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Rights!

Terms You NEED to Know About Gay Rights

Here are some important terms when talking about gay rights or just talking about the issue of homosexuality in general.

Civil Union - A voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex; "parties to a civil union have all the same benefits, protections, and responsibilities under law as spouses in a marriage." Of course, civil union is illegal in many parts of the world.

Domestic Partnership - A legal status granted to heterosexual and homosexual couples who reside in the same home, usually with less federal and local benefits than that of marriage

GLAAD - Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. A non-profit organization dedicated to the positive portrayal of glbt people in the media.

GLBTQ - which stands for: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning.

Hate Crimes - Crimes involving bodily injury to any person in which the victim is intentionally selected because of the actual or perceived race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability of the victim.
Homophobia: Fear of gay men and the lifestyle and culture.

LGBT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. Term often used to describe the gay community.

Transgender - Broadly speaking, transgender people are individuals whose gender expression and/or gender identity differs from conventional expectations based on the physical sex they were born into.

Transvestite: Transvestites are men who adopt the identity of women through dress and behavior. Transvestic individuals exhibit sexual pleasure from assuming the identity of the opposite sex.

Queer: Of or related to being gay.

www.dosomething.org/tipspent/gay_rights_terms

Gay Rights Timeline

This is a link to important dates for gay rights.

www.dosomething.org/tipspent/gay_rights_timeline

No Marriage !!!

Sign the Petition !!!

Please sign the petition and have equality for all.

http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/millionformarriageac

Amend the Constitution ! ! !

Marriage is a Sacred Institution . . .

Marriage Equality New York ! ! !

See whats going on for the struggle in Gay Marriage in New York.

http://marriageequalityny.org/about.html

Mixed Marriage ! ! !

Not till recently as 1967 was interracial marriage accepted or really legal till a couple from Virginia the Lovings took to the Supreme Court, read the following to see how the struggle for interracial marriage was achieved and how now we are still going through a similar struggle to get gay marriage legalized:

http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/family/cruz-berson.html

Everyone's Agenda is the Same ! ! !

Virginia's Equality ! ! !

What going on with equality in Virginia? Check this site out ! ! !
http://www.equalityvirginia.org/site/pp.asp?c=dfIIITMIG&b=132619

Don't Ask, Don't Tell ! ! !

Polling Report on Gay Rights ! ! !

Please Check out this poll ! ! !
http://www.pollingreport.com/civil.htm

Politically Correct

Maryland's Equality !!!

Equality for all is what United States of America is based on, but in 2007 all American don't have the same rights... Please click on the link bellow to find out more ! ! !
http://www.equalitymaryland.org/