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	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Many gays and lesbians are asking for understanding from their parents and friends, coming out of traditional heterosexual marriages, and ultimately, fighting for and defending their rights.
		The change in the societal attitude toward gays and lesbians is closely related to the pursuit by many gays and lesbians of a happy life, wider interpersonal and inter-group communications, support from scientific community, democratic movements, independent gay rights social activists, as well as the general development of the nation.
		Delete gays as a target for the yearly "strike-hard" crackdown and at the same time, policemen should be educated to have a correct attitude towards gays, lesbians and other sexual minorities.
	www.jtsears.com /intlhai.htm (1504 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Same Sex Rights
		Also, a ruling against gay marriages is expected to be heard in B.C. by the province's Court of Appeal in early 2003, and a judge in Montreal is to rule on a similar case.
		A gay and lesbian group goes to trial against the federal government in an attempt to force Ottawa to extend survivor benefits to excluded gays and lesbians.
		The Quebec Court of Appeal rules that homosexuals have the right to marry, and that the traditional definition of marriage is discriminatory and unjustified.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/samesexrights/timeline_canada.html (4287 words)

	Gay Rights - dKosopedia
		Gay Rights is a commonly used term to refer to the movement to end legal and social discrimination against non-heterosexuals (male and female homosexuals and bisexuals) and often includes issues surrounding the eliminations of other forms of gender discrimination, particularly those which impact transgendered people.
		Having openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender politicians in office is crucial in terms of creating a national platform for gay rights as well as for the chance of building relationships with legislators who may normally veer towards ignorance or outright hatred.
		Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund has a list of the GLBT politicians in each state, and of the candidates being endorsed for what is likely to be a contentious and homophobic-invective-filled election year.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Gay_Rights (4380 words)

	Gay Law Reform Achieved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The one remaining barrier to gay law reform was removed today when the Tasmanian Upper House voted against discriminatory amendments which had threatened to derail reform by making it unacceptable to the Lower House.
		Up until gay law reform in Tasmania the trend was for the principles of equality which underlie gay law reform to be increasingly compromised by discriminatory age of consent, public decency and public advocacy laws.
		Gay law reform passes through the Lower House but is again blocked by the Upper House 10 to 8.
	www.tased.edu.au /tasonline/tasqueer/flash.html (1016 words)

	Thick and Thin Arguments for Gay Constitutional Rights
		Free speech arguments hold considerable appeal to many advocates of gay and lesbian rights, because transporting expression that bespeaks same-sex orientation from the realm of the obscene to the realm of the political may be critical to developing positive public gay and lesbian identities.
		Moreover, protecting expression about homo-sexuality may pry open restrictions on gay conduct, insofar as the awkwardness of allowing a person to speak about being gay, but forbidding her to act on it, may eventually produce a wider appreciation of the incoherence and harmfulness of the restrictions on conduct.
		The thick rights arguments would be an important backdrop to this thin attack insofar as they outline specific justifications that the government cannot invoke as a "rational basis" for anti-gay measures; but the primary doctrinal anchor would be rational basis alone.
	www.apa.udel.edu /apa/archive/newsletters/v97n1/law/thick.asp (5203 words)

	San Francisco: In Depth : History : The 1970's & 1980's: Gay Rights \| Frommers.com
		Although the political movement started in New York, California had already given birth to two major organizations for gay rights: the Mattachine Society, founded in 1951 by Henry Hay in Los Angeles; and the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco.
		On May 14, 1970, a group of gay and women's liberationists invaded the convention of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco to protest the reading of a paper on aversion therapy for homosexuals, forcing the meeting to adjourn.
		Gays elected politicians who were sympathetic to their cause and celebrated their new identity by establishing National Gay Celebration Day and Gay Pride Week, the first of which was celebrated in June 1970, when 1,000 to 2,000 marched in New York, 1,000 in Los Angeles, and a few hundred in San Francisco.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/sanfrancisco/0029033660.html (868 words)

