The Acceptance And Tolerance Towards Gay Rights

When it comes to the gay rights movement, the structure and the history of how it got to where it is today is a huge factor in today’s society. There have been a lot of things that negatively influenced gay rights. In some ways, things have happened in a positive way as well. The gay rights movement today and legalizing gay marriage has struck some people the wrong way because of their beliefs. For the gay community, though, it has been a very positive thing. Some of the big key moments in history went the way they did because of important events and important people causing it to go that way. These include Jeremy Bentham, Magnus Hirschfield, Henry Gerber, the making of the Mattachine Society, Stonewall Riots, Clela Rorex, the Ryan White

Homosexuality has been an issue for the public for an extremely long time dating back to even Ancient Rome and Greek. Especially with the birth of Christianity, the religious society has been persecuting anyone claiming homosexuality, forcing people to hide their own sexuality for centuries. It is important to understand and know the past of the homsexuality to understand the reason for their fight and the mentality of their opposition. Homosexuality has never been accepted into the norms of society and was even viewed as a mental disease by the American Psychiatric Association (Bowman). Not until a few decades ago has the movement for gay rights began to kick off. The event that really set off the movement was the Stonewall Riot of 1969. “New York’s gay community had grown weary of the police department targeting gay clubs, a majority of which had already been closed. The crowd on the street watched quietly as Stonewall’s employees were arrested, but when three drag queens and a lesbian were forced into the paddy wagon, the crowd began throwing bottles at the police” (“Stonewall”). This event is regarded as the foundation for the modern gay rights movement including the formation of many gay, lesbian, and bisexual civil rights organizations.

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It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed – ‘we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal’.”

Homosexuality has always been a controversial topic in the United States, and the twenty-first century has brought about many new rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender group. The American Gay Rights Movement has a long history, but the LGBT community is now starting to have more rights and protection.

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Homophobia, and other issues which come with a homosexual population, have been increasing dramatically in the recent years as more movements are started for gay rights, such as legalization of gay marriage. Though the homosexual population is very small, less than 2% of the total population, homophobia and other issues create social injustice and divides within society. This issue has become such a large issue with in the United States because of the historically high population of Christians/Catholics dating back to the founding of America. The reason this high religious population conflicts with the homosexual community is because the Bible speaks of homosexuality as a sin.

In the modern era, people of the United States of America have increasingly become more tolerant and accepting of differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. However, the new liberal mindset of people regarding characteristics such as race and sexual orientation would not be possible without the relentless protesters and dedicated activists who fought hard to make their views heard through a movement that would greatly impact and shape the future of this country. The gay rights movement which started in the late 1960’s aimed at achieving human rights for homosexuals; the phenomenal empowering poems and widely acclaimed literary works of Audre Lorde significantly promoted gay rights and provided a unique point of view of the life of a homosexual.

Brought together by various organizations, and united by shared persecution, the gay community came together and pushed for their rights, and were able to obtain them through science and litigation. The outset of the gay rights movement can be traced back to World War I. The World War brought America out of its isolationism and exposed Americans to life outside America. For the first time Americans saw firsthand the way countries like, England, France, Germany, and others treated their citizens. For many Americans World War I was a catalyst for change, and the fight for gay rights is no exception.

Trans liberation is not trans liberation if it is not intersectional. Trans people are not a monolith, as we come from different backgrounds that have led us to have different experiences. In order for there to be a cohesive trans movement, all of these different experiences need to be considered. However, this has not been the case in the past. From the mid- to the late-20th century, the issues that have inhibited a broad based transgender movement would be racism and the erasure of trans people from the gay rights movement.

John and Stuart, gay couple who have been involved in marriage equality movement for 12 years. John explained what he is doing to achieve that right. The first gay right law was passed in Michigan state, where the state tried on a city level government to see if gay rights laws works or not before they pass it to the whole state or even the federal government. Then the law passed through small liberal cities. In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court passed a law saying that a state cannot put a gay person in jail just because they had a sexual relationship. On February 12, 2004, Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco at that time, said he don’t want to discriminate any same-sex couples anymore because the constitution says we should not discriminate.

The topic I choose to discuss is the gay rights movement. This topic is presented well in the textbook, it is a long through couple paragraphs of important knowledge. The book talks about how people have started to change opinion about people who have a different sexual orientation than them. It is also talks about how people used to be put into mental hospitals for being homosexual and all the prejudice that goes on with them it’s no wonder that many people don’t announce it. It talks about people being homophobic, nowadays people like that are frowned upon. People don’t understand others who can’t handle if someone had a different sexual orientation than them. I agree with how the book presents this knowledge, I think it is helpful and an

The United States’ has been an active battleground for the LGBTQ+ community—and that, in itself, is why it has been such a successful movement. Due to the constant rallies and demands for inclusion and acceptance, the gay rights movement helped define a major part of the new millennium and paved the way for later movements that were bound to come. The liberationist approach dominated the homophile movement and, paired with the results leaning in the movement’s favor, it showed that it was not merely enough to demand equal rights, but to demand that one did not need to assimilate to be accepted. It can be argued that such an approach was necessary as the LGBTQ+ community already had the same political rights as their straight counterparts,

same-sex marriage. It occurs when men and women are attracted to someone of the same gender of themselves. However, some people denied the idea of it since they believe it is going against the law of nature and violating certain beliefs and traditions. LGBT people have faced injustice and discrimination and have been fighting for their rights for decades to overcome prejudice against them which they have finally received in 2015.

Moreover, the article “A History of Gay Marriage” goes on explaining that it was not until the rise of Christianity and the dominance of Church that negative attitudes towards same-sex relationships became introduced. The idea that marriage was based on procreation became to dislike and became the main focus in many