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June 28 The Stonewall riots transform the gay rights movement from one limited to a small number of activists into a widespread protest for equal rights and acceptance. Patrons of a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn, fight back during a police raid sparking three days of riots.
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June 28:The first gay and lesbian pride parades in the world were held simultaneously in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
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The Corner Bar premeires on ABC featuring the first continuing portrayal of a gay person on American television.
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The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders.
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January 24: ABC debuts Hot l Baltimore, a short lived Norman Lear series, which features the first gay couple on TV
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Kathy Kozachenko, first openly gay or lesbian candidate to win public office in the United States winning a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan, city council.
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Sep: Over 6,500 attend what would turn out to be the first Gay Saoftball World Series in San Francisco a best 2 out of 3 series between the San Francisco Badlands and New York Ramrod.
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Activists in Miami, Florida pass a civil rights ordinance making sexual orientation discrimination illegal in Dade County. Save Our Children, a campaign by a Christian fundamentalist group and headed by singer Anita Bryant, is launched in response to the ordinance. In the largest special election of any in Dade County history, 70% vote to overturn the ordinance. It is a crushing defeat for gay activists.
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NAGAAA was originally formed as NAGA til 1981
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