GAYRIGHTS MOVEMENT
Alana Johnson
Legalized marriage
“Massachusetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, and the first legal same-sex marriage was performed on May 17, 2004—a day when seventy-seven other couples across the state also tied the knot.”
(https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/ history-of-gay-rights )
Transgender Rights
“In 2016, the U.S. military lifted its ban on transgender people serving openly, a month after Eric Fanning became secretary of the Army and the first openly gay secretary of a U.S. military branch.”
(https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/hist ory-of-gay-rights#transgender-rights)
Rivera
→ co-founded the group
“StreetTransvestite action revolutionaries (S.T.A.R)”
→ Were banned from participating in parades in 1973
→ Opened a STAR house for trans and gay street kids so they have somewhere to stay where they were provided food, clothing, and support physically and emotionally.
Barbara Gittings
→ “She was passionate about tearing away the ‘shroud of invisibility’around homosexuality which had been associated with crime and mental illness. ”
→ Organized the Daughters of Bilitis a lesbian and civil rights organization (1963-1966)
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /stories/lgbtq-activists-you-should-kno w
Charlie Craggs
→Trangender activist and author.
→ “ She topped the 2016 “New radicals” list in the Observer and was also included in the Rainbow List of the 101 most influential LGBTI people in the UK forThe Independent. ”
Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia
November 8, 1977
Harvey Milk wins a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and is responsible for introducing a gay rights ordinance protecting gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs. Milk also leads a successful campaign against Proposition 6, an initiative forbidding homosexual teachers.
April 26, 2000
Vermont becomes the first state in the U.S. to legalize civil unions and registered partnerships between same-sex couples.
November 4, 2008
California voters approve Proposition 8, making same-sex marriage in California illegal. The passing of the ballot garners national attention from gay-rights supporters across the U.S. Prop 8 inspires the NOH8 campaign, a photo project that uses celebrities to promote marriage equality.
(https://www.pbs.org/wgb h/americanexperience/feat ures/stonewall-milestonesamerican-gay-rights-movem ent/ )
Why does society make the people of the community afraid to be themselves. When will this change?
I think that even though now the hate towards the community is not as bad as it use to it, there are still people that take action on the community and hating the community which still makes people that have not come out yet scared to come out just because they see and hear things that adults say about the community or friends or anyone on the street. Seeing people apart of the community getting jumped and beaten just for being themselves which causes more fear within the community and something people making those comments will not understand is that fear and i hope this zine explains the things people within the community do in order to show just because they don’t love who they are suppose to according to society that does not mean that they are any less of a person and can not do the simple things in which they could already do. Holding protest, riots, movements, etc. are all to get the attention that people in the community are no different than anyone else whos not apart of the community. Many people within the community are apart of the government and are a hige deal proving that you don’t have to be a certain type of person in order to run or be in office but if you qualify than do what you know what you can do.
References
● https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/histo ry-of-gay-rights (page 1)
● https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/l gbtq-activists-you-should-know (page 2)
● https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperien ce/features/stonewall-milestones-american-g ay-rights-movement/ (page 3 )
