After the Supreme Court heard two arguments about the legaly of same-sex marriage the U.S., the outpourg of support om Amerins ma clear that gay marriage already won — though 's been a long road for supporters.
Contents:
- A HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THROUGH TIME COVERS
- GAY HISTORY – APRIL 15, 1979: SAN FRANCIS’S SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE FOUND
- LA’S GAY PAST: THIS IS LGBT HISTORY, TOLD SIX LANDMARKS
A HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THROUGH TIME COVERS
As the gay-rights movement fed ahead the U.
GAY HISTORY – APRIL 15, 1979: SAN FRANCIS’S SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE FOUND
Through the 1970s, there were still many qutns Amerins’ mds about homosexualy.
TIME’s ver story, “How Gay Is Gay? ” — published jt six months after the assassatn of Harvey Milk, the San Francis cy supervisor who helped enact sweepg gay-rights reforms — foced on gay populatns across the U. The mal are also far more visible than the femal performg one of the most fascatg rol of the gay rights movement: fluencg straight culture.
LA’S GAY PAST: THIS IS LGBT HISTORY, TOLD SIX LANDMARKS
Male homosexuals have long been particularly active the world of the arts, where they often n work openly wh no fear of losg their livelihood if they have the talent; Novelist Tman Capote and Playwright Tennsee Williams are two notable exampl. But the new fluence of homosexuals is somethg que different: their drs, tast and speech are beg adopted by many straights who would be stunned if they knew the origs of the latt fashns or fads.
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 Germany.Gerber’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 Landmark.The Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, 1938.The gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few tim.For 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.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 heterosexual.The Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.