SOWK 5310: GLBT Communities


Issues impacting LBGT Communities

  • Anti-sodomy laws: established as early as 1610; still in effect in some states, although determined Unconstitutional. 
  • Marriage Equality: DOMA was signed into law under President Clinton in 1996: defining marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman.  The law denied rights to federal benefits such as Social Security.  



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