October is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) History Month the Uned Stat and cis wh Natnal Comg Out Day, and memorat the first March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, and Spir Day.
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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR HISTORY MONTH
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October was selected bee cis wh Natnal Comg Out Day on October 11, and bee is the month of the first March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1979. In the Uned Kgdom, LGBT History Month is observed Febary bee that is the month, 2003, of the repeal of Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act of 1988, which banned "promotg" homosexualy. Of particular historic signifince was the rearch of Evelyn Hooker, which disproved the notn that homosexualy was a mental illns, and led ultimately to s removal om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs.
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Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights. * lgbt history month facts *
Barbara Gtgs and Kay Lahen talk about the 1973 Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s annual meetg that featured a panel discsn wh a gay psychiatrist disguise. Sce 1970, the LGBTQ muny has marked June as Pri Month—a time to celebrate what means to be lbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgenr while mandg equaly and liberatn om cis and heteronormative nstrats. Pri paras and march, which are tradnally held on the last weekend June, memorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, a watershed moment LGBTQ history when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan that is now a natnal monument, fought back agast a police year marks the 52nd anniversary of the first gay Pri march, which was held on the first anniversary of the Stonewall rts.
In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found the Society for Human Rights Chigo; was the first group to mpaign for gay rights the Uned Stat. While the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March New York Cy is wily nsired to be the first Pri para, actually occurred one day after Chigo held s first march, which technilly mak Chigo the birthplace of the first Pri para may have been Chigo, the mantle of “Mother of Pri” belongs to a lifelong New Yorker: Brenda Howard. Howard passed away gay rights groups, such as the Mattache Society, foced heavily on rpectabily and nventn, as the drs for their "annual remrs" monstrated (women drs; men jackets and ti).