	ACLU of Illinois - Legal - High School Civil Liberties Project - Gay Students' Rights
		In 1980 a gay student in Rhode Island sued his school for refusing to let him attend his senior prom with a male date, and won.
		Although sexual orientation is not a “protected class,” meaning the courts do not protect the rights of gays and lesbians with the same vigilance they apply to race and gender discrimination, recent court rulings have made it clear that there is no rational basis for a state to perpetuate anti-gay bigotry.
		Consult your school district’s policy for guidelines as to whether the teacher is required to inform parents of controversial content in his or her classes, the parent’s right to remove his or her child, and the student’s right to opt out of certain classes.
	www.aclu-il.org /legal/highschool/students/gayrights.shtml (774 words)

	The GULLY \| Gay Mundo \| History of Gay Israel — Queer in the Land of Sodom
		The first gay organization was established in 1975, thanks largely to the work of immigrants from the United States and other English-speaking countries influenced by the development of gay liberation and the counterculture of the 1960's.
		Previously, the Israeli gay movement had shunned transgendered people, fearing what their inclusion would do to its public image, but with Dana receiving congratulatory telegrams from the Prime Minister and being made an honorary ambassador by the Knesset, it was now "safe" for the movement to expand its focus.
		The Israeli LGBT movement has not embraced feminism (in fact, sexism and tensions between gay men and lesbians are both quite prevalent), and until recently, the place of gay Arabs in the community was neglected, reflecting the wider society's indifference to Israel's Arab minority (some 20 percent of Israel's population).
	www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/020220_gay_israel_history.html (1573 words)

	Gay Rights Movement: Series II: Activists Alliance
		Its founders were dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front who sought to form a militant, non-violent organization dedicated exclusively to the attainment of civil and social rights for gays.
		The passage of a bill for gay rights in the City Council and in the state legislature was one of the major concerns of GAA.
		In 1972 GAA and the Chicago Gay Alliance organized the first national gay convention which adopted a platform on gay rights and voted to conduct demonstrations at the Democratic and Republican party conventions.
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	Basic Rights Oregon - gay rights, civil rights, gay marriage, lesbian, glbt
		From every corner of the country, gay rights advocates and those who would deny equal rights to the GLBT community are going to be watching an important race in Oregon next year.
		We believe that the Oregon Constitution guarantees basic civil rights to every Oregonian, and that the protections that families need and deserve ought to be granted regardless of whether a couple is gay or straight.
		Gay and lesbian people are not second class citizens and should not be treated as such, and their children deserve the full protections of having married parents.
	basicrights.blogspot.com (2449 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Timeline: gay rights
		Gay sex decriminalised, with new privacy clause - no act may take place where a third party is likely to be present.
		Gay sex decriminalised in Scotland on similar terms to 1967 act.
		A ban on gays serving in the armed forces is overturned.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /homeaffairs/story/0,11026,988341,00.html (527 words)

	1979 in gay rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		See also: 1978 in gay rights, other events of 1979, 1980 in gay rights and the list of 'years in gay rights'
		May 21 - White Night Riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White uses the Twinkie defense to get a conviction of voluntary manslaughter instead of murder in the assassination of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.
		October 14 - Washington, DC - The first gay rights march was held in the United States' capital with about 100,000 people in attendance.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/1/1979-in-gay-rights.htm (170 words)

	Catching up with public on gay rights=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1977, only 56 percent stood by the proposition that “homosexuals should … have equal rights in terms of job opportunities.” Today, the Gallup Poll finds a national consensus, with 88 percent believing in equal employment rights for gays.
		During that period, the percentage who thought gays should be hired as elementary school teachers jumped nearly 30 points, from 27 to 56 percent.
		Gay bashing from the likes of Frist (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) reinforces one of the Republicans’ most negative images — they are intolerant, closed and divisive.
	www.hillnews.com /campaign/070203_mellman.aspx (615 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		This disqualification of a class of persons from the right to obtain specific protection from the law is unprecedented and is itself a denial of equal protection in the most literal sense.
		To the extent it held that the groups designated in the statute may be deprived of the right to vote because of their status, its ruling could not stand without surviving strict scrutiny, a most doubtful outcome.
		723, 724 (1993) ("[T]he task of gay rights proponents is to move the center of public discourse along a continuum from the rhetoric of disapprobation, to rhetoric of tolerance, and finally to affirmation").
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=U10179 (8742 words)

