1. Unit 10: The Civil Rights Movement

2. LGBTQ Rights

3. A History of Discrimination
Gay relationships illegal in most states
1950s & 1960s - FBI kept lists of known homosexuals
Some gay people were placed in mental institutions
Local governments shut down gay bars

4. Effects
After raids, thousands jailed
Faced harassment and being fired

5. Stonewall 1969: police raided Stonewall Inn in NYC
Police brutality sparked a riot – hundreds of bystanders began to fight back
Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in NYC

6. Video Clip
1. People’s experiences of Stonewall 2. Short-term effects 3. Long-term effects

7. Michael Fader’s Account of Stonewall
We all had a collective feeling like we'd had enough of this.... Everyone in the crowd felt that we were never going to go back. It was like the last straw. It was time to reclaim something that had always been taken from us.... All kinds of people, all different reasons, but mostly it was total outrage, anger, sorrow, everything combined, and everything just kind of ran its course. It was the police who were doing most of the destruction. We were really trying to get back in and break free. And we felt that we had freedom at last, or freedom to at least show that we demanded freedom. We weren't going to be walking meekly in the night and letting them shove us around—it's like standing your ground for the first time and in a really strong way, and that's what caught the police by surprise. There was something in the air, freedom a long time overdue, and we're going to fight for it.

8. After Stonewall The Gay Rights Movement began to organize
The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Gay Activists' Alliance (GAA) were formed

9. The Movement Organizes
Goals:
An end to persecution by police
Equal rights in employment
Making homosexual relationships legal
An end to the stigma about homosexuality

10. Demanding Change Marches & writing
1974: American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from list of mental disorders

11. San Francisco
Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official (city supervisor)
Less than a year later, assassinated
Riots after shooter, Dan White, got only 7 years due to a temporary insanity plea

12. Setbacks
During 1970s - Supreme Court upheld laws banning homosexual relationships
Firings of gay teachers were also upheld

13. 1980s The movement shifted focus in response to the AIDS crisis
“Act Up” organized to address silence around this issue

14. Modern Gay Rights Movement
Goals:
Protection against discrimination in employment, housing, services and immigration
Adoption laws
Gay marriage

15. Modern Gay Rights Movement
Lawrence v. Texas
2003 Supreme Court case
Ruled all laws banning homosexual sex were unconstitutional
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
People who were openly homosexual couldn’t serve in military
Repealed in 2011

16. Laws Against Homosexual Relationships
Light Yellow: Laws repealed or struck down before Dark Yellow: Laws repealed or struck down from Orange: Laws repealed or struck down from Red: Laws struck down by the US Supreme Court in 2003.

17. DOMA Defense of Marriage Act 1996 Federal Law
Marriage defined as a union of one man and one woman
Supreme Court overturned it in 2013

18. Public Opinion on Gay Marriage

19. Gay Marriage Legalized
June 26, 2015
Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that state-level bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional

20. LGBTQ Employment Discrimination Laws