gay rights

Examines five key cases that have changed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights and the nation, covering family, harassment, discrimination, marriage, and sex.

Provides current information as of the year 2000 on the issue of gay rights in America, covering political movements, legal rights, visibility, and cultural acceptance and resistance; also includes a gay rights chronology spanning 1869 through June 2000, a biographical listing, a glossary, an annotated bibliography on gay rights topics, and a list of organizations and agencies.

Examines how the Stonewall Riots in the Greenwich Village neighborhood during June 1969 helped start the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

Examines the link between gay rights and three successful civil rights movements, black civil rights, feminism, and religious toleration, and explains how those three movements can serve as an example for the gay civil rights movement.

A guide to the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual singles, couples, and families that provides legal guidelines for a variety of situations, and includes questions and answers about the states that legally recognize same-sex partnerships.

Legal scholar and gay rights activist David Richards examines the constitutional and democratic principles relating to privacy, intimate life, free speech, tolerance, and conscience that form the basis of the heated debate over gay rights.

Looks at the issue of homosexuality from scientific, religious, and legal points of view, including historical information on such topics as the development of the gay rights movement and the murder of Charlie Howard.

Presents primary documents, including laws, court cases, personal testimonies, and others, that provide insights into the history of conflict over the issue of gay and lesbian rights in the United States, from colonial times to 2000.