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Henry Gerber formed the Society for Human Rights in Chicago.
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Harry Hay founded the first national gay rights organization in attempt to change public perception of homosexuality.
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Dwight Eisenhower signs an executive order to ban all homosexuals from working for the federal government
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Formed in San Francisco, the Daughters of Bilitis was the first lesbian rights organization in the U.S.
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Illinois becomes the first state to decriminalize homosexuality.
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At the Independence Hall in Philadelphia picketers called attention to the lack of civil rights for LGBT people.
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Members of the LGBT march through Central Park, which will be the first gya pride parade.
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The American Psychiatric Assosciation votes to remove homoseuxality from it's list of mental illnesses.
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She became the first openly gay American elected to public office
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About 75,000 people participated in the National March on Washington for lesbian and gay rights
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First U.S State to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
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Colorado's 2nd amendment denying gays and lesbians protection against discrimination is unconstitutional.
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Matthew Shepard was tourted on Oct 6, 1998. He was pistol-whipped and tied to a fence left to die. He died in the hospital on October 12th, 1998
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Vermont becomes the first to legalize civil unions between two same sex people.
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Massachusettes becomes the first state to fully legalize same-sex marriage.
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Modest! Management has been known to keep gay/bisexual members of the bands that they manage "in the closet". For example Harry Styles member of One Direction was openly bisexual and had a boyfriend in Secondary school. Now Modest! makes him cover it up by being a "womanizer".
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Judge in San Francisco decided that gays and lesbians have the constitutional right to marry.
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he was kicked out of the NFL for being openly gay
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gay marriage was legalized in all 50 states
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Kim Davis was arrested and put in jail for not issuing same sex marriage liceenses.
