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	2003 in gay rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Statistics from the FBI show that 16.7 percent of hate crimes committed in the United States in 2002 were due to bias against the victim's perceived sexual orientation, the highest rate in the 12 years federal records have been kept.
		October 29 - A Human Rights Campaign study shows 60 percent of American adoption agencies accept applications from gay and lesbian couples and 40 percent claim to have placed children in homes headed by same-sex couples.
		The first gay pride parade in Republic of China is held in Taipei.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_in_gay_rights (825 words)

	Timeline of LGBT history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychologist Evelyn Hooker publishes a study showing that gay men were as well adjusted as non-gay men, which was a major factor in the American Psychiatric Association removing homosexuality from its handbook of disorders in 1973.
		The Gay Pride Flag, symbol of the Gay Rights Movement, was first flown in 1978 in San Francisco.
		Norway enacts civil union laws that grant same-sex couples the same rights as married couples, except for the right to adopt or marry in a church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_rights_timeline (3378 words)

	Civil rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Civil rights are distinguished from "human rights" or "natural rights"—civil rights are rights that are bestowed by nations on those within their territorial boundaries, while natural or human rights are rights that many scholars claim ought to belong to all people.
		For example, the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) argued that the natural rights of life, liberty and property should be converted into civil rights and protected by the sovereign state as an aspect of the social contract.
		In the United States, for example, laws protecting civil rights appear in the Constitution, in the amendments to the Constitution (particularly the 13th and 14th Amendments), in federal statutes, in state constitutions and statutes and even in the ordinances of counties and cities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_rights (2784 words)

	2004 in gay rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		UNAIDS and Human Rights Watch call on the government of Nepal to release the 39 members of the Blue Diamond Society imprisoned August 9.
		As George W. Bush is reelected, voters in 11 states pass amendments to their state constitutions banning same-sex marriage, and in most of those states, civil unions and domestic partnership as well.
		A judge in Saskatchewan rules that same-sex couples have the right to marry in that province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_in_gay_rights (3287 words)

	Gay Rights: Overview
		Yet today, millions of gay and lesbian Americans are not only open about their sexuality, they are campaigning for new laws which they say would grant them the same rights accorded to heterosexuals, including the right to marry.
		Gay activist groups like ActUp and Human Rights Campaign lobbied for public attention and government action, arguing that âsilence is death.â They said the shame of homosexuality prevented some gay men from either being tested for AIDS or seeking medical treatment for the disease.
		In a landmark 2003 decision striking down anti-sodomy laws, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians have a right to sexual privacy and are "entitled to respect for their private lives." That may undercut the basis for many laws that limit the rights of gays in adoption, child custody and workplace discrimination.
	www.publicagenda.org /issues/overview.cfm?issue_type=gay_rights (2042 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)

	Reason: Gay Rights Go to Court: Sodomy laws, same-sex marriage, and the future of homosexual rights
		While Kurtz argues that growing acceptance of gay rights is closely related to "no-strings heterosexual hookups and 50 percent divorce rates," public opinion trends suggest otherwise.
		(While opponents of gay marriage stress that heterosexuality is a universal characteristic of marriage, they tend to evade the fact that polygamous marriage has existed throughout history.) One major difference is that legalizing polygamy would alter the nature of all marriages by creating the option of taking a second or third spouse.
		They have a right to this view, just as Christians have a right to believe that people who accept Jesus as their savior have a special relationship with God.
	www.reason.com /0306/co.cy.gay.shtml (1236 words)

	Limerick Leader - August 9th, 2003 - News - Gay rights grafitti on church causes outrage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GAY rights graffiti on a city church has caused outrage among local politicians and the religious community.
		In the wake of the Papal statement, which said that gay marriages were "evil", an anonymous vandal sprayed the Church of the Holy Rosary on the Ennis Road with the words "gay rights" and "homophobes".
		Meanwhile, a spokesperson for a local gay support group, the Rainbow Support Services, said that she would never advocate such an attack on a local church.
	www.limerick-leader.ie /issues/20030809/news07.html (413 words)

	LAWRENCE V. TEXAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bowers Court’s initial substantive statement–“The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy …,” 478 U.S., at 190–discloses the Court’s failure to appreciate the extent of the liberty at stake.
		To say that the issue in Bowers was simply the right to engage in certain sexual conduct demeans the claim the individual put forward, just as it would demean a married couple were it said that marriage is just about the right to have sexual intercourse.
		The liberty protected by the Constitution allows homosexual persons the right to choose to enter upon relationships in the confines of their homes and their own private lives and still retain their dignity as free persons.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/02-102.ZS.html (1241 words)

