A comprehensive timeline of the U.S. gay rights movement.

Gay Rights Movement – The campaign for sexual equality – BBC Archive

The gay rights movement is a term referring to myriad organizations, groups, and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people (LGBT).

Gay rights movement: Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advocates equal rights for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals; seeks to eliminate sodomy laws barring homosexual acts between consenting adults; and calls for an end to discrimination against gay men and lesbians in employment, credit

Linda Hirshman’s new book tries to uncover how the LGBT movement accomplished so much in such a short span of time.

Before Stonewall. Before New York’s Stonewall Riots in 1969, the history of gay rights in Oregon, as in the United States generally, was one of curtailment.

The rise of Trump is the most obvious answer, but the profound shift in the tone and substance of gay-rights advocacy is having an impact, too.

The men’s rights movement (MRM) is a part of the larger men’s movement.It branched off from the men’s liberation movement in the early 1970s. The men’s rights movement is made up of a variety of groups and individuals who focus on numerous social issues (including family law, parenting, reproduction, domestic and circumcision) and

Jun 28, 2011 · The Stonewall Inn 1969 riots launched the gay rights movement. Travis Wise/Flickr On Dec. 31, 1966, a dozen plainclothes policemen observed the New Year’s festivities inside the Black Cat, a gay bar in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. At the stroke of midnight, as revelers celebrated with

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements are social movements that advocate for the equalized acceptance of LGBT+ people in society. In these movements, LGBT people and their allies have a long history of campaigning for what is now generally called “LGBT rights”, sometimes also called “gay rights” or “gay …