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LGBT acceptance had shown slow improvement in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The first documented gay rights organization in American, the Society for Human Rights, was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Henry Gerber, a German-American activist inspired by the progress made by Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin. [8]
The 2019 American Values Atlas by the Public Religion Research Institute found that of all Americans that identify as LGBT, 51% were White Americans while 21% were Hispanic Americans and 13% were African Americans. The same study found that 23% of LGBT Americans identify as Protestant while 13% identify as Catholic. [62]
The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the United States are among the most advanced in the world, [1] [2] with public opinion and jurisprudence changing significantly since the late 1980s. [3] [4] [5]
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. In the mid-20th century, gay men and lesbians began organizing movements to advocate for their rights. As the century went on, bisexual and transgender individuals gained visibility and the GLBT acronym was formed.
More than 5% of U.S. adults under the age of 30 identify as transgender or nonbinary, according to new findings released by Pew Research Center on Tuesday, while 1.6% of U.S. adults of all ages ...
A 2017 Gallup poll concluded that 4.5% of adult Americans identified as LGBT with 5.1% of women identifying as LGBT, compared with 3.9% of men. [108] A different survey in 2016, from the Williams Institute , estimated that 0.6% of U.S. adults identify as transgender. [ 109 ]
At issue in the case, U.S. v. Skrmetti, is Tennessee’s law that bans gender-affirming care, like hormone treatments and gender-transition surgeries, for transgender minors. It also imposes civil ...
Those opposed to Tennessee’s law include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, the American Bar Association, the NAACP, dozens of transgender adults who ...