| THE GAY REVOLUTION |
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AMERICAN HISTORY |
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1890-1914 |
| 1897 |
Mass migration to cities |
| First homosexual rights |
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| group forms |
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| 1903 |
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| Raid on gay bath house |
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1920 |
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Prohibition established |
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by Eighteenth Amendment |
| 1927 |
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| Mae West The Drag out of town |
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1933 |
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Prohibition repealed |
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by Twenty-first Amendment |
| 1934 |
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| New York State law demands |
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| “orderly” bars |
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| 1941 |
1941-45 |
| Psychiatrists screen draft inductees |
U.S. involvement in World War II |
| for homosexuality |
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| 1943-45 |
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| Military’s general discharge of |
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| homosexual soldiers |
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1948-54 |
| 1950 |
McCarthy period |
| State Department announces |
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| homosexual discharges |
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| First American gay rights organization: |
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| Mattachine Society |
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| 1953 |
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| Mattachine Society divided by Red Scare |
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1954 |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
| 1955 |
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| Daughters of Bilitis founded |
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1957 |
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Free Speech protected by Supreme Court |
| 1958 |
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| Mattachine’s ONE magazine protected by |
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| Supreme Court’s ruling in Roth |
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| 1960 |
1960 |
| Mattachine DC founded |
First civil rights sit-in |
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1963 |
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Feminine Mystique published |
| 1964 |
1964 |
| California gay groups founded |
Civil Rights Act passed |
| 1965 |
1965 |
| Radicals take over |
Griswold v. Connecticut: |
| Mattachine New York |
Constitution protects birth control |
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for married couples |
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Antiwar movement ramps us |
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1967 |
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Loving v. Virgina: Constitution |
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protects interracial marriage |
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1968 |
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Riots and the Democratic National |
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Convention in Chicago |
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Supreme Court rules criminalizing sodomy |
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unconstitutional in Lawrence |
| 1969 |
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| Stonewall |
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| Gay Liberation Front founded |
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| 1970 |
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| Radicalesbians founded |
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| 1973 |
1973 |
| American Psychiatric Association revises |
Roe v. Wade: Constitution protects abortion |
| DSM II; homosexuality not |
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| a psychiatric illness |
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1976 |
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Jimmy Carter elected president, only |
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Democratic president between 1968-92 |
| 1977 |
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| Anita Bryant founds Save Our Children and |
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| overturns Dade Country ordinances |
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| 1979 |
1979 |
| Harvey Milk killed; |
Jerry Falwell forms Moral Majority |
| thousands march in San Francisco |
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| 1980 |
1980 |
| Human Rights Campaign Fund founded |
Ronald Reagan elected president; |
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Margaret Heckler named Health and |
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Human Services secretary |
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CNN founded as cable news network |
| 1981 |
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| CDC;s Weekly Mortality and Morbidity Report |
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| finds Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Pneumocystic carinii |
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| pneumonia among homosexual men |
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| First meeting of Gay Men’s Health Crisis |
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1986 |
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National Science Foundation Network |
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(NSFNET) provides access to |
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supercomputer sites; commercial |
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Internet service provides emerge in late ’80′s |
| 1987 |
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| Kramer speech sparks ACT UP |
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| 1992 |
1992 |
| Bob Hattoy speaks at Democratic National |
Bill Clinton elected president |
| Convention, then goes to work for Clinton |
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| 1993 |
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| Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell (DADT) passed |
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| Angels in America wins the Pulitzer Prize |
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| 1996 |
1996 |
| Congress passes |
Highly effective antiretroviral treatment |
| Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) |
for AIDS released |
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| Supreme Court rules gays can’t be |
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| fenced out of politics in Romer |
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| 1997 |
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| AIDS deaths drop significantly |
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| Ellen DeGeneres comes out on Ellen |
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| 1998 |
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| Matthew Shepard killed |
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| 1978-99 |
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| Hate crimes bills passed in many states |
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2000 |
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Andrew Sullivan starts blog, The Daily Dish |
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2001 |
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9/11 attacks |
| 2003 |
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| Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules |
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| that the state may not deny same-sex marriage |
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| Supreme Court rules criminalizing sodomy |
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| unconstitutional in Lawrence |
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| 2008 |
2008 |
| Proposition 8 passes, repeals |
Barack Obama elected president |
| same-sex marriage in California |
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| 2010 |
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| DADT repealed |
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