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LGBTQ timeline
Created by
GWYNETH KATTMAN
⟶ Updated 10 Jan 2019 ⟶
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Richard Cornish is executed in Virginia for alleged homosexual acts
The definition of sodomy is expanded to include women
Deborah Byar is fined for wearing mens clothes
Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens write to eachother
The Crow nations chief, Barcheampe, is spotted by 'appalled white travelers'
At least 400 women pass as men to fight in the civil war
Jeanne Bonnet leads an all women gang of former prostitutes who swear off of men
Angelina Weld, a celebrated harlem renaissance poet, writes to her lover Mamie Burrill
Ma Rainey is arrested for holding a 'lesbian party' in her home
A medical article links womens suffrage and participation in the movement to 'repressed homosexuality'
Henry Gerber founds the first gay rights organization, The Society for Human Rights, however it is quickly shut down
Eve Addam's Tearoom, a lesbian gathering place in Greenwich Village (close to the stonewall inn), is opened
Eleanor Roosevelt and her lover, Lorena Hickok, being their correspondence as Eleanore moves into the white house
Freud asks for comaption and tolerance for homosexuals
Gay women and men become part of the mobalization for WWII
The millitairy dvelops guidelines to help identify and exclude homosexuals from the services
The Army conducts and investigation into lesbian activity
Kinsey reveals his study that 50% of men and 28% of women have 'homosexual tendancies'
The Lavender Scare begins as the State Department begins firing suspected homosexuals
McCarthy revals his suposed list of communists in the government, of the people on the list, two are suspected homosexuals
The Mattachine Society is founded
Executive order #10450 is signed by Eisenhower, banning homosexuals from working in the government
The Army-McCarthy hearing include gay-baiting before a national TV audiance
The Daughers of Bilitis is founded in San Fransico
A navy report concludes that there is 'no evidence that homosexuals can't serve in the millitary' the report is supressed until 1967
The American Civil Liberties Union advises that lesbians in the government "become herterosexual" to aviod descrimination
The Daughters of Bilitis holds the first National Lesbian Convention
Illinois is the first state to legalize homosexual sex between consenting adults
The first protest against the descrimination against homosxuals is staged
The Student Homophile League at Columbia University is the first LGBTQ campus group to gain official recognition
The Stonewall Riots begin after the police raid The Stonewall Inn, the protest ignites the modren LGBTQ rights movement
The "Lavender Menace" protest's aginaast the descrimination of lesbians at The National Organization for Women
The American Psychiatric Association declared that homosexuality isn't a phyciatric disorder
It is ruled that marrage is limitied to couples of the opposite sex and that this limitation doesn't violate the constitiution
The Lesbian Herstory Archives open to the public in New York
The US Civil Service Commission announces that is will no longer exclude homosexuals from government employment
Elaine Noble becomes the first openly gay or lesbian legislatior in the House of Representitives
The first Michigan Womyn's Music Festival is held
Harvey Milk is the first openly gay person to be elected to public offices
Save Our Children, an anti LGBTQ organization is founded
Harvey Milk is assassinated along with the Mayor of San Fransisco, George Moscone, by a former city supervisor
The First March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights is held
The first cases of AIDS in the US are identified
The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary about his life, wins an Acadamy Award
The Supreme Court rules that states can pass and enforce sodomy laws that target homosexuals
The Second March on Washington for gay and lesbian equality is held
The first National Coming Out Day is held
The City College of San Fransisco approves the creation of the first gay and lesbian studies department
GLSTN ( The Gay and Lesbian Independant School Teachers Network) is founded
The term 'outing' is coined by Time magazine
Policies restricting the immigration of homosexuals are lifted but restrictions against people with HIV and AIDS still exist
Don't Ask, Don't Tell becomes law
The third lesbian and gay March on Washington is held
