Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

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• WORLD'S FIRST 'DYKE MARCH' HELD DCBOSTON'S 2008 DYKE MARCH IN 1993, THE LBIAN AVENGERS ANIZED THE FIRST DYKE MARCH ON WASHGTON, D.C. AS A LN PEOPLE ANIZED THE CY FOR THE MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN. SCE THEN, LBIANS CI AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ANIZED ANNUAL DYKE MARCH, OFTEN CIDG WH PRI AND NVENG FOR PURPOS SPECIFIC TO EACH CY, CLUDG VISIBILY, HIGHLIGHTG WOMEN THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, WORKG AND PROTTG. CHRISTE KEHOE BE SAN DIEGO COUNTY’S FIRST OUT OFFICIALKEHOE 1999.A TRAILBLAZG FIXTURE SAN DIEGO’S FEMIST AND LGBTQ+ MUNI, CHRISTE KEHOE WAS THE EDOR OF THE GAYZETTE OM 1984 TO 1986, LEAVG TO CHAIR SAN DIEGO COUNTY’S ARM OF THE STATEWI MPAIGN TO FEAT LYNDON LAROUCHE’S AIDS QUARANTE IATIVE, PROPOSN 64. AFTER THAT SUCCS, SHE WORKED FOR AN AIDS ASSISTANCE ANIZATN.“GAY MEN WERE PREVENTED OM DONATG BLOOD, SO THE LBIAN MUNY AND STRAIGHT WOMEN STEPPED UP AND STARTED BLOOD SISTERS TO DONATE BLOOD. ALL KDS OF ACTIVI LIKE THAT ME OUT OF THE AIDS CRISIS,” KEHOE SAID A MARCH 17, 2016, VIO POSTED BY THE WOMEN’S MM OF CALIFORNIA ABOUT THE “VERY SPERATE” TIM OM 1985 TO THE 1990S.IN 1993, KEHOE RAN FOR SAN DIEGO CY COUNCIL. “MY MPAIGN MOTTO WAS ‘AS A NORTH PARK HOMEOWNER, I UNRSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEAN SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS,’” SHE SAYS. “THE GAY MUNY REALIZED THIS WAS OUR SHOT AT TLY HAVG A SEAT AT THE TABLE. IF WE WON, I WOULD BE THE FIRST ELECTED OPENLY LGBT OFFICIAL THE UNTY . . . IT WAS STILL MY FAVORE MPAIGN. AND WE WON BY FIVE POTS. AND WE AMAZED EVERYBODY. AND WE SET OUT TO REALLY BE A GOOD REPRENTATIVE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. THE GAY MUNY KNEW WE ULDN’T BE SILENT ANYMORE.” KEHOE SERVED SEVEN YEARS ON THE CY UNCIL, DURG WHICH SHE WAS APPOTED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSN AND THE SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATN OF GOVERNMENTS. IN 1998, KEHOE GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN HER RACE FOR THE U.S. CONGRS BEE OF HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BUT DID NOT BEAT HER OPPONENT. YET 2000, SHE WAS ELECTED TO THE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY, WHERE SHE SERVED 12 YEARS, DURG WHICH SHE -FOUND THE LGBT LEGISLATIVE CC, THORED THE STATE’S LARGT ENERGY NSERVATN BILL, AND WAS ELECTED ASSEMBLY SPEAKER PRO TEM, THE CHAMBER’S SEND-HIGHT-RANKG POSN. IN 2004, KEHOE WAS ELECTED TO THE STATE SENATE, WHERE SHE SERVED UNTIL TERMED OUT 2012. A BUMPER STICKER OM CHRIS KEHOE'S 1998 CONGRSNAL MPAIGN.IN MARCH 2016, CHRISTE KEHOE WAS DUCTED TO THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME AS A TRAILBLAZER. SHE WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE 2016 DOCUMENTARY POLIL ANIMALS, WHICH ALSO FEATURED FELLOW LBIAN CALIFORNIA POLIL TRAILBLAZERS SHEILA KHL, CAROLE MIGN AND JACKIE GOLDBERG. ‍PRINT CLTON MEETS WH LGBTQ LEARSLGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND’S WILLIAM WAYBOURN (THIRD OM RIGHT) AND OTHER LGBTQ+ LEARS AT A HISTORIC OVAL OFFICE MEETG WH PRINT CLTON. COURTY OF PRINT BILL CLTON WHE HOEIN APRIL 1993, LGBTQ+ LEARS CLUDG VICTORY