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Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Biography 1815
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Susan B. Anthony - Biography 1820
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Women’s Suffrage Movement :1848
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Harvey Milk - Biography 1930
Harvey Milk was a gay rights activist/leader within his community and was even open about sexual preference considering he was an offical of the United States in 1977, he was elected to the San Fransicos Board of Suprevisors. Harvey was born on May 22, 1930 in Woodmere, New York to a jewish family. -
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and In 1973, he stated his candidacy for an oppurtunity on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to fullfill his career of inspiring the gay comminty. But Milk lost this cadinancy and attempted to obtain the same position 2 years later snd ended up loosing another campaign. In 1977, Milk, who was known as "Mayor of Castro Street," finally got a seat on the San Francisco City-County Board. He was than inaugurated on January 9, 1978, becoming the city's first gay officer. -
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On November 27, 1978, White entered City Hall with a loaded .38 revolver and avoided metal detectors by finding an entrance through a basement window. Later he encountered Harvey Milk and shot him once in the back than twice in the head ending Milks life this day. -
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During his highschool years he participated in football as well as opera at Bay Shore High School. He then graduated from New York State College in 1951, he then joined the United States Navy in San Diego, he then became a dive instructor during the Korean war. He was then discharged in 1955 and pursued many careers in New York City such as a production associate to a public school teacher. In 1972, he moved to San Francisco, California and opened a camera shop called ´Castro Camera´ -
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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LGBTQ movement timeline 1969
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Title IX of the Education Amendment Act of 1972
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Roe v. Wade (1973)
A decision was made by the Supreme Court of the United States in which states that the United States Constitution should protect a pregnant woman's right to choose whether or not they would like to abort the child without excessive governmental restrictions, therefore this court case proves that a pregnant woman's liberties should infants be protected especially right to privacy. The government should not be allowed to choose what a woman does with her body. -
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (1994)
This phrase was created as a United States Policy for military service that involved gays, lesbians and bisexual individuals which was instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994. And the Department of Defense Directive provided on December 21, 1993, it was effective until September 20, 2011. -
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (1994)
This policy prohibited military employees from discriminating against individuals who are bisexual or homosexual service applicants. This normalization of legal restrictions on service by gays and lesbians in the armed forces was opposed by United States federal law and was signed November 30, 1993. -
United States v. Virginia (1996)
A decision made by the Supreme Court of the United States in which it addressed the male-only admission policy within the Virginia Military Institute and how they should allow any gender to have admission within their military institute. -
Biography of a 2nd important person
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Biography of a 3rd important person
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19th Amendment
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Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
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United States v. Windsor (2013)
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Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
This was a civil rights case ruled by the United States Supreme Court and they stated that same sex marriage is a fundamental right and was guaranteed to these individuals as well. This right was granted to them by the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause which is in the 14th amendment. Their was a 5–4 ruling which requires all fifty states to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples on the same terms and conditions as the marriages of opposite-sex couples.