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In the early 1980s, it was reported that a new disease was being transferred through infected blood and sexual contact, and that risk factors included homosexuality and drug use. One of the earliest medical clinics treating the disease was run in New York City by Dr. Joseph Sonnabend. By 1985, thousands of people in the United States had died. Many LGBT advocacy organizations began to speak up and raise funds.

The changes I would make to this section of the article is probably adding more information about how ACT UP helped fight for the LGBT rights in the United States. ACT UP was the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and this was a grassroot political group that fought for access to new drugs to help fight against the AIDS epidemic. The way they did this was by carrying out acts of civil disobedience and nonviolent protests. ACT UP also led protests against news articles, films, and article that gave the public misinformation about the epidemic of AIDS. While there is much more that this article could add I find the absence of the ACT UP that most noticable because this was such an important group in the gay rights movement in the United States.

Evaluation of an Article: LGBT rights in the United States

By Max Williford

Lead Section

- The first sentence is concise and gives a broad view about what the content in the article is about.

- Yes the article gives a brief description of the article's major sections. This article talks about the legality of same-sex sexual activity, recognition of marriage, discrimination protections, hate crime laws, military inclusion, history of SCOTUS decisions and presidents on same sex marriages, and many others.

-The article only contains information that it said it would mention and information that is in the table of contents.

- The lead contains a lot of information that is very helpful and informative. While some of the information in the lead could of not been there and it would of been fine, all in all it was a concise and informative lead that set the tone for the article.

Content

- The article's content is relevant to the topic. The article is titled LGBT Rights in the United States so it should talk about the development of rights of the LGBT community and how it happened. It talks about the pieces of legislation that helped improve the rights of LGBT citizens, it talked how their rights like marriage and adoption improved, and the support of these rights by many citizens in the United States.

- Yes this article is up to date. It mentions all the current pieces of legislation that has been passed to improve the rights of LGBT as late as 2016 when adoption for same sex marriages was federally passed.

- I believe that all the information that is in the article belongs in there and there is none missing. I believe this because it talks about so many aspects that have shown how the rights of LGBT have improved in years since the 80s. It covers most if not all vital information that can be used to discuss the development of rights in a concise manner.

- Yes this article has topics related to underrepresented populations. It talks about sexual minorities that have fought for their rights to be where they are at today. It discusses the LGBTQ community.

Tone and Balance

- The article is from a neutral point of view. It discusses how this development happened in a non bias way just laying out the facts.

- There are no claims that I found to be heavily biased along with no viewpoints that are overrepresented or underrepresented.

- I believe that minority viewpoints are well represented in this article.

- This article does not attempt to persuade the readers from leaning toward one way. It objectively presents the facts that went into the change of rights of LGBT.

Sources and References

- Yes most of the citations are reliable secondary sources. A couple of them I am not positive about they could be unreliable but for the most part they all seem to be reliable.

- Yes the citation and research is thorough. There is 511 sources on the references page.

- The resources all seem to be current. When I looked through I found only sources from the 2000s.

- The sources are written by a wide range of authors. They also include historically marginalized groups like the National LGBTQ Task Force, Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project, and The New York Times.

- One source that I found that would of been useful in this article talks about a Poll that says support for the LGBTQ community is on the upswing. It talks about how 70% of Americans support marriage equality. If this article added this source it could of helped show just how much the support has changed.

- The links work.

Organization and Writing Quality

- The article is well written. It is concise but it gets the information needed across. It is clear, there are headings for the different major sections and they just give the most important information.

- The article has a few grammatical errors but nothing that is too big.

Images and Media

-This article does use images as a tool to enhance the understanding of readers. He uses quite a few photos and quite a few charts.

- The images are well captioned and adhere to the Wikipedia copyright regulations.

Talk Page Discussion

- The conversations that are happening in the talk page are certain clarifications and questions about certain pieces of legislation. For example, one person commented saying something about discrimination laws in Florida that happened recently. So it was bringing to light that a map on the article is a little outdated with the county maps in Florida that does not include same sex discrimination.

- I could not find how it was rated but it is apart of 5 WikiProjects. These WikiProjects are: WikiProject LGBT studies, WikiProject United States, WikiProjects Human Rights, WikiProjects Policies, and WikiProject United States/Government.

- Since there was not a lot on the talk page and not too much of substance, it is hard to compare it to class. One connection I had was that they both agree that LGBTQ politics and behavior has changed for the better along with the support the community is receiving.

Overall Impressions

- The article is overall very informative and an easy read. The status is incomplete still however. There will be new pieces of legislation to add and update to continue to show the progress the LGBTQ community is making.

- The strengths of the article include organization, loads of information, and good photos to help enhance this topic. It is well organized so it is easy to read. It headlines the major points of the article so you know what the section is about. There are about 15 sub sections so it has tons of examples of th eprogress or rights of the LGBTQ. The photos allow a visual representation to help the reader absorb even more information.

- The article can be improved by showing more polls about how support has done a 180 since the 80s. This could improve the article because it shows that the tactics are working for improving the lives of LGBTQ but the work is not done. There is 28% of Americans who still do not show support of LGBTQ marriage.

- I would say this article is about 85% done. There is some things that need to be added and some things that need to be update or taken out. With that being said though, this article does offer great information about the rights of LGBTQ people and how it happened. It talks about the different points in history and how their rights differ. So for that I do think that this article is mostly complete.