The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn.
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THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
The Court led favor of gay rights as early as 1958. But s cisns haven't always sid wh the LGBT muny. * gay rights fist *
It is important to note that there existed lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals, muni, and relatnships long before the terms beme monplace. Gay and lbian relatnships existed ancient Rome and Greece muni and are shown a variety of art om that time.
Homosexual – 1869 – Hungarian journalist Karl-Maria Kertheny first ed the term homosexual. Gay – 1955 – the term gay was ed throughout Europe earlier, but this is the year most agree that gay me to mean same-sex relatnships between men. Ary for homosexualy.
History Naval Instute Blog / Timele of Milary Gay History. Some historians suggt Buchanan, by today’s terms, was gay. Gay rights advot ce this amendment support of equaly for future urt s.
WHAT COUNTRI HAD GAY RIGHTS FIRST?
1896 – Magn Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician and sexologist issued a pamphlet, Sappho and Socrat, on homosexual love (unr the psdonym Th. In Paris, the two women set up a salon that nnects many great wrers and artists, cludg gays. 1907 – Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician and sexologist, ttified at a trial Germany about a gay relatnship and stated, “homosexualy was part of the plan of nature and creatn jt like normal love.
Historians have stated that the renaissance was “as gay as was black. ” Some of the lbian, gay or bisexual people of this movement clud wrers and poets such as Langston Hugh, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston; Profsor Ala Locke; mic cric and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and entertaers Ma Raey, Bsie Smh, Ethel Waters and Gladys Bentley. Durg his lifetime, he was an advote for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) human rights.
1924 – The Society for Human Rights, the first gay rights anizatn, was found by Henry Gerber Chigo who had emigrated om Germany. This ed the topic of homosexualy to be a topic of public nversatn both the Uned Stat and England. 1933 – 1945 – Nearly 100, 000 German homosexual men were round up and placed ncentratn mps along wh Jewish people.