LGBTQ+ Rights Movement time line

  • 1897

    1897
    In Germany, the Humanitarian Scientific Committee was considered the first organization in favor of LGTBI+ rights that worked for the social recognition of homosexuality and fight against the persecution of people from the LGTBI+ community.
  • 1924

    1924
    In the USA, the one that started the movement for the defense of the rights of the people of the LGTBI+ community was "The society for human rights", founded by Henry Gerber established in Chicago.
  • 1945

    1945
    After the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, which was considered one of the most serious episodes in the long history of discrimination and violence against sexual minorities, in the Nazi death camps LGTBI+ people are treated as common prisoners: after their release, they must serve the sentences imposed for their condition and identity.
  • 1954

    In Spain, the Law of Vagrants and Crooks includes LGTBI+ people and authorizes them for aversion therapies through electroshock, surgery, biochemistry and psychological therapies like any other person
  • 1969

    1969
    On June 28, 1969, in a New York bar called Stonewall, the lgbtq community, tired of the continuous harassment by the police, decided to confront it, rebelling against a political system that endorsed discrimination, persecution, harassment, and systematic violence against community. In commemoration of that day, every year, events, rallies and marches are held both in New York and in almost all cities of the world.
  • 1970

    1970
    In spain, Spanish Homosexual Liberation Movement was founded illegally in Catalonia, being the first formal organization of the LGTBI+ collective in Spain
  • 1978

    1978
    The LGBT flag, designed by Gilbert Baker, was first used at the San Francisco Pride Festival in June 1978. The original version, with eight horizontal multicolored stripes, was designed at the request of gay leader Harvey Milk and The The current version consists of six stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet, which reproduce the order of the colors of the rainbow.
  • 1989

    1989
    In the European Union, the resolution of the European Parliament on the discrimination against transgender people encourages the adoption of concrete measures in its Member States. That same year, Denmark approved equal marriage.
  • 1992

    1992
    in Spain The State Federation of Gays and Lesbians is constituted and in 2002 when they integrate trans people and in 2007 the bisexual reality is included
  • 1995

    1995
    in Spain, protection against discrimination is included
    by sexual orientation in the penal code
  • 2011

    2011
    The ONU incorporates the right to equal treatment before the law and protection against discrimination. Report Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence committed against people because of their sexual orientation and gender identity
  • 2014

    2014
    In Spain, the regional legislation recognizing equal treatment and non-discrimination of the LGTBI+ population, in 2014, Galicia and Catalonia, in 2015, Extremadura, in 2016, the Balearic Islands and Madrid and in 2017, Navarra and Andalusia.
  • 2018

    2018
    In Spain, the instruction was issued on October 23, 2018, by the General Directorate of Registries and Notaries, on name change in the Civil Registry of transsexual people. They admit the change of name with the assignment of one corresponding to the different sex from the one resulting from the birth registration without the requirement of a medical diagnosis or follow-up of hormonal treatment for a minimum of 2 years or sexual reassignment surgery.
  • 2019

    2019
    72 states continue to criminalize their LGTBI+ citizens, but that does not detract from all the progress that has been made