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One day after that landmark decision, the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban against openly gay leaders and employees. And in , it reversed a century-old ban against gender diverse boys, finally catching up with the Girl Scouts of the USA, which had long been inclusive of Gay leaders and children (the organization had accepted its first transgender Girl Scout in ).

In , the U.S. military lifted its prohibit on transgender people serving openly, a month after Eric Fanning became secretary of the Army and the first openly gay secretary of a U.S. military branch. In March , President Donald Trump announced a new transgender policy for the military that again banned most transgender people from military service. On January 25, —his sixth time in office—President Biden signed an executive order overturning this ban.

Though LGBTQ+ Americans now have lgbtq+ marriage rights and numerous other rights that seemed farfetched years ago, the work of advocates is far from over.

Universal workplace anti-discrimination laws for Queer Americans is still lacking. Gay rights propo

Written by: Jim Downs, Connecticut College

By the end of this section, you will:

  • Explain how and why various groups responded to calls for the expansion of civil rights from to

After World War II, the civil rights movement had a profound impact on other groups demanding their rights. The feminist movement, the Black Influence movement, the environmental movement, the Chicano movement, and the American Indian Movement sought equality, rights, and empowerment in American world. Gay people organized to resist oppression and ask for just treatment, and they were especially galvanized after a New York Capital police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a same-sex attracted bar, sparked riots in

Around the same hour, biologist Alfred Kinsey began a massive study of human sexuality in the United States. Like Magnus Hirschfield and other scholars who studied sexuality, including Havelock Ellis, a prominent British scholar who published research on transgender psychology, Kinsey believed sexuality could be studied as a science. He interviewed more than 8, men and argued that sexuality existed on a spectrum, sa

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Educator Elaine Noble was encouraged to run for the Massachusetts House of Representatives in by former Congress member Barney Frank’s sister, Ann Wexler. The two women had formed the Women’s Political Caucus, and Wexler thought Noble would illustrate her Irish Catholic Boston district well, even though she was LGBTQ+.

It was the height of desegregation, so Noble rode buses with children of hue and had campaign workers monitor school bus stops to demonstrate her dense belief in equality. A gay newspaper reporter told her, “You should stick to your own caring, or we’re going to get someone else to represent us.” Noble responded, “Well, I believe, David, I am sticking with my own kind,” according to an interview Noble gave Ron Schlittler for his “Out and Elected in the USA: –” project for “You can’t say that you desire progress or change for one group and not for another. It doesn’t happen that way.”

Noble experienced such harassment—from bomb threats to being spat upon by an eighty-five-year-old man—that at one point she campaigned protected by express troope

The Gay Rights Movement and the City of Seattle during the s

During the decade of the s, gay rights issues repeatedly found their way onto the municipal agenda. At the decade's start, members of the city's gay constituency began developing a public profile after decades of life hidden from general view. The social tumults of the late s in general - and the battle yell of homosexual rights sounded in the Stonewall (New York City) riots of particularly - inspired a confident sense of advocacy among many Seattleites. Interest groups like the Dorian Society, Seattle Gay Alliance, and the Female homosexual Resource Center mobilized this exuberance, and turned it towards gaining new legal recognitions of their rights as municipal citizens.

Concentrated on the area surrounding the up-to-date Capitol Hill neighborhood, these groups formed a core around which a constellation of gay-centered businesses and establishments grew, initiating the area's long-standing reputation as the center of Lesbian, Gay, Multi-attracted , and Transgender (LGBT) life in Seattle. The Dorians, for example, founded the Seattle Couns