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LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be. * which of theses cases relate to gay and lesbian civil rights *

The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign.

A CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY: GAYS AND LBIANS

The Supreme Court says you n’t be fired for beg gay or transgenr. * which of theses cases relate to gay and lesbian civil rights *

The first se will nsir the dismissals of a unty ernment employee and a skydivg stctor, who were fired for beg gay. In 1953, a publisher associated wh the Los Angel chapter of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first “homophile” groups, released somethg unique for s time: ONE: The Homosexual Magaze.

GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS

* which of theses cases relate to gay and lesbian civil rights *

The magaze, which is nsired by One Archiv Foundatn to be Ameri’s first wily-distributed magaze for gay rears, clud articl, edorials, short stori and other ntent. In s cisn, the Supreme Court tossed out a lower urt’s lg, and tablished that material aimed at a gay dience was not herently obscene. “The urt went out of s way to make clear that gay people uld be crimalized unr the provisns, and there was nothg wrong wh that.

Many people who feared the then-myster disease were “hyper-foced” on the ia that gay men were promiscuo and saw HIV-posive people as “sort of gettg what they served, ” says Maril. The se revolved around an amendment to a Colorado law, which banned ci om passg anti-discrimatn laws that would protect gay and bisexual people. “Even if, as the state ntends, homosexuals n fd protectn laws and polici of general applitn, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the majory opn, “[the Colorado law] go well beyond merely privg them of special rights.

CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL

In 1990, the Boy Suts of Ameri cid to expel Jam Dale, an assistant sutmaster and Eagle Sut, after he was intified a newspaper as a lear of Rutgers Universy’s Lbian/Gay Alliance.

“The Boy Suts asserts that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the valu embodied the Sut Oath and Law, particularly those reprented by the terms ‘morally straight’ and ‘clean, ’ and that the anizatn do not want to promote homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr.

“It wasn’t until 2013 that the group cid to end s ban on gay children as members, but still ntued s ban on gay adult lears, ” Dale wrote a 2015 opn piece TIME. “This iative was wrong many ways: It was great that they weren’t excludg young members, but was wrong to tell someone that you n be gay when you’re a child, but you’re immoral as an adult. In a 7-2 cisn, the Supreme Court found for Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who had refed to make a gay uple a weddg ke on relig grounds.

) For nearly three s, the ADF has been associated wh legal efforts to allow bs to ny goods and servic to LGBTQ+ people, among other homophobic polici.

Colorado Civil Rights Commissn se, which the ADF’s lawyers reprented Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple. “Colorado has had a history of anti-gay and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimatn and was based on some of that discrimatory history that the Colorado legislature add civil rights protectns for LGBTQ+ people to state law, so this kd of law is enacted to protect people om real life discrimatn, not om fantastil, fictnal imaggs that are not vered by the law, ” Pizer said.

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LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

A CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY: GAYS AND LBIANS

GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS

CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL