NBC Out reflects on the major legal, cultural, and historic LGBTQ events of the 2010 , cludg the legalizatn of gay marriage and DADT repeal.
Contents:
- A VERY LGBTQ : GAY MARRIAGE, TRANS RIGHTS AND A 'RABOW WAVE'
- 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
- GAY WAVE
A VERY LGBTQ : GAY MARRIAGE, TRANS RIGHTS AND A 'RABOW WAVE'
* the gay wave *
At the dawn of the year 2010, few Amerins uld predict that the g would revolutnize the legal and cultural landspe for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. After all, was only 2003 that homosexualy was crimalized across the untry, thanks to a landmark Supreme Court the past 10 years, the Uned Stat saw the natnwi legalizatn of same-sex marriage, the emergence of transgenr rights as the central ontier the LGBTQ rights battle and the troductn of PrEP to fight the HIV epimic.
-2010-'Don’t ask, don’t tell' repeal signed to lawFollowg through on a mpaign promise, Print Barack Obama on December 22, 2010, signed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” the 1994 Clton admistratn policy that banned ary service by openly gay people. DADT was a promise after Clton failed to liver on a 1992 mpaign promise to allow gay and lbian Amerins to jo the ary.
Hillary Clton: 'Gay rights are human rights'In an echo of her inic 1995 speech Beijg as First Lady, where she clared that "human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights, " Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clton livered a speech on Dec. 6, 2011, to the Uned Natns clarg, "Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.
'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
Author Jeremy Atherton L wr of the history of gay bars, as their existence is threatened by the populary of datg apps and risg property sts, and reflects on their prence his life. * the gay wave *
"-2012-Bin announc support for gay marriageAhead of Print Obama's wily telegraphed "evolutn" on same-sex marriage, Vice Print Joe Bin a May 2012 appearance on NBC News' "Meet the Prs" announced that he was "absolutely fortable" wh same-sex approv Tvada as HIV PrEPTvadaAnthony Correia / NBC NewsIn July 2012, the Food and Dg Admistratn approved Tvada as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to prevent HIV acquisn high-risk dividuals, particularly gay men and transgenr women. In 1998, when she was elected to the Hoe of Reprentativ, she beme the first gay woman and the first openly LGBTQ noncumbent elected to eher chamber of Congrs. C., and the 12 stat where gay marriage was then legal.
Supreme Court lg legaliz gay marriageCg s 2013 cisn that overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, the Supreme Court the landmark June 2015 Obergefell v. Hodg cisn found a nstutnal right to marriage that clud same-sex upl, legalizg gay marriage natnwi. In a subsequent trial of the shooter's wife, tails emerged showg that the gay club Pulse was chosen randomly after heterosexual clubs appeared to be too securely mak Stonewall a Natnal MonumentThe still-nng New York Cy gay bar beme the first Natnal Park Service-operated natnal monument dited to LGBTQ rights on June 24, 2016.
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""Moonlight" - A24 / IMDBThe 2016 film tracks Chiron, a young black man, who is g to terms wh his homosexualy.
Wilkg, Craig Lassig / Getty Imag / AP Imag for Human Rights CampaignThe LGBTQ ndidat who saw victory November 2018's "rabow wave" clud Democrat Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat, and Democrat Sharice Davids, who flipped her district Kansas agast a four-term cumbent to bee the first openly LGBTQ member of Congrs om Kansas and one of the first two female Native Amerins elected to Congrs. " Buttigieg is the first openly gay man to ever appear a Democratic primary bate. 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprisgOn June 28, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the New York Cy rt that sparked the morn gay rights movement, #Stonewall50 transformed to a giant global celebratn of LGBTQ rights.
That number surpass 2020’s rerd of 336 and 2018’s rerd of least 1, 065 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people ran for office this year, wh 678 of them makg to the general electn, the LGBTQ Victory Instute, the rearch arm of the Victory Fund, reported. This reflects LGBTQ voters more broadly: 84% supported Democrats, while 15% supported Republins, acrdg to an NBC News Ex Poll released Tuday Parker, print and CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said a statement that the “rabow wave” is a “clear rebe to the creased homophobia and transphobia sweepg our muni. Bec Balt, the wner of an at-large Hoe seat Vermont, is the first woman and the first gay person elected to Congrs om her state, and Eric Sorensen, the wner of Illois’ 17th Congrsnal District, is the first gay person elected to Congrs om his state, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Garcia, the wner of California’s 42nd Congrsnal District race, will be the first gay immigrant Congrs, while Gee Santos, the wner of New York’s 3rd Congrsnal District race, who went head to head wh another gay ndidate for the seat, is the first non-cumbent gay Republin elected to Congrs and will be the only LGBTQ Republin eher chamber next term.