	Gay and Lesbian Emergence: Out in Canada - Life and Society - CBC Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With a growing sense of solidarity, gays and lesbians became more visible in Canadian society in the 1960s, '70s and early '80s.
		A doctor, a lawyer and a sociologist, along with a gay man and a lesbian, are interviewed about homosexuality in Canada.
		Gays and lesbians march on Parliament Hill for "gay day," demanding an end to discrimination.
	archives.cbc.ca /300c.asp?IDCat=69&IDDos=599&IDLan=1&IDMenu=69 (288 words)

	Gay Rights Battlefields Spread to Public Schools - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Emboldened by the political right's growing influence on public policy, opponents of school activities aimed at educating students about homosexuality or promoting acceptance of gay people are mounting challenges to such programs, at individual schools, at statehouses and in Congress.
		The growing conflicts are centering on three issues: whether classrooms are an appropriate venue to explore issues of homosexuality, whether schools should lend sanction to extracurricular activities in which gay culture is a focus and whether textbooks that acknowledge homosexual relationships are suitable for younger children.
		Jennings and other gay rights leaders say the growing opposition to their efforts is in keeping with a predictable trend set off by disputes over issues like same-sex marriage that are playing out on the national stage.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/09/education/09clash.html?ex=1275969600&en=00f660b3aa1777a0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (812 words)

	In Miami, a major test of gay rights \| csmonitor.com
		Both sides of the debate view the outcome of the Sept. 10 referendum in Miami-Dade County as a potential watershed in competing efforts to either advance or suppress gay rights.
		Roughly 150 jurisdictions across the country have passed similar measures, and many of them are being challenged by groups opposed to gay rights.
		But what makes the Miami referendum highly symbolic, gay rights activists say, is that it is a virtual replay of the 1977 repeal vote spearheaded by former Miss America and Florida orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0904/p01s01-ussc.html (1038 words)

	Gay couples win rights (Globe and Mail) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The struggle for gay rights took a historic leap forward yesterday with a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision likely to send scores of discriminatory statutes crashing down around the country.
		In a decisive 8-1 judgment, the Supreme Court said gay couples are no different than heterosexual couples in their ability to share loving unions and suffer tragic breakdowns in those relationships.
		Spokespeople for the gay community were exultant in the wake of the court's decision.
	www.pfc.org.uk /news/1999/gm-mh2.htm (1214 words)

	SPLCenter.org: The Thirty Years War
		Born-again singer Anita Bryant campaigns to overturn an anti-discrimination law protecting gay men and lesbians in Dade County, Fla. Inspired by her victory, Bryant founds the first national anti-gay group, Save Our Children, drawing unprecedented attention to gay issues and motivating gay groups to organize in response.
		Gay activist Harvey Milk, elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, is assassinated on Nov. 27 (along with Mayor George Moscone) by right-wing religious zealot Dan White, a former city supervisor who had resigned in protest after the board passed a gay-rights ordinance.
		Almost 17,000 gay soldiers will be discharged during the 1980s, though a 1989 Defense Department study will find gay recruits "just as good or better" than heterosexuals.
	www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=523 (680 words)

