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Urvashi Vaid
- Urvashi Vaid is an attorney and organizer whose leadership in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and social justice movements spans legal, advocacy, philanthropic, and grassroots organizations.
- author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (2012); and Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Lesbian and Gay Liberation (1996). She co-edited, with John D’Emilio and William Turner, an anthology titled Creating Change: Public Policy
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GLBTQ Rights Movement
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Stonewall Riots (1969)
- A police raid of the Stonewall Inn–a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street–turns violent as club-goers begin rioting against the police.
- Although the police were legally justified in raiding the club, which was serving liquor without a license among other violations, New York’s gay community had grown weary of the police department targeting gay clubs, a majority of which had already been closed. The crowd on the street watched quietly as Stonewall’s employees were arrested,
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Homosexuality is no longer a mental illness
- Since the 19th century, same-sex sexual activity was deemed as a "crime against nature".
- A vote to remove homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses by a vote of 13 to 0, with 2 abstentions. This decision was confirmed by a vote of the APA membership, and homosexuality was no longer listed in the seventh edition of DSM-II, which was issued in 1974.
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- "Don't ask, don't tell" was a policy enforced in the military that threatened to discharge anyone of the LGBTQ community that was open about their sexuality. over 12,000 people were discharged for openly discussing their sexuality.
- President Barack Obama repealed this policy and ended discrimination in the army
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Lawrence v Texas
- Houston police entered John Lawrence's apartment and saw him and another adult man, Tyron Garner, engaging in a private, consensual sexual act. Lawrence and Garner were arrested and convicted of deviate sexual intercourse in violation of a Texas statute forbidding two persons of the same sex to engage in certain intimate sexual conduct.
- Court held that the Texas statute making it a crime for two persons of the same sex to engage in intimate sexual conduct violates the Due Process Clause
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Obergefell v Hodges
- Took place in Ohio
- Same-sex couples sued their state agencies in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennesse to challenge the constitutionality of
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Overall Successes
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Continued Struggles
