The Supreme Court Rulgs That Have Shaped Gay Rights Ameri | HISTORY

Contents:

• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+) PEOPLE

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

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. 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. 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 RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

“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.

PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+) PEOPLE

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. 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.