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Williamson/The Washgton Post via Getty</span></div></div></figure></div></div><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR oEIBz persistent-asi persistent-asi--align-left" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jNgrSF sticky-box ContentHearPersistentAsi-fsnAmQ dFzKzm"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV ffgPVr social-ins social-ins--has-background ContentHearSocialIns-jzJiyg sDfbk social-ins--share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kJkLmH article-body__ntent"><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa XtZXd body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><em>This article is part of</em> In Ssn: The Teen Vogue Lson Plan. <em>Fd the full lson plan</em> <a href=" target="_blank"><em>here</em></a><em>.</em></p><p>As we celebrate this year's <a href=">Pri Month</a> throughout the untry, many of are foced on the current issu that face the LGBTQ muny, and what we n do movg forward to fix them. And while ’s hugely important to keep movg forward, ’s also important to look back, and see how far we’ve e. So, before you head out to the next Pri para, take a look at some of the most major moments our untry’s history that have strongly propelled the LGBTQ rights movement forward. You n also check out the history and symbolism of <a href=">LGBTQ flags</a>.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p><strong>1924: The first gay rights group is tablished.</strong></p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="x8lyq"></div></div><p>World War I veteran Henry Gerber <a href=">found</a> the Society for Human Rights Chigo. The group was the first gay rights group Ameri, and s newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom,” was the Uned Stat’ first rerd gay rights publitn.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p><strong>January, 1958: The Supreme Court l favor of gay rights.</strong></p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>After the U.S. Post Office <a href=">refed</a> to liver Ameri’s first wily distributed pro-gay publitn, <em>ONE: The Homosexual Magaze</em>, the se went to the U.S. Supreme Court — and the urt led favor of gay rights for the first time, makg a major landmark se LGBTQ history.</p><p><strong>April 21, 1966: The Mattache Society aniz a gay rights “Sip-In.”</strong></p><p>Durg a time when most bars refed to serve gay people, the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first gay rights anizatns, staged a <a href=">“Sip-In,”</a> durg which activists <a href=">entered</a> a New York Cy bar, announced they were gay, orred drks, and waed to be served.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Tie Accsori Accsory Human Person Stg Text Su Coat Clothg Overat and Apparel" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI jqCsaX asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Brian Braerd/The Denver Post via Getty</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="k088yr"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="q8dtu"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa XtZXd body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><strong>June 28, 1969: The Stonewall rts spark the begng of the LGBT movement.</strong></p><p>In the early morng hours on June 28, 1969, police performed a <a href=">raid</a> of the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar — and the ctomers and their supporters took a stand. The event turned to a vlent prott and led to a days-long seri of rts. Those “Stonewall rts” are largely <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">nsired</a> the start of the LGBTQ civil rights movement the Uned Stat.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Light and Neon" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI jqCsaX asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Ben Hir/Getty</span></div></figure><p><strong>1973: Homosexualy is no longer clared a mental illns.</strong></p><p>After years of studi, analysis, and changg cultural attus, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s board of directors <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">removed</a> homosexualy om the official list of mental illns, known as the <em>Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs,</em> a move that was upheld wh a vote by the associatn’s membership.</p><p><strong>1987: Barney Frank be send openly gay member of Congrs.</strong></p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>After spendg six years on Capol Hill, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), voluntarily <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">me out</a> as gay, makg him the send openly gay member of ngrs, and the first to e out voluntarily, the untry’s history.</p><p><strong>April, 2000: Vermont tak a huge step toward same-sex marriage legalizatn.</strong></p><p>Vermont beme the first state the untry to <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">give</a> same-sex upl the right to enter to civil unns — legal partnerships which would grant those upl the same rights and benefs as those legal marriag.</p><p><strong>October, 2009: The Matthew Shepard & Jam Byrd Jr. Hate Crim Preventn Act be a law.</strong></p><p>Print Obama <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">signed</a> the Matthew Shepard and Jam Byrd, Jr. Hate Crim Preventn Act to law. 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rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="K Connor and Joe Locke’s Friendship Is Heartstopper’s Unsung Love Story" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX jCrIBQ bric SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Culture</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM gxGu summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ fMpli summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">K Connor and Joe Locke’s Friendship Is Heartstopper’s Unsung Love Story</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY dhnQGM summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gETtIb byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd hXReUT gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>K-Ci Williams</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></li><li><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff kraTsj summary-em summary-em--has-borr summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-si-by-si summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-33-66 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Canceled" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX jCrIBQ bric SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Culture</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM gxGu summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ fMpli summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Ma Ameri Ftival, Headled by Lizzo, Has Been Canceled</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY dhnQGM summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gETtIb byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd hXReUT gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Aama Inayat Khan</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></li><li><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ RecircMostPopularSummaryItem-jQxxiw dabqgR ad ad--asi"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--asi" data-no-id="6nqj1q"></div></div></li></ul><div class="RecircMostPopularFooter-enPjgs gvTU"></div></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="uwb6al"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa XtZXd body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Vigil Human and Person" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI jqCsaX asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Steve Liss/The LIFE Imag Collectn/Getty</span></div></figure><p><strong>September, 2011: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is over.