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Great Events from History: LGBTQ, 2nd Edition

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Complete List of Contents




A-Z List of Contents




Contributors




Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention




Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass




Mary Edwards Walker Is Awarded the Medal of Honor




Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Speaks Publicly for Gay and Lesbian Rights




Kertbeny Coins the Terms “Homosexual” and “Heterosexual”




Westphal Advocates Medical Treatment for Sexual Inversion




United Kingdom Criminalizes “Gross Indecency”




Two-Spirit American Indian Visits Washington, D.C.




Alice Mitchell Found Guilty of Murdering Her Lover




Oscar Wilde Is Convicted of Gross Indecency




Der Eigene Is Published as First Journal on Homosexuality




Raffalovich Publishes Uranisme et Unisexualite




Ellis Publishes Sexual Inversion




Hirschfeld Founds the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee




Transgender Reporter Covers Spanish-American War Revolts




Police Arrest “Los 41” in Mexico City




Stein Writes Q.E.D.




Freud Rejects Third-Sex Theory




Friedlaender Breaks with the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee




The Eulenburg Affair Scandalizes Germany’s Leadership




Carpenter Publishes The Intermediate Sex




Barney Opens Her Paris Salon




Robles Fights in the Mexican Revolution




U.S. Navy Launches Sting Operation Against “Sexual Perverts”




Gays and Lesbians Contribute to the Harlem Renaissance




The God of Vengeance Opens on Broadway




Gide Publishes the Signed Edition of Corydon




Gerber Founds the Society for Human Rights




Wales Padlock Law Censors Risque Theater




Hall Publishes The Well of Loneliness




Davis’s Research Identifies Lesbian Sexuality as Common and Normal




Pandora’s Box Opens




Hollywood Bans “Sexual Perversion” in Films




Nazis Persecute Homosexuals




Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives




Isherwood Publishes Goodbye to Berlin




Thompson v. Aldredge Dismisses Sodomy Charges Against Lesbians




Golden Age of American Gay Literature




Vice Versa Is Published as First Lesbian Periodical




Kinsey Publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male




Mattachine Society Is Founded




George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen




APA Classifies Homosexuality as a Mental Disorder




One, Inc., Is Founded




U.S. Law Prohibits Gay and Lesbian Immigration




Kinsey Publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female




One Magazine Begins Publication




Evelyn Hooker Debunks Beliefs That Homosexuality is a “Sickness”




U.S. President Eisenhower Prohibits Federal Employment of Lesbians and Gays




Daughters Of Bilitis Founded as First National Lesbian Group in United States




Baldwin Publishes Giovanni’s Room




Foster Publishes Sex Variant Women in Literature




United Kingdom’s Sexual Offences Act Becomes Law




The Wolfenden Report Calls for Decriminalizing Private Consensual Sex




First National Lesbian Conference Convenes




Illinois Legalizes Consensual Homosexual Sex




Sarria Is First Out Gay or Lesbian Candidate for Public Office




Rechy Publishes City of Night




Rustin Organizes the March on Washington




Revolutionary Cuba Imprisons Gays




First North American Conference of Homophile Organizations Convenes




Queer Youth Fight Police Harassment at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco




First Gender Identity Clinic Opens and Provides Gender Reassignment Surgery




Los Angeles Advocate Begins Publication




CBS Airs CBS Reports: The Homosexuals




First Student Homophile League Is Formed




U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law Preventing Immigration of Gays and Lesbians




United Kingdom Decriminalizes Homosexual Sex




Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop Opens as First Gay Bookstore




Nacho Formally Becomes the First Gay Political Coalition




Metropolitan Community Church Is Founded




Nuestro Mundo Forms as First Queer Organization in Argentina




Gay Catholics Found Dignity




Stonewall Rebellion Ignites Modern Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement




Gay Liberation Front Is Formed




Canada Decriminalizes Homosexual Acts




Time Magazine Issues “The Homosexual in America”




