First the Natn - Wisns's Gay Rights Law · MPL

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• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) RIGHTS MOVEMENT WISNS
• MOVG TO GAY WISNS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT NEW LGBT NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAY WISNS

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) RIGHTS MOVEMENT WISNS

Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Wisns? The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) Rights movement Wisns began 1969, after the Stonewall rts New York Cy brought gay, lbian and transgenr prott to the natnal news and spawned lol gay rights groups across the US. View the origal source document: WHI 59228The first anizatns for homosexual rights formed Wisns were stunt anizatns at the Madison and Milwkee mp of the Universy of Wisns.

MOVG TO GAY WISNS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT NEW LGBT NEIGHBORHOOD!

In the 1970s, llege towns across Wisns tablished polil and social service anizatns that reached out to gay and lbian muni.

Shortly afterwards the first AIDS s h Wisns, and polil activism was directed towards the fight agast the epimic, which stck the gay muny pecially the 1990s, the movement diversified further, explicly cludg transgenr people and offerg support to high school stunts, as well as reachg out to elrly LGBT people. This trend ntued the new century, when the most visible issue for the movement beme the stggle for gay opponents succeed passg a nstutnal amendment that banned gay marriage and civil unns 2006, LGBT activists secured a 2009 state law creatg a state Domtic Partner MoreLearn About the Society's Social Actn CollectnView the Webse for the Wisns GLBT History ProjectSourc: "Timele of Wisns LBGTQ History" by Dr. Before Harvey Milk, Jam Yeadon was elected to public officeJam Yeadon beme the first openly gay man to be elected to public office  1976, he beat 13 other ndidat a special electn for Madison's 8th Alrmanic District.

GAY WISNS

Yeadon me out publicly as gay the next day, and  April 1977, he won months later, famed gay-rights activist Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors. While Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California, Yeadon and several others ma history across the natn before Milk me to office. Milwkee had s own versn of Stonewall, eight years earlierIn 1961, four ebriated servicemen cid to check out Milwkee's most popular gay bar, on a dare.

This Is It, one of Milwkee's beloved gay bars, is one of the olst the untryThis Is It, ntled the heart of Milwkee's downtown on East Wells Street, is one of the top 10 olst gay bars the natn and the olst LGBTQ bar Wisns.

Wisns was the first state to have three openly LGBTQ elected officialsWisns was the first state the natn to elect three openly gay members of the U. When reviewed the book "LGBT Milwkee" by historian // Michail Takach, Milwkee got a major shoutout as "the most unrappreciated gay Mec the U. Natnally acclaimed GPU started right here WisnsIn 1971, stunts at the Universy of Wisns-Milwkee found the Gay Peopl Unn (GPU).

It soon rose to bee the most proment gay rights anizatn Milwkee and later published a news outlet lled GPU News, which gaed natnal regnn. Some of the group's acplishments clu:Producg the first gay and lbian scripted program  the natn lled Gay 1971-81, publishg a monthly magaze centered on gay issu.

“Wisns Pri” shar the lived experienc of an often overlooked part our state’s history, spe beg the first gay rights state. Extensive rearch found ditors that Poage may have been gay, which was later nfirmed to a rearcher by Poage's grandnephew.