Dchr's Response To The 1970s

In response, the DCCHR adopted the slogan “We ARE Your Children”, which they put on t-shirts, which indicates that they saw themselves as a different way, perhaps as part of the same family, or that they were trying to humanize themselves and show that they weren’t dangerous at all (159). Another Change that occurred since 1970s, one which worked against homosexuality, is that, around the 1980s to the 1990s, Homosexuality became the blame for the outbreak of AIDS, a new disease that robbed its victims of their immune systems, and which the nation was struggling to overcome. The disease spread through spread through sexual fluids, unprotected and unclean sex, and infected blood and needles, although the disease had been stereotypically

Even for those under the disease, it was a difficult situation, as, for instance, in the case of one domestic partnership between two homosexual males, Richard and Steven, where Steven caught the virus in 1993, forcing him to wall himself off about his status, and the fact that he had the disease, which would have identified him as homosexual (Friend, 463-465). This, along with the backlash against the gay rights movement during the late 1970s, along with the targeting by the republicans, indicates that some groups, specifically the republicans in this case, still saw homosexuals as a threat to America, and rejected them. However, Clinton, as part of his campaign, decided to embrace gay rights. For instance, during his New Covenant speech at his convention, Clinton stated that the conservatives were arguing that it was Us vs Them, which he described to be the minorities, the poor, the liberals, even the gays, for example (Friend, 161). Clinton also argued that there was no Them, there was only Us, signifying that he saw all of them as on the same side, which signifies that he embraced homosexuality, or that he was at least defending it as part of his campaign

In the Victorian era, homosexual relationships were generally accepted as long as it did not interfere with the traditional marriage. In the 1960s, homosexuality was seen as a political choice in the 1960s, while also being criticized by the mainstream and radical feminists. In the 1990s, it was portrayed as a threat by the Republicans and defended by the Democrats, only to be slightly pushed back by Clinton’s decision to sign DOMA (Friend, 470). According to this perception, the perception of Homosexuality has become gradually more grim following the 1800s, and its progress forward from the 1960s and 1970s to earn civil rights has been difficult (Stansell 84, 91-92). Since then, although Homosexuality has groups like the DCCHR fighting in defense of homosexual rights, Homosexuality, essentially, has been facing an upward battle since the 1960s and 1970s, with opposition growing against it, and, as evidenced by Clinton’s decision and AIDS, the road forward is only getting more difficult for Homosexuality (Frank,