President Clinton signed an executive order that forbids the denial of sucurity clearances bassed off of sexuality
DOMA is signed into law, denying fedral benifits to same sex couples
Kelli Peterson creates a GSA which is quickly banned
The first Day of Silence is held
A fedral appeals court finds that public schools can be held accountable for not stopping anti-gay abuse
The supreme court strikes down a Colorado amendment that denies protections to gays and lesbians
Ellen comes out
Tammy Baldwin is the first openly gay person to win a seat in congress
Matthew Shepard is murdered by two men outside of Laramie, Wyoming
The American Counseling Association Coverning Council says that: " homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus not someting that needes to be or can be 'cured'"
Sodomy laws in the US are dclared unconstitutional
Massachusetts becomes the first state to legalizes same sex marriage
Soulfource travels around the country to universties to confront universities that ban openly gay students
California becomes the second US state to legalize same sex marrage
The US legalizes same sex marriage in all 50 states
President Obama dedicates the first LGBTQ rights monument at the Stonewall Inn
Donald Trump anounces his plan to ban transgnder people from the millitary
The Department of Education dismisses all complaints from transgender students at schools baout excltuion from facilities and other forms of gender descrimination
The Department of Education and Justice withdraws school guidelines that protect transgender students
Leelah Alicorn commits suicide, starting the movement Leelah's Law, a campaign to end conversion therapy for minors
The Justice Department allows illegal discrimination based off of 'religious reasons'
Prizons no longer allow prsoners to be grouped with their preffered gender and forces them to be with others of their biological sex
In response to Leelah's Law President Obama calls for a ban on conversion therapy for minors
The Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same sex marriage
Belgium becomes the second country to legalize same sex marriage
Canada and Spain legalize same sex marriage
South Africa legalizes same sex marriage
Sweden and Norway legalize same sex marriage
Argentina, Iceland, and Portugal legalize same sex marriage
Denmark legalizes same sex marriage
Uruguay, Brazil, France, and New Zealand legalize same sex marriage
Scotland, Luxembourg, England, and Wales legalize same sex marriage
Mexico, Ireland, Slovenia, and Finland legalize same sex marriage
Columbia and Greenland legalize same sex marriage
Finland, The Faroe Islands, Malta, Germany, Australia, and Taiwan legalize same sex marriage
Key* Phycology
Key* People
Key* The Creations of Groups
Key* Amendments, Laws, Acts, Executive orders
Key* Protests and events
Key* Global events
49 people were murdured in the Pulse night club shooting
Westphal, a physiatrist, advocates for medical treatment for 'sexual inversion'
The terms homosexual and heterosexual are coined by Karl Kertbeny
The police arrest the "Los 41"
The US launches a sting operation against 'sexual perverts'
Reaserch identifies lesbian sexuality as common and normal
Hitler's night of long knives
Homosexuaity is clasified as a mental disorder
Kinsey publishes 'sexual behavior in the human female'
Queer youth fight police harrassment at compton's cafeteria in Sanfrasisco
The national gay task force is formed to help LGBTQ civil rights
Gay American Indias is foundeed
The lesbian and gay workforce meovement is founded
The US Navy investigates the USS Norton Sound in the anti-lesbian witch hunt
Reports of a rare illness begin the AIDS epidemic
The Lesbian and Gay youth protection institute is founded
GRID is renamed AIDS
the AIDS virus is officially discovered
Experiemental drugs are released to treat AIDS
California rejects a proposal to quarintein people with AIDS
The AIDS activist groupd ACT UP is founded
Report of the presidential AIDS commision
The first world AIDS day is held
Watkins v. US Army reinstates a gay commander who was fired due to his sexuality
'Coming Out Under Fire' documents gay and lesbian veterans
Native americans struggle to abolish anti-sodomy laws
Canadian Government anti-gay campaigns are revealed
Clinton appoints the first AIDS czar
a lesbian couple is murdured in Oregon
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
A transgender teen Gwen Ann Araujo is murdured in california
The transgender day of remembrance and Remembering our Dead project
Key* AIDS
Key* The Government