FUND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WILLIAM WAYBOURN WERE VED TO A HISTORIC MEETG WH PRINT CLTON THE OVAL OFFICE JT BEFORE THE MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN. YET THREE MONTHS LATER, JULY, WAYBOURN WAS AMONG TWENTY-EIGHT ARRTED AT THE WHE HOE GATE PROTTG CLTON’S “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”—A “PROMISE” POLICY REPLACG THE PROMISE OF A PLETE LIFTG OF THE BAN ON OPEN ARY SERVICE.LONGTIME FRIENDSA REAL TURNG POT LGBTQ+ POLIL POWER ME WHEN FORMER ANTI–VIETNAM WAR ACTIVISTS DAVID MIXNER AND BILL CLTON REKDLED THEIR IENDSHIP 1992. IT WASN’T EASY. MIXNER HAD LOST 300 IENDS TO AIDS, CLUDG HIS BELOVED PARTNER, PETER STT, AND HE AND LYNN GREER WERE WORKG HARD AS BOARD -CHAIRS FOR VICTORY FUND. WILLIAM WAYBOURN “DID A BRILLIANT JOB GETTG THE ANIZATN OFF THE GROUND ON A DAILY BASIS,” MIXNER SAYS, A “HUGE CHALLENGE” SCE SO MANY DONORS HAD DIED AND OTHERS WERE FANCIALLY STRETCHED FUNDG AIDS ANIZATNS. GREATER LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN WAS A NECSY, BUT LGBTQ+ POLIS WERE PARIAHS. IN 1988, MIXNER AND CHECKBOOK ACTIVISTS RANDY KLOSE, DE COMEGYS, AND DAVID WEXLER OFFERED MICHAEL DAKIS’S PRINTIAL MPAIGN $1 LN BUNDLED “LAVENR” DOLLARS. THEY WERE REBUFFED.“WE JT SAT THERE AGHAST. HOW N WE BE AT THE APEX OF THIS EPIMIC AND THE DEMOCRATS WON’T EVEN TOUCH AS A GROUP?” MIXNER TOLD JOURNALIST KAREN OMB 2016. IN LATE 1991, PRINTIAL ASPIRANT CLTON LLED MIXNER, EXPECTG TOMATIC SUPPORT. MIXNER SAID THE DARK HORSE NDIDATE NEED TO SECURE THE ENDORSEMENT OF ANGLE, ANOTHER GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN, GIVEN VICTORY FUND ONLY ENDORSED LGBTQ+ NDIDAT, AND CLTON RECEIVED . BUT ANGLE’S SUPPORT WAS SOON PUT TO THE TT WH THE GENNIFER FLOWERS SEX SNDAL. CLTON SEEMED LIKE THE WALKG AD, MIXNER RELLS.ANGLE REMAED LOYAL WHILE ALSO MAKG MANDS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATN A FEBARY FUNDRAISER AT THE BEVERLY WILSHIRE HOTEL, HOSTED BY FUTURE SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER. THEY WANTED A PRIVATE LGBTQ+ RECEPTN FOR OUT SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR ROBERTA ACHTENBERG TO TRODUCE CLTON, HOPG HER RAISED VISIBILY WOULD LEAD TO A PRINTIAL APPOTMENT.“I WOULD SAY A THIRD, MAYBE EVEN HALF THE PEOPLE AT THIS STRAIGHT DNER WERE GAYS AND LBIANS,” SAYS MIXNER. “THAT PUT ON THE MAP—THAT WAS A TURNG POT. WE PROVED THAT WE WOULD BE IENDS THROUGH THICK AND TH.”BUT TENSNS REMAED. THE HISTORIC “I HAVE A VISN AND YOU’RE A PART OF ” SPEECH AT THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE MAY 1992 ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN. WHEN THE MPAIGN SAID “ABSOLUTELY NO PRS,” MIXNER BALKED AND SAID HE WAS WILLG TO RETURN THE $100,000 RAISED OM THE PACKED HOE. THE MPAIGN VED.“WE HAVE ALL E A LONG WAY TONIGHT,” MIXNER SAID, TRODUCG CLTON, THE LOS ANGEL TIM RELLED A HISTORIL REP ON MAY 13, 2012. “NO ONE HAND THIS EVENT TONIGHT . . . WE EARNED , CH BY CH, STEP BY STEP, MOMENT BY MOMENT.”THE GLOWG HEADL HELPED MAKE CLTON VIABLE. MIXNER AND LGBTQ+ SUPPORTERS RAISED $3.2 LN AND GALVANIZED THE FIRST-EVER GAY VOTG BLOC. A NATNAL VOTER NEWS SERVICE EX POLL SHOWED THAT SELF-INTIFIED GAYS, LBIANS, AND BISEXUALS MA UP 3.2 PERCENT OF VOT FOR CLTON.IN HISTORIC FIRST, ROBERTA ACHTENBERG CONFIRMED BY THE SENATEFORMER HUD