Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
EQCA (Equality California) GALAS LGBTQ+ Armenian Society. Lavender Panthers (defunct) Los Angeles LGBT Center. Love Honor Cherish. Marriage Equality California (defunct) Society for Individual Rights (probably defunct) Trans-e-motion. Trikone.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group.It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States. [2] Based in Washington, D.C., the organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGBTQ individuals, including advocating for same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination and hate crimes legislation, and HIV/AIDS advocacy.
Coalition of Activist Lesbians Australia (COAL) Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association (GaLTaS) Kaleidoscope Australia Human Rights Foundation (KAHRF) National LGBTI Health Alliance. Organisation Intersex International Australia (OII Australia)
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights 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 1962, beginning with Illinois, states began to decriminalize same-sex sexual activity, [6] and in 2003, through Lawrence v.
The Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (CLGR) was also instrumental in finally passing the bill in 1986. They formed in 1986 and were a coalition of gay and lesbian groups plus their supporters. Their goal was to defend and ensure the rights of the gay and lesbian population through “legislative, judicial, administrative and budgetary ...
Larry Kramer (1935–2020), author and playwright who helped form the prominent gay rights organizations Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) [330] Janice Langbehn (born 1968), campaigner for same-sex marriage and same-sex hospital visitation after being denied access to her dying partner, Lisa Marie Pond, in ...
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/TNS. CHICAGO — A century ago, Henry Gerber founded America’s first documented gay rights organization in a boardinghouse at 1710 N. Crilly Court in Chicago. It ...
The first major attempt at organizing a national gay and lesbian march on Washington occurred on Thanksgiving weekend in 1973 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.The National Gay Mobilizing Committee for a March on Washington (NGMC), led by Jeff Graubart, tried to bring together a coalition of local and national LGBT organizations to plan a march in the nation's capital for the following spring.