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Magnus Hirschfield
3rd key person: Magnus was a scientist who studied sexual studies including types like homosexuality and he promoted this and carried his studies with it, even when people didn't support his studies. -
Renne Richards
1st key person: Renne Richards was the first transgender to be able to play in a woman tennis tournament as a woman. -
Simon Tseko Nkoli
2nd key person: Simon was a gay activist who fought for social justice in South Africa. He did many things involving things like changing people’s opinions about gays and he contributed to this group by trying to make things equal and justice -
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Gay Liberation Movement
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The Raid at Stonewall Inn
The group started to fight for social justice when police raided the Stonewall Inn, and because of that, the movement began. -
What They Were Fighting For:
The group was fighting for equal rights, Social Justice, and were fighting oppression toward their group. -
Anniversary of The Stone Wall Inn
1st key event: On the one year anniversary of the Stone Wall Inn raid, thousands of LGBTQ members marched the streets of New York City, this event was also known as the first gay pride parade. -
No Longer a Mental Illness
3rd key event: During this time there was a convention held where they voted of homosexuality should be removed from the mental illness list. A few years later APA removed it permanently. -
Final Outcomes
Two of the final outcomes from the Gay Liberation movement were that gays were able to "come out" and feel like they belonged. Then there was less harassment and abuse toward gays which made them feel safer in their country. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy
2nd key event: A law passed which allowed gays and lesbians to be able to serve in the military under one condition which was the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
