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Stonewall Riots - The Stonewall Riots were the catalyst for the LGBT movements.
- Newyork lawas prohibited homosexuality in public.
- Group of gay customers at a gay bar in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn and there took a stand and a riot broke out.
- Soon after the riots, the Gay Liberation Front was formed by 37 men and women.
- Aligned themselves with other organizations like Black Panther.
- First LGBT group to use the word Gay -
No longer a mental illness
Pre-1970: Being homosexual was considered to be a mental illness.
1970: Gay rights activists began to speak out and protest about this classification made by the American Psychiatric Association.
1974: The APA took homosexuality off the medical condition list of the seventh edition of the DSM-II.
-No new scientific evidence for this change. -
Harvey Milk
-January 8th 1978 - November 27th 1978
-Woodmere, New York (on Long Island)
-Board of supervisors "Mayor of Castro Street" -
Don't ask Don't tell
Military policy
1993 Clinton: This said that if you were a homosexual man or women in the military you were still allowed to be in the armed forces, but you weren't allowed to declare your sexual orientation publicly.
2011 Obama: After a lot of debate between different people and political figures, Obama repealed the "don't ask, don't tell" on September 20th 2011. -
DOMA- Republican Representative Bob Barr of Georgia introduced Doma in May of 1996
- Created a federal definition of marriage.
- Edith Windsor who recently lost her partner was sole executor of their estate.
- Their marriage was recognized by New York state law.
- Living in Toronto, their marriage was not recognized by the federal government.
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Lawrence V. Texas Court Case- Illinois: First state to remove sodomy laws from its Criminal Code
- Criminalized "Open Lewdness"
- Laurence and Garner were two gay men charged for same sex, sexual actions.
- Challenged the statue as a violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment
- Court rejected the constitutional arguments and affirmed convictions. -
Gay Rights Accomplishments
1924 Society for Human Rights: First group to fight for equal civil rights of homosexuals.
1970: The first gay pride parades took place in three major cities
(Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles)
1974: Homosexuality is no longer declared a mental disorder by the APA.
1980: The Democratic party announced its support for gay rights.
2000: Vermont becomes the first state to legally allow civil unions -
Continued Goals- Faced with social discrimination and rejection
- Non-legal marriage in some states GOALS:
- Improve safety and well-being of LGBT individuals
