The Rights Of The Gay Rights Movement

This committee also created the first gay rights movement. The point of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee was to try and keep the homosexuals from being exposed and threatened. Mainly just trying to protect them by trying to get rid of the law that made all gay, and homosexual acts illegal for them to do. This law was called Paragraph 175. The Scientific Humanitarian Committee ended because of the Nazis coming and destroying everything such as all the buildings that they had been in, and also all of the books they had. The Scientific Humanitarian Committee will never be forgotten for what it did, and what it started for other foundations. Next, the person that will be discussed is Henry Gerber and what he did to the sexual minority past. Henry founded the first gay rights association in the United States and it was called the Society for Human Rights (SHR). It was founded in the year 1924. Henry had based this off of Magnus Hirschfeld Scientific Humanitarian Committee. Germany was the starting point for the current gay rights movement, so then Henry Gerber had started the Society for Human Rights in the United States. This association was the first known homosexual organization. The next thing I will be talking about is the Mattachine Society. The Mattachine Society was founded in 1950, and it was considered one of the earliest gay rights movement in the United States. Harry Hay and some of his friends had started this group to protect and form a