LBGT+ PRIDE Fight For Rights Bookshelf Bookmark

// What Each of These Are or Represent //

✨ Lawrence vs Texas: the Supreme Court case that ruled sodomy law in the US are unconstitutional.

✨ The Daughters of Bilitis where the first lesbian rights organization in the US. 

✨Rome V Evans: the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s 2nd amendment denying gays and lesbians protections against discrimination is unconstitutional.

✨ Marriage Equality Act: New York passes the marriage equality act legalizing gay marriage.

✨The Mattachine Society: A gay rights group that staged a “sip-in” to protest the New York Liquor Authority’s prohibition on serving gay patrons in bars on the basis that they are “disorderly”. Subsequently, the New York commission declared they had a right to be served.

✨Obergfell V Hodges: The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states.

✨ Stonewall: refers to the 3-day riot following an attempted police raid of a gay bar in Greenwich Village. This riot is largely credited with propelling the LGBT rights movement forward in the US.

✨ PRIDE: refers to the yearly pride parade celebrating the LGBT+ community and memorializing the rights movement to get to this point.

✨Matthew Shepard Act: expanded US discrimination laws to include crimes committed on the basis of the victims actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

✨One Inc V Olesen: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of protecting the first amendment rights of a LGBT magazine after the US postal service and FBI had declared it ‘obscene material’. It was the first time the supreme court had ruled in favor of the LGBT community.

✨The red ribbon is a symbol of awareness and compassion for those living with HIV/AIDS.

(PBS.ORG, Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement)

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