Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
• GAY RIGHTS

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

Gay people anized to rist opprsn and mand jt treatment, and they were pecially galvanized after a New York Cy police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, sparked rts 1969. He terviewed more than 8, 000 men and argued that sexualy existed on a spectm, sayg that uld not be nfed to simple tegori of homosexual and heterosexual. His analysis broke down rigidly held tegori of sexualy and empowered many gay people to fight for social change.

They ngregated at the Compton’s Cafeteria bee gay bars often were hostile to them and prohibed them om hangg out there. Although members of the gay muny were divid their opns about the rt, hundreds of people returned to the scene for the next several nights, some to ntue vlent opposn to the police and others to exprs their sexualy public for the first time.

The Stonewall Inn, shown here 2005, was signated on the State and Natnal Registers of Historic Plac 2016 to memorate the importance of the 1969 uprisg the gay liberatn movement. At the time, gay bars were often hidn and vulnerable to attacks by police, who were thorized by cy ernments to shut down tablishments that promoted what was nsired lewd behavr.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Many gay bars, cludg the Stonewall Inn, were also n by the mafia, which paid off rpt police officers to stay open.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

Although this sometim worked, municipal officials also equently urged police to clamp down on gay bars by assertg that they did not have proper liquor licens. Before Stonewall, a gay polil effort known as the homophile movement had brought gay men and lbians together to form a polil aln. Members of the movement staged the first gay prott Philalphia on July 4, 1965, ont of Inpennce Hall.

After Stonewall, however, a more radil polil nscns veloped that rulted om the formatn of many new groups, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians, whose members rejected the strategi and lled for a more ant rponse to homophobia. The papers clud sectns voted to muny updat, cultural events, and personal ads, but they also highlighted new polil ncerns, namely efforts to raise awarens about the problems of gay people prisons and ncerns about gay health.

GAY RIGHTS

Although many var relig stutns believed homosexualy was sful, some LGBTQ people did not believe that their fah and sexual orientatn were at odds and took shelter relig muni anized by gay people. Public health thori, journalists, doctors, and even many the gay muny blamed gay liberatn and the looseng of sexual rtrictns for the epimic, but no one the medil or scientific muny actually unrstood the behavr of the vis.

A signifint difference between the gay rights movement after Stonewall and the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) was that the GLF and s alli. Dcribe the impact the gay liberatn movement had on the polil and social climate of the Uned Stat the late twentieth century. 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. (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.