</strong></p><p>Print Obama officially <a href=">revoked</a> the anti-gay, discrimatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which prevented openly gay Amerins om servg the U.S. armed forc.</p><p><strong>June, 2013: SCOTUS strik down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).</strong></p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which beme a law <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> 1996</a>, clared that marriag between gay or lbian upl were not regnized by the feral ernment, meang those upl uld not receive legal benefs — like Social Secury and health surance — that straight married upl uld. But 2013, the Supreme Court led DOMA to <a href=">be unnstutnal</a>, which meant same-sex upl married their own stat uld receive those feral benefs.</p><p><strong>January, 2015: Print Obama acknowledg the LGTBQ muny the State of the Unn addrs.</strong></p><p>For the first time U.S. history, the words “lbian,” “bisexual,” and “transgenr,” were <a href=">ed</a> the print’s State of the Unn addrs, when Print Obama mentned that, as Amerins, we “rpect human digny” and nmn the persecutn of mory groups.</p><p><strong>April, 2015: Obama lls for end to nversn therapy.</strong></p><p>After the tragic suici of a transgenr teenager who was subjected to Christian nversn therapy, Print Obama publicly <a href=">lled</a> for an end to the dangero practice meant to change people's sexual orientatn or genr inti.</p><p><strong>June, 2015: Sexual orientatn is add to the ary’s anti-discrimatn policy.</strong></p><p>Though “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed 2011, sexual orientatn was still not a protected class (unlike race, relign, sex, age, and natnal orig) unr the Milary Equal Opportuny Policy — until June of 2015, when the U.S. Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, <a href=">announced</a> that would officially be add to the anti-discrimatn policy.</p><p><strong>June 26, 2015: Love ws.</strong></p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>The Supreme Court fally and officially <a href=">clared</a> same-sex marriage a Constutnal right natnwi, meang all stat mt allow Amerins to get married, regardls of their genr or sexual orientatn.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="567lzu"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut 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This le went to effect, but now-Print Donald Tmp <a href=">rcd</a> this right, aga banng transgenr people om the ary as of April, 2019.</p><p><strong>July 23, 2015: The Equaly Act is troduced.</strong></p><p>Senators Jeff Merkley, Tammy Baldw, and Cory Booker, as well as Reprentative David Cicille formerly troduced <a href=">The Equaly Act</a>, which would make LGBTQ dividuals a protected class and grant them basic legal protectns areas of life cludg tn, hog, employment, cred, and more.</p><p><strong>May, 2016: The Stonewall Inn will bee a natnal monument.</strong></p><p>The Obama admistratn <a href=">announced</a> that they are preparg to signate New York’s Stonewall Inn, the se of those historic rts 1969, the first-ever natnal monument dited to gay rights.</p><p><strong>May, 2016: The Obama admistratn publicly supports transgenr stunts.</strong></p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>In the midst of anti-transgenr movements throughout the untry, Print Obama and his admistratn <a href=">issued</a> a directive to all public schools that transgenr stunts should be allowed to e the rtrooms that reflect their genr inty. Aga, Print Tmp has <a href=">reversed</a> the gas, enactg and proposg numero <a href=">anti-trans</a> polici.</p><p><strong>November, 2018: LGBTQ ndidat sweep the midterms</strong></p><p>More than <a href=">150</a> LGBTQ ndidat were elected to office the 2018 midterm electns, puttg a historic number of queer or transgenr policians posns of power. The ws happened “om the U.S. Congrs to ernors’ mansns to state legislatur and cy uncils," Annise Parker, print and CEO of the Victory Instute and Victory Fund, told NBC News.</p><p><strong>May, 2019: New York Cy will honor LGBTQ activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera wh monuments</strong></p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="1ftmdh"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="RecircMostPopularWrapper-bRuGTi jkTTgR recirc-most-popular-wrapper viewport-monor-anchor"><div class="RecircMostPopularConter-jiViNn ktrplG recirc-most-popular-sparrow-trackg hi-asi-ad" data-most-popular-id="mod-most-popular-17"><div class="RecircMostPopularHeadg-iVzhzt idwGtK">Most Popular</div><ul class="RecircMostPopularItems-dCAajf 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data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">LGBTQ+ Communy Mourns Brooklyn Dancer Killed While Vogueg</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd eBANPJ iponZO summary-em__k">“They murred him bee he’s gay, bee he stood up for his iends… His name was O’Shae and you all killed him.”</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY dhnQGM summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gETtIb byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd hXReUT gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Lexi McMenam</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div 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as Gay</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd eBANPJ iponZO summary-em__k">"I feared that even if I uld accept the tth, the world would never accept me as an artist."</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY dhnQGM summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gETtIb byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd hXReUT gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Sara Delgado</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm eOsELH ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot 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important gay people in history

