Read about key moments the history of the LGBTQ fight for rights Ameri, om the first gay rights group to prent day.
Contents:
- MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
1924: The first gay rights group is War I veteran Henry Gerber found 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. January, 1958: The Supreme Court l favor of gay the U.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Post Office refed to liver Ameri’s first wily distributed pro-gay publitn, ONE: The Homosexual Magaze, the se went to the U. Supreme Court — and the urt led favor of gay rights for the first time, makg a major landmark se LGBTQ 21, 1966: The Mattache Society aniz a gay rights “Sip-In. ”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 “Sip-In, ” durg which activists entered a New York Cy bar, announced they were gay, orred drks, and waed to be Braerd/The Denver Post via GettyJune 28, 1969: The Stonewall rts spark the begng of the LGBT the early morng hours on June 28, 1969, police performed a raid of the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar — and the ctomers and their supporters took a stand.
Those “Stonewall rts” are largely nsired the start of the LGBTQ civil rights movement the Uned Hir/Getty1973: Homosexualy is no longer clared a mental years of studi, analysis, and changg cultural attus, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s board of directors removed homosexualy om the official list of mental illns, known as the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, a move that was upheld wh a vote by the associatn’s membership. 1987: Barney Frank be send openly gay member of spendg six years on Capol Hill, Rep.
), voluntarily me out as gay, makg him the send openly gay member of ngrs, and the first to e out voluntarily, the untry’s, 2000: Vermont tak a huge step toward same-sex marriage legalizatn. The act was named for two men who were murred hate crim — Matthew Shepard bee he was gay, and Jam Byrd, Jr.