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Contents:
- MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
- GAY RIGHTS THE US, STATE BY STATE
- THE COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL [MAP]
- GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE
MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * gay marriage laws map *
Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. At least 73 untri have laws that crimalize same-sex massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando ma clear: Basic legal rights are no guarantee of safety. Seventy-three untri, or 37 percent of the Uned Natns, clare same-sex physil relatns illegal, acrdg to a prehensive survey of sexual orientatn laws om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), Iran, Sdi Arabia, and Yemen ll for the ath penalty natnwi for same-sex relatns, the report says, while other plac n impose ath penalti regnally, along wh f and prison sentenc.
GAY RIGHTS THE US, STATE BY STATE
In June of 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. This timele highlights the chang state polici leadg up to that lg. * gay marriage laws map *
In Florida, a new measure dubbed the “Pastor Protectn Act” allows clergy to refe to perform gay marriag.
They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. “[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.
It's still illegal to be LGBT+ 70 untri, and you uld be given the ath penalty 12, as the world marks 30 years sce “homosexualy” was classified as a disease. Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT), May 17 marks the day the World Health Organisatn (WHO) classified “homosexualy” as a mental disorr.
THE COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL [MAP]
The Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill to dify the right to gay marriage the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wa * gay marriage laws map *
As the world reach 30 years sce beg gay was no longer an ternatnally signated disease, a map by an ternatnal LGBT anizatn shows remas illegal to be gay 70 untri.
The map by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn shows that only 65% of those livg UN untri around the world n now be, legally, nsensual same-sex relatnships. The data prented this map is based on State-Sponsored Homophobia, an ILGA World report by Lus... The ILGA State-Sponsored Homophobia Report, released December 2019 and updated for IDAHOBIT 2020.
Dpe wispread nmnatn and scientific evince that gay nversn therapy do not work, the cel torture is only illegal four untri across the world. Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissner for Human Rights, has regnised the "crease homophobic and transphobic rhetoric" durg the panmic. Liz Cheney of Wyomg -- a break om her past stance on the issue, which publicly put her at odds wh her parents and sister, who is gay.
GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE
BBC News looks at those US stat where the issue of gay marriage has cropped up over the years. * gay marriage laws map *
In November 2006, Arizona voters rejected an amendment to the state nstutn that would have banned domtic partnership laws as well as gay marriage. Seven other stat approved nstutnal amendments banng gay marriage on the same day.
For more than a , the battle over same-sex marriage and other rights for gay upl has been hard fought U.S. urts and legislatur and at the ballot box. Use this map to view ton the fight and to explore how state laws have changed sce 2000. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court led that same-sex upl have a nstutnal right to marry natnwi. * gay marriage laws map *
California - Ameri's most populo state - has the untry's most lourful rerd on gay marriag. The cy of San Francis started issug marriage licenc to same-sex upl Febary 2004, after the cy's new mayor cid to fy state law and allow gay weddgs. More than 3, 400 gay upl got married before California's Supreme Court orred a halt the followg month.
Gay rights laws Ameri have evolved to allow — but some s ban — rights for gay, lbian and transgenr people on a range of issu, cludg marriage, hospal visatn, adoptn… * gay marriage laws map *
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger me out agast gay marriag, and told the state's attorney general to get a urt lg agast them. In September 2005, the state assembly beme the first state legislature the US to pass a bill endorsg gay marriag, followg a siar move om the state Senate.
Like Vermont, Connecticut bans gay marriage while allowg civil partnerships that nfer many, but not all, of the same rights. Homosexual upl livg Mae have been able to register for domtic partnerships sce July 2004. Massachetts beme the first state to issue marriage licenc for gay upl, May 2004, and weddgs took place soon after, spe last-dch legal attempts by nservative groups to halt the procs.
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This followed re-affirmatn Febary 2004 by the state's Supreme Court of a landmark lg that is a vlatn of the state nstutn to ban gay marriage. It had origally led on the issue as a rult of a lawsu filed 2001 by seven gay upl, who sued the Massachetts Department of Public Health after they were refed marriage licenc.
State legislators later proposed a nstutnal amendment that would ban gay marriag, but would allow civil unns, but the measure was effectively killed when the state hoe cid November 2006 to recs rather than vote on .