2001 gay acceptance

in LGBTQ rights Wikimedia Commons has media related to LGBT history in This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBTQ rights that took place in the year timeline of major events in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights history, including homosexuality, gay marriage, gay adoption, serving in the military, sexual orientation discrimination protection, changing legal gender, donating blood, age of consent, and more.

In , 53 percent of respondents stated they believe gay or lesbian relations to be morally wrong, but in this number had fallen to 25 percent.

Support for gay marriage declining

Do you think gay or lesbian relations between consenting adults should or should not be legal? (Asked of those dissatisfied with acceptance of gays and lesbians in U.S.) Would you like to see gays and lesbians be more widely accepted in this nation, less widely accepted, or is the acceptance of gays and lesbians in this nation today about.

From Cathy Woolard's election to Atlanta City Council to the coming out of two lesbian lawmakers, check out what made an amazing year in LGBTQ+ history. Sweden Europe Gay and lesbian couples in Sweden previously had been allowed to register for civil unions since The government has appealed. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older U.

Having an affair thus remains at the bottom of the list of morally acceptable behaviors measured, as it was in An appeal of the ruling by the government was unsuccessful in see below. Americans have generally become more tolerant of a series of moral behaviors over the past years.

"The Sex Discrimination Argument in Gay Rights Cases" by Nan D. Hunter

The Court held that in criminalising private, same-sex sexual intimacy between persons aged 16 or older, the laws offended the Antiguan constitutional rights to liberty, protection of the law, freedom of expression, protection of personal privacy and protection from discrimination on the basis of sex, which the Court recognised includes sexual orientation.

The petitioners had argued that the criminalising provisions violated their constitutional right to equality and non-discrimination, human dignity, security, privacy and health. Slovenia Europe First country in formerly communist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex marriage. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. In the case Constitutional Petitions No.

The new Act narrowed the offence to focus solely on male same-sex activity, still punishable by death. Denmark Europe Same-sex marriage became legal through a separate process in Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, in States in Europe and beyond that decriminalised in the s were: Scotland , Colombia , Vanuatu , Northern Ireland , Micronesia , Portugal , New Zealand , Israel , and Liechtenstein The law took effect on Jan.

As a result of the case of Dudgeon v United Kingdom , the Homosexual Offences Northern Ireland Order was introduced to decriminalise same-sex sexual activity between men in Northern Ireland and give effect to the case of Dudgeon. Table of Contents. The s saw the landmark decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Dudgeon v United Kingdom see below that had far reaching consequences not only on the Council of Europe member states at the time but also on prospective member states that were lining up to join see and below.

First Last. Email Confirm Email. Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago , thereby overturning the High Court ruling that had decriminalised consensual same-sex sexual activity. It was closely followed by the Napoleonic Code founded on the same principles. In August , the Supreme Court of Belize ruled in favour of Caleb Orozco, finding that Section 53 of the Penal Code, which criminalised same-sex activity between men, was unconstitutional.

The AHA makes repeated same-sex, sexual acts punishable by death. Mexico Latin America-Caribbean Same-sex marriage eventually became legal nationally after the Supreme Court declared state bans unconstitutional in The change in attitudes toward having a baby outside of marriage may be an instance of attitudes following behavior, given recent Census Bureau data showing the increasing prevalence in American society of children born to mothers who are not married.

However, the enactment of the Penal Code decriminalised private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity. For more on these comparisons and others, as well as data for , see detailed tables on pewresearch.