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.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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Origally tend as a badge of shame, the pk triangle (often verted om s Nazi age) has been reclaimed as an ternatnal symbol of the gay rights movement. The Angels would roam the streets of predomately homosexual muni the middle of the night, reportg any crim, maly gay-bashg, to lol law enforcement. Acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center survey of nearly 1, 200 LGBT adults, bisexuals are much ls likely than gay men and lbians to say that their sexual orientatn is an important part of who they are and are much more likely than gay men or lbians to be married, most wh the oppose sex.
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. January 9, 1978 - Harvey Milk is gurated as San Francis cy supervisor, and is the first openly gay man to be elected to a polil office California.
November 30, 1993 - Print Bill Clton signs a ary policy directive that prohibs openly gay and lbian Amerins om servg the ary, but also prohibs the harassment of “closeted” homosexuals. December 3, 1996 - Hawaii’s Judge Chang l that the state do not have a legal right to prive same-sex upl of the right to marry, makg Hawaii the first state to regnize that gay and lbian upl are entled to the same privileg as heterosexual married upl. June 9, 2015 - Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announc that the Milary Equal Opportuny policy has been adjted to clu gay and lbian ary members.
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * facts about lgbt *
July 27, 2015 - Boy Suts of Ameri Print Robert Gat announc, “the natnal executive board ratified a rolutn removg the natnal rtrictn on openly gay lears and employe. November 6, 2018 - Democratic US Reprentative Jared Polis ws the Colorado ernor’s race, beg the natn’s first openly gay man to be elected ernor. Rchie Torr and Mondaire Jon, elected to serve New York’s 15th and 17th districts, will bee the first Black men elected to Congrs who intify as gay.
June 21, 2021 - Carl Nassib, a fensive leman wh the Las Vegas Rairs, be the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay. 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.
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * facts about lgbt *
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). ”New York Cy Lights Up In Support Of The 50th Anniversary Of The First Gay Pri March / Alexi Rosenfeld/GettyImagThe rabow flag, now a ubiquo symbol of the LGBTQ muny, first appeared the 1970s.
Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francis cy supervisor, tasked artist/activist Gilbert Baker wh creatg a symbol for the gay muny to e place of the pk triangle, which Nazi Germany forced gay men to wear ncentratn mps.