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Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS
- WHEN DID THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEG?
- THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement is the stggle for equaly and marriage rights for gay, lbian and transgenr people. Learn about the Stonewall Rts, Harvey Milk, the Pri flag and more. * first gay rights laws *
FeaturedStonewall RtsConstant Raids at Gay Bars The 1960s and precedg s were not welg tim for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins. For such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and […]Read more about Stonewall Rts. He is -edor of Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lbian Rights Historil Context (Haworth Gay & Lbian Studi)'s Note (11-8-11): Mr.
On May 1 the Equaly Fom plans to memorate the 40th anniversary of a gay march held ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia.
Some ntend that this 1965 event marked the begng of the gay rights movement. " MSNBC reports that the"The Pennsylvania Historil and Mm Commissn has approved a state historil marker near Inpennce Hall clarg the area the se of the first public monstratn for gay and lbian rights.
WHEN DID THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEG?
Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights. * first gay rights laws *
"Clubs and rmal groupgs of gays and lbian have a long history. Even anized groups out the public agatg for change appeared the late neteenth century Europe as did journals and magaz aimed at gays and lbians. In the Uned Stat, however, gays and lbians had difficulty gog public and agatg for a change.
Most large ci had gay balls, and there are ocsnal referenc newspapers reportg on the, and certaly the police knew about bars and rtrants terg to gays and kept a watchful eye on them. In 1917 he was briefly stutnalized a mental hospal for homosexualy (the mon fate of many gays) but neverthels served the U. He beme well acquated wh the German movement agatg for a change German laws on homosexualy and after his return to Chigo he found a Society for Human Rights (SHR) 1924 to promote and protect the terts of “people who by reasons of mental and physil abnormali are abed and hred” by police and others.
Though he is now relled as the grandfather of the Amerin gay movement, he was embtered.
THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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An early pneer was Lisa Ben (a psdonym) who began publish a newsletter Los Angel which was posted at gay and lbian bars and was apparently wily read.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * first gay rights laws *
It was Los Angel that the first anized gay movements appeared. The anizatn which began all, the Mattache Society, at first was a secretive anizatn n on the prcipl of the munist party (all of the five foundg members at one time had been munist and fact several of them had been expelled for their homosexualy). Harry Hay, the Johnny Appleed of the gay and lbian movement, who later went on to form other anizatns, led the group.
Enuraged by his succs anizg the Wallace mpaign, he began to agate for for homosexual rights. In urt, Jenngs stated he was a homosexual, but he was nocent of the charge; the police were lyg. Although the Mattache remaed secret, was quickly regnized there was a need for a more public dissematn of rmatn and this led to the formatn of a public gay magaze, ONE, and a separate anizatn.
Sce the term homosexual uld not then be listed the telephone book or even mentned very publicly, the tle, One, was picked. It soon appeared on select newsstands and homosexualy was out the open. In spe of the Mattache efforts to keep s anizatn secret, news of reached the prs and one Los Angel stated that homosexuals ( the first time an L.
THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * first gay rights laws *
The new Mattache moved s headquarters om Los Angel to San stggle for gay rights went natnwi. The activists ONE, Dorr Legg, Don Slater, Jim Kepner, and others were termed to ph the gay movement hard. It was not until 1958 the Supreme Court led ONE’s favor, and this victory marks the openg wedge for the distributn of much more sexually explic material about homosexualy and least one other person should be mentned this saga of the begngs of the gay movement, that is Reed Erickson, a lbian, who early on unrwent a surgil change om female to male, as well as a multi lnaire who begng the early 1960's helped bankroll ONE and much of the early gay and transsexual movement.
It published a magaze, the there are dozens of other dividuals who uld be mentned who were fluential, the gay movement beme even more public wh a monstratn Los Angel the early 1960's prottg the U.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
The Court led favor of gay rights as early as 1958. But s cisns haven't always sid wh the LGBT muny. * first gay rights laws *
Ary policy agast gays and lbians, the first public gay monstratn and a forenner of the gay and lbian 1969 gay and lbian anizatns existed all over the untry. The prs, however, had not yet really disvered the power of the gay and lbian movement spe of some ocsnal flammatory story about ONE or the Mattache. LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng.
It is the first documented gay rights anizatn. 1950 - The Mattache Society is formed by activist Harry Hay and is one of the first staed gay rights groups the Uned Stat.
The Society foc on social acceptance and other support for homosexuals. April 1952 - The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s diagnostic manual lists homosexualy as a socpathic personaly disturbance. Eisenhower signs an executive orr that bans homosexuals om workg for the feral ernment, sayg they are a secury risk.
THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
July 1961 - Illois be the first state to crimalize homosexualy by repealg their sodomy laws. September 11, 1961 - The first US-televised documentary about homosexualy airs on a lol statn California.
Protts and monstratns beg, and later be known as the impet for the gay civil rights movement the Uned Stat. This event is named Christopher Street Liberatn Day and is now nsired the first gay pri para.
1973 - Lambda Legal be the first legal anizatn tablished to fight for the equal rights of gays and lbians. March 26, 1973 - First meetg of “Parents and Friends of Gays, ” which go natnal as Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) 1982.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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. 1974 - Elae Noble is the first openly gay ndidate elected to a state office when she is elected to the Massachetts State legislature. January 14, 1975 - The first feral gay rights bill is troduced to addrs discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.
January 9, 1978 - Harvey Milk is gurated as San Francis cy supervisor, and is the first openly gay man to be elected to a polil office California.
October 14, 1979 - The first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights tak place.