ASSISTANT SECRETARY ROBERTA ACHTENBERG (CENTER) WH MARY MAN AND HILLARY ROSEN. COURTY OF EDGAR B. ANRSON IN 1992, OUT SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR ROBERTA ACHTENBERG ADDRSED THE DEMOCRATIC NATNAL CONVENTN ON THE MOST PRO-LGBTQ+ CIVIL RIGHTS PLATFORM U.S. HISTORY. LONGTIME BILL CLTON MPAIGN STAFFER BOB HATTOY ALSO LIVERED A POWERFUL SPEECH ON BEG A GAY MAN WH AIDS. BOTH WERE BREAKTHROUGHS. THE LGBTQ+ VOTE WAS NOT CLCHED, HOWEVER. “WE WAED WH BAED BREATH TO SEE IF ANY REFERENCE TO ‘GAY’ WAS CLUD” CLTON’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, SAYS ACHTENBERG. IF NOT, DAVID MIXNER WAS PREPARED TO LEAD THE 133 GAY AND LBIAN LEGAT OFF THE NVENTN FLOOR PROTT. “WE NEED TO BE VDITED, AND ED, WE WERE.”AFTER CLTON’S VICTORY, LGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND’S WILLIAM WAYBOURN SPEARHEAD THE PRINTIAL APPOTMENTS PROJECT. AT THE TOP OF THE AGENDA WAS ENSURG THE NOMATN AND NFIRMATN OF ACHTENBERG TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOG AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.“MY APPOTMENT WAS SIGNED TO BE THE VANGUARD,” ACHTENBERG TOLD JOURNALIST KAREN OMB HER 2016 BOOK REPRENTATN MATTERS, THOUGH NO ONE IMAGED THE GREE OF UGLY RISTANCE. “THAT TOOK EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE, CLUDG [SEN.] TED KENNEDY, WHO AT ONE POT LLED ME UP AT NIGHT AND APOLOGIZED ON BEHALF OF HIS LLEAGU.”THE HEADLE-MAKG RISTANCE WAS LED BY VENOMOLY ANTI-GAY NORTH CAROLA REPUBLIN SENATORS JSE HELMS AND LCH FAIRCLOTH. HELMS, WHO TRIED TO BE A “BROODG PRENCE” DURG THE MTEE HEARG, LLED ACHTENBERG “THAT DAMNED LBIAN,” WHICH LBIANS SOON APPROPRIATED AND TURNED TO A TEE SHIRT. FOUNDG LGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND BOARD MEMBER HILARY ROSEN GOT BY LOBBYG SENATORS. “HILARY IS REALLY THE PERSON WHO ENGEERED THE POSIVE NFIRM,” SAID ACHTENBERG. “SHE KNEW WHERE ALL THE BODI WERE BURIED, AND SHE WENT UP TO THE LE TO MAKE HAPPEN.”ACHTENBERG’S NFIRMATN BEME A MOBILIZG MOMENT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MOVEMENT. “EVERYBODY KNEW I ULD NOT GO DOWN,” SHE SAYS. “IT FELT LIKE WE HAD TO DO WHATEVER TOOK TO W.” VICE PRINT AL GORE WAS ON STANDBY SE HE WAS NEED TO BREAK A TIE ON THE FLOOR, BUT ON MAY 24, 1993, ACHTENBERG WON 51 TO 34, WH A NUMBER OF “CHICKENS” NOT VOTG.ACHTENBERG LOOKS BACK WH PRI. “IT HURT EPLY TO BE LLED ALL KDS OF NAM. HELMS QUTNED THE LEGIMACY OF MY RELATNSHIP WH MY FAY. HE SAID I WAS UNF. THEY QUTNED WHETHER I ULD UPHOLD THE CONSTUTN, AS IF BEG GAY MEANT YOU WERE NOT A PATRT. BUT WE PREVAILED, AND ’S THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE DAVID AND HILARY AND THE VICTORY FUND WHO STUCK THEIR NECKS OUT. IT’S EASIER NOW, AND WE’RE GLAD OF .”‍ALLAN SPEAR’S HUMAN RIGHTS ACT PASSSEN. ALLAN SPEAR THERE WAS A PERD OF TIME -- JT BEFORE AND AFTER THE STONEWALL RTS 1969 -- WHEN ACTIVISTS WERE RISG UP AGAST THE VIETNAM WAR AND TRANSFORMG CIVIL RIGHTS TO NEW LIBERATN MOVEMENTS WHERE GAYS AND LBIANS WERE NSIRED A LEGIMATE MORY STEAD OF PATHOLOGIL PERVERTS. SOME OF THOSE ACTIVISTS, LIKE YALE UNIVERSY PHD GRADUATE ALLAN SPEAR, CHOSE TO MAKE CHANGE LEGISLATIVELY. SPEAR WAS ELECTED TO THE MNOTA STATE SENATE 1972, G OUT 1974, JT A MONTH AFTER ELAE NOBLE BEME THE FIRST OUT LGBTQ+ PERSON ELECTED TO A STATE LEGISLATURE. HE SERVED TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS THE SENATE, CLUDG EIGHT YEARS AS PRINT UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT 2000. THE HIGHLIGHT OF HIS REER WAS WORKG WHOUT HOE REP. KAREN CLARK ON PASSAGE OF THE 1993 MNOTA HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, GIVG GAY RINTS PROTECTN OM DISCRIMATN TN, EMPLOYMENT, AND HOG. THE BILL HAD BEEN ON THE TABLE FOR TWENTY YEARS.