The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline This timeline provides information about the gay rights movement in the United States from 1924 to the present: including the Stonewall riots; the contributions of Harvey Milk; the "Don’t Ask‚ Don’t Tell" policy; the first civil unions; the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts‚ Connecticut‚ New York; and more. 1924 The Society for Human Rights in Chicago becomes the country’s earliest known gay rights organization. 1948 Alfred Kinsey
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have been many social changes. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s was the most powerful and compelling change to occur in our history. The Civil Rights Movement was a time dedicated to activism for equal rights and fairness for African Americans in the United States. The people pushed for nothing more than social‚ legal‚ and political changes to prohibit discrimination and end segregation. Though Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery was one step in the right direction‚ there was still serious conflict
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4‚ 2012 Gay Liberation Strongly influenced by occurring civil right movements gays began their own movement. The Stonewall Riot was the first major revolt in which gays fought back against those who oppressed them and it helped push forward the Gay liberation movement. There had previously been many violent events previous to stonewall that involve gay bashing and cruel treatment of gays. One night at the Stonewall Inn‚ what seemed to be normal night‚ turned out to be a major event in Gay Liberation
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Sociology Research #3 Gay Rights In our country this year there is many movements for the gay community coming together. The gay community has significantly stood up for there rights over the last few years and we should expect a lot more. The gay community has recently gained many large voices to their movement‚ from congressmen and celebrities to even former President Bill Clinton (Wong Huffington Post). I believe 2013 is going to be a big year for not only the gay community but the transgender
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Monroe Gay Rights “I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid‚ I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people‚ what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.”- Paul Newman‚ an actor who gave his thoughts on the gay rights movement. The Gay rights
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that all men are created equal’." -Martin Luther King Jr. The Civil Rights movement may have started out on a mission to improve the lives of the large population of African-Americans‚ but who would have guessed that King’s quest for racial integration would provoke the same quest for individual rights by another completely different group of people‚ this time the Gay and Lesbians of society. The quest for equal rights by people‚ who had unjustifiably been repressed for hundreds of years‚ would
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In 1960‚ the united states of America play a vital role because it was something bring new changes and social order in the government. Student Movement‚ Vietnam Movement‚ Women Movement‚ Gay Right Movement and Environmental Movement are the last movements that happen on that era to bring a new change in the U.S. Student Movement in 1960: The student movement worked mainly to fight racism and hardship‚ increase student rights‚ and to end the Vietnam War. The students expect to hand power to the people
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The 1950s through the 1960s were all about civil rights. African Americans fought to assert there full rights as Americans‚ Woman fought to be able to stand next to a man in whatever profession and also vote. And now since the late 1960s it’s the gays turn to fight for equal rights. The movement for gay equality in the constitution has been a recent topic for debate in the united states. Over the last several decades‚ gay rights advocates have made significant strides in better protecting homosexuals
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always been in existence‚ including Julius Caesar‚ Plato‚ and Alexander the Great. Gays have existed for as long as history‚ but it is only until recently that being gay has actually become a socially acceptable thing. Throughout history‚ gays have been the victim of an onslaught of discrimination. Gays did not always have equal legal rights‚ were refused jobs and were subject to violence and harassment. Being gay was a dangerous thing so many people were afraid to come out. Same-sex marriage is
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treatment. Gays have been fighting for rights since the 1960’s‚ maybe even before then‚ and yet today in 2010‚ those pleas for rights go unheard. I believe that we should allow same-sex marriage because banning it is unfair‚ love is all that matters in marriage‚ and gay families have certain family values that some straight marriages lack. Banning an issue doesn’t make it go away. The American Constitution states that everyone desverves the same‚ equal rights -- that inlcludes gay people. So banning
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