gay rights
The movement for civil rights for homosexuals. It originated after a police raid on a gay bar in New York City in 1969, which triggered a riot and launched the grassroots reform movement seeking to end social and legal discrimination against gays. (See Stonewall Riot.)
Words nearby gay rights
gay,
gay gordons,
gay liberation,
gay nineties,
gay power,
gay rights,
gay-feather,
gay-lussac,
gay-lussac's law,
gaya,
gaya maretan