“I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE SERVED WH ME—EHER LLEAGU OR STAFF PEOPLE, LOBBYISTS SOME S, WHO HAVE TOLD ME THAT THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR VIEWS ON GAY ISSU OVER THE YEARS BEE I WAS THE ONLY GAY PERSON THEY EVER KNEW,” SPEAR TOLD “OUT AND ELECTED THE USA: 1974–2004” FOR HE WAS SEEN AS A “PRODUCTIVE HUMAN BEG” AND “THEY VELOPED NEW IAS AND NEW ATTUS ABOUT WHAT GAY PEOPLE ARE AND HOW GAY PEOPLE BEHAVE BEE OF THAT.” COMG OUT HAS AN IMPACT. “I’VE ALWAYS ARGUED THAT G OUT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POLIL CISN THAT ANY GAY PERSON N EVER MAKE. WE THK OF OFTEN AS PERSONAL RATHER THAN A POLIL CISN, BUT ALSO HAS THIS REALLY PROFOUND POLIL IMPACT ON THE PEOPLE AROUND AND OUR OWN SOCIETY,” SAID SPEAR, WHO PASSED AWAY ON OCTOBER 11, NATNAL COMG OUT DAY, 2008. HE WAS SURVIVED BY HIS PARTNER OF 20-PL YEARS, JUNJIRO TSUJI.‍LGBTQ+ VICTORY INSTUTE FOUND
• MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS; GAY MARCHERS THRONG MALL APPEAL FOR RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS MAY BE SOCIAL ISSUE OF 1990S
• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

WORLD'S FIRST 'DYKE MARCH' HELD DCBOSTON'S 2008 DYKE MARCH IN 1993, THE LBIAN AVENGERS ANIZED THE FIRST DYKE MARCH ON WASHGTON, D.C. AS A LN PEOPLE ANIZED THE CY FOR THE MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN. SCE THEN, LBIANS CI AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ANIZED ANNUAL DYKE MARCH, OFTEN CIDG WH PRI AND NVENG FOR PURPOS SPECIFIC TO EACH CY, CLUDG VISIBILY, HIGHLIGHTG WOMEN THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, WORKG AND PROTTG. CHRISTE KEHOE BE SAN DIEGO COUNTY’S FIRST OUT OFFICIALKEHOE 1999.A TRAILBLAZG FIXTURE SAN DIEGO’S FEMIST AND LGBTQ+ MUNI, CHRISTE KEHOE WAS THE EDOR OF THE GAYZETTE OM 1984 TO 1986, LEAVG TO CHAIR SAN DIEGO COUNTY’S ARM OF THE STATEWI MPAIGN TO FEAT LYNDON LAROUCHE’S AIDS QUARANTE IATIVE, PROPOSN 64. AFTER THAT SUCCS, SHE WORKED FOR AN AIDS ASSISTANCE ANIZATN.“GAY MEN WERE PREVENTED OM DONATG BLOOD, SO THE LBIAN MUNY AND STRAIGHT WOMEN STEPPED UP AND STARTED BLOOD SISTERS TO DONATE BLOOD. ALL KDS OF ACTIVI LIKE THAT ME OUT OF THE AIDS CRISIS,” KEHOE SAID A MARCH 17, 2016, VIO POSTED BY THE WOMEN’S MM OF CALIFORNIA ABOUT THE “VERY SPERATE” TIM OM 1985 TO THE 1990S.IN 1993, KEHOE RAN FOR SAN DIEGO CY COUNCIL. “MY MPAIGN MOTTO WAS ‘AS A NORTH PARK HOMEOWNER, I UNRSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEAN SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS,’” SHE SAYS. “THE GAY MUNY REALIZED THIS WAS OUR SHOT AT TLY HAVG A SEAT AT THE TABLE. IF WE WON, I WOULD BE THE FIRST ELECTED OPENLY LGBT OFFICIAL THE UNTY . . . IT WAS STILL MY FAVORE MPAIGN. AND WE WON BY FIVE POTS. AND WE AMAZED EVERYBODY. AND WE SET OUT TO REALLY BE A GOOD REPRENTATIVE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. THE GAY MUNY