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Magnus Hirschfeld
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Lili Elbe
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Magnus Hirschfeld Coins "Transvestitism"
Magnus Hirschfeld was a german scientist. He coined the widely used term "transvestite" and opened the world's first gender identity clinic. -
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LGBT Groups Begin Fighting
Early LGBT activism movements were sparsely scattered throughout the 1920s through the early 1960s. -
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Strides for Equality
Thanks to the efforts of millions of activists and an ever-changing world, people in the LGBT community have achieved great strides towards equality, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage, laws and bills declaring they can't be discriminated against, and a general sense of affirmation from the American public. -
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Legal Rights for LGBT Persons
The entirety of the LGBT movement in the last century was focused on a few goals, one of which being legal rights for members of the LGBT community. Legal rights would include the right to marry persons of the same sex, the right to vote, the right to be free of discrimination, etc. -
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Being Viewed as Equals
One of the goals of the entire LGBT movement was simply to be viewed as equals by members of the public. As long as people have been aware of LGBT people, the general public has viewed them as a separate entity, rather than members of their own race with different interests. LGBT activists have fought to change this for over a century. -
Lili Elbe Undergoes Gender Reassignment
Lili Elbe (born Einar Wegener) was one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery. She underwent four major procedures in the 30s at Magnus Hirschfeld's clinic. -
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Harvey Milk
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Stonewall Riots
In the early hours of the morning June 28th, 1969, police began to raid a well-known gay club in Greenwich Village. As patrons of the bar collided with police officers, violent riots broke out to spread the message "Stop gay oppression." This event is often marked as the beginning of the modern LGBT movement. -
The Moon Landing
Just after the beginning of the "modern LGBT movement," NASA sent out the first-ever successful crewed flight to the moon. -
Harvey Milk Is Elected
Harvey Milk became one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. He won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. -
March on Washington
Thousands of LGBT activists joined together to march nationally on Washington D.C. They demanded something be done about the ongoing AIDS crisis in America. Due to the march's size and success, it was later called "The Great March." -
End of The Cold War
After 40 years of fighting the communists during The Cold War, the Soviet Union finally fell, which left capitalist countries still in control. -
Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage
In June of 2015, the Supreme Court declared that, after a 5-4 decision in the Oberfell v. Hodges case, same-sex marriage would be legalized in all 50 American states.
