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The Society for Human Rights is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago.Its the first document gay rights organization.
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The American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual list homosexuality as a sociopathic personality disturbance. The decision faces little to no backlash from the mainstream media or the government.
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President Dwight D.Eisennhower signs an excecutive order that bans homosexuals from working for the federal government, saying they are a security risk.
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Illinois becomes the first state to decriminalize homosexuality by repealing their sodomy laws
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Police raid the Stonewall Inn in New York City. After this demonstrations and protests break out. The Police raid was the impetus for the gay civil rights movement in the United States.
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Lambda Legal becomes first legal organizations created to fight for the equal rights of gays and lesbians. Lambda wins a New York Supreme Court case to exist as a non-profit.
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Maryland becomes first state to statutorily ban same-sex marriage.
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After a vote that ended split 5,854 to 3,810 the American Psychiatric Association removed Homosexuality from its list of Mental disorders.
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Wisconsin outlaws discrimination based sexual orientation and Is the first state to do so.
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President Bill Clinton signs the "Dont Ask, Dont Tell" military directive. The directive prohibits openly gay and openly lesbian Americans from serving in the military but also prohibits the harassment of closeted homosexuals.
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President bill Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriage and defining marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman as a housband and wife"
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Hawaii becomes first state to legalize same sex marriage.
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The first same-sex marriage in the United States takes place in Massachusetts.
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"Dont ask Dont Tell" is repealed ending the ban on openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military.
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The Supreme Court doesnt make a move to stop same-sex marriages.
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The Trump administration bans most transgender people from serving in the military.