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- Even back to 1779, Thomas Jefferson proposed a law that would mandate castration for gay men and mutilation of nose cartilage for gay women. - It was dangerous for those involved in pro-gay organizations in the 1950s, so the people involved had to speak in code so no one would discover their identity. In 1924 the Society for Human Rights in Chicago becomes the countries earliest known gay rights organization. Harry Hay formed th e Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organization. He is considered to be the founder of the gay rights movement. The movement didn't really get rolling until the 60s though. In 1969, a group of homos resisted a police raid at a bar in NYC. This was a three day process known as the Stonewall Riots. After the riots, many radical groups were formed for and against gay rights.
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**3 People against the movement:**

Thomas Jefferson; Jefferson wanted to punish homosexual men by castrating them, and homosexual women by mutilating their nose cartilage in his home state of Virginia, and even created a bill to that affect. (Although it was no passed). Death was still the maximum punishment for homosexuality during this time (around 1778). The country was founded based off of Christian principles, and Jefferson was against gays because it was against Christian beliefs.

Adolf Hitler; Put gay men and women into the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, they were one of the targeted groups in the Holocaust. Starting in 1933 homosexuals were arrested and murdered by the Nazi Party, gay organizations were banned, and books on homosexuality were banned. The German government didn't apologize to the gay community until 2002.

Rick Santorum; Made public speeches and spoke in interviews against gay rights and gay marriage. He once stated, "even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids were still better than no father at all to have in their children's lives." He also compared homosexuality to "man on dog" and "man on child".

**People for the movement:** - Alfred Kinsey helps further the movement by publishing his book, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" which let the public know that homosexuality was a lot more widespread than previously believed. - Harry Hay was a labor advocate, teacher and early leader in the AmericanLGBT rights movement. He is known for his roles in helping to found several gay organizations, including the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States. -Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was the first openly gay activist. He started the modern Gay Movement by being the first to say publicly that Uranians are natural, not sinners, diseased, or criminal. He set a new standard for everyone who followed by bringing a new, positive approach to bear on what he called the riddle of nature. From then on he began to change the way people thought about what is today called same-sex love. -Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon- founders of the "Daughters of Bilitis", a lesbian organization. Feminist and gay rights activists. Lovers since 1952 until Del died in 2008. Both women worked to form the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH) in northern California to persuade ministers to accept homosexuals into churches, and used their influence to decriminalize homosexuality in the late 1960s and early 1970s. -William Dale Jennings- Founded the Mattachine Society In LA in 1950 with 7 other gay men. The Mattachine founders attempted to use their personal experience as gay men to redefine the meaning of gay people and their culture in the United States and set goals for cultural and political liberation. -Stephen Donaldson- founded The Student Homophile League, the first student gay rights organization in the United States, established atColumbia University in 1967. Stephen Donaldson was a former member of the New York City chapter of the Mattachine Society. He established the Student Homophile League because was forced by school administration to move out of his residence hall after complaints from roommates about living with a homosexual man. -Morris Kight- founded the Gay Liberation Front in NYC and LA in 1969. GLF-like campus groups held sponsored social activities, educational programs, and provided support to individual members much like the earlier college groups. These new activists were often committed to radical social change, and preferred confrontational tactics such as demonstrations, sit-ins, and direct challenges to discriminatory campus policies. -Queer Nation arrived on the scene in the summer of 1990, when militant AIDS activists at New York's Gay Pride parade passed out to the assembled crowd an inflammatory manifesto, printed on both sides of a single newspaper-sized piece of newsprint, bearing the titles I Hate Straights! and Queers Read This! Within days, in response to the brash, "in-your-face" tone of the broadside, Queer Nation chapters had sprung up in San Francisco and other major cities. The first "retro-future/postmodern" activist group to address gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender concerns, the short-lived organization made a lasting impact on sexual identity politics in the United States. Queer Nation had no formal structure or leadership and relied on large, raucous, community-wide meetings to set the agendas and plan the actions. (notes from Wikipedia)

**Present and Future:** Today the movement has progressed to the point where even the president of America supports gay marriage. Although there are still people against homosexuality and gay marriage, America has a whole has become more accepting of it because of the past movements. In fact, more and more states are legalizing gay marriage such as Massachusettes and California. In 20 years from now, the movement will progress even more. It is likely that more states will legalize gay marriage, and America as a whole will become significantly more accepting of homsexuals in general. Unfortunately, there will still be radicals against homosexuals, no matter what the decade.

**Connection to other movements** :

Women's rights- Civil Rights Movement- Native American Movement- All of these movements strived for equality for their social group. Women, Blacks, and Native Americans were minorities that didn't receive the same political rights as a white male. Their votes either didn't count, or didn't count much at all. Also, these groups just wanted to have the same human rights as others. All felt that a free country should be equal.

**Works Cited** [|http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/celebration2000/#sub1] [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_movements_in_the_United_States#Mattachine_Society]

http://todaysmeet.com/homosexualrights