Amazon Bookstore Opens as First Feminist-Lesbian Book Shop




Lavender Menace Protests Homophobia in Women’s Movement




Radicalesbians Issues “the Woman Identified Woman” Manifesto




First Lesbian and Gay Pride March in the United States




Del Martin Quits Gay Liberation Movement




Kameny Is First Out Candidate for U.S. Congress




Lesbian Tide Publishes Its First Issue




Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center is Founded




The Gay Book Award Debuts




The Body Politic Begins Publication




Local Governments Pass Antidiscrimination Laws




First Gay And Lesbian Synagogue in the United States is Formed




Equal Rights Amendment Fails State Ratification




First Out Gay Minister Is Ordained




Jordan Becomes First Black Congresswoman from the South




Brown Publishes Rubyfruit Jungle




Naiad Press Is Founded




National Gay Task Force Is Formed




Olivia Records Is Founded




Roe v. Wade Legalizes Abortion and Extends Privacy Rights




U.S. Supreme Court Supports Local Obscenity Laws




American Bar Association Calls for Repeal of Laws Against Consensual Sex




Lesbian Herstory Archives Is Founded




Lambda Legal Authorized to Practice Law




Homosexuality Is Delisted by the APA




Bisexual Forum Is Founded




The Front Runner Makes The New York Times Best-Seller List




Antigay and Antilesbian Organizations Begin to Form




Abzug and Koch Attempt to Amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964




Lesbian Connection Begins Publication




Noble Is First Out Lesbian or Gay Person to Win State-Level Election




First Gay and Lesbian Archives Is Founded




First Novel About Coming Out to Parents Is Published




Gay American Indians Is Founded




Rule Publishes Lesbian Images




Gay Latino Alliance Is Formed




U.S. Civil Service Commission Prohibits Discrimination Against Federal Employees




Anna Crusis Women’s Choir Is Formed




U.S. Supreme Court Rules in “Crimes Against Nature” Case




Foucault Publishes Volume I of L’Histoire de la sexualité




Katz Publishes First Lesbian and Gay History Anthology




Army Reservist Ben-Shalom Sues for Reinstatement




Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Holds Its First Gathering




Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Gay and Lesbian Rights




Combahee River Collective Issues “A Black Feminist Statement”




National Women’s Conference Convenes




Quebec Includes Lesbians And Gays in Its Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms




Toronto Police Raid Offices of The Body Politic




Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association Is Founded




Lesbian and Gay Workplace Movement Is Founded




U.S. Supreme Court Distinguishes Between “Indecent” and “Obscene”




International Lesbian and Gay Association Is Founded




Antigay and Antilesbian Briggs Initiative Is Defeated




White Murders Politicians Moscone and Milk




Moral Majority Is Founded




First Gay British Television Series Airs




First March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights




First National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference Convenes




Lesbian and Gay Asian Collective Is Founded




Alyson Begins Publishing Gay and Lesbian Books




Rich Publishes “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”




Gay Writers Form the Violet Quill




Human Rights Campaign Fund Is Founded




U.S. Navy Investigates the USS Norton Sound in Antilesbian Witch Hunt




Canadian Gay Postal Workers Secure Union Protections




Faderman Publishes Surpassing the Love of Men




Gay and Lesbian Palimony Suits Emerge




Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Is Founded




This Bridge Called My Back Is Published




Gala Choruses Is Formed




Toronto Police Raid Gay Bathhouses




Reports of Rare Diseases Mark Beginning of Aids Epidemic




San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Concert Tour




Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Is Founded




New York City Gay Men’s Chorus Performs at Carnegie Hall




Lesbian and Gay Youth Protection Institute Is Founded




Lorde’s Autobiography Zami Is Published




Lesbian Academic and Activist Sues University of California For Discrimination




Wisconsin Enacts First Statewide Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Law




Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Is Renamed AIDS




First Gay Games Are Held in San Francisco




Studds Is First Out Gay Man in the U.S. Congress




First National Lesbians of Color Conference Convenes




AIDS Virus Is Discovered




San Francisco Closes Gay Bathhouses and Other Businesses




West Hollywood Incorporates with Majority Gay and Lesbian City Council




Berkeley Extends Benefits to Domestic Partners of City Employees




GLAAD Begins Monitoring Media Coverage of Gays and Lesbians




Lesbian Film Desert Hearts Is Released




Actor Hudson Announces He Has AIDS




Bowers v. Hardwick Upholds State Sodomy Laws




Paula Gunn Allen Publishes The Sacred Hoop




South Asian Newsletter Trikone Begins Publication




AZT Treats People with AIDS




Californians Reject LaRouche’s Quarantine Initiative




Anzaldúa Publishes Borderlands/La Frontera




Asian Pacific Lesbian Network Is Founded




Compañeras: Latina Lesbians Is Published




Shilts Publishes And the Band Played On




VIVA Is Founded to Promote Latina and Latino Artists




Radical AIDS Activist Group ACT UP Is Founded




Old Lesbians Organize for Change




Lambda Rising Book Report Begins Publication




U.S. Congressman Frank Comes Out as Gay




Second March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights




Latin American and Caribbean Lesbian Feminist Network Is Formed




Macho Dancer Is Released in the Philippines




Canada Decriminalizes Sex Practices Between Consenting Adults




M. Butterfly Opens on Broadway




Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center Opens




Report of the Presidential AIDS Commission




First National Coming Out Day Is Celebrated




Oregon Repeals Ban on Antigay Job Discrimination




First World AIDS Day




Act Up Paris Is Founded




Vaid Becomes Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force




Helms Claims Photographs Are Indecent




Death of Transgender Jazz Musician Billy Tipton




U.S. Supreme Court Rules Gender-Role Stereotyping Is Discriminatory




Watkins V. United States Army Reinstates Gay Soldier




Lambda Literary Award Is Created




ACT UP Protests at St. Patrick’s Cathedral




Judith Butler Publishes Gender Trouble




International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Is Founded




Sedgwick Publishes Epistemology of the Closet




United Lesbians of African Heritage Is Founded




Artists Sue the National Endowment for the Arts




Coming out Under Fire Documents Gay and Lesbian Military Veterans




Queer Nation Is Founded




BiNet USA Is Formed




Americans with Disabilities Act Becomes Law




Asian Lesbian Network Holds Its First Conference




LeVay Postulates the “Gay Brain”




Revisionist Criticism Recasts Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz




Stone Publishes “A Posttranssexual Manifesto”




Asian Lesbians and Gays Protest Lambda Fund-Raiser




Leather Archives and Museum Is Founded




The Advocate Outs Pentagon Spokesman Pete Williams




California Governor Wilson Vetoes Antidiscrimination Bill




Minnesota Court Awards Guardianship to Lesbian Partner




Canada Grants Asylum Based on Sexual Orientation




Canadian YMCA Extends Family Discounts to Gays and Lesbians




Transgender Nation Holds Its First Protest




Celebrity Lesbians Come Out




Indians Struggle to Abolish Sodomy Law




Canadian Government Antigay Campaign Is Revealed




Feinberg Publishes Transgender Liberation




Massachusetts Grants Family Rights to Gay and Lesbian State Workers




Canadian Military Lifts Its Ban on Gays and Lesbians




Oregon and Colorado Attempt Antigay Initiatives




Angels in America Officially Opens on November 8, 1992




Intersex Society of North America Is Founded




Monette Wins the National Book Award for Becoming a Man




The Wedding Banquet Is First Acclaimed Taiwanese Gay-Themed Film




Hawaii Opens Door to Same-Gender Marriages




Battelle Sex Study Prompts Conservative Backlash




First Dyke March Is Held in Washington, D.C.




