CA ACR172

Legislature apologizes for enactment of past discriminatory laws and constitutional provisions that persecuted and oppressed LGBT individuals and their communities

Acknowledges historical California laws criminalizing sodomy (from 1850), oral sex acts (Section 288a in 1915), and laws used to prosecute same-sex intimacy including vagrancy, disorderly conduct, and indecent exposure statutes

Recognizes forced sterilization of LGBT individuals (1909), involuntary psychiatric incarceration under "sexual psychopath" laws (1939), and sex offender registration requirements imposed on LGBT people

Acknowledges state marriage restrictions including 1977 law defining marriage as between one man and one woman, Proposition 22 (2000), and Proposition 8 (2008), which were eventually overturned in 2013

Reaffirms Legislature's commitment to becoming a fully inclusive state and preserving the rights of all people