From attacks on drag shows and a nightclub to viral moments of queer joy, this year was tly a mixed bag of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer news.
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Read about key moments the history of the LGBTQ fight for rights Ameri, om the first gay rights group to prent day. * top lgbt events *
The Stephen Spielberg-backed project tells the story of three drag queens — Noxeema, Chi-Chi and Vida, played by Wley Snip, John Leguizamo and Patrick Swayze rpectively — who take off on a cross-untry adventure to participate a huge drag pageant, stoppg a small homophobic town where they teach the lols about love and acceptance.
K versn of the same name, the Amerin seri tells the story of five gay men and was ld for s scere pictn of the LGBTQ muny, quickly makg one of the most watched shows on Showtime. The group was the first gay rights group Ameri, and s newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom, ” was the Uned Stat’ first rerd gay rights publitn.
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.
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”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.