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- A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
- NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
- HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS
- GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
- TWO D.C. GAY BAR CTOMERS STABBED ON SIWALK NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
- 1993 MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
Protect gay and lbian youth om any laws which are ed to discrimate agast, oppose and/or harass them their hom, schools, jobs and social environments. Marks Ridger, ed., Speakg for Our Liv: Historic Speech and Rhetoric for Gay and Lbian Rights (1892-2000), available as an eBook (2012) through Howard Universy Librari.
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""We mand legislatn to prevent discrimatn agast lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people the areas of fay diversy, ctody, adoptn and foster re and that the fn of fay clus the full diversy of all fay stctur.
NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
""We mand full and equal cln of lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people the tnal system, and cln of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr studi multicultural curricula. "Full Platform of the 1993 March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and LiberatnActn Statement Preamble to the PlatformThe Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr movement regniz that our qut for social jtice fundamentally lks to the stggl agast racism and sexism, class bias, enomic jtice and relig tolerance.
We mand passage of a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr civil rights bill and an end to discrimatn by state and feral ernments cludg the ary; repeal of all sodomy laws and other laws that crimalize private sexual exprsn between nsentg adults. We mand legislatn to prevent discrimatn agast Lbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenred people the areas of fay diversy, ctody, adoptn and foster re and that the fn of fay clus the full diversy of all fay regnn and legal protectn of the whole range of fay end to abe and exploatn of and discrimatn agast end to abe and exploatn of and discrimatn agast olr/old implementatn of the remendatns ntaed the report of the Health and Human Servic Task Force on Youth Suici.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS
We mand full and equal cln of Lbians, gays, Bisexuals and Transgenred people the tnal system, and cln of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr studi multicultural curricula. Culturally clive Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenred Studi program; and rmatn on abortn, AIDS/HIV, childre and sexualy at all levels of tn.
GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
Establishment of mp offic and programs to addrs Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr stunts' special ban of all discrimatory ROTC programs and recers om learng end to discrimatn at all levels of tn. Although natnal Pri ftivals have bee the most popular celebratn of gay rights and liberatn the untry, the Natnal Equaly March will create a distct and separate mand for our ernment’s policy reform. Two dividuals, Asa Philip Randolf and Bayard Rt, anized the march and 2013, former Print Barack Obama posthumoly award Bayard Rt wh the Printial Medal of Freedom, makg him the first openly gay black man to receive the award (2) first Pri flag, signed by Gilbert Baker (1951–2017)Sixteen years later, after the assassatn of openly gay California polician, Harvey Milk, the gay liberatn movement gaed momentum and the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights occurred on October 14th, 1979.
Among the many issu the participants hoped to addrs, anizers prented a claratn of five mands and ncerns for the ernment on behalf of the LGBTQ muny (3), they wished to pass a prehensive lbian/gay rights bill Congrs. A photo om the 1979 March for LGBTQ send orr of bs the first Pri march was to issue a printial executive orr banng the discrimatn of people based on sexual orientatn the ernment, ary, and unr ferally ntracted employment, which fally me to un unr third requt was for the repeal of all anti-lbian and gay laws, which remas an issue that is difficult to measure, though we have progrsed nsirable ways sce 1979.
TWO D.C. GAY BAR CTOMERS STABBED ON SIWALK NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
Another prevalent ncern for the 1979 marchers was endg the discrimatn lbian and gay parental ctody s. Wh over one ln people attendance, the March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn was historic for the queer muny. The march had many them, among them was the mand to end the ban on gays the ary, g out of the Vietnam War.
The Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, held on October 14, 1979, was spired part by the assassatn of openly gay California polician Harvey Milk. The five issu the march supported clud the end of anti-homosexual laws and a ph for a ban on discrimatn the feral ernment based on sexual orientatn. Thoands of people attend, and the event natnalized the movement for gay rights, which was prevly agmented and foced on problems dividual muni.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, on October 14, 1979, an timated 75, 000 to 125, 000 lbians and gay men om all across Ameri marched on Washgton at a moment the movement’s history that was remarkably different om the current one. This was the first such March on Washgton staged by Amerin gays, renrg llective memory as the symbolic g out and birth of a natnal movement for lbian and gay rights. Gleang sights to why this march happened and how was anized both memorat the 25th anniversary of the event and offers clu to ntemporary gay culture and polics.
1993 MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN
The gay liberatn movement of the late 1970’s legimized a range of that was advancg by lkg self to other grassroots monstratns, pecially the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washgton. Such nnectns helped to tablish the movement as a progrsive one and also emphasized the need for an tonomo lbian and gay polil prence.
Shoulr to shoulr, arm arm and hand hand, hundreds of thoands of lbians, gay men and other homosexual rights advot om across the natn marched past the Whe Hoe to the Mall yterday, mandg an end to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and appealg for more funds to fight AIDS. The marchers, cludg many dyg of acquired immune ficiency syndrome, the disease that has so vastated the gay muny, staged a spired, lorful procsn down Pennsylvania Avenue NW, held a long afternoon rally near the Capol and ma a somber pilgrimage to a giant quilt unfurled on the Mall at sunrise memory of the timated 25, 000 who have died of AIDS the Uned Stat.