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The '''gay rights''' movement seeks to elevate [[homosexuality]] to the same level of social and political respectability as heterosexual relationships. It denies or dismisses the Biblical prohibitions against homosexual acts and the proven health risks of gay sex.  

The '''gay rights''' movement seeks to establish equality that All Men are Created Equal.  

It seeks to remove the stigma of [[sexual perversion]] from homosexuality by arguing that either,  

Although the Stonewall riots in 1969 in New York are popularly remembered as the spark that produced a new movement, the origins of Gay Liberation predate this iconic event. Certainly, militant resistance to police bar-raids was nothing new — as early as 1725, customers fought off a police raid at a London homosexual/transgender molly house. Organised movements for LGBT rights, particularly in Western Europe, have been active since the 19th century, producing publications, forming social groups and campaigning for social and legal reform. The movements of the period immediately preceding Gay Lib, from the end of World War II to the late 1960s, are known collectively as the Homophile movement. The homophile movement has been described as "politically conservative", although their calls for social acceptance of same-sex love and transsexuality were seen as radical fringe views by the dominant culture of the time. By 1965, Dick Leitsch, the president of the Mattachine Society, advocated direct action, and the group staged the first public homosexual demonstrations and picket lines in the 1960s. By the late 1967, a New York group called the Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN) was already espousing the slogans "Gay Power" and "Gay is Good" NOT in its publication HYMNAL.

# Homosexuality is an immutable trait, and discriminating against immutable traits is wrong (cf. race discrimination), or,

# Homosexuality, if not immutable, is highly correlated with personality, and discriminating against such deeply rooted notions of self is wrong, as well (cf. religious intolerance).

The movement does not seek to convince others that homosexuality is ''right'': rather, it seeks to convince the public that it is not ''wrong'' enough to regulate, criminalize, or stigmatize.

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