“Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things--he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies” (Carter). Jimmy Carter took a religious route to support the Gay Rights Movement. The Gay Rights Movement started in the 1950s and is still a heated topic that is debated over. The Gay Rights Movement is believed to be started by the Stonewall riots. The Gay Rights Movement had no real leaders and its followers were homosexuals and people who sought for oppression towards gays to end. The purpose of the Gay Rights Movement is to end discrimination towards the homosexual community. “The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” is a speech written and spoken by Huey Newton, cofounder of the Black Panther Party. The speech was given on August 15, 1970 and the theme of the speech is for people to fight for their own liberation. In Huey Newton’s “The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” speech, he motivates his intended audience during the Gay Rights Movement by using the rhetorical strategies pathos and punctuation. The speech by Huey Newton is about Huey Newton’s feelings towards how the gay people were being oppressed. The whole speech is about how Newton thinks that oppressed groups should come together to fight the oppressors. Huey Newton’s message was “Know and protect your rights by any means” (“Huey Newton”). The theme of the speech that Newton tries to emphasize is that people need to work for their own liberation. The speech is basically about Huey Newton expressing the distaste of oppression and that people need to unite. The theme of the speech is that people must fight for the... ... middle of paper ... ...cepted gay marriage and allowed gays to get married civilly, which is still showing the ripple effects of oppression which can be seen to this day. Works Cited Beaudrot, Nicholas, and Neil Sinhababu. "Huey Newton On Feminism And Gay Rights." Donkeylicious. N.p., 15 May 2012. Web. 9 Mar. 2014. "Huey Newton." American Social Leaders, 2001. eLibrary. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. Ide, Derek Allen. "Combating Cultural Hegemony." The Organic Intelllectual: n. pag. n.d. Web. 9 Mar. 2014. "Jimmy Carter." BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2014. Web. 17 March 2014 Newton, Huey. "The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements." Speech. 15 Aug. 1970. History Is a Weapon. History Is a Weapon. Web. 29 Jan. 2014. O'Malley, Nick. "America's gay rights movement gets scores on the board." The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Feb. 2014: n. pag. The Sydney Morning Herald. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.
In Vicki L. Eaklor’s Queer America, the experiences of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people in the years since the 1970s gay liberation movement are described as a time of transformation and growth. The antigay movement, threatened, now more than ever, created numerous challenges and obstacles that are still prevalent today. Many of the important changes made associated with the movement were introduced through queer and queer allied individuals and groups involved in politics. Small victories such as the revision of the anti discrimination statement to include “sexual orientation”, new propositions regarding the Equal Rights Amendment and legalized abortion, were met in turn with growing animosity and resistance from individuals and groups opposed to liberal and
Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered as motivation to fight for their rights and help paint the picture of what America could look like in the future. He does this by in the beginning saying that even though the Emancipation Proclamation was signed African Americans are not treated as normal citizens. By saying this Martin Luther King Jr. was saying we should not just be content with being free from slavery. That now it is time to fight for our rights and to end discrimination because of the color on one’s skin.
Stanton’s speech was a key persuasive component of getting women rights; her speech effected the world today because she started the women’s rights movement. Davis stated Stanton, “was the driving force behind the Seneca Falls Convention—the meeting that launched the woman 's rights movement in 1848”; without the woman’s right movement, women wouldn 't be where they are in society (Davis 39). Although Staton didn’t greatly impact her era, Davis believed Stanton created “a much improved future populated by humans who had developed to the point where they could transcend the injustices and inequalities of the nineteenth century” (Davis 217). King was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement, his impact on the world is unsurpassed; without him, segregation could still exist. According to Echols, King “boldly and clearly announced the charge that the Civil Rights Movement had leveled against the United States” (Echols 2). Since King 's assassination, Echols expressed King’s “words and deeds have passed from history into the domain of myth and legend. His words have gained immortality and are constantly quoted as moral authority for numerous causes” (Echols 9). King’s words are relevant today, society aims to live in the vision King intended. Stanton’s speech impacted the generations to come by kicking off the Women’s Right Movement, comparatively King saw the near end of segregation in his life
...the first widely public violent resistance protests against oppression and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The riots created a sense of national awareness and a motivation for other homosexuals to join the struggle for civil rights. Carter’s book does an effective job in helping the reader understand the significance of an event that may otherwise seem insignificant to some people. The book adds to the little knowledge known about what exactly happened during the Stonewall riots and what caused the riots to occur. The general audience, or anyone interested in learning about the history of homosexual resistance in the United States, will greatly benefit from reading Carter’s descriptive account of the Stonewall riots.
Bayard Rustin was a nonviolent activist who advocated for societal change during his life that spanned over 75 years from 1912 until 1987. While history primarily knows Rustin as a leader in the African American civil rights movement, Rustin was prominently involved in pacifist movements against war and militarization. While he took many roles throughout his 75 year life, history best know him as the chief organizer for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom––one of the largest protests and most important protests in United States history. But his legacy goes far beyond organizing one event: Rustin brought a heightened sense of pacifism to the civil rights movement. Through enacting his Quaker values, Rustin infused his pacifism into the American civil rights movement, advising Martin Luther King, Jr. to became a promoter and symbol of peace and nonviolence that he is known as today. Rustin’s accomplishments were not without opposition: he was persecuted, threatened, beaten, imprisoned and silenced by a wide range of people, from segregationists to black militants. Rustin’s openly gay identity caused much hardship during an era that was extraordinarily homophobic, but he chose to not live in “the closet” and hide who we was, and rather, he embraced his homosexuality. Rustin’s pacifism and acceptance of his gay identity was rooted in his Quaker roots. Rustin found motivation and strength within his Quaker upbringing, motivating him to be an out-and-proud gay man of color, rallying for social change on all fronts until his death. This paper analyses Rustin’s upbringing in relation to his Quaker values and how his life-long conviction to promote pacifism and egalitarianism shaped his views and actions, and the outcome of...
