The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.
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- CORNEAL DONATN CUR BLDNS. GAY MEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HELP.
- IT’S TIME TO LEGALIZE GAY EY
- LEGALIZE CORNEA AND TISSUE DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- GAY RIGHTS
- HAWAII EY BEG 14TH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
CORNEAL DONATN CUR BLDNS. GAY MEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HELP.
He lled all 65 eye banks the Uned Stat and Canada to vtigate how many potential rneal donors were disqualified over the urse of one year bee of feral rtrictns on rneas om gay men.
Puente found that between 1, 600 to 3, 200 rnea donatns a year are turned away due to bans on rneal donatn by gay and bisexual men the Uned Stat and Canada. Though AJ was able to donate his heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver, his fay soon realized that he was not allowed to donate his rneas - for no other reason than bee he was gay.
This only add sult to jury for his heartbroken, they dite their liv to tg the public and changg the antiquated laws preventg the gay and bisexual muny om beg an and tissue donors. As your nstuent, I am wrg to exprs my ncern about the FDA's policy banng most gay and bisexual men om donatg their rneas and other tissu, and to enurage you to sign a bimeral Congrsnal letter about this issue.
IT’S TIME TO LEGALIZE GAY EY
This letter will requt that the FDA and US Department of Health and Human Servic revis their s-old rtrictns on tissue donatn by gay and bisexual men. Wh morn HIV tts that are highly reliable wh only a few days, there is no longer any reason to require gay and bisexual men to be abstent for 5 years orr to donate their rneas. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat.
Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators.
LEGALIZE CORNEA AND TISSUE DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.
GAY RIGHTS
Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.
HAWAII EY BEG 14TH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr.