GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE..

EVERY MAN

OF HAPPINESS.

IT IS SAID IN THE BIBLE

IT ALSO STATES THAT

PEOPLE ARGUE THAT BY ALTERING

• the traditional marriage between man and woman
• it will weaken a threatened institution and that
• legalizing gay marriage is a slippery slope that will lead to
• polygamous and interspecies marriage.

AT NEW YORK IN JUNE 28, 1969,

• Police raiding a gay bar was not unusual,
• but on this day the gays and lesbians fought back.
• This was called the Stonewall riot. This market the
• beginning a political movement for gay rights during a time
• where homosexuals were illegal except in Illinois.

DURING THE 1969 THROUGH 1974,

• gay activist swelled from fifty to a thousand.
• Gay-rights activism in the 1970s focused more on personal liberation
• and visibility than on gaining access to institutions such as marriage.
• While some gay activists sought the right to marry in the early 1970s,
• others rejected marriage as "heterosexist” and saw it as an outdated institution.

THE GAY ACTIVIST FINALLY HAD VICTORY

• in December 1973 when the American
• Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality
• as a mental disorder and the American Psychological Association
• did the same in 1975.

Proponents argue that same-sex couples

• should have access to the same marriage benefits and
• public acknowledgment enjoyed by heterosexual
• couples and that prohibiting gay marriage is
• Unconstitutional discrimination.