Gay Rights

In US History AP we learn about gay rights in the 1960s, however gay people do not get the right to marry their partners during the 60s, I am writing this blog post in order to boost our classes knowledge on gay rights and how it really has changed in recent years. Gay American citizens were not able to get the sweet freedoms that they wanted in the 1960s and getting those rights would be a long struggle until recently. As the 60s ended many gay rights groups were created like the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance to help. The gay rights movement was very different than a lot of the movements for civil rights, a lot of gay pride parades were colorful and crazy. People dance and show off clothes men/women would not traditionally be able to wear.
The first of these gay pride parades, was on October 14, 1979 where around 100,000 protested for gay rights in America. Many years passed and nothing changed for gay rights for gay around America, however the real change in rights for gay citizens was on 2008 when the Californian Supreme court called the law that was placed against gay marriage in California unconstitutional according to the US constitution. However another bill to ban same sex marriage in California was passed which caused a lot of protests which ended up in the US supreme court. But everything changed when Obama became president, a man who supported gay rights throughout his first term helped to bring rights to the gay community but he was not able to make gay marriage legally until his second term where he was finally able give homosexuals the rights they deserved. This topic is very important for us to learn about because of our current vice president and his position on gay marriage. He is very anti-gay and the rights of homosexuals may change because of our new president.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-leddick/being-gay-in-the-21st-century_b_1108476.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_the_United_States