Gay Rights

By jleary.18

  • Beginning of LGBT

  • Police Storm Stonewall Inn

    Police raids a gay bar and in this occasion, the gay and lesbian people in the bar fight back against the police.

  • American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder

  • American Psychological Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder

  • Congressman Gerry Studds became the first openly gay Congressman

  • President Bill Clinton signed the federal Defense of Marriage Act into law.

    This act defined marriage at the federal level as between a man and a woman.

  • 27% Approval of Gay Marriage

  • Vermont Supreme Court

    Unanimous in Baker v. Vermont ruled that same-sex couples were entitled to the same rights, protections, and benefits as heterosexual couples.

  • San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered the city to begin issuing marriage licenses to same sex-couples

  • California Supreme Court ordered a halt to same-sex weddings

  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

    Released a statement saying, "Marriage between a man and a woman is the bedrock of society."

  • the Obama administration announced that it would support a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act

  • President Obama became the first sitting US president to declare his support for gay marriage

  • 60% Approval of Gay Marriage