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Summary: The Gay Rights Movement

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The gay rights movement hit a major milestone, when in 1962 the state of Illinois repealed its sodomy laws. Laws targeting LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people were common and sodomy laws were no exception. After Kinsey’s first work was published five states lowered their maximum penalty for sodomy: Arkansas, Nevada, New Jersey, Georgia, and New York. Massachusetts mitigated their extreme psychopath laws and Californiana eliminated so-called sexual perverts from sterilization

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