gay rights

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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A new book from gay rights activist Marc Solomon sets the record straight about how gay marriage victories were really won.

What do you get when you cross an oil company with gay rights?

Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.

“My daughter—who was 13 or so at the time, seven years ago—there was this thing about gay rights,” Foxx explains.

He was impressed by her landmark 2011 Human Rights Day speech linking fighting for gay rights to American foreign policy.

Black rights, women's rights and gay rights came a long way.

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