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The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 28, 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. [1] [2] [3] This is a timeline of notable events in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in the United States.
Many LGBTQ rights in the United States have been established by the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated state laws banning protected class recognition based upon homosexuality, struck down sodomy laws nationwide, struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, and prohibited employment ...
It was the deadliest attack against the LGBTQ community in American history [182] and the second deadliest mass shooting in the United States. [183] His ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, declared three days after the shooting that Mateen might have been hiding homosexuality from his family. [ 184 ]
However, other denominations have become more accepting of LGBT people in recent decades, including the Episcopalian church in the United States, the Evangelical Lutheran Church (also in America), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada, the Anglican Church of Canada, the United Church of Canada, the United Church of Christ, the Unitarian ...
Minority stress describes high levels of stress faced by members of stigmatized minority groups. [1] It may be caused by a number of factors, including poor social support and low socioeconomic status ; well understood causes of minority stress are interpersonal prejudice and discrimination .
LGBT acceptance had shown slow improvement in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The first documented gay rights organization in American, the Society for Human Rights, was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Henry Gerber, a German-American activist inspired by the progress made by Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin. [8]
LGBTQ rights by country or territory — current legal status around the world LGBTQ social movements — historical and contemporary movements List of LGBT firsts by year
Number of countries protecting core LGBT-rights The following is a timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) history in the 20th century. 1900s 1901 – On 8 June 1901, two women, Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga, attempted to get married in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain). To achieve it Elisa had to adopt a male identity: Mario Sánchez, as listed on the marriage ...