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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TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
Read about key moments the history of the LGBTQ fight for rights Ameri, om the first gay rights group to prent day. * gay history moments *
Gilbert Baker, who scribed himself as the “gay Betsy Ross, ” created the first pri flag om strips of fabric dyed trash ns the attic of San Francis’s Gay Communy Center before the cy’s 1978 pri para.
We’ve gone om homosexualy beg punishable by imprisonment or ath, banned om beg tght schools, and diagnosed as a mental illns, to beg celebrated Pri paras and given equal marriage and adoptn rights.
Activists groups, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) formed as a rult and the Stonewall rts are now remembered as one of the most important talysts for morn LGBT movements worldwi. The Sectn stated that lol thori “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy” or “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”. Health anisatns no longer stigmatise homosexualy or transgenr issu wh dated fns, and Pri events across the untry give LGBTQ+ people a place to feel clud, heard, and valued.
GAY RIGHTS
June celebrat LGBT Pri Month, a look at some key moments gay rights. * gay history moments *
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below1 Audre LorGetty ImagLor scribed herself as a "black femist lbian poet warrr mother." She had a way wh words and ed that talent to speak out agast racism, sexism, and homophobia. Lor died of liver ncer 1991, but 2001 Publishg Triangle stuted the Audre Lor Award to honor lbian poetry.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below2 Barbara GtgsShutterstockGtgs beme a csar for gay rights a before the Stonewall rebelln.
"For the people to publicly make a statement that they were gay or lbian was this enormo risk for them — they uld have lost everythg." * gay history moments *
In addn to lnchg the New York chapter of the lbian anizatn, Dghters of Bilis (which she ran form 1958 to 1963), she eded their natnal magaze and was known for standg ont and center picket l prottg anti-gay discrimatn.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below3 Bayard RtGetty ImagRt never hid his homosexualy while fightg alongsi Dr.
Branch of the Mattache Society drafted a bill to get the sodomy laws overturned the cy, which was passed 1993 (30 years after was wrten.) He was also a key player gettg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to no longer list homosexualy as a mental disorr.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below11 Gilbert BakerGetty ImagBaker helped fe the LGBTQ movement as the signer of the rabow flag.