March on Washington for Gay, Lesbian, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation




Achtenberg Becomes Assistant Housing Secretary




Clinton Appoints First AIDS Czar




Lesbian Mother Loses Custody of Her Child




Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy Is Implemented




Transgender Man Brandon Teena Raped and Murdered




Employment Non-Discrimination Act Is Proposed to U.S. Congress




National Association of Lesbian and Gay Community Centers Is Founded




Navratilova Honored for Her Career in Tennis




Stonewall 25 March and Rallies are Held in New York City




Japanese American Citizens League Supports Same-Gender Marriage




U.N. Revokes Consultative Status of International Lesbian and Gay Association




The Advocate Outs Oscar Nominee Nigel Hawthorne




Athlete Louganis Announces He Is HIV-Positive




International Bill of Gender Rights Is First Circulated




Lesbian Couple Murdered in Oregon




Hart Recognized as a Transgender Man




South African Constitution Prohibits Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation




U.S. President Clinton Signs Defense of Marriage Act




Ellen Comes Out as a Lesbian




Transgender Scholarship Proliferates




Canadian Supreme Court Reverses Gay Academic’s Firing




Gay College Student Shepard Is Beaten and Murdered




First International Retreat For Lesbian and Gay Muslims Is Held




Screening of Fire Ignites Violent Protests in India




Constitutional Court of Colombia Rules on Intersex Surgery Consent




Littleton v. Prange Withholds Survivor Rights from Transsexual Spouses




First Middle Eastern Gay and Lesbian Organization Is Founded




Baker v. Vermont Leads To Recognition of Same-Gender Civil Unions




United Kingdom Lifts Ban on Gays and Lesbians in the Military




Hollywood Awards Transgender Portrayals in Film




Boy Scouts of America v. Dale




Asexual Visibility and Education Network Is Founded




Chinese Psychiatric Association Removes Homosexuality from List of Mental Disorders




Japanese Human Rights Council Recommends Lesbian and Gay Rights




First Gay and Lesbian Television Network Is Launched in Canada




Sylvia Rivera Law Project Is Founded




Transgender Rights Added to New York City Law




Gays and Lesbians March for Equal Rights in Mexico City




Irish American Lesbian Gains Canadian Immigrant Status




Transgender Teen Gwen Araujo Is Murdered in California




Australian Court Validates Transsexual Marriage




Transsexuals Protest Academic Exploitation




New Mexico Amends Its Human Rights Act




Buenos Aires Recognizes Same-Gender Civil Unions




Canada Legalizes Same-Gender Marriage




U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Texas Sodomy Law




Singapore Lifts Ban on Hiring Lesbian and Gay Employees




Wal-Mart Adds Lesbians and Gays to Its Antidiscrimination Policy




Massachusetts Court Rules for Same-Gender Marriage




Transgender Day of Remembrance and Remembering Our Dead Project




The History Boys Officially Opens on May 18, 2004.




Robinson Becomes First Out Gay Bishop in Christian History




Transsexual Athletes Allowed to Compete in Olympic Games




United Kingdom Legalizes Same-Gender Civil Partnerships




United Kingdom’s Gender Recognition Act Legalizes Transsexual Marriage




Spain Legalizes Same-Gender Marriage




Roman Catholic Church Bans Gay Seminarians




Jiménez Flores Elected to the Mexican Senate




Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Transamerica Receive Oscars




Larry Kramer Attacks Queer Studies




Butler Rejects Civil Rights Award from German Group




Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy is Repealed




San Francisco Issues an Official Report About Bisexuals




Tony Briffa Elected Mayor of Hobsons Bay, Australia




Uganda Passes Anti-Homosexuality Act




Boy Scouts of America Moves Toward Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Minorities




Supreme Court of India Finds Law Prohibiting Gay Sex Constitutional




Russia Enacts “Homosexual Propaganda” Law




Time Magazine Calls 2014 the “Transgender Tipping Point”




Caitlyn Jenner Becomes the World’s Most Famous Transgender Person




The United States Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage




China Prohibits Depictions of LGBTQ People on Television




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