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Assuming marriage equality remains, Pizer anticipates other forms of aggression, like censorship and restrictive rules around gender and sexuality. “Given the Trump 1.0 policies, the recent ...
Demonstrators holding a gay pride flag. March organizers agreed upon seven primary demands, each with further secondary demands. The primary demands were: [7] We demand passage of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights bill and an end to discrimination by state and federal governments including the military; repeal of all sodomy laws and other laws that criminalize private ...
The defeat provoked a groundswell of initiative within the LGBT community at a grassroots level, with many new political and protest organizations being formed in response. [ 8 ] The NOH8 Campaign was created in 2009 as a result of the passage of Proposition 8, which added an amendment to the California Constitution to ban gay marriage.
CAAH was instrumental in the successful Marriage Equality Campaign and was pivotal in calling the protests of up to 50 000 people in Sydney in 2017. These protests were crucial as they pressured the then Liberal government to call a referendum, which resulted in more than 60% of Australians voting "yes". [citation needed]
Each June our nation celebrates Pride Month, an acknowledgement of our LGBTQIA+ community that began in the late 1960s after a series of gay liberation protests known as the Stonewall riots.
Marriage Equality Decision Day Rally in front of the US Supreme Court, Washington DC, 2015 Russian LGBT activists protesting anti-gay law at the State Duma in Moscow were attacked, detained, 2013 Rights
On Dec. 17, 2013, then-Judge Foley presided over his first marriage equality wedding—exactly 23 years after the first same-sex couple applied for a Hawaii marriage license.
The movement to obtain marriage rights for same-sex couples expanded steadily from that time until in late 2014 lawsuits had been brought in every state that still denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples. By late 2014, same-sex marriage had become legal in states that contained more than 70% of the United States population. In some ...