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Great Events from History: GLBT Events Table of Contents 1848-1900 July 19-20, 1848: Lesbians Are Among Feminists Meeting in Seneca Falls July 4, 1855: Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass 1865: Edwards Walker Receives the Congressional Medal of Honor August 29, 1867: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Speaks Publicly for Gay and Lesbian Rights 1868: Kertbeny Coins the Terms "Homosexual" and "Heterosexual" 1869: Westphal Advocates Medical Treatment for Sexual Inversion 1885: England Criminalizes "Gross Indecency" January-June, 1886: Two-Spirit Person We'wha Visits Washington, D.C. January 1892-July, 1892: Alice Mitchell's Murder Trial May 25, 1895: Oscar Wilde Convicted on Charges of Gross Indeceny 1896: Ellis Publishes Sexual Inversion 1896: Raffalovich Publishes Uranisme et Unisexualité April 1, 1896: Der Eigene, First Journal on Homosexuality, Is Published 1897: Hirschfeld Founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee 1898: Elvira Mugarrieta, Babe Bean, Covers the Spanish-American War November 17, 1901: Police Arrest "Los 41" in Mexico City October 24, 1903: Stein Writes Q.E.D. 1905-1950 1905: Freud Rejects "Third Sex" Theory 1906: Friedlaender Breaks with the Scientific Humanitarian Committee 1907-1909: The Eulenburg Affair 1908: Carpenter Publishes The Intermediate Sex October, 1909: Barney Opens Her Paris Salon 1912-1924: Amelia Robles Fights in the Mexican Revolution March 15, 1919, through 1921: U.S. Navy Launches a Sting Operation Against "Sexual Perverts" February 19, 1923: The God of Vengeance Opens on Broadway 1924: Gide Publishes the Signed Edition of Corydon December 10, 1924: Gerber Founds the Society for Human Rights February, 1927: Enactment of the Wales "Padlock" Law 1928: Radcylffe Hall Publishes The Well of Loneliness 1929: Davis Identifies Lesbianism as Common and Normal 1929: Pandora's Box Opens 1930's-1960's: Hollywood Bans "Sexual Perversion" in Films 1933-1945: Nazis Persecute Homosexuals Under "Paragraph 175" June 30 to July 1, 1934: Night of the Long Knives 1939: Isherwood Publishes Goodbye to Berlin January 12, 1939: Thompson v. Aldredge Dismisses Sodomy Charges Against Lesbians June, 1947-February, 1948: VICE VERSA Is First Lesbian Publication 1948: Golden Age of Gay Literature 1948: Kinsey Publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male 1950: Mattachine Society Is Founded September 24, 1951 through 1952: George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen 1952-1969 1952: APA Classifies Homosexuality as a Mental Disorder 1952: ONE, Inc., Is Founded 1952-1990: U.S. Law Prohibits Gay and Lesbian Immigration 1953: ONE Magazine Begins Publication 1953: Kinsey Publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female April 27, 1953: President Eisenhower Prohibits Lesbian and Gay Federal Workers 1953-1957: Evelyn Hooker Debunks Homosexuality as a "Sickness" 1955-1970: Daughters of Bilitis Is Founded 1956: Baldwin Publishes Giovanni's Room 1956: Foster Publishes Sex Variant Women in Literature 1956; effective January 1, 1957: The United Kingdom's Sexual Offences Act Becomes Law September 4, 1957: The Wolfenden Report Appears May, 1960: First National Lesbian Conference 1961: Legalization of Consensual Homosexual Acts 1961: Sarria Is First Openly Gay Candidate for U.S. Political Office 1963: Rechy Publishes City of Night August 28, 1963: Bayard Rustin Organizes the March on Washington 1965-1971: Revolutionary Cuba's War Against Gays February 19-20, 1966: First North American Conference of Homophile Organizations August, 1966: Compton's Cafeteria Incident November 21, 1966: First Gender Identity Clinc Opens and Provides Gender Reassignment Surgery 1967: Los Angeles Advocate Begins Publication March 7, 1967: CBS Airs CBS Reports: The Homosexuals April 16, 1967: First Student Homophile League Forms 1967: Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service July 27, 1967: Great Britain Decriminalizes Homosexuality Fall, 1967: Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop Is First Gay and Lesbian Bookstore Mid-August, 1968: NACHO Formally Becomes the First Gay Political Coalition October 6, 1968: Metropolitan Community Church Is Founded 1969: Creation of Nuestro Mundo June 27-July 2, 1969: Gays and