KNEW WE ULDN’T BE SILENT ANYMORE.” KEHOE SERVED SEVEN YEARS ON THE CY UNCIL, DURG WHICH SHE WAS APPOTED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSN AND THE SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATN OF GOVERNMENTS. IN 1998, KEHOE GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN HER RACE FOR THE U.S. CONGRS BEE OF HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BUT DID NOT BEAT HER OPPONENT. YET 2000, SHE WAS ELECTED TO THE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY, WHERE SHE SERVED 12 YEARS, DURG WHICH SHE -FOUND THE LGBT LEGISLATIVE CC, THORED THE STATE’S LARGT ENERGY NSERVATN BILL, AND WAS ELECTED ASSEMBLY SPEAKER PRO TEM, THE CHAMBER’S SEND-HIGHT-RANKG POSN. IN 2004, KEHOE WAS ELECTED TO THE STATE SENATE, WHERE SHE SERVED UNTIL TERMED OUT 2012. A BUMPER STICKER OM CHRIS KEHOE'S 1998 CONGRSNAL MPAIGN.IN MARCH 2016, CHRISTE KEHOE WAS DUCTED TO THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME AS A TRAILBLAZER. SHE WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE 2016 DOCUMENTARY POLIL ANIMALS, WHICH ALSO FEATURED FELLOW LBIAN CALIFORNIA POLIL TRAILBLAZERS SHEILA KHL, CAROLE MIGN AND JACKIE GOLDBERG. ‍PRINT CLTON MEETS WH LGBTQ LEARSLGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND’S WILLIAM WAYBOURN (THIRD OM RIGHT) AND OTHER LGBTQ+ LEARS AT A HISTORIC OVAL OFFICE MEETG WH PRINT CLTON. COURTY OF PRINT BILL CLTON WHE HOEIN APRIL 1993, LGBTQ+ LEARS CLUDG VICTORY FUND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WILLIAM WAYBOURN WERE VED TO A HISTORIC MEETG WH PRINT CLTON THE OVAL OFFICE JT BEFORE THE MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN. YET THREE MONTHS LATER, JULY, WAYBOURN WAS AMONG TWENTY-EIGHT ARRTED AT THE WHE HOE GATE PROTTG CLTON’S “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”—A “PROMISE” POLICY REPLACG THE PROMISE OF A PLETE LIFTG OF THE BAN ON OPEN ARY SERVICE.LONGTIME FRIENDSA REAL TURNG POT LGBTQ+ POLIL POWER ME WHEN FORMER ANTI–VIETNAM WAR ACTIVISTS DAVID MIXNER AND BILL CLTON REKDLED THEIR IENDSHIP 1992. IT WASN’T EASY. MIXNER HAD LOST 300 IENDS TO AIDS, CLUDG HIS BELOVED PARTNER, PETER STT, AND HE AND LYNN GREER WERE WORKG HARD AS BOARD -CHAIRS FOR VICTORY FUND. WILLIAM WAYBOURN “DID A BRILLIANT JOB GETTG THE ANIZATN OFF THE GROUND ON A DAILY BASIS,” MIXNER SAYS, A “HUGE CHALLENGE” SCE SO MANY DONORS HAD DIED AND OTHERS WERE FANCIALLY STRETCHED FUNDG AIDS ANIZATNS. GREATER LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN WAS A NECSY, BUT LGBTQ+ POLIS WERE PARIAHS. IN 1988, MIXNER AND CHECKBOOK ACTIVISTS RANDY KLOSE, DE COMEGYS, AND DAVID WEXLER OFFERED MICHAEL DAKIS’S PRINTIAL MPAIGN $1 LN BUNDLED “LAVENR” DOLLARS. THEY WERE REBUFFED.“WE JT SAT THERE AGHAST. HOW N WE BE AT THE APEX OF THIS EPIMIC AND THE DEMOCRATS WON’T EVEN TOUCH AS A GROUP?” MIXNER TOLD JOURNALIST KAREN OMB 2016. IN LATE 1991, PRINTIAL ASPIRANT CLTON LLED MIXNER, EXPECTG TOMATIC SUPPORT. MIXNER SAID THE DARK HORSE NDIDATE NEED TO SECURE THE ENDORSEMENT OF ANGLE, ANOTHER GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN, GIVEN VICTORY FUND ONLY ENDORSED LGBTQ+ NDIDAT, AND CLTON RECEIVED . BUT ANGLE’S SUPPORT WAS SOON PUT TO THE TT WH THE GENNIFER FLOWERS SEX SNDAL. CLTON SEEMED LIKE THE WALKG AD, MIXNER RELLS.ANGLE REMAED LOYAL WHILE ALSO MAKG MANDS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATN A FEBARY FUNDRAISER AT THE BEVERLY WILSHIRE HOTEL, HOSTED BY FUTURE SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER. THEY WANTED A PRIVATE LGBTQ+ RECEPTN FOR OUT SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR ROBERTA ACHTENBERG TO TRODUCE CLTON, HOPG HER RAISED VISIBILY WOULD LEAD TO A PRINTIAL APPOTMENT.