Read about key moments the history of the LGBTQ fight for rights Ameri, om the first gay rights group to prent day.

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30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * important gay people in history *

For hundreds of years gay people have stggled to be accepted and treated the same as people who are not fact wasn't until 1967, that two men were able to be a relatnship together whout the fear of beg stands for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr. Sometim appears wh Q, meang queer and +, which is an clive symbol to mean 'and others' to clu people of all history month tak place Febary each year, to help te people on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, as well as the history of the gay and civil rights out more about some of those who have ma an impact both om the past and prent. Alan TurgAlan Turg was not a well known figure durg his lifetime, but today he is famo and celebrated for the ccial part he played the victory over Nazi Germany was a mathematician who cracked somethg lled the Enigma , which is thought to have shortened the war by several was also a victim of mid-20th Century attus to homosexualy and 1952 was arrted bee beg homosexual was illegal Bra at this 2013 he was pardoned for this 'crime', and 2017 the ernment agreed to officially pardon men acced of 'crim' like this, meang they will no longer have a crimal pardong has e to be known as the Alan Turg 2019 Turg was named the most "inic" figure of the 20th Century and his face now appears on the £50 note.

FAMO GAY PEOPLE

* important gay people in history *

Osr WilImage source, Napoleon Sarony/Universal History ArchiveOsr Wil is one of the famo playwrights of all time, fact, you might even have studied 'The Importance of Beg Earnt' - one of his most famo plays - at was married to a woman and had two sons, but was later acced of beg homosexual.

Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anisatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s 's role the removal of the stigma of crimaly om homosexualy remaed his crowng achievement. He began his reer as a journalist before workg for MI6, and beg prcipal of Aberystwyth was asked to jo the ernment's mtee lookg to homosexual offenc which led to the Wolfenn Report, which remend that havg a homosexual relatnship should no longer be a crimal laid the foundatns for a later law which partially crimalised male homosexualy for the first time England and Wal.

Gilbert Baker was an Amerin artist, gay rights activist who signed the flag to have eight strip stead of the six normally seen first ma an appearance back 1978 and has bee associated wh LGBT rights all over the world. Jt FashanuImage source, Getty ImagJt Fashanu was Bra's first openly gay footballer, and although 30 years have passed he remas the only male footballer to reveal his sexualy while playg profsnally the top reer was gog well, havg risen through Norwich Cy's youth ranks and 1981 he beme the untry's most expensive black player wh his £1m move to Nottgham stunned the football world 1990 by when he told a newspaper he was gay. But after this he didn't receive much support and suffered homophobic bullyg, as well as harassment om the tabloid died 1998 and was ducted to the Natnal Football Mm's Hall of Fame Feb 2020, wh his niece Amal Fashanu llg him "one of the bravt men I've ever e across".

GAY RIGHTS

The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * important gay people in history *

In 2019 he received France's hight civilian award, the Legn d'honnr, by Print Emmanuel Macron, who lled him one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the LGBT me out as bisexual a 1976 terview wh mic magaze Rollg Stone, and 1992 said he was and his partner David Furnish were among the first upl the UK to get a civil partnership 2005, when the law was changed to allow gay relatnships to be legally 2014, after gay marriage beme legal the UK the pair got married and have two sons born via on this story.