	Dear OPTIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1980, my heterosexual partner and I sought to break our marriage contract with the statenot with each otheron the basis that the institution of marriage discriminates against lesbians, gay men, and anyone "single," for not being a traditional family, entitled to receive tax benefits, club membership benefitsyou name it.
		I am not in any way defending the right of such establishments or their patrons to do what they do; that is up to boards of licensure and the other official entities which monitor and regulate them.
		By calling gay sex perverse, whether in the context of a loving, monogamous relationship, or a one-night-stand, Tom Coburn perpetuates low self-worth, which is a major co-factor in reckless sexual behavior.
	www.optionsri.org /mar2002/articles/dear_options.htm (1419 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| Gay-rights advocates lobby to stop gay marriage ban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This year's constitutional gay marriage ban is likely to sail through the first of three steps required to ratify an amendment by an even larger margin, Republican and Democratic legislators say.
		Allen Keiswetter, a member of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, said Virginia's strictures on gay rights are at odds with the assertions of equality its own son, Thomas Jefferson, wrote into the Declaration of Independence.
		Don Prange of the St. James United Church of Christ in Lovettsville said Virginia is scarcely more tolerant of gays today than it was in 1980 when a building where a gay rights group held training sessions in southwestern Virginia was torched.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780240064&path=!news!vaapwire&s=1045855935241 (685 words)

	Gay rights setback: Court sidesteps adoption issue \| csmonitor.com
		The announcement marks a setback for gay rights activists who were hopeful that the legal landscape may have shifted in a fundamental way in the wake of the court's 2003 ruling in Lawrence v.
		The plaintiffs charge that the Florida law violates their constitutional right to maintain private family relationships and to be treated equally and fairly by the state government.
		Florida law entrusts gay and lesbian state residents (among others) to provide safe and loving homes for children as foster parents.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0111/p04s01-usju.html (730 words)

	Tracy's lesson in gay rights / As former farm town grows, it must confront big-city issues
		Gay rights "have been a nonissue politically here," said police Capt. Michael Maciel, who was raised on his family's bean and tomato farm on the edge of town.
		The story of how a gay rights demonstration came to Tracy begins with Justin Daley, a 17-year-old junior at Merrill F. West High School.
		Justin, who appeared to be the only person wearing a dress shirt and tie to school on one recent 90-degree day, responded by networking with gay- friendly groups around the Central Valley, from Unitarian Universalist churches in Stockton to same-sex marriage activists in Modesto.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/09/MNG7GD5RND1.DTL (1317 words)

	THE AMERICAN CENTURY \| The Imperial Presidency 1972-1980
		Sipple wrestled her to the ground, and prevented her from getting off a second shot by shoving his hand into the firing mechanism.
		He was gay and he had never told his straitlaced Baptist mother.
		It was a sorry end to a heroic act-and the beginning of an issue that would roil the gay community and identity politics in the decades to come.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/americancentury/imperialpres.html (330 words)

	STATISTICS
		The first city to ban discrimination against gay men and lesbians was East Lansing, Michigan in 1972.
		In 1989, suicide was the leading cause of death among gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youths; 53% of transsexual youths surveyed in 1981 had attempted suicide.
		Lesbian and gay youths account for up to 30% of all completed suicides among youths.
	www.pflagupstatesc.org /statistics.htm (877 words)

	Maine GayNet - LOW TURNOUT LIKELY FOR GAY RIGHTS VOTE
		If the friends she encounters in town are on the threshold of deciding a statewide issue like gay rights, they're keeping it to themselves.
		Although Potholm definitely agreed that a small turnout will favor gay rights opponents, he was quick to point out that Maine Won't Discriminate's inclusion of Gov. Angus S. King in their television spots should pay off big.
		King has been criticized by Heath and other gay rights opponents for entering the debate and weighing in on the side of Maine Won't Discriminate.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/www/usa/maine/bdn-2.7d.98.html (694 words)

	Gay Rights
		Equality Fauquier/Culpeper (EFC) is a two-county wide non-partisan organization committed to the advocacy for equal rights for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, (GLBT) questioning and straight community united for the cause of equality.
		Formed in 1980, Asian/Pacific Gays and Friends (A/PGF) embraces a diverse group of people: Americans who trace their descent from the countries of Asia and the Pacific Islands as well as recent immigrants and visitors from those countries.
		American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) is an all-volunteer, chapter-based association of GLBT veterans and allies seeking equality for all current and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
	www.jwpublishing.com /gayscape/gr.html (639 words)

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