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This Day in Gay History
June 26

Noteworthy L to R: John Lawrence and Tyron Garner 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down sodomy laws and rules Gay people have a right to equal protection under the law with landmark Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas.    Jim Obergefell 2015 - The Supreme Court of the United States, in a landmark 5-4 decision, Obergefell v Hodges, rule that the Constitution of the United States assures the right to MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR LGBT PEOPLE and that every state in the union must recognize and respect same-sex marriages. Heterosexual marriages begin crumbling…oh wait…that didn’t happen. Nevermind. In the last two years, since SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade, we have been put on notice that the radical right wing justices have Marriage Equality in their sites.  Just a few days ago, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the fundamental rights of married couples on Friday in an important and ominous immigration case, Department of State v. Muñoz. Justice Amy Coney Barrett held—over the dissent of all three liberals—that American citizens have no constitutional “liberty interest” in living with their foreign spouses, denying them the most basic protections against arbitrary government discrimination. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s fierce dissent condemned Barrett’s opinion as, among other things, an unsubtle assault on marriage equality for LGBTQ+ Americans. As assessed by lawyer, writer, and journalist Dahlia Lithwick, "The court could easily say, just down the road, that it already called Obergefell into question, and overruling it is the next logical step. I think that’s why Sotomayor also hinges her dissent on Dobbs, pointing to false assurances that the court would overturn abortion rights but go no further. We all knew that was bogus at the time. And remember, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson signed on to this dissent in full. I think all three liberals are ringing this alarm so everyone can see that overturning marriage equality is very much on the table at this Supreme Court." Saints John and Paul 2018 - It is the Feast Day of SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL, martyred lovers According to their Acts, which are of a legendary character and without recorded historical foundation, the martyrs were eunuchs (Galli) of Constantina daughter of Constantine the Great, and became acquainted with a certain Gallicanus, who built a church in Ostia. At the command of Julian the Apostate, they were beheaded secretly by Terentianus in their house on the Cælian, where their church was subsequently erected, and where they themselves were buried. Galli (singular Gallus) was the Roman name for castrated followers of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, which were regarded as a third gender by contemporary Roman scholars, and are in some ways like transgendered people in the modern world. The chief of these priests was referred to as a battakes, and later as the archigallus. 2022 - PRIDE Early on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons rioted following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 43 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. This riot and further protests and rioting over the following nights were the watershed moment in the modern LGBT rights movement and the impetus for organizing LGBT pride marches on a much larger public scale.

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