	April 21, 2003 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Cincinnati, a hate crimes law that was passed after the murder of a fl gay man last December is now in danger of being repealed by a fl city council candidate.
		The lawsuit, filed Apr. 9, 2003 in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, alleges the hate crimes law violates an amendment to the city charter passed by 62 percent of the city's voters in 1993.
		In a classic example, Cheryl Summerville was fired from her job as a cook at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia and given a pink slip that read: "The employee is being terminated because the employee is gay." She has no legal rights to sue her employer.
	www.keithboykin.com /arch/2003_04_21.html (671 words)

	afrol News - Kenyan gay rights activists optimistic
		» 22.11.2000 - Tanzanian gays and lesbians are mobilising
		With the new government of President Mwai Kibaki and the process of re-drafting the constitution, gay rights activists of the Kenyan Galebitra group are however optimistic, expecting things to change.
		Several gay bars are known and the homosexual sex industry is reported to be growing, especially on tourist resorts.
	www.afrol.com /News2003/ken004_gay_activists.htm (509 words)

	AlterNet: HUTCHINSON: Gay Marriage Is A Civil Rights Issue
		The group claimed that gays were expropriating the civil rights cause to push their agenda.
		In a public statement she insisted that King would be a champion of gay rights if he were alive.
		Rights and Liberties: The groups trying to ban abortion have another plan up their sleeve: restricting your access to contraception.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17353 (976 words)

	U-WIRE.com/Gay rights activists: Marriage a possibility in 5 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Despite claims of judicial activism and that the court has run amuck, Pizer said that the majority opinion had conservative underpinnings: The government should not be in the bedroom of private citizens or tell people how they should run their families, and the majority should not tyrannize the minority.
		The majority opinion of the court acknowledges that there are two important constitutional questions left unanswered -- gays in the military and same-sex marriage -- and the court was clear that it was not answering either of those questions.
		Lawrence, combined with a series of Canadian cases highlighted by a June 11 Ontario superior court ruling that it is unconstitutional to deny gay couples the right to marry, may indicate a greater public acceptance of same-sex marriages.
	www.uwire.com /content/topnews071103001.html (1028 words)

	HRC \| Issues and the GLBT Community
		The Human Rights Campaign advocates for federal legislation to end discrimination on a variety of issues and educates elected officials and policy makers in Washington on issues of importance to the GLBT community.
		Same-sex couples are denied over 1,000 benefits, rights, and protections that federal law affords to married, heterosexual couples, as well as hundreds of such protections at the state level.
		Gay, lesbian, and bisexual employees can be fired on the basis of their sexual orientation in 34 states.
	www.hrc.org /Content/NavigationMenu/HRC/Get_Informed/Issues (416 words)

	Gay rights ordinance may be reconsidered by council
		If gay rights supporters are successful in putting the issue back before the voters in 2004, the 39th City Council will be forced to take sides.
		Charterite John Schlagetter, the only openly gay candidate in the race, said he favors a gay rights law.
		It denies gay rights supporters their First Amendment right to petition their government and gives Cincinnati the "ignominious distinction" of being the only city in the country with such a provision in its laws.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/10/29/loc_campaigngay26.html (594 words)

	General Discussion - Sexual Pride? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In fact, in a free society you have the right to be an atheist.
		This gay rights stuff is based on the notion that although people sin, it is none of society's business as long as it doesn't directly harm an innocent person.
		And the idea that Gay pride is not about Gay sexuality is complete bollocks, the only thing that makes gay people different to others is their sexual preference and that is it.
	www.examnotes.net /archive11-2003-7-1015091.html (6596 words)

	GAY AND LESBIAN NEWS: 2003-APR to JUN
		Allowing gays and lesbians to have the same freedom of sexual expression as heterosexuals would not have any impact on the laws banning bigamy, polygyny, polyandry, incest, bestiality, sexual abuse of children, adultery, statutory rape, etc. Santorum also allegedly described homosexual acts as a threat to society and the family.
		Brazil introduced a draft resolution titled, "Human Rights and Sexual Orientation," which addresses the topic of equal rights for gays and lesbians.
		In a demonstration of the liberal-conservative split in the denomination, she narrowly won with 53% of the votes against the Rev. Harold Kurtz, a conservative with missionary experience in Africa.
	www.religioustolerance.org /hom_news_03b.htm (2677 words)

	Washington Blade Online
		In the first landmark gay civil rights win before the high court, O’Connor voted with the 6-3 majority in Romer vs. Evans, which overturned Colorado’s constitutional amendment against protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination.
		But she disappointed gay rights activists just two years later when again voted with a 6-3 majority not to even review an appellate court ruling that upheld a similar ordinance in the city of Cincinnati.
		Kendell said that she is worried that the national dialogue on gay rights could be cut short if O’Connor is replaced by a conservative, and the court hands down rulings rejecting gay rights.
	www.washblade.com /2005/7-8/news/national/oconnor.cfm (2053 words)