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href="/news/topic/lgbt"><span class="n6NlI">LGBT+</span></a> muny, promotg equaly and diversy across society. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Even today,<strong class="_1ATDh"> </strong>LGBT+ people face prejudice and discrimatn, but for many liv have been improved and saved by those trailblazers and pneers that have gone before. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Here are 10 LGBT+ who have changed the liv or their muny, untry and the world.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Barbara Gtgs</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Many of this si of the Atlantic may not know her name, but Ms Gtgs is wily regard as the mother of the LGBT+ civil rights movement, blazg a trail for future generatns durg a time when was dangero to be openly gay. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1958, Ms Gtgs started the New York chapter of the Dghters of Bilis (DOB), the first lbian civil rights anisatn the Uned Stat origally found San Francis.</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Kay Tob Lahen, 82, an early photographer of the gay rights movement holdg a portra of her late partner Barbara Gtgs,<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She eded the first US lbian magaze, The Ladr om 1963 to 1966, g as a rallyg cry for equaly.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Together wh Frank Kameny, another leadg Amerin gay rights activist, Ms Gtgs helped anise the first public monstratns for gay and lbian equaly. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The first monstratn ont of Inpennce Hall on July 4, 1964, attracted 40 prottors; by the time of fal prott 1969, that number had more than tripled. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Gtgs' succsful csas for lbian equaly clud promotg gay lerature and elimatg discrimatn Ameri's librari, and mandg the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Christe Jensen</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Christe served the US army durg the Send World War before beg one of the first people the Uned Stat to have genr reassignment surgery. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Her story ma headl across Ameri after she transned the 1950s, her glamour bed wh her heroism a ptivatg mix. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">On December 1, 1952, she ma the ont page of the New York Daily News unr the headle “Ex-GI Be Blon Bety: Operatns Transform Bronx Youth.”</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Christe Jensen 1977.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But she was far more than a celebry and she ed her platform to advote for the rights of transgenr people and shape a disurse, fightg hard for equaly. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Jensen fluenced other transgenr people to change their nam on their birth certifit after she was nied a marriage licence bee her birth certifite intified her as a male.</p><hr/><ul class="xhBdb" data-ttid="list"><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2021-02-16/dismissed-lgbt-veterans-n-apply-to-reclaim-nfisted-medals"><span class="n6NlI">Gay veteran says he has to go 'back to his bully' to reclaim his medals</span></a></p></li><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2021-02-13/i-wanted-a-space-where-we-uld-reprent-honour-and-celebrate-black-queer-life--the-"><span class="n6NlI">'I wanted a space where we uld reprent, honour and celebrate black queer life the UK'</span></a></p></li></ul><hr/><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">The Glamour Boys</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Alan Turg was not the only member of the LBGT+ muny to play a part fluencg the ti of the 20th century. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">This group of like-md MPs were among the earlit to warn the untry and the world about the dangers of Hler's rise Germany, and faced ridicule and worse for their urage. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Labelled the Glamour Boys by then prime mister Neville Chamberla as an suatn of their sexualy, the five keys members, Robert Bernays, Ronald Cartland, Victor Cazalet, John Maamara, and Anthony Muirhead had their phon tapped, were harassed, and threatened wh selectn and exposure for refg to be silenced. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">As regular visors to Berl, the men saw first hand the persecutn of Jewish people and other mory groups cludg homosexuals. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">They refed to be silenced and were stmental Bra not bowg to Hler. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">When war me, they enlisted; four of them died actn. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Osr Wil</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Flamboyant Irish dramatist, novelist, poet and w, Wil was a glterg star of late Victorian London society, a huge h wh those who were very often the target of his satiril eye. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span>His ic masterpiec have ensured his legacy, cludg Lady Wrmere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ial Hband (1895) and The Importance of Beg Earnt (1895), were ntemporary hs, and ntue to be performed today, wh many turned to films, but his illtr reer was cut celly short. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Osr Wil was an Irish poet and playwright</figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1884, Wil married a wealthy Englishwoman, Constance Lloyd and the uple had two sons. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His homosexualy was somethg of an open secret upon his circl, spe beg illegal at the time. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But his affair wh Lord Aled Douglas was to prove his downfall after 'Bosie's' father the <span class="LjyUJ"></span>Marquis of Queensberry left a llg rd at the playwright's home addrsed to "Osr Wil: Posg Somdome" (sic).</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Wil was so censed by the note that he sued Queensberry for libel, a cisn that would his life. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span>The libel se was thrown out after the urt was prented wh evince of Wil's homosexualy. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Instead, he was arrted on charg of "gross cency" 1895. He was imprisoned for two years Readg Gaol and died poverty three years after his release at the age of 46. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Alan Turg<span class="LjyUJ"></span></strong>There are few people who n say they lerally changed the urse of history, but Mr Turg's breakg geni did jt that. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mr Turg and his fellow Bletchley Park breakers ciphered the ary 'Enigma' s ed by Germany and s alli durg the Send World War, a breakthrough that is often creded for shorteng the war by several years. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">World War Two breaker Alan Turg was given a posthumo royal pardon 2013.