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TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
Read about key moments the history of the LGBTQ fight for rights Ameri, om the first gay rights group to prent day. * gay history moments *
Gilbert Baker, who scribed himself as the “gay Betsy Ross, ” created the first pri flag om strips of fabric dyed trash ns the attic of San Francis’s Gay Communy Center before the cy’s 1978 pri para.
We’ve gone om homosexualy beg punishable by imprisonment or ath, banned om beg tght schools, and diagnosed as a mental illns, to beg celebrated Pri paras and given equal marriage and adoptn rights. Activists groups, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) formed as a rult and the Stonewall rts are now remembered as one of the most important talysts for morn LGBT movements worldwi. The Sectn stated that lol thori “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy” or “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”.
GAY RIGHTS
June celebrat LGBT Pri Month, a look at some key moments gay rights. * gay history moments *
Health anisatns no longer stigmatise homosexualy or transgenr issu wh dated fns, and Pri events across the untry give LGBTQ+ people a place to feel clud, heard, and valued.
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below1 Audre LorGetty ImagLor scribed herself as a "black femist lbian poet warrr mother." She had a way wh words and ed that talent to speak out agast racism, sexism, and homophobia. Lor died of liver ncer 1991, but 2001 Publishg Triangle stuted the Audre Lor Award to honor lbian poetry.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below2 Barbara GtgsShutterstockGtgs beme a csar for gay rights a before the Stonewall rebelln. In addn to lnchg the New York chapter of the lbian anizatn, Dghters of Bilis (which she ran form 1958 to 1963), she eded their natnal magaze and was known for standg ont and center picket l prottg anti-gay discrimatn.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below3 Bayard RtGetty ImagRt never hid his homosexualy while fightg alongsi Dr.
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Branch of the Mattache Society drafted a bill to get the sodomy laws overturned the cy, which was passed 1993 (30 years after was wrten.) He was also a key player gettg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to no longer list homosexualy as a mental disorr.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below11 Gilbert BakerGetty ImagBaker helped fe the LGBTQ movement as the signer of the rabow flag. The 1950s by anizg a secret society lled Bachelors Anonymo unr the ia that homosexual rights was somethg worth pursug jt like any other mory group.
He won a spot on the Cy-County Board 1977 after earng the nickname "Mayor of Castro Street," makg him the first openly gay elected official California. Milk spent his time on the board workg on many issu cludg gay rights before his assassatn November 1978.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below14 Jam BaldwGetty ImagBaldw was wrg gay and bisexual characters years before the LGBTQ movement fully took form and up until his ath 1987. Manford was posthumoly award the Printial Cizens Medal by Obama 2012.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below17 Karl Herich UlrichsAlamyRevered as a pneer of the morn gay rights movement, Ulrich was a German wrer creded as the first person to publicly "e out" 1862.
He also exprsed his belief that this was somethg people were born wh.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below18 Larry KramerGetty ImagKramer rose to lerary fame the 1970s focg his work on the gay experience. He ntued his AIDS activism wh the formatn of ACT UP 1987 and dramatized his experience the play (and Emmy-wng TV movie) The Normal Heart.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below19 Leonard MatlovichGetty ImagMatlovich stood up to the ary's ban on gay service members by g out a letter to his mandg officer 1975. Matlovich's se beme relevant once aga durg the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" era and even more recently wh the attempted ban on transgenr service members.Advertisement - Contue Readg Below20 Magn HirschfeldGetty ImagHirschfeld was a German doctor who began studyg sexualy while livg Berl 1896 wh a foc on homosexualy.