Argumentative Essay On Civil Rights
What are Civil Rights? Civil rights are the rights of citizens and social freedom. A civil right is a right or privilege that can be enforced by an individual. This means that if a person violates another’s civil rights, it gives the later a right to an action for injury. We have civil rights because it keeps us free from unfair treatments or discrimination.
Our topic is gay rights. It is related to civil rights because they want to get married but in some states they can’t get married.In 1967 being gay was thought to be a disorder. Who ever was a gay was put in a mental hospital. Gays have been put as outcasts for a long time. Same-sex marriage was illegal for many years. People used to wait outside gay clubs with sticks or other items when …show more content…
31, 1966, a dozen policemen were watching the New Year's festivities inside the Black Cat, a gay bar in Los Angeles. At midnight, as gays celebrated with the traditional New Year's kiss, cops burst into the bar, billy clubs swinging. For many of the bar's customers, 1967 began with a blow to the head.
Sixteen people were arrested inside the Black Cat, and police chased two more men into New Faces, another gay bar nearby.(Gay Bar) There, the cops struck the female owner and beat three employees who came to her defense. According to Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons’ book Gay L.A., one of the bartenders suffered a ruptured spleen; when he came to at County General Hospital, he was charged with assaulting an officer. In 1967 male homosexuality was finally decriminalised, a milestone in gay history and a big step towards equality before the law for homosexuals.This exhibition, using archives from the Hall-Carpenter Archives of lesbian and gay activism and press cuttings from the collection of the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive, puts the campaign for law reform in its historical context, charts the progress of reform proposals through parliament and illustrates the impact the change in law had on the gay rights
Our topic is gay rights. It is related to civil rights because they want to get married but in some states they can’t get married.In 1967 being gay was thought to be a disorder. Who ever was a gay was put in a mental hospital. Gays have been put as outcasts for a long time. Same-sex marriage was illegal for many years. People used to wait outside gay clubs with sticks or other items when …show more content…
31, 1966, a dozen policemen were watching the New Year's festivities inside the Black Cat, a gay bar in Los Angeles. At midnight, as gays celebrated with the traditional New Year's kiss, cops burst into the bar, billy clubs swinging. For many of the bar's customers, 1967 began with a blow to the head.
Sixteen people were arrested inside the Black Cat, and police chased two more men into New Faces, another gay bar nearby.(Gay Bar) There, the cops struck the female owner and beat three employees who came to her defense. According to Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons’ book Gay L.A., one of the bartenders suffered a ruptured spleen; when he came to at County General Hospital, he was charged with assaulting an officer. In 1967 male homosexuality was finally decriminalised, a milestone in gay history and a big step towards equality before the law for homosexuals.This exhibition, using archives from the Hall-Carpenter Archives of lesbian and gay activism and press cuttings from the collection of the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive, puts the campaign for law reform in its historical context, charts the progress of reform proposals through parliament and illustrates the impact the change in law had on the gay rights