Police Clash at Stonewall Inn July 31, 1969: Birth of the Gay Liberation Front October 31, 1969: Time Issues "The Homosexual in America" 1969-1973: Gay Catholics Find Dignity 1970-1979 1970: Amazon Bookstore Is First Lesbian Bookstore May 1, 1970: The "Lavender Menace" Confronts Betty Friedan and NOW June 28, 1970: First U.S. Lesbian and Gay Pride March Held in New York City December 23, 1970: Martin Quits Gay Liberation 1970-1971: Radicalesbians Issues "The Woman-Identified Woman" Manifesto 1971: Frank Kameny Is the First Out Candidate for Congress 1971: The Body Politic Begins Publication March, 1971: Foundation of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center June, 1971: The Gay Book Award Debuts August, 1971: Lesbian Tide, First Lesbian News Periodical, Is Published December 13, 1971 to January 22, 1973: Roe v. Wade Legalizes Abortion March, 1972, to March, 1973: First Gay Synagogue In the United States Forms March 22, 1972: Equal Rights Amendment June 25, 1972: First Out Gay Minister Is Ordained November 7, 1972: Jordan Becomes First Black Congresswoman from the South 1972-1973: Local Governments Pass Antidiscrimination Laws 1973: ABA Recommends Repeal of Antisodomy Laws 1973: Founding of Lesbian Herstory Archives 1973: Founding of Olivia Records January 1, 1973: Foundation of Naiad Press June 21, 1973: U.S. Supreme Court Supports Local Obscenity Laws September, 1973: Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle Is Published October, 1973: Formation of the National Gay Task Force October 18, 1973: Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Authorized to Practice Law December 15, 1973: APA Removes Homosexuality >From List of Mental Disorders 1974: The Front Runner Makes The New York Times Best-Seller List 1974: International Women’s Year Is Observed March 5, 1974: Antigay and Antilesbian Organizations Begin to Form June 27, 1974: Abzug and Koch Attempt to Amend the Civil Rights Act August 3, 1974: Lesbian Connection Begins Publication November 5, 1974: Noble Is First Lesbian to Win Election at State Level 1975: Gay American Indians Is Founded 1975: Kepner Founs the International Gay and Lesbian Archive 1975: Jane Rule Publishes Lesbian Images 1975: U.S. Civil Service Commission Announces Non-Discrimination Policy 1975: The Bisexual Forum Is Founded in New York City June, 1975: Hobson’s Choice, First Novel About Coming Out to Parents, Is Published September, 1975: Anna Crusis Women's Choir Is Formed November 17, 1975: Rose v. Locke Supreme Court Decision 1975-1983: Gay Latino Alliance Is Formed 1976: Katz Publishes First Lesbian and Gay History Anthology 1976: Miriam Ben-Shalom, Honorably Discharged From the Army, Sues for Reinstatement August 20-22, 1976: First Michigan Womyn's Music Festival 1977: Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Gay and Lesbian Rights April, 1977: Combahee River Collective Issues "A Black Feminist Statement" December 19, 1977: Quebec's Charter of Human Rights Includes Lesbians and Gays December 30, 1977: Toronto Police Raid Offices of The Body Politicr 1978: Foundation of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association 1978: Rise and Success of the Workplace Movement July 3, 1978: U. S. Supreme Court Distinguishes Between “Indecent” and “Obscene” August 8, 1978: International Lesbian and Gay Association Is Founded November 1978: Defeat of the Briggs Initiative November 27, 1978: Dan White Murders Moscone and Milk 1979: Falwell Founds the Moral Majority 1979: Founding of Alyson Publications October 12-15, 1979: First Lesbian and Gay Asian Collective Organized October 12-15, 1979: First March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights October 12-15, 1979: First National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference 1979-1981: First Gay British Television Series, Gay Life, Airs 1980-1989 1980: Human Rights Campaign Founded in Washington, D.C. 1980: Merle Woo Is Fired from U.C. Berkeley June 2, 1980: Canadian Gay Postal Workers Secure Union Protections May-August, 1980: Norton Sound Incident 1980’s: VIVA Is Founded in Los Angeles to Promote Latina/o Artists 1980-1981: Gay Writers Form the Violet Quill 1981: Faderman Publishes Surpassing the Love of Men 1981: Federation of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Is Founded 1981: Gay "Galimony" and Palimony Suits 1981: This Bridge Called My Back Is Published February 5, 1981: Toronto Police Raid Gay Bathhouses June 5, 1981, and July 3, 1981: First Reports of Kaposi's Sarcoma June 6, 1981-June 20, 1981: San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Concert Tour October, 1981: Founding of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press December 8, 1981: New York City Gay Men's Chorus Performs at Carnegie Hall 1981-1982: GALA Choruses Is Formed 1981-1987: GRID Is Renamed AIDS 1982: Audre Lorde's Autobiography Zami Is Published 1982: Founding of the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth 1982: First Gay Games Held in San Francisco February 25, 1982: Wisconsin Enacts First Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Civil Rights Law July 14, 1983: Studds Is First Out Gay Man in the U.S. Congress September, 1983: Lesbians of Color Organize First National Convention Spring, 1984: AIDS Virus Is Discovered October 9, 1984: San Francisco Closes Gay Bathhouses November 6, 1984: West Hollywood Incorporated With Majority Gay and Lesbian City Council December 4, 1984: Berkeley Extends Benefits to Domestic Partners of City Employees 1985ff: GLAAD Monitors Media Coverage of Gays 1985: Lesbian Film Desert Hearts Is Released July 25, 1985: Rock Hudson Announces He Has AIDS 1986: Bowers v. Hardwick Decision 1985: Paula Gunn Allen Publishes The Sacred Hoop January, 1986: "Trikone" Begins Publication September, 1986: AZT Used to Treat People With AIDS November, 1986: Californians Reject LaRouche's Quarantine Initiative 1987: Anthology Companeras: Latina LesbiansIs Published 1987: Anzaldúa Publishes Borderlands/La Frontera 1987: Shilts Publishes And the Band Played On 1987: Asian Pacific Lesbian Network Is Founded March, 1987: Activist Group ACT UP Is Founded April, 1987: Old Lesbians Organizing for Change May, 1987: Lambda Rising Book Report Begins Publication May 30, 1987: Rep. Frank Comes Out as Gay October 11, 1987: Second March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights October 14-17, 1987: Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Lesbians 1988: Macho Dancer Is Released 1988: Report of the Presidential AIDS Commission January 1, 1988: Canada Legalizes Same-Gender Sex Between Consulting Adults March 20, 1988: M. Butterfly Opens on Broadway May, 1988: Founding of the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center October 11, 1988: First National Coming Out Day November 8, 1988: Oregon Repeals Ban on Antigay Job Discrimination December 1, 1988: First World AIDS Day 1989: Founding of Act Up Paris 1989: Vaid Becomes Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force January 21, 1989: Death of Billy Tipton May 1, 1989: Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins Decision May 3, 1989: Watkins v. United States Army June 2, 1989: Lambda Literary Award Created December 10, 1989: ACT UP Protests at St. Patrick's Cathedral 1989-1990: Helms Claims Mapplethorpe's Photos Are Indecent 1990-1999 1990: Enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990: Formation of United Lesbians of African Heritage 1990: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Is Founded March 20, 1990: Queer Nation Is Founded June, 1990: BiNet USA is Formed December, 1990: Asian Lesbian Network Holds Its First Conference 1990-1993: Artists Sue the National Endowment for the Arts 1990, 1994: Coming Out Under Fires Documents Gay and Lesbian Veterans in Print and on Film Revisionist Criticism Recasts Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1991: LeVay Postulates the "Gay Brain" 1991: Stone Publishes a "Posttranssexual Manifesto" April 6, 1991: Protest of Lambda Fund-raiser 1991-June 28, 2002: Irish American Lesbian Gains Canadian Immigrant Status August, 1991: Founding of the Leather Archives & Museum August 27, 1991: The Advocate Outs Pete Williams September 29, 1991: Wilson Vetoes AB101 December 17, 1991: Minnesota Court Awards Guardianship to Lesbian Partner December 30, 1991-February 22, 1993: Canada Grants Asylum Based on Sexual Orientation Beginning in 1992: Celebrity Lesbians Come Out 1992: Canadian YMCA Extends Family Discounts to Gays and Lesbians April 27, 1992: Canadian Antigay Campaign Revealed June, 1992: Leslie Feinberg Writes Transgender Liberation September 23, 