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LGBTQ Studies 1960s - 1990s
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History
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Timeline of events in Chapter 10 of A Queer History of the United States
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1960s - 1970s Gay and Lesbian Movement
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) forms
Birth control pill is made available
Black Panthers formed
1964 - 1975 Vietnam War and protests
Assassination of MLK
MLK Beyond Vietnam speech
Compton Cafeteria Raids
Radical feminism develops > "No More Miss America" demonstration
Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) are formed
Stonewall Riot
Gay Manifesto by Carl Whittman
STAR - Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries formed by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
Lavender Menace group confronts National Organization of Women (NOW)
First Pride march Celebrates Stonewall anniversary
Gay characters begin to populate television as censorship relaxes
Gay Liberation Front (GLF) disbands
"Our Bodies Ourselves"
Fire bombing of New Orleans gay bar
Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) disbands
Vietnam War ends
Mid to late 1970s: "Cultural feminists" criticize porn, transgender people
American Psychological Association (APA) removes homosexuality from DSM as a disorder
"Gay is Good"
Twenty states have repealed sodomy laws by 1979
The Dade County (Miami, FL) nondiscrimination ordinance passes
First "Save Our Children" press conference
Dade County nondiscrimination ordinance is repealed
Briggs Initiative / Proposition 6 anti-gay legislation is defeated in CA
Harvey Milk assassinated
Bowers vs Hardwick Supreme Court decision no constitutional protection for "sodomy"
The CDC announces "gay cancer" preceding the discovery of HIV / AIDS
Over 600 deaths from AIDS
Barnard Conference on Women's Sexuality
"How to Have Sex in an Epidemic" published
1983 AIDS deaths: 1, 476
AIDS deaths during 1987: 11,932
AIDS deaths in US during 1990: 31,129
Diagnostic test for HIV developed
ACT UP forms marches this year on post office, Wall Street
"Queer" emerges as an identifier by the LGBTQ+ community
Diva TV created to document ACT UP / epidemic
"Stop the Church" ACT UP demonstration
Queer Nation forms (offshoot of ACT UP)
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