What's next for the gay rights movement Texas

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: FIGHT IS ONLY JT GETTG STARTED
• HONORG GAY HISTORY TEXAS
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• GAY RIGHTS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: FIGHT IS ONLY JT GETTG STARTED

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. ”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor.

Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs. The Texas legislature has end another by ssn, sendg bills to the ernor that would ban red-light traffic meras, end regulatn of the plumbg dtry, make easier to de outdoors wh a dog, rry brass knuckl, and posss a gun si a rented apartment and a place of as ual, policians did not manage to repeal a homophobic law that has been unenforceable sce 2003, meang that a ban on “homosexual nduct” remas part of the Texas penal stat that is a Class C mismeanor offense, punishable wh up to a $500 fe, if a person “engag viate sexual terurse wh another dividual of the same sex” is 16 years sce the US supreme urt stck down Texas’s anti-sodomy law.

The se, Lawrence v Texas, arose after sheriff’s puti charged two men wh a mismeanor for havg sex a Hoton-area apartment Texas’s biennial legislature recently nclud s 2019 ssn whout passg any of seven Democrat-led bills that would have excised the “homosexual nduct” prohibn, which was enacted would not be plex or time-nsumg to strike out a brief sectn om the , and Democrats have tried at every regular ssn sce the supreme urt lg. ”Texas is “by fn an anti-homosexual state”, said Gar Coleman, a Democratic state reprentative om Harris unty who has filed a bill to repeal the “homosexual nduct” ban each of the past eight regular ssns. A police officer El Paso, for example, threatened to arrt a group of gay men for vlatg Texas’s homosexual nduct law after two kissed a rtrant vtigatn by the Advote 2013 found that a sheriff’s office Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had arrted at least a dozen gay men g an valid sodomy law.

HONORG GAY HISTORY TEXAS

Florida’s prohibn of “unnatural and lasciv acts” has led to gay men beg arrted for nsensual sexual outmod Amerin statut were ced by the Rsian print, Vladimir Put, to fend his own untry’s anti-gay law a Texas legislature domated by nservativ, changg or makg laws requir Republin support. One group, Equaly Texas, said s lobbyg helped kill 19 bills this year’s Texas Republin party’s platform stated until 2014 that “the practice of homosexualy tears at the fabric of society and ntribut to the breakdown of the fay un”. By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.

As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori. But on Monday, natnal and state gay rights lears and the platiffs who sued for marriage equaly nvened ont of the Texas Capol to make a different kd of vow: The fight for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is not over.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

As gay rights activists ph for nondiscrimatn protectns, Republins have vowed not to go down whout a fight, proclaimg that the state’s next battleont would be fense of relig liberty.

In fendg the need for more protectns for LGBT rints, Mark Phariss, one of the platiffs the Texas gay marriage se, likened those protectns to the Amerins wh Disabili Act that prohibs discrimatn agast people wh disabili like Abbott, who has ed a wheelchair sce he was paralyzed om the waist down a 1984 accint. That's why the nservative Texas Associatn of Bs recently announced s opposn to legislative proposals that discrimate agast hardworkg gay and transgenr Texans.

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Unfortunately, the quickly shrkg anti-gay uc the Texas Legislature is gog the other directn, not listeng to the ncerns of rpected bs lears (or the overwhelmg majory of fair-md Texans). Don Huff, R-Dallas, would take away rights by undog lol ordanc At, Dallas, Fort Worth, Hoton, Plano and San Anton that protect gay and transgenr workers — and all ary veterans (who are not protected unr state law) — om bad-apple employers who discrimate. December 15, 1973 - By a vote of 5, 854 to 3, 810, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn remov homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs the DSM-II Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

November 30, 1993 - Print Bill Clton signs a ary policy directive that prohibs openly gay and lbian Amerins om servg the ary, but also prohibs the harassment of “closeted” homosexuals. December 3, 1996 - Hawaii’s Judge Chang l that the state do not have a legal right to prive same-sex upl of the right to marry, makg Hawaii the first state to regnize that gay and lbian upl are entled to the same privileg as heterosexual married upl. July 27, 2015 - Boy Suts of Ameri Print Robert Gat announc, “the natnal executive board ratified a rolutn removg the natnal rtrictn on openly gay lears and employe.

The Texas Historil Commissn lks to more than 300, 000 entri on s digal Texas Historil S Bob Brkman, who overse the Texas Historil Markers for the agency, believ that none of the official monuments honor a specific person, place or event gay even the Harris County Civil Courthoe, where, on June 8, 2000, the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals led that, Lawrence v Texas, the statute that outlawed same-genr sex was unnstutnal. That Hoton se led to the landmark Supreme Court cisn of June 26, 2003, that stck down the Texas law and has rmed virtually every subsequent legal ntt on gay rights, cludg those that led to expand marriage equaly.

In fact, the market for unofficial markers seems to expand each opportuny exced recent chatter on social media about a potential mpaign to publicly honor facets of gay Texas history.

Some of the suggtns were ivolo; others were que than one participant the ongog chat suggted markg the lotn of a key prott, the state’s neart equivalent to the 1969 Stonewall Rts New York Cy, which igned the morn gay rights movement.

One ndidate: the Hoton civic square where 10, 000 or so protters peacefully faced down rt police while marchg agast anti-gay activist Ana Bryant’s appearance before the Texas State Bar Associatn nomated proment streets the state’s famed gay neighborhoods, pecially Montrose Hoton and Oak Lawn Dallas. Home to bars, clubs, eateri, church and muny centers, the “gayborhoods” were islands of LGBT culture largely hostile Texas durg the 1970s and ’80s, after which gay muni started to disperse fact, Oak Lawn already hosts the Legacy of Love Monument. ”Ined, that group was among the most signifint durg the first years of gay openns Texas and the rt of the Hoton, Dallas, At and San Anton exced the memori of several ntributors to the nversatn.

It might make sense to add a marker that explas not only her ntributns, but also the area’s role At’s history as a longtime anchor for gay problem, of urse, is how to al wh historil figur who remaed the closet durg their lifetim. Current Hoton Mayor Annise Parker, for stance, is an out lbian, but she might not have been elected if her precsor, Kathy Whmire, had not energized Hoton’s gay muny to topple the cy’s nservative tablishment s somebody were to get ser about a mpaign, several rourc e to md, cludg the Gulf Coast Archive & Mm of LBGT History and fairly recent lol gay histori published by L Style G Style magaze, the Daily Texan and the At rpond to the proposed mpaign more thoroughly, however, than Universy of Texas doctoral stunt R. Blackshire noted historil markers other stat, such as one honorg Philalphia’s Gvanni’s Room, the olst gay and lbian bookstore the untry, and, of urse, Stonewall Inn New York Cy.

Oh nferred the honor on openly gay thor Natalie Barney Dayton, but the marker was quickly disvered that, 2013, the Missouri History Mm acquired the llectn of Steven Brawley, which closely chronicl 60 years of gay history. Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedDon't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly serve.