Anti-gay past presidents

What’s behind the shift?. The U. Board members include Tim LaHaye, D. Co-authored by Cameron, the popular pamphlet blames gay men for the epidemic and calls for a national crackdown on homosexuals. William Dannemeyer R-Calif. Anti-gay groups cheer the U.

Hardwick holding that state anti-sodomy statutes are constitutional. In Romer v. President Clinton’s proposal to lift the ban on openly gay military personnel sends anti-gay activists into action, shutting down phone lines to Congress with hundreds of thousands of calls in protest.

The Cobb County Ga. Repudiated by credible historians, the book is nevertheless praised by the Family Research Council and sold by several anti-gay organizations. Among the members will be R. George W. Bush will meet with the Council during his first campaign for president.

California State Sen. John Briggs floats a ballot initiative allowing local school boards to ban gay teachers. Colorado voters approve Amendment 2, overturning municipal laws protecting lesbians and gay men from discrimination.

Born-again singer Anita Bryant campaigns to overturn an anti-discrimination law protecting gay men and lesbians in Dade County, Fla. Inspired by her victory, Bryant founds the first national anti-gay group, Save Our Children, drawing unprecedented attention to gay issues and motivating gay groups to organize in response.

Although back in the s gay rights weren’t a commonly talked about issue, civil rights was a hot topic.

1965 First Gay Rights : Donald Trump has enacted a raft of anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders, many of which specifically target the trans community, just a week in

Evansthe U. The ruling puts an end to 20 years of state and local ballot initiatives aimed at stripping gays of anti-discrimination protections, leaving same-sex marriage as the main issue for anti-gay organizers. Lou Sheldon, who will found the Traditional Values Coalition in The Rev.

Jerry Falwell founds the Moral Majority, a national effort to stimulate the fundamentalist vote and elect Christian Right candidates. We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lives.

We will raise vast private armies … to defeat … the family unit. Read a timeline of the radical right's thirty-year crusade against homosexuality. The president’s previous support is at odds with his anti-trans hostility now. Gay Day protests become a staple of the anti-gay movement.

For this reason, we’ve used anti-civil rights as well as anti-LGBTQ Presidents in this list so that we could include the entire spectrum of the 44 Presidents of the United States. Before the end of the year, forum members successfully push the Defense of Marriage Act, a symbolic measure defining marriage as between a man and a woman, through Congress.

Focus will move to Colorado Springs, Colo.