Sentences with phrase «gay rights activities»
The photographs from Mapplethorpe's show were projected onto the exterior of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, while gay rights activities, civil liberty activist and artists picketed outside the Corcoran.
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NEW YORK (AP)-- Protesters in cities around the world targeted major Olympic sponsors Wednesday, just ahead of the Winter Games in Sochi, urging them to speak out against Russia's law restricting gay - rights activities.
I really struggle with concerns that participating in a church community that restricts the roles of women in leadership, or that actively campaigns against the civil rights of gays and lesbians, makes me complicit in those activities.
The WSCC statement refuses to reduce homosexual people to their genital expression: «Gays and lesbians have just as much right to our approval and acceptance of their overall activity.»
Starting in the 1970s, however, a few state courts upheld custody rights for transgender, gay, and lesbian parents, though some still required that they not live with a partner or engage in «homosexual activities.»
However, the lawsuit came under fire from some gay - rights activists who worried about its legal arguments and Shupe - Roderick's history of litigation and criminal activities.
The constitutionality of an Oklahoma law that allows schools to dismiss employees for engaging in or advocating certain homosexual activities is being tested in a suit brought last year by a national gay - rights group.
And since the mafia had stepped into the void left by the SLA's refusal to grant licenses, gay bars frequently acted as fronts for the mob's other activities, which was another driving force for this raid, as chronicled in Tristan Poehlmann's The Stonewall Riots: The Fight for LGBT Rights.