1992: Massachusetts Grants Family Rights to Gay and Lesbian State Workers October, 1992: Canada Lifts Ban on Gays and Lesbians in Its Military November 3, 1992: Oregon and Colorado Attempt Antigay Initiatives 1992-1994: Transgender Nation Emerges 1992-2004: Indians Struggle to Abolish Sodomy Law 1993: Lesbian Avengers Organize First Dyke Marches 1993: Cheryl Chase Founds the Intersex Society of North America 1993: Monette Wins the National Book Award for Becoming a Man, The Wedding Banquet Is First Acclaimed Taiwanese Gay-Themed Film 1993: Canada Grants Asylum Based on Sexuality March-April, 1993: Battelle Study Prompts Conservative Backlash April 25, 1993: March on Washington Attracts Some 750,000 People May 24, 1993: Achtenberg Becomes Assistant Housing Secretary June 25, 1993: Clinton Appoints First AIDS Czar September 21, 1993; June 21, 1994; April 25, 1995: Bottoms v. Bottoms: Lesbian Mother Loses Custody of Child November 30, 1993: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” December 24, 1993-December 31, 1993: Transgender Brandon Teena Raped and Murdered 1993-1996: Hawaii Opens Door to Same-Gender Marriages Beginning in 1994: Attempted Passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act 1994: National Association of Lesbian and Gay Community Centers Founded 1994: Navratilova Honored For Career in Tennis June, 1994: Stonewall 25 March and Rallies August 6, 1994: Japanese American Citizens League Supports Same-Gender Marriage September 16, 1994: U.N. Revokes the ILGA's Consultative Status 1995: Athlete Greg Louganis Announces He Is HIV-Positive 1995: The Advocate Outs Oscar Nominee Nigel Hawthorne June 17, 1995: International Bill of Gender Rights October 14, 1995: Transgender Alan Hart Recognized as a Man December 4, 1995: Lesbian Couple Murdered in Oregon 1996: Defense of Marriage Act Signed by Clinton 1997-2000: Baker v. Vermont Results in Recognition of Same-Gender Unions 1998: Patria Jimenez Is Elected as the First Out Lesbian to the Mexican Congress 1998: Proliferation of Transgender Scholarship April 2, 1998: Canadian Supreme Court Reverses the Firing of Delwin Vriend October 6, 1998: Murder of Matthew Shepard October 9-12, 1998: First International Retreat for GLBT Muslims November 13, 1998-February 26, 1999: Fire Is Released in Toronto 1999: Littleton v. Prange 1999: Hollywood Awards Transgender Portrayals November, 1999: First Middle Eastern LGBT Organization Is Founded 2000-2006 2000: Britain Lifts Ban on Gays in the Military June 28, 2000: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale April 20, 2001: Chinese Psychiatric Association Removes Homosexuality from Its List of Mental Disorders May 25, 2001: Japan Recognizes Lesbian and Gay Rights September 7, 2001: Canada Launches First GLBT Television Network April 30, 2002: Transgender Rights Added to New York City Law October 4, 2002: Murder of Gwen Araujo 2002: Gays and Lesbians March for Equal Rights in Mexico City 2002: Founding of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project February 21, 2003: Australian Court Validates Transsexual Marriage March, 2003-December, 2004: Transsexuals Protest Academic Exploitation March 21, 2003: New Mexico Amends Its Human Rights Act April, 2003: Buenos Aires Recognizes Same-Gender Couples June 26, 2003: U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Antigay Texas Law July, 2003: Singapore Lifts Ban on Hiring Lesbian and Gay Employees July, 2003: Wal-Mart Prohibits Antigay Employment Discrimination November 18, 2003: Massachusetts Court Rules for Same-Gender Marriage November 20, 2003: Transgender Day of Remembrance and Remembering Our Dead Project United Kingdom Passes Gender Recognition Act, Legalizing Transsexual Marriage March 7, 2004: Robinson Becomes First Out Gay Bishop in Christian History May 17, 2004: Transgender Athletes Allowed to Compete in Olympic Games June 30, 2005: Spain Legalizes Same-Gender Marriage July 20, 2005: Canada Legalizes Same-Gender Marriage Nationwide September 2005: Catholic Church Bans Gay Seminarians December 2005: Great Britain Legalizes Same-Gender Civil Unions March 5, 2006: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Transamerica Receive Oscar Nominations Appendixes Web Site Directory General Annotated Bibliography |
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