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The Stonewall Riots of NY - Start of the Gay Pride Parades
The Stonewall Riots ignited after a police raid took place at the Stonewall Inn. The tension from ongoing harassment galvanized the LGBTQ community to riot for six days. The protest through the streets of New York City is memorialized as the annual Gay Pride parades that are now celebrated around the world. https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=592919&p=4182235 -
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
Marches on Washington, D.C. can serve many functions: to protest peacefully, to make visible the commitment and volume of support behind a movement, to mobilize and nationalize otherwise more fractured, local efforts to organize. The LGBTQ community and its allies have marched on the nation's capital on numerous occasions, beginning with a march and rally that took place on October 14, 1979.
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National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
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MA approves same-sex employees begin receiving domestic partner benefits
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National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
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National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
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The MA Supreme Court hands down a decision that makes MA the first state to legalize gay marriage.
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National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
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Equal Access to Housing
The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to refuse to sell, rent based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, or disability. In 2012, to ensure that LGBTQ people were protected from housing discrimination, HUD put forward a rule prohibiting discrimination on the bases of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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The U.S. Supreme Court makes same-sex marriages legal in all 50 states
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Section 1557 of the ACA
The Obama administration promulgated a rule clarifying that Section 1557 prohibited gender identity discrimination and sex stereotyping, which could include sexual orientation, Title VII’s definition of sex informs the definition of sex in Title IX, it is clear that sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination are also prohibited under the ACA.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is Challenged
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark 6-3 decision affirming that the prohibition on sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/lgbtq-rights/reports/2020/08/26/489772/beyond-bostock-future-lgbtq-civil-rights/