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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.
NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
We rolled our ey at the few anizg mtee members gog on and on about electronic bullet boards and somethg ll Ameri, sudnly, a guy om Arkansas named Bill Clton began to surge the polls, and he ed the word "gay, " and he said he'd get rid of the ary ban, and a bunch of other thgs that spired hope. Here are the primary mands, followed by the full platform:"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 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.
""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.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS
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.
GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
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. 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.
1993 MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN
Thoands of people attend, and the event natnalized the movement for gay rights, which was prevly agmented and foced on problems dividual muni.