“I WOULD SAY A THIRD, MAYBE EVEN HALF THE PEOPLE AT THIS STRAIGHT DNER WERE GAYS AND LBIANS,” SAYS MIXNER. “THAT PUT ON THE MAP—THAT WAS A TURNG POT. WE PROVED THAT WE WOULD BE IENDS THROUGH THICK AND TH.”BUT TENSNS REMAED. THE HISTORIC “I HAVE A VISN AND YOU’RE A PART OF ” SPEECH AT THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE MAY 1992 ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN. WHEN THE MPAIGN SAID “ABSOLUTELY NO PRS,” MIXNER BALKED AND SAID HE WAS WILLG TO RETURN THE $100,000 RAISED OM THE PACKED HOE. THE MPAIGN VED.“WE HAVE ALL E A LONG WAY TONIGHT,” MIXNER SAID, TRODUCG CLTON, THE LOS ANGEL TIM RELLED A HISTORIL REP ON MAY 13, 2012. “NO ONE HAND THIS EVENT TONIGHT . . . WE EARNED , CH BY CH, STEP BY STEP, MOMENT BY MOMENT.”THE GLOWG HEADL HELPED MAKE CLTON VIABLE. MIXNER AND LGBTQ+ SUPPORTERS RAISED $3.2 LN AND GALVANIZED THE FIRST-EVER GAY VOTG BLOC. A NATNAL VOTER NEWS SERVICE EX POLL SHOWED THAT SELF-INTIFIED GAYS, LBIANS, AND BISEXUALS MA UP 3.2 PERCENT OF VOT FOR CLTON.IN HISTORIC FIRST, ROBERTA ACHTENBERG CONFIRMED BY THE SENATEFORMER HUD ASSISTANT SECRETARY ROBERTA ACHTENBERG (CENTER) WH MARY MAN AND HILLARY ROSEN. COURTY OF EDGAR B. ANRSON IN 1992, OUT SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR ROBERTA ACHTENBERG ADDRSED THE DEMOCRATIC NATNAL CONVENTN ON THE MOST PRO-LGBTQ+ CIVIL RIGHTS PLATFORM U.S. HISTORY. LONGTIME BILL CLTON MPAIGN STAFFER BOB HATTOY ALSO LIVERED A POWERFUL SPEECH ON BEG A GAY MAN WH AIDS. BOTH WERE BREAKTHROUGHS. THE LGBTQ+ VOTE WAS NOT CLCHED, HOWEVER. “WE WAED WH BAED BREATH TO SEE IF ANY REFERENCE TO ‘GAY’ WAS CLUD” CLTON’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, SAYS ACHTENBERG. IF NOT, DAVID MIXNER WAS PREPARED TO LEAD THE 133 GAY AND LBIAN LEGAT OFF THE NVENTN FLOOR PROTT. “WE NEED TO BE VDITED, AND ED, WE WERE.”AFTER CLTON’S VICTORY, LGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND’S WILLIAM WAYBOURN SPEARHEAD THE PRINTIAL APPOTMENTS PROJECT. AT THE TOP OF THE AGENDA WAS ENSURG THE NOMATN AND NFIRMATN OF ACHTENBERG TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOG AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.“MY APPOTMENT WAS SIGNED TO BE THE VANGUARD,” ACHTENBERG TOLD JOURNALIST KAREN OMB HER 2016 BOOK REPRENTATN MATTERS, THOUGH NO ONE IMAGED THE GREE OF UGLY RISTANCE. “THAT TOOK EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE, CLUDG [SEN.] TED KENNEDY, WHO AT ONE POT LLED ME UP AT NIGHT AND APOLOGIZED ON BEHALF OF HIS LLEAGU.”THE HEADLE-MAKG RISTANCE WAS LED BY VENOMOLY ANTI-GAY NORTH CAROLA REPUBLIN SENATORS JSE HELMS AND LCH FAIRCLOTH. HELMS, WHO TRIED TO BE A “BROODG PRENCE” DURG THE MTEE HEARG, LLED ACHTENBERG “THAT DAMNED LBIAN,” WHICH LBIANS SOON APPROPRIATED AND TURNED TO A TEE SHIRT. FOUNDG LGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND BOARD MEMBER HILARY ROSEN GOT BY LOBBYG SENATORS. “HILARY IS REALLY THE PERSON WHO ENGEERED THE POSIVE