1996 in LGBTQ rights

none July 2011 July 2010 1996 LGBT rights This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1996. Events Homosexuality is decriminalised in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although Republika Srpska did not remove homosexuality from its criminal code until 1998. May 8 – South Africa becomes the first nation in the world to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution.Stychin, C. (1996). Constituting Sexuality: The Struggle for Sexual Orientation in the South African Bill of Rights. Journal of Law and Society, 23(4), 455-483. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1410476 doi:1 20 – In Romer v. Evans, the Supreme Court of the United States rules 6–3 that Colorado's Amendment 2, which would have voided existing gay rights laws in Colorado and prevented any new gay rights laws from taking effect, is unconstitutional. Romer v. Evans 517 US 620 United States Supreme Court May 20, 1996 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=U10179 21 – Hungary legalizes same-sex unions, first among the ex-communist countries, and fifth country worldwide. The Parliament voted 207–73 in favor for the bill.Equality for same-sex couples: the legal recognition of gay partnerships in Europe and the United States Merin Yuval University of Chicago Press 2002 9780226520339 Chicago 131 June 17 – The United States Supreme Court, in light of its decision in Romer v. Evans, vacates and remands the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, et al. v. The City of Cincinnati, which had found the city's anti-gay Issue 3 constitutional. Supreme Court Vacates Cincinnati's Anti-Gay Amendment Lambda Legal June 17, 1996 http://www.lambdalegal.org/news/pr/ny_19960617_supreme-court-vacates-cincinnati-anti-gay-amendment.html July 26, 2010 July 1 – The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacates and remands the district court in Able v. United States of America, which had ruled the military's gay-exclusionary "don't ask, don't tell" policy unconstitutional. Able v. United States of America 88 F3rd 1280 United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit July 1, 1996 September 10 – The United States Senate passes the Defense of Marriage Act (85–14) and rejects prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector (49–50).https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/104/hr3396 H.R. 3396 (104th): Defense of Marriage Act govtrack March 6, 2021 15 – The European Parliament calls for an end to anti-gay discrimination. 21 – United States President Bill Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) into law. DOMA allows individual states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictionshttps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1738C 28 U.S. Code § 1738C.Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof Cornell Law School March 6, 2021 and creates federal definitions for the terms "marriage" and "spouse".https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/7 1 U.S. Code § 7 - Definition of "marriage" and "spouse" Cornell Law School March 6, 2021 December 3 – In Baehr v. Miike Hawaii judge Kevin S.C. Chang rules in favor of the plaintiffs and enjoins the state of Hawaii from refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.Baehr v. Miike, Circuit Court for the First Circuit, Hawaii No. 91-1394 The following day Chang stays his ruling, acknowledging the "legally untenable" position couples would be in should the Hawaii Supreme Court reverse him on appeal. Oshiro Sandra Hawaiian judge puts same-sex marriage ruling on hold The Nation Thailand A12 Reuter December 6, 1996 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4BYuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zjADAAAAIBAJ&pg=4305,2060755&dq=hawaii+judge+stays+marriage+ruling&hl=en August 18, 2010 Deaths November 18 – Evelyn Hooker, whose research helped lead to declassifying homosexuality as a mental illness (b. 1907)Evelyn Hooker: In Memoriam http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/hooker2.html psychology.ucdavis.edu 12 January 2018 January 20, 1998 https://web.archive.org/web/19980120084028/http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/hooker2.html dead See also LGBTQ Timeline of LGBT history – timeline of events from 12,000 BCE to present LGBT rights by country or territory – current legal status around the world LGBT social movements Notes Category:1990s in LGBTQ rights Category:1996 in LGBTQ history