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Contents:

• AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?
• HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
• OBAMA'S SPEECH (TEXT): TRANSCRIPT OF PRINT OBAMA'S SPEECH ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• GREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS ADD TO WISHLISTGREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS
• GREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS

AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?

In his inic novel Gvanni’s Room, gay thor Jam Baldw mak a powerful statement about love.

Karl Herich Ulrichs is known as one of the first gay men to publicly announce his sexual inty. Durg his lifetime, Ulrichs wrote numero says discsg homosexualy and assertg that non-heterosexual orientatns are natural and blogil.

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Mister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered the words durg a speech at a 2014 Pri ftival.

HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED

Arsham Parsi, an Iranian refugee livg Canada exile, has ma his missn to help LGBTQ people livg Iran: a natn where acts of homosexualy are punishable by floggg or even ath. “If you help elect more gay people, that giv a green light to all who feel disenanchised a green light to move forward. When Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay person elected to public office California, he beme the face of the ph to put more LGBTQ people posns of power.

OBAMA'S SPEECH (TEXT): TRANSCRIPT OF PRINT OBAMA'S SPEECH ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

“The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pri march exist or why Gay Pri Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought should be. “If a transvte don’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte, then nobody else is gog to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte for them.

In her time practicg law, she has dited her reer to helpg those who have been the victims of her untry’s harsh laws agast homosexualy.

Organized relign has been one of the harsht crics of homosexualy, cg holy wrgs as evince that go agast God.

GREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS ADD TO WISHLISTGREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS

“The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I’m gay. Perry was relig for much of his life, but was trated by feelg unwele as a gay man.

Gay men were the group most ravaged by the disease, and the most feared and hated group bee of .

In 2013, Tammy Baldw ma history by beg the first openly gay Senator the Uned Stat. In 2014, Jason Colls ma history by beg the first male profsnal athlete to publicly intify himself as gay. It is often ed Christian muni to enurage queer youth to e relign to bat their homosexual sir.

GREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS

No one anticipated , but Print Barack Obama ed the ocsn of his send Ingural Addrs to give what was perhaps the most important gay-rights speech Amerin history. Print Obama ed the ocsn to make the first direct reference to gay-rights an Ingural Addrs, and he did so wh a power and forthrightns we have not heard before, even om two-thirds of the way to the speech, Obama referred to Stonewall, a gay bar where, 1969, a police raid provoked a rt, the same sentence as Sene Falls and Selma—th parg the women’s and Ain-Amerin civil-rights movements to the gay-rights stggle. Had he stopped there, would have been historic—particularly g om the first Ain-Amerin Print—but, keepg wh the tradn of policians who refer to gay-rights obliquely or wh words, stoppg short of the Print ntued:Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law—for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as only was this a ll to end discrimatn, but an unambiguo argument for the regnn of same-sex marriage across the untry.

That uld nceivably spell the end of anti-gay-marriage state-nstutnal amendments across the untry. We are awag word as to whether the Jtice Department will enter that se on behalf of gay-rights advot.

A lot has been wrten about how quickly public opn has shifted favor of gay-rights. Print Obama’s send Ingural was evince of that, but more strikgly was evince of a newfound willgns to lead the untry more dramatilly to the future on gay equaly.