NFIRM,” SAID ACHTENBERG. “SHE KNEW WHERE ALL THE BODI WERE BURIED, AND SHE WENT UP TO THE LE TO MAKE HAPPEN.”ACHTENBERG’S NFIRMATN BEME A MOBILIZG MOMENT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MOVEMENT. “EVERYBODY KNEW I ULD NOT GO DOWN,” SHE SAYS. “IT FELT LIKE WE HAD TO DO WHATEVER TOOK TO W.” VICE PRINT AL GORE WAS ON STANDBY SE HE WAS NEED TO BREAK A TIE ON THE FLOOR, BUT ON MAY 24, 1993, ACHTENBERG WON 51 TO 34, WH A NUMBER OF “CHICKENS” NOT VOTG.ACHTENBERG LOOKS BACK WH PRI. “IT HURT EPLY TO BE LLED ALL KDS OF NAM. HELMS QUTNED THE LEGIMACY OF MY RELATNSHIP WH MY FAY. HE SAID I WAS UNF. THEY QUTNED WHETHER I ULD UPHOLD THE CONSTUTN, AS IF BEG GAY MEANT YOU WERE NOT A PATRT. BUT WE PREVAILED, AND ’S THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE DAVID AND HILARY AND THE VICTORY FUND WHO STUCK THEIR NECKS OUT. IT’S EASIER NOW, AND WE’RE GLAD OF .”‍ALLAN SPEAR’S HUMAN RIGHTS ACT PASSSEN. ALLAN SPEAR THERE WAS A PERD OF TIME -- JT BEFORE AND AFTER THE STONEWALL RTS 1969 -- WHEN ACTIVISTS WERE RISG UP AGAST THE VIETNAM WAR AND TRANSFORMG CIVIL RIGHTS TO NEW LIBERATN MOVEMENTS WHERE GAYS AND LBIANS WERE NSIRED A LEGIMATE MORY STEAD OF PATHOLOGIL PERVERTS. SOME OF THOSE ACTIVISTS, LIKE YALE UNIVERSY PHD GRADUATE ALLAN SPEAR, CHOSE TO MAKE CHANGE LEGISLATIVELY. SPEAR WAS ELECTED TO THE MNOTA STATE SENATE 1972, G OUT 1974, JT A MONTH AFTER ELAE NOBLE BEME THE FIRST OUT LGBTQ+ PERSON ELECTED TO A STATE LEGISLATURE. HE SERVED TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS THE SENATE, CLUDG EIGHT YEARS AS PRINT UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT 2000. THE HIGHLIGHT OF HIS REER WAS WORKG WHOUT HOE REP. KAREN CLARK ON PASSAGE OF THE 1993 MNOTA HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, GIVG GAY RINTS PROTECTN OM DISCRIMATN TN, EMPLOYMENT, AND HOG. THE BILL HAD BEEN ON THE TABLE FOR TWENTY YEARS.“I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE SERVED WH ME—EHER LLEAGU OR STAFF PEOPLE, LOBBYISTS SOME S, WHO HAVE TOLD ME THAT THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR VIEWS ON GAY ISSU OVER THE YEARS BEE I WAS THE ONLY GAY PERSON THEY EVER KNEW,” SPEAR TOLD “OUT AND ELECTED THE USA: 1974–2004” FOR HE WAS SEEN AS A “PRODUCTIVE HUMAN BEG” AND “THEY VELOPED NEW IAS AND NEW ATTUS ABOUT WHAT GAY PEOPLE ARE AND HOW GAY PEOPLE BEHAVE BEE OF THAT.” COMG OUT HAS AN IMPACT. “I’VE ALWAYS ARGUED THAT G OUT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POLIL CISN THAT ANY GAY PERSON N EVER MAKE. WE THK OF OFTEN AS PERSONAL RATHER THAN A POLIL CISN, BUT ALSO HAS THIS REALLY PROFOUND POLIL IMPACT ON THE PEOPLE AROUND AND OUR OWN SOCIETY,” SAID SPEAR, WHO PASSED AWAY ON OCTOBER 11, NATNAL COMG OUT DAY, 2008. HE WAS SURVIVED BY HIS PARTNER OF 20-PL YEARS, JUNJIRO TSUJI.‍LGBTQ+ VICTORY INSTUTE FOUND

In rponse to "Don't Ask Don't Tell", Amendment 2 Colorado, risg hate crim, and on-gog discrimatn agast the LGBTQ muny an timated 800, 000 to one ln people participated the March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn on April 25, 1993. Courty of Print Bill Clton Whe HoeIn April 1993, LGBTQ+ lears cludg Victory Fund executive director William Waybourn were ved to a historic meetg wh Print Clton the Oval Office jt before the March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn.

