You don't get rights for being gay. In fact, depending on where you live, you lose rights for being gay.
It's called being a proponent of gay rights.
The difference is that most of the opposition to gay rights believes being gay is a choice (and a bad one at that). No one in the racial civil rights era believed being Black was a choice.
You can't stop anyone from being gay. You can only repress them and take away their rights.
As of 2013, gay people lack many of the rights that straight people have. They cannot marry. They cannot do joint adoptions. They can be fired from their jobs for being gay, and they can be beaten up without it being a "hate crime."
The biggest intersection between the two involve the debate over whether being gay is a choice or an inherent quality. Some opponents of gay rights claim that it is a choice, and therefore a person who chooses to be gay is disrupting society. Virtually all supporters of gay rights know that being gay is not a choice, so they have to work hard to change that idea.
There are many ways gay people are denied their rights. As of 2013, Gay people are still denied the right to marry in 36 US states. Many of those states also ban gay people from adopting or visiting their partners in the hospital. Gay people can also be fired from their jobs for being gay in 31 states.
gay rights are positive rights.
It depends on which rights you are talking about. For example:As of 2013, 14 states allow gay people to marry.29 states protect people from losing their jobs over being gay.
Yes, all gay people in the United States have some rights, but depending on the state, they may be lacking some important rights, such as the right to marry, and the right to not get fired from a job for being gay.
Women's rights and gay rights definitely have some overlap, but the differences are in what rights are lacking.
They do support gay rights :)
Yes, but this is challenged in many countries (as are the human rights of women, racial and religious minorities and so on).