gay rights

Cultural  

1. The movement for civil rights for homosexuals. It originated after a police raid on a gay bar in New York City in 1969, which triggered a riot and launched the grassroots reform movement seeking to end social and legal discrimination against gays. (See Stonewall Riot.)

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Example Sentences

Reiner campaigned for early childhood education and health care, as well as gay rights.

From BBC

While the Englishman spoke up for conservatives with a small c, the American emerged into a new style of politics: His literary success was inseparable from his activism as a promoter of gay rights.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even the content I make, I advocate for immigrants, I advocate for reproductive rights, I advocate for gay rights.

From Slate

His economic adviser, Jorge Quiroz, who like Grau and Escobar got his Ph.D. in economics in the U.S., says, “All those things about the conservative agenda in terms of abortion and gay rights aren’t part of the program, period.”

From The Wall Street Journal

More than three dozen in-depth interviews with gay men, lesbian women, bisexuals and transgender people, along with surveys and several new books, including “The End of the Gay Rights Revolution” by Ronan McCrea, also coming out next month, reveal a complicated—and contentious—relationship between the LGB and TQ+ components of what advocacy organizations and the Democratic party refer to as “LGBTQ+ people.”

From The Wall Street Journal