emergence of the chronic fectns HIV and AIDS, those whom enticed homosexual acts were often nsired rriers of the vis.

Livg a perd where was the “easit” to blame such an fectn on a mory prejudiced group ems jt how sperate Amerins would go to unrme the realy that, fact, love nnot be cred is not hand to Print Obama for legalizg gay marriage, but nohels, he is attributed to fishg some of the legal stctur agast the LGBT muny. Even prr to his guratn to office 2009, legislative executn was driven to promote the ials of homosexuals, and soon bisexuals, transgenrs, and so forth. The ial report of battlg the uncivil laws agast gay marriage began on May 18, 1970 when two male graduate stunts applied for a marriage license at the Hennep County District Court.

The followg year, the Affordable Care Act granted that all cizens, cludg those who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, have accs to universal health re.

OBAMA: GAY MARRIAGE LG IS 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'

It’s a victory for gay and lbian upl who have so long for their basic civil rights. What do mean is that we have a set of tradns place that, I thk, need to be prerved, but I also thk we need to make sure that gays and lbians have the same set of basic rights that are place. And I thk that is an issue that I wrtle wh and thk about bee I have a whole host of iends who are gay partnerships.

"I thk what you're seeg is a profound regnn on the part of the Amerin people that gays and lbians and transgenr persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our s, our iends, our -workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other Amerin, " he said.

THE 'EVOLUTN' OF OBAMA'S STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE

OCTOBER 2011: "I'm still workg on , " Obama said when asked by ABC's Gee Stephanopoulos whether he would move om supportg civil unns for same-sex upl to supportg gay marriage.

But I thk that there's no doubt that as I see iends, fai children of gay upl who are thrivg, you know, that has an impact on how I thk about the issu. Sce takg office, Print Obama and his Admistratn have ma historic stris to expand opportuni and advance equaly and jtice for all Amerins, cludg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Amerins.

'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA LDS GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVISTS HAILG 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'

Insurance pani are no longer able to discrimate agast anyone due to a pre-existg ndn, and bee of the law, surers n no longer turn someone away jt bee he or she is lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Print Obama veloped and released the first prehensive Natnal HIV/AIDS Strategy for the Uned Stat 2010, updated through 2020, and is implementg to addrs the dispari faced pecially by gay and bisexual men of all rac and ethnici and transgenr women of lor.

The Print signed bipartisan legislatn to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on December 22, 2010, allowg gay, lbian, and bisexual Amerins to serve openly the Armed Forc whout fear of beg dismissed om service bee of who they are and who they love, puttg motn the end of a discrimatory policy that ran unter to Amerin valu. Over the next two years, the iative has veloped and evaluated strategi to prevent lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth om beg homels or tervene as early as possible once they do bee homels. Once the rince of noted gay rights activist Henry Gerber, the home was where the natn's first chartered LGBT rights anizatn, the Society for Human Rights, was formed 1924.

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