Civil Rights

  • Mar 22, 1111

    Leviticus

    Condems homosexuals to death as committing an abomination.
  • Mar 22, 1112

    Sodom and Gomorah

    Homosexuality is associated with the destruction of entire cities.
  • French Revolution

    Revolutionary government first to decriminalize homosexual intercourse.
  • Karl-Maria Kertbeny

    Coined the term homosexuality to replace terms refering to sexual acts associated them.
  • American Psychiatric Association

    Lists homosexuality as a mental illness. Found inconclusive in 1954, remained in until 1973
  • Proposition 6

    Orange County California proposition that would ban any lgtb or pro lgtb person from working in public schools.
  • Rent

    Broadway musical depicting life in the lgtb community during the AIDS/HIV epidimic in the early 1980's.
  • Massachusetts

    First US state to legalize same sex marriage.
  • Obergefell v. Hodges

    Supreme court case to legalize same sex marriage in United States after
  • 1950

    Senator Clyde Hoey and Joseph McCarthy associate homosexuality with lacking emotional stability.
  • ONE Publications

    USPS refused to ship a paper concealed magazine concerning homosexual marriage. SCOTUS decided in favour of freedom of press in 1958.
  • Stonewall Riots

    Mark of modern LGTB movement, after tensions of legal discrimination for centuries built, police raid on Stonewall Inn, violent protests against actions.
  • Netherlands

    First country to legalze same sex marriage
  • FDA Lifts lifetime blood donating ban

    Marks the end of the 1983 decision at the face of the AIDS scare.