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The DSM-1 lists homosexuality as a sociopathic personality disturbance.
(https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/best-practice-highlights/working-with-lgbtq-patients) -
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order that bans homosexuals from working for the government
(https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10450.html) -
First state to decriminalize homosexuality by getting rid of their sodomy laws.
(https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-06-26-8902120553-story.html) -
Raids were being done at Greenwich Village which was a safe haven for the LGBT community. Accounts on who started the riots are all over the place but this was the turning point for the fight for LGBT rights.
(history.com/news/stonewall-riots-timeline) -
GRID was first discovered and talked about in 1982. Later changed to AIDS
(https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/11/science/new-homosexual-disorder-worries-health-officials.html) -
Obama signs Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act
(https://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/hate.crimes/) -
Policy banning openly LGBT people from serving in the military finally repealed
(https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell) -
via Supreme Court decision
(https://www.mic.com/articles/147670/is-same-sex-marriage-legal-in-all-states) -
Kate Brown becomes highest ranking LGBT person elected to office in the United States.
(https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501338927/for-first-time-openly-lgbt-governor-elected-oregons-kate-brown) -
Under the Trump administration, trans people are no longer allowed to be in the military.
(https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/transgender-white-house/index.html)