Homosexual activy was ferally crimalized by the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, although some lol state laws remaed nsent until 1Equal age of nsent be age of nsent Belas is 16 years, as stated Articl 168 and 169, which read: "Sexual terurse, sodomy, lbian terurse or other sexual acts mted by adults who have reached eighteen years of age, wh a person who is obvly not reached sixteen years of age, wh no signs of crim envisaged by Articl 166 and 167 of this Co, shall be punished by rtrictn of liberty om two to four years, or imprisonment for a term of two to five years. "and" cent asslt, mted by a person unr eighteen years of age, relatn to a person who obvly has not attaed the age of sixteen, the absence of evince of the crim stipulated Articl 166, 167 and 168 of this Co, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to six months or imprisonment for a term of one to three years "Homosexual activy be form of homosexualy that is illegal is non-nsensual homosexual terurseFebary 1LGBT hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn Human Rights Act 1993 prohibs discrimatn relatn to employment and relig grounds, affirmed by sectn 19 of the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990, which apply everywhere. (date unknown)Same-sex marriage be other type of Ley Arrendamientos Urbanos (Urban Leasg Law) was passed 1994, allowg registered habatn for same-sex upl which granted some of the rights prevly rerved for married marriage be the areas admistrated by the paltian thory and the Gaza strip, Gay Marriage is unregnized, however, Unregistered Cohabatn and Same sex Marriage is Legal for Israeli cizens the Occupied Wt Bank.

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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMARCH FOR GAY RIGHTSApril 26, New York Tim ArchivSee the article s origal ntext om April 26, 1993, Sectn A, Page 1Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the ArchiveThis is a digized versn of an article om The Tim’s prt archive, before the start of onle publitn 1996. Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived once fiant and ftive, hundreds of thoands of gay and lbian Amerins and their supporters rallied the pal today, celebratg the right to be homosexual and mandg eedom om discrimatn.

The state has been an tense polil battleground, wh the passage last year of Amendment 2, which prohibs lol anti-discrimatory laws that are signed to protect lbians and gay Coloradans' black banners, one of them proclaimg "Unr Siege, " stretched almost the full width of the thoroughfare.

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Schdler, a 22-year-old Navy radman beaten to ath last October near the Uned Stat Navy base Sasebo, Japan, exprsed fear for every gay and lbian service march -- officially lled the 1993 March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay and Bi-Equal Rights and Liberatn -- lled for the meetg of several mands, cludg passage of a civil rights bill and other antidiscrimatn measur; more money for AIDS tn, treatment and rearch; the cln of lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people the tnal system; reproductive eedom; and an end to discrimatn and vlent opprsn based on sexual orientatn, race, relign, sex, disabily, age, class or H. ” Some of the lbian, gay or bisexual people of this movement clud wrers and poets such as Langston Hugh, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston; Profsor Ala Locke; mic cric and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and entertaers Ma Raey, Bsie Smh, Ethel Waters and Gladys Bentley. 1945 – German Homosexual men, signated by a pk triangle on their clothg, were the last group to be released om the Nazi ncentratn mps after liberatn by the Allied forc bee Paragraph 175 of the German Crimal Co stated that homosexual relatns between mal to be illegal.

The APA found that “the latt and bt scientific evince shows that sexual orientatn and exprsns of genr inty occur naturally…and that short, there is no scientific evince that sexual orientatn, be heterosexual, homosexual or otherwise, is a eewill choice. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

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”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

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1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.