Gay Boy Asian Gallery

Gay Boy Asian Gallery

Gay Boy Asian Gallery

In the Understanding Our World Today section of Newsweek online a photo collage traces in pictures how Gay rights are making progress, amid protests, around the world. This pictorial history of the worldwide Gay communities' progress towards acceptance in the world was included in an online article from Newsweek magazine on Jan. 9, 2010 titled Why I Took this Case by Theodore B. Olson

Progress Around the World for Equal Rights for the Gay Community

  • 2001 saw the Netherlands legalize Gay marriage
  • The Netherlands was the first country in the entire world to do so
  • Belgium was the second country in the world to legalize Gay marriage
  • South Africa was the first country in the developing world to overturn the law and allow Gay and Lesbian couples to get married
  • In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state in the United States to legalize Gay marriage
  • India still bans homosexuality. But Activists marched in winter of 2009 in New Dehli and Bangalore calling for an end to India's ban. The Gay Rights movement there is just beginning to take root in acceptance
  • China continues to relax concerns over gays but quietly monitors open marches like the one that took place in Shanghai in 2009
  • Connecticut's courts legalized gay marriage in 2008 but just like California opponants are trying to bring a public ballot measure to overturn the ruling
  • In 2005 Spain became the3rd country in the world to grant full recognition to gays who wished to marry
  • In 2006 Mexico City was the first city in Mexico to pass legislation which legalized same sex unions
  • Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, became the first Latin American city to pass a gay civil union ordinance. 4 other Brazilian States have now made the civil union ordinance a law
  • Thailand has become accepting towards the gay and Lesbian Asian Community as most of Asia remains closed to any real interest in addressing the rights of homosexuals to be considered equal.
  • In the Spring of 2009 Vermont became the first state to permit same sex marriage without any court action
  • This followed Iowa's lead in 2009 offering Equal Rights to Gays and Lesbian Couples.

The California Prop 8 Case

Why I Took This Case by Theodore B. Olson explains his interest to attempt to persuade a Federal court to invalidate California's Prop 8, the voter approved measure which overturned California's constitutional right to marry a person of the same sex.

The future of Gay marriage in the United States remains uncertain. The fight continues as legislatures in several States prepare to vote on bills similar to Prop 8 later in 2010.

Equal Rights for All American Citizens

The Newsweek article tells the story of how Olson, a prominent Conservative Republican Attorney along with the assistance of his good friend and well known Liberal Attorney, David Bois, are trying to persuade the California Federal Court to take this to the United States Supreme Court. In front of that Court, activists from both sides can be expected to attempt to make vigorous interventions.

Both Attorneys say that Americans who share a homosexual orientation are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation. These California Attorneys are uniting for the purpose of upholding the Constitution of the United States which offers equal rights for all of its' citizens.