At once defiant and festive, hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian Americans and their supporters rallied in the capital today, celebrating the right to be homosexual and demanding freedom from discrimination. Mixner, a longtime gay friend of President Clinton, who has lately been critical of him, told the crowd. We won't go back. We will win.

Gay Rights



List of LGBT rights activists - Wikipedia
Around the world, people are under attack for who they love, how they dress, and ultimately for who they are. In too many countries, being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex LGBTI means living with daily discrimination. From name-calling and bullying, to being denied a job or appropriate healthcare, the range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging. It can also be life-threatening.


The American Gay Rights Movement
In , Thomas Jefferson proposed a law that would mandate castration for gay men and mutilation of nose cartilage for gay women. But that's not the scary part. Here's the scary part: Jefferson was considered a liberal. At the time, the most common penalty on the books was death. Supreme Court finally put an end to laws criminalizing same-sex intercourse in Lawrence v.



On April 25, , I stood on the main stage, fatigued beyond words and in utter amazement at the ocean of people spread across the D. The D. The park police's estimate was so ridiculously off that they became the butt of editorial cartoons and shortly thereafter stopped issuing any official estimates for events. I was 27 and had served as one of four co-chairs for the event after volunteering locally to help organize. I was elected as a local delegate to the state, and then a state delegate to the national organizing committee.