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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. -
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. -
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. -
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
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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. -
In spain, Spanish Homosexual Liberation Movement was founded illegally in Catalonia, being the first formal organization of the LGTBI+ collective in Spain -
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. -
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. -
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 -
in Spain, protection against discrimination is included
by sexual orientation in the penal code -
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 -
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. -
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. -
72 states continue to criminalize their LGTBI+ citizens, but that does not detract from all the progress that has been made