LGBTQ Movement

By Brooke Wilde

  • First national gay rights organization

    Harry Hay created America's first national gay rights organization to change the public's perception of homosexuality. The organization was called the Mattachine Society

  • Homosexuality listed as a sociopathic personality disturbance

    American psychiatric association listed homosexuality as this

  • Eisenhower signed executive order

    The order banned homosexuals from working for the federal government. Homosexuality was listed as as a security risk

  • One, Inc. V. Olesen

    Court ruled in favor of LGBTQ magazine. FBI stated the magazine contained obsecene things. First time supreme court ruled in favor of homosexuals

  • Illinois was the first state to decriminalize homosexuality

  • American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illness

  • First openly gay American elected into public office in Ann Arbor, Michigan

  • National march on Washington for Lesbian and Gay rights took place

  • Democratic commitee states it wont discriminate against homosexuals

  • Wisconsin was the first state to outlaw discrimination on basis of sexual orientation

  • CDC mailed a brochure about AIDS to everyhousehold in the country

  • President Bush signed the Ryan White Care Act

    federally funded program for people living with AIDS

  • Dont ask dont tell was created in the military

  • Clinton signed Defense of Marriage Act into law

    marriage was defined as a legal union between a man and a women.

  • Vermont became the first state in US to legalize civil unions and registered partnerships between same sex couples

  • MA became the first state to legalize gay marriage

  • CA voters approved Prop 8 making same sex marraige illegal

  • Obama signed a presidential memorandum allowing same- sex partners of federal employeees to recieve certain benefits

  • Matthew Shepard Act is passed by congress

  • Federal judge in San Fran decides Prop 8 is unconstitutional

  • U.S. senate votes 65-31 to repeal dont ask dont tell

  • Obama states he will no longer defend the defense of marriage act

  • New York passes the marriage equity act