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5 — The Liberal Party of Canada adopts an official resolution to include sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act. [5]31 — The Toronto Board of Education (since merged into the Toronto District School Board) votes to consider whether to establish a permanent liaison committee with the gay community.
Lower-case lambda, first used in 1970 as a symbol representing gay rights [1] [2]. The gay liberation movement was a social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s [a] in the Western world, that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride. [5]
Nelson Sullivan was a 1980s videographer who was ubiquitous on Lower Manhattan's art and club scenes during the 1980s. He filmed many 1980s New York LGBT identities as part of documenting his social life. New York University's 5 Ninth Avenue Project began digitizing and uploading his 1,900 hours of tape to YouTube from 2008 onwards. [30]
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.
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.
In 2024, Gallup found that 7.6% of U.S. adults identified as LGBTQ or another sexual orientation besides heterosexual. Broken down by age group, this shows up at 22.3% among Gen Zers (born 1997-2012), 9.8% among Millennials (born 1981-1996), 4.5% among Generation Xers (born 1965-1980), 2.3% among Baby boomers (born 1946-1964), and 1.1% for members of the Silent Generation (born 1945 or earlier).
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, ... Between 1980 and 1988, ... [137] that hold opposing social and cultural views to LGBT rights.
The Metropolitan Community Church, an LGBT Christian Church, opened on West 36th Street. 1973. The Lesbian Herstory Archives is founded by members of the Gay Academic Union, and hosted in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side apartment. 1980. November 19: An armed man targeting gay bars kills two and wounds six in Greenwich Village. [7] 1981