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gay rights

  1. The movement for civil rights for homosexuals. It originated after a police raid on a gay bar in New York City in 1969, which triggered a riot and launched the grassroots reform movement seeking to end social and legal discrimination against gays. ( See Stonewall Riot .)


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Hilton was credited with modernizing the British conservative movement, remaining true to free-market ideals while also supporting liberal social policy, such as backing gay rights and fighting climate change.

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At a grassroots level, inspired by the reclamation of queer by the gay rights movement, B***h Magazine launched in 1996 in Portland, Oregon, as a feminist riposte to demeaning stereotypes.

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The view that Europe has been trying to impose values alien to Georgian traditions, such as gay rights, is often repeated by state ministers and pro-government media.

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A 15-part video series about Stonewall Riots—a three-day uprising against anti-queer police harassment that occurred on the site in June 1969, which is widely celebrated as galvanizing the nascent gay rights movement—was also removed, and every use of “LGBTQ+” was lopped down to “LGB.”

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The alt-right talked about the “great replacement” conspiracy theory as a plot by Jews to dilute the culture and power of white people through immigration and gay rights; Fox News hosts began to warn of “replacement” as a plot by Democrats to dilute the power of white voters with immigrants.

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