Gay-Rights Movement
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT organized...homosexuality and protect the civil rights of homosexuals. While there...organized activity on behalf of the rights of homosexuals from the mid...20th cent., the modern gay-rights movement in the United States...barring discrimination against gays in housing and employment...it had refused to extend the right of privacy to consensual sexual...