The speaker is Martin Luther King Jr, an African American who had to deal with all the cruelty and unequalness that blacks were getting. The occasion is to get equal rights for everyone in America, no matter their race or gender. The audience that Martin was connecting to was people with authority that would change the conditions of their lives and hardships, but was also to everyone that would listen and would try to make a difference. The purpose for King writing this speech was to get equal rights and show people that everyone is the same. The subject of the speech is the rights of african americans and how they are the same as whites. The tone Martin has is determined and destined to get the outcome the way he wants it to
The media considers the1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City the spark of the modern gay rights movement. This occurred after the police raided the Stonewall bar, a popular gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Allyn argues that the new energy and militancy generated by the riot played a crucial role in creating the gay liberation movement. Arguably, the Stonewall Riots have come to resemble the pivotal moment in gay rights history largely because it provided ways for the gay community to resist the social norms. In fact, the riots increased public awareness of gay rights activism (Allyn 157). Gay life after the Stonewall riots, however, was just as varied and complex as it was before. In the following era, ho...
equality to be able to vote, and today women are still battling for equality in political
...protest movements throughout America and the world.” Among the gay community Stonewall has become the word for freedom, for fighting, for equality. It became a turning point in Gay history, so much so that most books on the subject refer to “pre-Stonewall” and “post-Stonewall” as the lines of demarcation. Of course the journey is still long and fight has not been won. At the turn of the century there were still 20 states that made homosexual sex illegal , any only a few states would recognize the love and companionship of gays through marriage or civil unions. The military policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is still active and prejudices continue to exist. But, as exemplified by any other civil rights movement, it is through the constant grind of activists and lay-people constantly protesting and educating, that change occurs, even if only one person at a time.
...at discrimination was wrongful and would not be tolerated. It showed that the constitution actually could now mean that everyone is created equally. Not only did the Civil Rights movement stop discrimination for African Americans, it stopped it for Latinos and Asians also.
are said to have launched the “gay rights movement.” As the anger of many individuals,
The Stonewall Riots marked the start of the gay rights movement, and inspired members of the gay community to fight for their rights instead of being condemned for their sexuality. Even today, gay people in the US use the incident at Stonewall to educate younger members of the gay community. "The younger generation should know about Stonewall so that they will realize it is possible to make change. It is possible to overcome entrenched, institutionalized prejudice, discrimination, and bigotry. And that they can live full equal lives." (Frank Kameny, aarp.org) This is the message that many members of the gay community continue to spread after the incident at the Stonewall Inn.
The history of the gay rights movement goes as far back as the late 19th century. More accurately, the quest by gays to search out others like themselves and foster a feeling of identity has been around since then. It is an innovative movement that seeks to change existing norms and gain acceptance within our culture. By 1915, one gay person said that the gay world was a "community, distinctly organized" (Milestones 1991), but kept mostly out of view because of social hostility. According to the Milestones article, after World War II, around 1940, many cities saw their first gay bars open as many homosexuals began to start a networking system. However, their newfound visibility only backfired on them, as in the 1950's president Eisenhower banned gays from holding federal jobs and many state institutions did the same. The lead taken by the federal government encouraged local police forces to harass gay citizens. "Vice officers regularly raided gay bars, sometimes arresting dozens of men and women on a single night" (Milestones). In spite of the adversity, out of the 1950s also came the first organized groups of gays, including leaders. The movement was small at first, but grew exponentially in short periods of time. Spurred on by the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the "homophile" (Milestones) movement took on more visibility, picketing government agencies and discriminatory policies. By 1969, around 50 gay organizations existed in the United States. The most crucial moment in blowing the gay rights movement wide open was on the evening of July 27, 1969, when a group of police raided a gay bar in New York City. This act prompted three days of rioting in the area called the Stonewall Rio...
In “Message to Grassroots”, once the speaker talks about what a revolution really is, he keeps repeating the same words throughout his speech. Those words are: revolution, land, and independence. By doing this, he is emphasizing the important relationship those words have. While hearing those repeated words, the audience starts to understand the words importance in the speech and their attention starts to fully concentrate on what Malcolm X is arguing about. Martin Luther King also does this in his speech. Towards the end of the speech he begins to talk about the goals he has for the future. Every time he would talk about those goals, he would repeat the phrase “I have a dream” at the beginning of his sentence. He does this because he wants to emphasize what he firmly believes the Civil Rights Movement will bring to the African American community in the future. By doing this, Martin causes the audience to feel optimistic and proud of what they are doing. They now know that they aren’t just trying to make their own lives better. They are also trying to make life better for future
Have you ever thought how much progress the LGBT community has made and how it affects other people? The gay rights movement was and is currently a movement that “strives to end all discrimination towards the LGBT community” (Redlingshafer). As early as 1924, the Society for Human Rights in Chicago becomes United States’ earliest known gay rights organization (“Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement”). However, most people recognize the Stonewall riot in 1969 as being the beginning of the gay rights movement. Almost ninety years later, society and the government have progressed over time and are still growing. Harvey Milk, author of “The Hope Speech”, was a politician who led a portion of the gay rights movement. Also, a more recent and well known leader of the movement is Dan Savage, the creator of the “It Gets Better Project”. The followers of the gay rights movement are not just homosexual. There are followers and supporters of every gender, race, and sexual orientation. The gay rights movement and its issues are represented in “The Hope Speech” by Harvey Milk.