Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane.
Contents:
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
* lgbt rights facts *
1950 - The Mattache Society is formed by activist Harry Hay and is one of the first staed gay rights groups the Uned Stat.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
April 1952 - The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s diagnostic manual lists homosexualy as a socpathic personaly disturbance. Eisenhower signs an executive orr that bans homosexuals om workg for the feral ernment, sayg they are a secury risk. Protts and monstratns beg, and later be known as the impet for the gay civil rights movement the Uned Stat.
March 26, 1973 - First meetg of “Parents and Friends of Gays, ” which go natnal as Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) 1982. December 15, 1973 - By a vote of 5, 854 to 3, 810, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn remov homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs the DSM-II Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs.