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“Aidsgate” – protesting Reagan’s lack of AIDS research funding
Reagan's AIDS research was chronically under-funded. When doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health asked for more funding for their work on AIDS, they were routinely denied it. Between June 1981 and May 1982 the CDC spent less than $1 million on AIDS and $9 million on Legionnaire's Disease. At that point more than 1,000 of the 2,000 reported AIDS cases resulted in death,This drastic lack of funding would continue through the Reagan years. -
First gay rights organization
The Society for Human Rights in Chicago becomes the country's earliest known gay rights organization. It's important because it was one of the first steps to accept gay people in the society. -
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Daughters of Bilitis
Daughters of Bilitis was the first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States, formed in San Francisco in 1955. It was conceived as a social alternative to lesbian bars, which were subject to raids and police harassment. Later its goal became to support the women who were afraid to come out. It endured for 14 years. -
Caffe Cino
Caffe Cino (created by an Italian-American theather producer) was a theather where 6 years after it was opened, hosted the first gay plays. It's important because homosexuality was showed in public -
Swinging Sixties
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National Transsexual Counseling Unit
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Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, NYC. -
American Psychiatric Association
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Got Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to pubblic office. On November 27, 1978, Milk was assassinated by Dan White, Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community. -
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
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Wisconsin new law anti-discrimination
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"Don't ask, don't tell" policy
It was the official United States policy on gays serving in the military; this policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while barring openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from military service. -
March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation
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Massachusetts gay marriage
Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts began on May 17, 2004, as a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. It allowes only opposite-sex couples to marry. Massachusetts became the sixth jurisdiction in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. -
The “It get’s better” Project
It Gets Better is an Internet-based project founded in the United States in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay. Its goal is to prevent suicide among LGBT youth by having gay adults convey the message that these teens' lives will improve. -
President Barack Obama endorses same-sex marriage
