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The society for Human Rights in Chicago becomes the countrys earliest known gay rights organization.
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Alfred Kinsley publishes "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male", revealing to the public that homosexuality is far more widespread that what was believed.
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Harry Hay created the first gay rights organization an became kown as the founder of the gay rights movement.
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The Daughters of Bilitis established in San Francisco, becamethe first lesbian rights organization.
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The FIRST state to DECRIMINALIZE homosexual acts between consenting adults in private
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The National Transsexual Counseling Unit, also established
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Colorado is stripped of their 2nd amendment that denied the protection from homosexual discrimination. According to the state of Colorado, they were called special rights.
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The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders.
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Activists pass a civil rights ordinance to make sexual orientation discrimination illegal in Dade County. 70% vote overturned the ordinance and defeated the gay rights activists :(
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75000 people participate in the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay rights in DC. This was the largest political gathering to support LGBT rights to date!
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Permitted gays to serve in the military but also banning homosexual activity.
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First state to legally recognize partnerships between gay couples!
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Same-sex marriages are legal in Massachusetts
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Civil unions become legal in Connecticut and New jersey
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Same-sex marraige legal in all 50 states!