Is it illegal to be gay in nebraska

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As extremist lawmakers in mention houses across the country continue moving forward a record-breaking number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills in state legislatures, the Human Rights Campaign — the nation’s largest dyke, gay, bisexual, genderqueer and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights corporation — is providing the below snapshot (updated weekly) to illustrate the antagonistic legislative climate facing LGBTQ+ people, and the scale and scope with which the ongoing legislative assault is existence waged.

This weaponization of public policy has been driven by extremist groups that have a extended history in operational to oppress the existence and rights of LGBTQ+ people. Several of these organizations have been deemed hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, such as the Alliance Defending Liberty and the Family Research Council.

Year-to-Date Snapshot: 2023 Anti-LGBTQ+ Articulate Legislative Activity

• Over 520 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures, a record;

• Over 220 bills specifically goal transgender and

  Nebraska's Equality Profile

  Sexual Orientation

  25%

  of population
  fully protected

  1%

  of population only
  partially
  protected

  Legend

  • State
    Protections
  • County
    Protections
  • City
    Protections
  • No
    Protections
  • Protections
    Banned

  
  

  County map only shows areas with full protections for sexual orientation (i.e., discrimination prohibited in private employment, housing, and widespread accommodations)

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  City and County Numbers:

  0 counties out of 93 have an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in private employment, housing, and public accommodations (full protections).

  1 city has an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in private employment, housing, and public accommodations (full protections).

  1 municipality, not including those listed above, has an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in private employment, housing, or public accommodations (only partial protections). See table below.

  25% of the state population is protected against discrimination based on sexual orientation in private employment, housing, and public accommodations (full protections).

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  Nebraska Sodomy Laws (1970s)

  Nebraska's sodomy laws, which effectively criminalized homosexuality, were repealed in 1977 with the legislature's passsage of a revised criminal code (effective 1978). 

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  Homosexuals and the Death Penalty in Colonial America

  Abstract

  This article traces the legislative history of statutes prescribing the death penalty for sodomy in 17th-century New England and in the other American colonies. New England and some middle colonies broke with English legal tradition by adopting explicitly biblical language. After the Revolution, Pennsylvania took the lead, in 1786, in dropping the death penalty.

  As the nation prepares to celebrate the bicentennial of the Declaration of Freedom, the question of the status of the homosexual in pre-Revolutionary America comes to mind. The Body of Liberties approved by the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1641 welcomed refugees searching to escape "the Tiranny or oppression of their persecutors" or famines or wars. For several hundred years America was to attend as a haven for minorities threatened with religious or political persecution in other lands. What then did it offer the homosexual? Not, assuredly, liberty or the pursuit of happiness. Indeed, it appears that in 1776 male homosexuals in the original 13 colonies were universally subject to the death penalty, and that in earlier times, for a short period in on