The Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr People | Amerin Civil Liberti Unn

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 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.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR 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.

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

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.

A span of ls than three s separat a cisn upholdg a state law crimalizg homosexual nduct om the cisn that legalized gay marriage natnwi. An employer that fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr vlat Tle VII. The laws and the Constutn n and sometim mt protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and sometim protected forms of exprsn.

The liberty protected by the Constutn allows homosexual persons the right to choose to enter upon relatnships the nf of their hom and their own private liv and still reta their digny as ee persons.

(This se volved the expulsn of a gay sutmaster om the Boy Suts. Th, a state nstutnal amendment vlated the Equal Protectn Clse when preclud all legislative, executive, or judicial actn at any level of state or lol ernment signed to protect the stat of persons based on their homosexual, lbian, or bisexual orientatn, nduct, practic, or relatnships.

Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc. The Constutn do not nfer a fundamental right on homosexuals to engage sodomy. When the issue of gay marriage me up urt aga s later, they were still happily married.