The legal and social status of people who perform homosexual acts or identify as gay or lesbian varies enormously across the world and in places remains hotly contested in political and religious debate. Although early writers also used the adjective homosexual to refer to homosexuality in general. The prevalence of the concept owes much to the work of the German psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing and his 1886 work Psychopathia Sexualis. In cultures under the sway of Abrahamic religions, the law and the church established sodomy as a transgression against divine law, a "crime against nature" practiced by choice, and subject to severe penalties, including capital punishment—often inflicted by means of fire so as to purify the unholy action. The first letters are frequently combined to create the acronym LGBT (sometimes written as GLBT), in which B and T refer.

Equal Rights For Gays

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Equal Rights For Gays

LGBT social movements - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and single-issue "Gay Rights Movement", which portrayed gays and lesbians as a Perfect Enemies: The Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics

Equal Rights Washington
New York Times: Microsoft Comes Under Fire for Reversal on Gay Rights Bill Seattle Times: Married gays feel boxed out by IRS forms

Essay by Nigel Ashford: "Equal Rights, Not Gay Rights"
. right of gays to serve in the military - the legal recognition of same sex used extensively to promote equal rights for gays, eg in the Wolfenden Report

Independent Gay Forum - Equal Rights, Not Gay Rights
in the Wolfenden Report.the right of gays to serve in the military been used extensively to promote equal rights for gays, e.g.

Adelaide Archbishop backs equal rights for gay couples
Equal rights backed for gay couples (The Advertiser 17/3/05) British bishops ban discrimination against gays, co-habitors (CathNews 9/2/05)

Legislative Updates - Equal Rights Colorado
potentially effect the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered Equal Rights Colorado's lobbying activities include coordinating hearing

Equal Rights for Gays and Lesbians -- Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights - Nader for President 2004 - www....
right direction under current federal and state law they do not afford equal rights.Ralph supports full equal rights for gays and lesbians.

HOMOSEXUALITY AND BISEXUALITY
Information and links covering many aspects of the issues of sexual orientation and the impact of religion.

Equal Rights for Gays Faces Supreme Court Test
the same right to privacy, and you can't have a different rule for gay people. saying marriage and family are threatened by an equal-rights ruling for gays.

UW student lobby backs gay rights bill
expected to be hotly debated in the Capitol again -- equal rights for gays. that (we) want to be on the right side of history," said Ben Golden, the Olympia