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Alfred Kinsey released a book compiling his studies on male sexuality. It includes his research on fetishes, sexual behavior, and sexual orientation - among other things.
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Illinois is the first state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults in private. Many state had laws either directly against homosexuality, or against it indirectly (sodomy laws).
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Many consider the Stonewall Riots to be one of the formal starting points of the LGBT Rights Movement, when police raided the Stonewall Inn in NYC, the patrons fought back - leading to three days of rioting.
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The APA took homosexuality out of the DSM.
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Wisconsin is the first state to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation - which equates to easier housing, work, and school lives.
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Don't Ask Don't Tell is put into place by the Clinton administration. It was the go around method of allowing gays and lesbians into the military. It was met with criticism from both sides.
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Sodomy laws are deemed constitutional in this Supreme Court case. Justice Anthony Kennedy said, "Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct".
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Massachusetts is the first state to allow same-sex marriages, granting same sex couples the same options and heterosexual couples.
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The House of Reprisentatives passes national legislation to ban discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the workplace.
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DADT is repealed, allowing service members to serve openly regardless of sexual orientation - this is a major step in a country that takes such a level of pride in our military.
