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The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 28, 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. [1] [2] [3] This is a timeline of notable events in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in the United States.
Stephen Donaldson (1946–1996), early bisexual LGBT rights activist founder of the first American gay students' organization, [344] first person to fight a discharge from the U.S. military for homosexuality, [327] [345] [346] also an important figure in the modern bisexual rights movement
LGBTQ history in the United States consists of the contributions and struggles of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, as well as the LGBTQ social movements they have built. [4] [5] Up until the 20th Century, it was uncommon for LGBTQ individuals to live open lives due to persecution and social ostracization.
c. 7,000 BCE –1700 BCE – Among the sexual depictions in Neolithic and Bronze Age drawings and figurines from the Mediterranean area, as one author describes it, a "third sex" human figure having female breasts and male genitals or without distinguishing sex characteristics.
Activists gathered to protest recent anti-LGBTQ legislation in Texas. In 2019, the cities of Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and El Paso passed non-discrimination ordinances for persons based on ...
In the Middle East, LGBT organizations remain illegal, and LGBT rights activists face extreme opposition from the state. [96] The 1990s also saw the emergence of many LGBT youth movements and organizations such as LGBT youth centers, gay–straight alliances in high schools, and youth-specific activism, such as the National Day of Silence .
The most influential LGBT history makers: The month of June was selected to honor the June 28, 1969, Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The riots were sparked when police raided a popular gay bar, the ...
[331] [332] It passed by a vote of 25-14 and is the first time in the Council's history that it adopted a resolution on LGBT rights with the majority of its members. [ 331 ] [ 332 ] Lynne Brown was appointed as the first openly gay cabinet minister in South Africa, which also makes her the first openly gay person to be appointed to a cabinet ...