LGBTQ Events

By RachaelD

  • Supreme court rules in favor of gay rights

  • Stonewall riots sparked beginning of the LGBTQ+ movement

  • Homosexuality is no longer considered a mental illness

  • Vermont becomes the first state to legalize gay marriage

  • Obama signs the Mathew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. hate crime act

  • Obama gets rid of the "don't ask, don't tell" law which prevented openly gay people from serving in the U.S military.

  • DOMA or The defense of Marriage Act, an act that didn't recognize gay and lesbian marriage as legal is now unconstitutional.

  • Sexual orientation is added to the military's anti-discriminatory policy.

  • Obama calls for the end of conversion therapy

  • The supreme court finally and officially declares same sex marriage a constitutional right nationwie,