	Gay rights and gay rites tear at church's future
		Gay rights and gay rites tear at church's future
		A Cincinnati minister became the first to stand trial for violating a provision in the church's Book of Order - or constitution - last week, even as the entire Presbyterian Church is embroiled in a nationwide controversy over the rights of gays and lesbians to lead congregations and marry under church law.
		In addition to ordaining gays and lesbians, some ministries are rebelling against a ruling by the Presbyterian General Assembly's highest court that homosexuals cannot be married within the church.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/04/15/loc_pastortrial15.html (1010 words)

	The Concordian - Friday, October 31, 2003 - Opinions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		You call it an “agenda;” I call it a common sense struggle for equal rights and protections.
		In the near future, sexual orientation will be included in the discrimination policy, same-sex marriage will be legal, and all human beings will have equal rights.
		Those who cannot accept this will continue to live in their bubbles of ignorance, fear, and hate while the rest of society moves forward without them.
	www.cord.edu /dept/concord/issues/2003-10-31/opinions/haug.html (124 words)

	Boston.com / News / Special reports / 2003 Year In Review / For the gay-rights movement, a year of unprecedented gains
		Foes of gay rights, conversely, hoped the landmark court rulings would provoke a backlash that at minimum would thwart recognition of same-sex marriages.
		"The gayness, the queer identity, is not presented as an issue or problem to be solved -- it's there as part of everyday life," she said.
		Shepard cited reports of dozens of hate crimes during 2003, including the killing of a 15-year-old lesbian in Newark, N.J. She didn't mention the efforts of anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps to erect monuments in Wyoming, Idaho and Tennessee asserting that her son went to hell because of his homosexuality.
	www.boston.com /news/specials/year_in_review/2003/articles/gay_rights (1032 words)

	Howard Dean on Civil Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I did it, not because I knew a lot about the gay community, it was because I believed every single American deserves equal rights under the law.
		Gay rights has never been an issue in a national election campaign, so no one can predict its salience.
		The National Governors Association reaffirms its support for the principles embodied in the Equal Rights Amendment, i.e., that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on the basis of gender.
	www.issues2000.org /2004/Howard_Dean_Civil_Rights.htm (2658 words)

	Boston.com / News / Special reports / 2003 Year In Review
		From church pews to the courts, from talk shows to the halls of Capitol Hill, debate over social issues -- abortion, gay marriage, the right to die -- stirred a nation that also was divided over the war in Iraq.
		From Wal-Mart to Bride's magazine, from the US Supreme Court to the Episcopal Church, 2003 produced gay-rights breakthroughs so diverse and profound that even veteran activists were stunned.
		A dangerous respiratory illness that seemed to spring from nowhere and rapidly spread was the biggest medical news of 2003.
	www.boston.com /news/specials/year_in_review/2003 (387 words)

	Human Rights Watch - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trangender Human Rights
		As human rights organizations based in Nigeria, on the African continent, and internationally, we write with deep concern over a proposed bill that would introduce criminal penalties for relationships and marriage ceremonies between persons of the same sex as well as for public advocacy or associations supporting the rights of lesbian and gay people.
		On behalf of Human Rights Watch, I am writing to protest your proposal to lift the existing moratorium on the deportation of gay and lesbian asylum seekers to Iran--and to object in the strongest possible terms to any actual resumption of expulsions of gay and lesbian asylum seekers to Iran.
		Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s promise to ban the city’s first-ever gay pride parade is a threat to civil liberties and civil society, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the mayor.
	www.hrw.org /doc/?t=lgbt (1394 words)

	WHDH-TV - Boston - Gay Rights Groups Slam Reilly For Suggesting Gay Marriage Alternative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BOSTON -- Gay rights advocates Friday denounced Attorney General Tom Reilly's reaction to the state high court's gay marriage decision, arguing that it was shameful for the state's chief law enforcement officer to promote a "separate-but-equal" system.
		Reilly said the decision was unclear in its instruction to the Legislature, which was given 180 days to act as it may "deem appropriate" in light of the ruling, and expressed unease about the fact that the court was so narrowly split on the 4-3 decision.
		Despite the anger from gay rights groups, Reilly said he embraced the decision and its espousal of fairness for gay couples.
	www.whdh.com /news/articles/local/A29658 (666 words)

	Shutterbug: Picture This October 2003
		Mountain Valley: Wrote Bruce Gay, “This picture was taken in Swan Valley, Idaho…It was one of those moments where you see a picture and know you need to stop the car, compose and take it!” We agree.
		Gay used a Canon EOS-3 with a 28-135mm USM IS lens on Fuji Superia 100 film.
		Gay used a polarizer and said he switched on image stabilization to ensure a steady shot handheld at this slow shutter speed.
	www.shutterbug.net /picture_this/1003sb_picture (840 words)

	CSSSM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Research has shown that above 90% of adult gays and lesbians who have reached middle age are in heterosexual marriage.
		A person exposed or suspected to be gay might face dismissal from job or school.
		Some gays and lesbians who have encountered flmails do not dare to report to the police.
	www.pair.com /csssm/English/e9.htm (227 words)

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