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Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT & LGBT COMMUNY - READG COMPREHENSN TEXT
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SUMMARY
• WILLIAMS INSTUTE READG ROOM: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR ROURC LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY: LGBT MOVEMENT/HISTORY

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage).

GAY RIGHTS

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. ”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. 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. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT & LGBT COMMUNY - READG COMPREHENSN TEXT

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. Y, twelve stat (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachetts, Mnota, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, Rho Island, Vermont and Wisns), the District of Columbia, many municipali, and hundreds of bs and universi have enacted laws that protect gay, lbian and bisexual people om employment discrimatn.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SUMMARY

The vtage and ntemporary imag ver every aspect of queer life and liberatn, cludg pri march and protts, the AIDS crisis, queer fay life, personal snapshots om notable and regular people, drag queens, celebratns, reactns to important legal cisns, marriage equaly, and and Ristance: Out of the Closet to the Stonewall Era by Roxane Gay; Diana Davi; Kay Tob LahenCall Number: HQ76. Davi, turn, is one of the most important photojournalists who documented gay, lbian, and trans liberatn, as well as civil rights, femist, and antiwar powerful llectn--which ptur the energy, humor, and humany of the groundbreakg protts that surround the Stonewall Rts--celebrat the diversy of this rights movement, both the subjects of the photos and by prentg Lahen and Davi' distctive work and perspectiv nversatn wh each other.

WILLIAMS INSTUTE READG ROOM: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR ROURC LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY: LGBT MOVEMENT/HISTORY

Wh humor and grace, she scrib the fluence her father Sl's strong masculy had on her, her troductn to middle-class gay life, and her love affairs--cludg one wh a well-known abstract pater and another wh a French amic she met on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Mexi and wh whom she traveled throughout France and Swzerland. Out Time explor the life experienc of three generatns of gay men --the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generatns-- argug that while there are generatnal differenc the lived experienc of young gay men, each one nonts s own unique historil events, reali, and soc-polil ndns, there are nsistenci across time that fe and unify the inty formatn of gay men.

Out Time monstrat how early life challeng fe and shape the life urs of gay men, martg both the specific time-bound challeng enuntered by each generatn, and the universal challeng enuntered by gay men g of age across all generatns and the ndns that fe their to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformatn of Amerin Sexual Polics by Brett KtzschCall Number: HQ75. Through an examatn of publicly mourned gay aths, Ktzsch unters the mon perceptn that LGBT polics and relign have been opposnal and reveals how gay activists ed relign to bolster the argument that gays are sentially the same as straights, and therefore servg of equal rights.