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Disabled, LGBT, and Older Americans

Disabled, LGBT, and Older Americans. Raequel Burris, Mallary Wadle , Chandler Cunningham. Disabled Americans. In 1962, the University of California at Berkeley reluctantly admitted Ed Roberts as a student. Disabilities can be both physical and mental.

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Disabled, LGBT, and Older Americans

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  1. Disabled, LGBT, and Older Americans Raequel Burris, MallaryWadle, Chandler Cunningham

  2. Disabled Americans • In 1962, the University of California at Berkeley reluctantly admitted Ed Roberts as a student. • Disabilities can be both physical and mental. • Physical can include blindness, deafness, and impaired movement. • Mental disabilities include illnesses like bipolar disorder. • According to the 2000 Census, nearly 20 percent of Americans over the age of 5 have some type of disability. • The first groups of disabled Americans to fight for their rights were deaf and blind people. • They also asserted that blind and deaf people has a right to use their own languages: braille and American Sign Language. • He and fellow activists pressed the school to improve accessibility on campus. • Making it easier for the physically disabled to enter university facilities included ramps and curb cuts.

  3. Disabled Americans Cont. • In 1973, Congress passed the Rehabilitation Act. This law stated that no one with disabilities would be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or to be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. • After four years of trying to decide how to enforce these laws, protesters took over the offices of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington D.C. in 1977. • In 1975, Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. • This Act stated that wherever possible, students with disabilities were to be mainstreamed, or included in classrooms with nondisabled students. • Years later, in 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA called for better public access for people with disabilities.

  4. LGBT Americans • In the 1960’s many gays and lesbians felt they had to hide their sexual orientation to avoid discrimination. • By the late 1960’s, gay rights activists in Philadelphia were holding an annual Fourth of July protest, where they pointed out to visitors that gay Americans did not get many of the rights that most Americans took for granted. • It was not until the Stonewall riots that the gay pride movement became highly visible. • On June 27th, 1969, NYC police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the neighborhood of Greenwich Village. • NYC had outlawed homosexuality at the time, and police raids ere common. That night, however, the customers at the Stonewall fought back and these riots sparked the beginning of the gay rights movement. • In March 1973, , a group of parents with gay sons and daughters began meeting in New York.

  5. LGBT Americans (Cont) • By 1980, the group, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), had members around the country. • Another monumental event in the history of gay rights occurred in 1977, when Harvey Milk was elected to the board of supervisors in San Francisco. • Milk was the first openly gay candidate to win office in a major American City. Eleven months later, however, Milk was assassinated by a former colleague.

  6. Older Americans • Older Americans also joined the civil rights struggle. • In 1972, Maggie Kuhn and some fellow retirees in Philadelphia formed the Gray Panthers. • The Gray Panthers called the unjust treatment of older Americans ageism, or discrimination against people on the basis of age. • Other groups had formed earlier to advocate for older Americans. The largest was the American Association of Retired Persons(AARP). • AARP was founded by Ethel Percy Andrus in 1958.

  7. Older Americans • Andrus formed AARP to help retirees get health insurance. • In 1965, Congress responded to AARP lobbies by developing Medicare. This program insurance is for people ages 65 and over. • There were also complaints about discrimination in the workplace. To remedy this problem, Congress passed the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. This law made it illegal for employers to use age as a factor in hiring or promotion. • In 1978, the Gray Panthers helped persuade Congress to push back the required retirement age from 65 to 70.

  8. Current Progress(Disabled Americans) • Even though it is still difficult for disabled Americans they contribute to the market place and take certain roles in the government programs. It is now easier for disabled Americans to communicate and be treated equally by others. There is new technology that makes it easier for them to think better and do certain functions that it was difficult for them to do before. They now have sports for disabled Americans and involve them into more activities. The ADA helps with discrimination against Americans with disabilities. There is a wider variety for education and it is now easier for disabled Americans to get into colleges. The ADA also makes it so every building that is built is accessible to disabled/handicapped Americans.

  9. Current progress(LGBT* Community) • Last week, Arizona state Rep. John Kavanagh (R) proposed a new bill that would prosecute transgendered people with a Class 1 misdemeanor for using the “wrong” restrooms. After the swift, negative backlash (and many people calling for his removal from office), he scrapped it and instead proposed a bill that simply prohibits Arizona municipality from creating nondiscrimination protections based on gender identity. • With the controversy roaring across the country, there have been many marches in Washington D.C. and all over for marriage equality.

  10. Current Progress(LGBT* Community cont.) • Luckily, though, with the Supreme Court hearing arguments about marriage equality, many icons in America have been showing their support. • Bud Light, Nike, Apple, Starbucks, Citigroup, Beyoncé, the members of Fun., Madonna, Patrick Stewart, Sara Bareilles, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ben Affleck, Seth McFarlane, Ricky Martin, the members of Fall Out Boy, Ellen, Oprah, President Obama, and Jay-Z all spoke in favor of marriage equality (just to name a few). • A recent study revealed that overall, 58% of Americans now support marriage equality, which is in stark contrast when compared to the 72% of Americans who disapproved in 1988.

  11. Current progress(LGBT* Community cont.)

  12. CURRENT PROGRESS(LGBT* COMMUNITY CONT.)

  13. Work cited • Brault, Matthew W. “Americans With Disabilities.” Current Populations. US Census Bureau, July 2012. Web. 28 March 2013. • University of Michigan. “Special Education and Sports.” University of Michigan. N/A. Web. 28 March 2013. • Ford, Zack. “Arizona Lawmaker Now Wants to Enshrine Transgender Discrimination Into Law." ThinkProgress. 26 Mar. 2013. Web. 28 March 2013. • Morgan, Glennisha. "Beyonce, Madonna And Other Celebrities Chime In For Gay Marriage." The Huffington Post. 27 Mar. 2013. Web. 28 March 2013. • Vedantam, Shankar. “Shift in Gay Marriage Support Mirrors A Changing America.” National Public Radio. 25 Mar. 2013. Web. 28 March 2013. • Book.

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