June 28, 1969 – Police raid the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Protests and demonstrations began, and he later became known as the impetus for the gay civil rights movement in the United States. Richard Grenell, the openly gay U.S. ambassador to Germany, chaired a single meeting with 11 activists from different European countries on February 19, 2019; It appears that no American individuals or groups were invited. [472] The Trump administration said the dinner represented a new campaign to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. [473] The next day, however, the president did not seem to know about it. (In the official transcript of that White House interview, Trump asked the reporter to repeat the question, and finally replied, “I don`t know, uh, what report you`re talking about. We have many reports. [474] Grenell stated that the United States had no “new policy” but simply a “new push”; This push consisted of asking European countries to help them treat US economic aid to other countries as a bargaining chip. [475] 1928 – Radclyffe Hall, an English author, publishes what many consider a groundbreaking lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness. As a result, the issue of homosexuality has been a subject of public debate in the United States and England. On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extend to LGBT people, making it illegal for workplaces with 15 or more employees to discriminate on the basis of sexuality or gender identity.
[223] The three consolidated cases were Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda; Bostock v. Clayton County and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Employment Equal Opportunities Commission.
USA Today later said that in addition to discrimination in the LGBTQ workplace, “the court`s decision is likely to have profound implications for federal civil rights laws prohibiting sex discrimination in education, health care, housing, and financial credit.” [224] Obama supported the legalization of same-sex marriage when he first ran for the Illinois Senate in 1996. [316] When he ran for re-election to the Illinois Senate in 1998, he was undecided about legalizing same-sex marriage and supported the inclusion of sexual orientation in the state`s anti-discrimination laws. [317] [318] While a state senator, he supported a bill to amend the Illinois Human Rights Act to include LGBT protection, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace, housing, and all public places, and supported the Illinois Sexual Violence Act. September 4, 2012 – The Democratic Party is the largest political party in the United States. who publicly supports same-sex marriage on a national platform at the Democratic National Convention. Anti-sodomy laws were declared unconstitutional in 2003, making it legal nationwide to allow adults to have same-sex sex. The first person to call himself a drag queen was William Dorsey Swann, who was born into slavery in Hancock, Maryland. Swann was the first American to take legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community`s right to assembly. In the 1880s and 1890s, Swann organized a series of dragballs in Washington, D.C. Swann was arrested several times during police raids, including in the first documented case of arrests for female imitation in the United States on April 12, 1888. [8] On March 4, 1998, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services that federal laws prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace apply equally if both parties are of the same sex. However, the lower courts reached different conclusions as to whether this decision applies to harassment motivated by homophobic hostility. LGBT civil rights in the United States are championed by various organizations at all levels and concentrations of political and legal life, including the Human Rights Campaign,[11] Lambda Legal, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Center for Transgender Equality,[12] and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. As of April 11, 2022, U.S. passports provide male, female, and X gender options through self-determination. [13] In March 2022, the Social Security Administration announced that people will be able to choose male, female, and X options (in the future) through self-determination in Social Security card applications. [14] 2013 – United States Windsor / Repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act – DOMA (Supreme Court decision) By a vote of 5 to 4, it was ruled that the Fifth Amendment`s definition of marriage as just between a man and a woman is unconstitutional. The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was passed by the U.S.
Congress in 1996 and states that marriage or legal partnerships exist between a man and a woman. That decision declared the law of Congress unconstitutional and that states have the power to define marital relations. This decision was made on the same day as Hollingsworth v. Perry. 1962 – Illinois becomes the first state to privately decriminalize homosexual acts between two consensual adults. 3. In October 2017, the Trump administration voted against a UN resolution condemning the death penalty (which condemned the use of the death penalty in particular for homosexuality), making the United States one of 13 countries to vote against the resolution (including Saudi Arabia, where the death penalty for same-sex relations is practiced). [469] However, this was consistent with long-standing policy, as the Obama administration had also voted against it. [470] Jessica Stern, executive director of the LGBT rights group OutRight, said the group was critical of the Trump administration`s “many rights abuses,” with its many abuses of power ranging from LGBTI violations to xenophobia, but this particular case is not an example of declining support for LGBTI rights. It would be a mistake to interpret their rejection of a resolution on the death penalty as a change in policy. [470] In September 2020, the Trump administration suggested (with co-signatures it had collected from 57 countries) that the United Nations should focus on “religious freedom” rather than LGBTQ rights when discussing “international human rights.” [471] 1986 – Bowers v.