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Society of Human Rights
The Society for Human Rights was founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago. The group is the first gay rights organization and also the oldest in America. They soon publish the first American book for homsexuals named "Friendship and Freedom." The group soon disbanded due to political pressure. -
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Biologist and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey publishes "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male." In his study Alfred shows that homsexual behavior is not restricted to those who identify themselves as gay. Since homosexuality was recently belived to be a illness the finding of him suprise many people. -
President Eisenhower Bans Gays
President Eisenhower bans the gays from working for the fedral government or any of its private contractors by signing Executive Order 10450 which states that homosexuals are security risks. -
The Daughter of Bilitis
The first lesbian-rights organization within the United States, the Daughters of Bilitis, was brought together in San Francisco in 1955. -
Illinois Legalizes Homosexuality
Illinois repeals its sodomy laws makung it legal to be a homsexual and live in the state of Illinois. -
Picketing For Civil Rights
At Independence Hall on this date picketers began making the staging day to bring public attention to civil rights that many believed that people in the LGBT group were not receiving. -
First Reminder Day
At Independence Hall in Philadelphia, picketers began staging the first Reminder Day to ask for public attention to the lack of civil rights of the LGBT people. The gatherings continued on annually for five years after. -
Riot Ensues
After transgender customers become disturbingly loud and obnoxious in a 24-hour San Francisco cafeteria, management calls the police. A police officer manhandles one of the patrons, she retaliates by throwing coffee in his face making a riot ensue, eventually pouring out onto the street, hurting and damaging police and public property. -
Stonewall Inn Riot
People of the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village decided to riot when police officers attempted to raid the popular gay bar around 1am. Since its opening in 1967, the bar was frequently raided by police officers trying to extinguish the neighborhood of "sexual deviants." -
The Physchiatric Board Remvoes Homosexuality From Illnesses
On this date the physchiatric board votes to remove homosexuality from their list of mental illnesses. -
Kathy Kozachenko
Kathy was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in which she won a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan City Council. -
National March for LGBT
This march included about 75,000 poeple where the LGBT society and their straight allies demand equal civil rights and for the government to pass the protective civil rigths legislature. -
Wisconsin Outlaws Discriminstion
The state of Wisconsin becomes the first state in the US to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. -
Defense of Marriage Act
President Clinton sign the Defense Of Marriage Act that states that a marrige between two people should be one man and one woman and a state dpoes not have to recognize a out of state marriage if it is a same sex marriage. -
Matthew Shepard Death
Matthew Shepard was a student at th University of Wyoming and was brutally beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming. Matthew died 6 days later at Poudre Valley Hospital. -
Matthew Shepard Foundation
The Matthew Shepard Foundation is a LGBT nonprofit organization, founded by Matthews parents Dennis and Judy Shepard. The foundation is headquartered in Casper, Wyoming. -
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Hate Crimes Prevention Act
This act expands the 1969 United States federal-hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victims actual or preceived by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. -
New York, Marriage Equity Act
New York State becomes the largest state thus far to pass the Marriage Equity Act which legslizes gay marriage. -
Washing Legalizes Gay Marriage
Washingtons becomes 7th state to legalize gay marriage in the US. -
Kansas gets rejected
The U.S. Supreme Court rejects a request to not allow same-sex marriage in Kansas
