Lgbtqms

LGBTQ Milestones

By Draigarc

  • The Society for Human Rights is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago

    The Society for Human Rights is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago
    The Society for Human Rights, established in Chicago in 1924, is granted an official State of Illinois Charter on December 24, 1924, making it the oldest documented homosexual organization in the World.

  • The Lavender Scare : President Dwight D. Eisenhower bans homosexuals from working for the federal government

    The Lavender Scare : President Dwight D. Eisenhower bans homosexuals from working for the federal government
    In 1952 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, which barred gay and lesbian Americans from being employed by the federal government. With the excuse that a federal employee could be blackmailed because of their sexuality, the federal government targeted gays and lesbians in what became known as the Lavender Scare.

  • Stone Wall Riots happen which are deemed as the first gay civil rights movement in the United States

    Stone Wall Riots happen which are deemed as the first gay civil rights movement in the United States
    The Stone Wall Riots were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.. The riots are widely considered the watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the twentieth-century fight for LGBT rights in the United States.