1990s gay rights movement

A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States: The 1990s, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and DOMA

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Gay Rights

But people whose partners had died before Jan. Lawyer Douglas Elliott launched a class action suit claiming that the denial of survivor benefits violated the Charter. George had a long history of activism in fighting for gay rights dating back to the s. He was a founder of the Community Homophile Association in and the first openly gay person to run for public office in Canada, when he ran as a candidate in the municipal election in Toronto.

In , the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lesbian couples to register as domestic partners, granting them some of the rights of marriage the city of San Francisco passed a similar ordinance three years prior and California would later extend those rights to the entire state in State voters disagreed, however, and in passed a law banning same-sex marriage.