gay rights

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A police raid of the small Greenwich Village gay bar ignited six days of rioting that birthed the modern US gay rights movement, later extended to transgender and non-binary people, who do not identify as male or female.

From Barron's

Reiner campaigned for early childhood education and health care, as well as gay rights.

From BBC

While the Englishman spoke up for conservatives with a small c, the American emerged into a new style of politics: His literary success was inseparable from his activism as a promoter of gay rights.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even the content I make, I advocate for immigrants, I advocate for reproductive rights, I advocate for gay rights.

From Slate

His economic adviser, Jorge Quiroz, who like Grau and Escobar got his Ph.D. in economics in the U.S., says, “All those things about the conservative agenda in terms of abortion and gay rights aren’t part of the program, period.”

From The Wall Street Journal