LGBTQ Studies 1960s - 1990s
Category: History
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Timeline of events in Chapter 10 of A Queer History of the United States
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Created byCassia Gammill
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1960s - 1970s Gay and Lesbian MovementStudents for a Democratic Society (SDS) formsBirth control pill is made availableBlack Panthers formed1964 - 1975 Vietnam War and protestsAssassination of MLKMLK Beyond Vietnam speechCompton Cafeteria RaidsRadical feminism develops >
"No More Miss America" demonstrationGay Liberation Front (GLF)
and Gay Activists Alliance (GAA)
are formedStonewall RiotGay Manifesto
by Carl WhittmanSTAR - Street Transvestite
Action Revolutionaries formed
by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha
P. JohnsonLavender Menace group
confronts National Organization
of Women (NOW)First Pride march
Celebrates Stonewall
anniversaryGay characters begin
to populate television
as censorship relaxesGay Liberation Front (GLF)
disbands"Our Bodies Ourselves"Fire bombing of
New Orleans gay barGay Activists Alliance
(GAA) disbandsVietnam War endsMid to late 1970s:
"Cultural feminists"
criticize porn, transgender
peopleAmerican Psychological Association
(APA) removes homosexuality from
DSM as a disorder"Gay is Good"Twenty states have
repealed sodomy laws
by 1979The Dade County (Miami, FL)
nondiscrimination ordinance passesFirst "Save Our Children"
press conferenceDade County nondiscrimination
ordinance is repealedBriggs Initiative /
Proposition 6 anti-gay
legislation is defeated
in CAHarvey Milk
assassinatedBowers vs Hardwick
Supreme Court decision
no constitutional protection
for "sodomy"The CDC announces
"gay cancer"
preceding the discovery
of HIV / AIDSOver 600 deaths
from AIDSBarnard Conference on
Women's Sexuality"How to Have Sex
in an Epidemic"
published1983 AIDS deaths:
1, 476AIDS deaths
during 1987:
11,932AIDS deaths
in US during 1990:
31,129Diagnostic test
for HIV developedACT UP forms
marches this year
on post office,
Wall Street"Queer" emerges
as an identifier
by the LGBTQ+
communityDiva TV created
to document
ACT UP / epidemic"Stop the Church"
ACT UP demonstrationQueer Nation forms
(offshoot of ACT UP)
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