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->PA</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1945, Turg was award an OBE for his wartime work and went on to work on what would be a precursor to puters, the Turg Mache.<span class="LjyUJ"></span> <span class="LjyUJ"></span>But 1952, Mr Turg was arrted for homosexualy – then illegal Bra. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He was found guilty of ‘gross cency’ and was chemilly strated. In 1954, he was found ad om cyani poisong. An qut led that was suici.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mr Turg's ccial role crackg the enigma remaed a secret until the 1970s and his story only me to light the 1990s. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His nvictn was overturned 2013 and he is now a regnised natnal hero and the face of the £50 note. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Marta Navratilova and Julia Lemia<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->Rters</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Marta Navratilova<span class="LjyUJ"></span></strong>Czech-born Navratilova is nsired one of the bt tennis players of all time, her immaculate grass urt game helpg her w a rerd ne Wimbledon tl. Throughout her reer she won an unprecented 59 Grand Slam tl. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But was not jt her skills on the urt that changed the woman's game and tennis, her urage to live her life on her own terms ma her a champn away om tennis.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She was the first openly gay athlete, g out 1981 to a world where stutnal homophobia, pecially the rarefied rridors of tennis, was the norm. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Navratilova would spend much of her reer overg prejudic and stereotyp - refg to be anythg other than her te self meant losg lns of dollars endorsement als. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She ntu to fight for equal rights and a strong supporter of many chari which directly benef the LGBT+ muny. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span><strong class="_1ATDh">Jam Baldw</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The Ain Amerin wrer was a bold, brave voice a time before the Amerin Civil Rights movement. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">One of the foremost wrers on the 20th century, his plays, novels and says, cludg Not of a Native Son, explore race and sexualy segregated and homophobic Ameri.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He beme active the civil rights stggle on his return to the US 1957 after several years Paris. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Jam Baldw at his home, June 3, 1963, New York.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Shortly after his arrival Paris, Baldw met seventeen-year-old Swiss artist Lucien Happersberger. “In Paris,” Baldw said, “I didn’t feel socially attacked, but relaxed, and that allowed me to be loved.”<span class="LjyUJ"></span> <span class="LjyUJ"></span><strong class="_1ATDh">Ellen DeGener</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The edian and actor turned chat show host was, for many middle Amerins, the first lbian they had heard of - and embraced. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms DeGener faced tense tabloid scty after she me out 1997 -   a now famo episo of the ABC s <i>Ellen - </i>that railed her reer and left her prsed. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Ellen DeGener prentg an MTV Mic Award. <span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">It wasn’t until 2003 and the begng of the Ellen DeGener Show that she ma a eback - and what a eback. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Chat show host Ellen DeGener has bee a pneer the fight for LGBT+ equal rights and visibily. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Frida Kahlo </strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mexin pater Kahlo was open about her bisexualy at time when uld have signalled the end of her reer. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She married pater Diego Rivera 1929, but their marriage was never a nventnal one, her lovers moured to clu the sger Josephe Baker and artist Geia O'Keefe. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Pater and surrealist Frida Kahlo at home 1939.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Dpe a life changg accint at the age of 18, Kahlo pated right up until the end of her life. Frequently bed bound, she had a mirror built on the ceilg orr to be able to study herself for her now inic self-portras. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The nstant pa she lived fluenced her patg, but as her work evolved she brought inography om Mexin and digeno culture. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">While her lourful life sometim eclips her talent as an artist, the symbolism, urage and creativy of her patgs ensure that her reputatn as one of the 20th century's great artists ntu. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Harvey Milk</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Milk was first openly gay elected official the history of California when he was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Even before he took public office he was a vol gay rights advote. An engagg speaker, one of his most famo speech lled for people to e out as a time when took great urage. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Harvey Milk pictured takg part a gay eedom para 1978.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">“Gay people, we will not w our rights by stayg quietly our closets... </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We are g out to fight the li, the myths, the distortns. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We are g out to tell the tths about gays, for I am tired of the nspiracy of silence, so I’m gog to talk about . And I want you to talk about . You mt e out.”</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He was assassated nearly a year after takg office aged 48, a fate he had always expected given the opprsn and hatred directed at gay people at the time. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He rerd several versns of his will, “to be read the event of my assassatn.” </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">One of his tap ntaed the statement: “If a bullet should enter my bra, let that bullet stroy every closet door.” </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His life was the subject of the 2008 film, Milk. </p><hr/><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">ITV News is showsg the liv, legaci and stori of dividuals throughout LGBT+ History Month, read more the seri </strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/topic/lgbt-history-month"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh">here</strong></span></a><strong class="_1ATDh">.</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"></p></div><footer data-ttid="article-footer"><div class="cQTzz C04KI" data-ttid="tag-list"><ul 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