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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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.
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. * top lgbt events *
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.
”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. ), 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.
Print Obama officially revoked the anti-gay, discrimatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which prevented openly gay Amerins om servg the U. Armed, 2013: SCOTUS strik down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which beme a law 1996, 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. Senators Jeff Merkley, Tammy Baldw, and Cory Booker, as well as Reprentative David Cicille formerly troduced The Equaly Act, which would make LGBTQ dividuals a protected class and grant them basic legal protectns areas of life cludg tn, hog, employment, cred, and, 2016: The Stonewall Inn will bee a natnal Obama admistratn announced 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, 2016: The Obama admistratn publicly supports transgenr the midst of anti-transgenr movements throughout the untry, Print Obama and his admistratn issued a directive to all public schools that transgenr stunts should be allowed to e the rtrooms that reflect their genr inty.