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becomes USA's earliest known gay rights organization
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first national gay rights organization is formed (formed by Harry Hay, commonly known as founder of gay rights movement)
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they were the first lesbian-rights organization in the US, established in San Francisco
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Illinois becomes first state in US to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults in prvate
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the world's first transgender organization was established in San Francisco
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Patrons of a gay bar in Greenwich Village, NY called the Stonewall Inn, fight back during a police raid, causing the gay rights movemetn to become a widespread protest for equal rights and acceptance
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American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from their list of mental disorders
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runs for city supervisor in San Francisco, runs on a sociall liberal platform and opposes government involvement with personal sexual issues. is known for his involvement with gay rights.
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about 75,000 people participated, largest political gatehering in support of LGBTQ rights to date
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At NY's Madison Square Garden, democrats supported gay rights adding this statement to their plank "All groups must be protected from discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, language, age, sex or sexual orientation."
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Wisconson becomes first state to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
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The city of Berkeley, California, becomes the first city to offer its employees domestic-partnership benefits
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Vermont becomes first state in US to legally recognize civil unions between gay or lesbian couples
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Massachusetts becomes first state in US to allow same-sex couples to marry
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President Obama signs a referendum allowing the same-sex partners of federal employees to receive benefits. (Obama's first step in his movement to improve gay rights)
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry and that states cannot say that marriage is reserved for heterosexual couples. "Under the Constitution, same-sex couples seek in marriage the same legal treatment as opposite-sex couples, and it would disparage their choices and diminish their personhood to deny them this right,"
