That event was considered the beginning of the modern gay-rights movement in the United States.

He knows where he made mistakes, but the force he really blames is none other than the gay-rights movement.

The option of marriage, particularly as the legal and cultural locus of family rights, became an increasingly central concern of the gay-rights movement.

Mr. Manford was a leader in the modern gay-rights movement.

The change accelerated as lesbians became more active in the gay-rights movement.

Their resistance is often cited as the birth of the modern gay-rights movement.

The Netherlands have a strong gay-rights movement.

The riot became a landmark event in the history of homosexuals, catalyzing the modern gay-rights movement.

A nascent gay-rights movement embraced him as a hero of defiance.