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A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual, and Transgender Historyin the United StatesAdapted with permission from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (Byard, E. 1997,www.pbs.org/outofthepast) with additions and updates from Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth(NYAC & Lambda Legal); The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientationand Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition).Additional materials and study guide by GSAFE (www.gsafewi.org)
2A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United StatesREAD MOREThis resource has primarily been adaptedfrom PBS Online’s Out of the Past: 400 YearsLesbian and Gay History in America (Byard,E., 1997, www.pbs.org/outofthepast/). Theinteractive timeline online allows users toclick on dates to read details about people,policies, and events that have shaped thelives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, andtransgender (LGBT) people living in theUnited States.Several items on the PBS timeline onlineexpand to reveal more details and in-depthdescriptions. These have been marked withthe bolded words READ MORE on thisdocument.Three examples of the expanded readingsyou will find online are shared at the end ofthis document. We encourage you and yourstudents to go online to READ MORE aboutthe people, places, and events that captureyour attention.Each item on this timeline, of course, offersan opportunity to read more. The PBS siteincludes an extensive bibliography forfurther research and exploration. GSA forSafe Schools also offers a bibliography ofsuggested reading in LGBT history.WATCHSix of the people featured on the PBS timeline areprofiled in the documentary Out of the Past andhave been marked with the bolded words WATCHon this document. These individuals are: Michael WigglesworthSarah Orne JewettHenry GerberBayard RustinBarbara GittingsKelli PetersonThe documentary is available for purchase throughvarious retail and online stores for about 10. It isan excellent resource for your GSA and schoollibrary.The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network(GLSEN) published a teachers’ guide to accompanythe documentary. The 31-page resource containshistorical context, ideas for discussion, andsuggested assignments for each of the video’s sixsegments. A glossary, bibliography and resourcesection are also included. The teachers’ guide isavailable as a free download from the GLSENwebsite (www.glsen.org).Many additional films and documentaries havecaptured the events, individuals, and issues thathave shaped and defined the progress of the LGBTcommunity in the U.S.Ways to Use this TimelineThis timeline was designed as a starting point forclassroom and student club discussions, exploration, andresearch. A sample lesson plan is included. However,there are many additional ways to use this resource.The timeline can be printed, copied, and posted in full or inpart in the classroom, on a bulletin board, or in a displaycase.Another option is to search the timeline and build smallertimelines based around themes (“Famous Lesbian,” “LGBTPeople of Color,” “LGBT People and the Military”) or timeperiods (“The Modern Gay Rights Movement,” “Early GayAmerican History”).Make your own version of LGBT Jeopardy and divide yourclass or club into teams. Create a multiple choice quizfrom the timeline and post the group results in your room.Consider taking the quiz as a school staff.Use the timeline as the starting point for research projects.Another class or group project could involve researchingand presenting local LGBT history and/or gathering oralhistories.Hold a movie night or show segments of films ordocumentaries in your classroom that profile people andevents from the timeline.Create a library display feature books with LGBT themes orby LGBT authors.Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)
A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States165216421624Richard Cornish isexecuted inVirginia forallegedhomosexual actswith a servant.READ MORE“Sodomy Laws”Joseph Davis ofHaverhill, NewHampshire, is finedfor "putting onwomen's apparel"and made to admithis guilt to thecommunity.In Essex County,Massachusetts,Elizabeth Johnsonis fined andwhipped for"unseemlypractices withanother maidattempting to dothat which manand woman do."READ MORE“Colonial EuropeanCross-Dressing”16771698The sodomy trial ofNicholas Sension ofWindsor,Connecticut,reveals thatSension has beenopen about hisdesire for men formore than 30years.A French explorer among theIllinois Indians remarks on thenumber of "berdaches" (menliving as women) and theprevalence of homosexualactivity. Note: “berdache” isconsidered and offensive termby Native American andTwo-Spirit people.READ MORE“Native AmericanSexuality”READ MORE“Act v. Identity”1636164916621691In Massachusetts,the ReverendJohn Cottonproposesincluding sexualrelations betweenwomen in thedefinition of"sodomy" for thefirst time.Sara Norman andMary Hammon ofYarmouth,Plymouth Colony,are taken to courtfor "leudebehaviour eachwith [the] otherupon a bed."The first edition of MichaelWigglesworth's The Day of Doom ispublished. This epic poem about the Dayof Judgement quickly becomes America'sfirst best seller, with 1800 copies soldduring the first year.In Massachusetts,Deborah Byar isfined and publiclyhumiliated forwearing men'sclothes.READ MORE“Michael Wigglesworth”WATCHThe Diary of Michael WigglesworthAdapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)3
4A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States1704Lord Cornbury, theroyal governor ofNew York and NewJersey, is accusedby his critics ofdressing as awoman to holdcourt.17561779Steven Gorton, amarried Baptistminister, is suspendedfrom his position inNew London,Connecticut, for"unchaste behaviorwith his fellow menwhen in bed withthem." Gortonconfessed and thecongregation voted toreinstate him.In an example of "romanticfriendship" between men,Alexander Hamilton writes tohis friend, John Laurens, "Iwish, my dear Laurens, thatit might be in my power, byaction, rather than words, toconvince you that I loveyou."READ MORE“Romantic FriendshipsAmong Men”1782DeborahSampson,disguised as"RobertShurtleff," enlistsin the ContinentalArmy.1752177717801798"Dr. CharlesHamilton" isarrested in Chester,Pennsylvania, andrevealed to beCharlotte Hamilton,who confessed tohaving lived indisguise as a manfor several years.Thomas Jeffersonrevises Virginialaw to makesodomy(committed bymen or women)punishable bymutilation ratherthan death.A Native American"joya" (a man living asa woman) and herhusband visit a Spanishmission near SantaBarbara, California. Apriest notes howcommon joya are inlocal villages.Moreau de St.Mery, a Frenchmanliving inPhiladelphia, writesthat the women hehas met "are not atall strangers tobeing willing toseek unnaturalpleasures withpersons of thesame sex."Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)
A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States186318261857Jeff Withers andJames Hammond,two youngSoutherners whowould becomeprominentcitizens, writeplayfully andgraphically eroticletters about theirpast involvementwith each other.Charlotte Cushman, anactress famous forplaying male roles,begins living withsculptor EmmaStebbins. It was thelast in Cushman's longsequence ofrelationships withwomen. The tworemained together untilCushman's death in1876.1850Crow nation WomanChief Barcheeampe isspotted by appalledwhite travelers inWyoming andMontana; she isrenowned for her warexploits and forhaving several wives.New edition ofWalt Whitman'sLeaves of Grassincludes thehomoeroticCalamus Poems.Colonel Conrad of the 15th Missouridiscovers that two women passing (beingregarded as a sociological group other thana person’s own) as men have enlisted assoldiers in his detachment, and that "anintimacy had sprung up between them." Atleast 400 women passed as men andserved as soldiers in the Civil War,according to a 20th-century researcherworking with wartime medical records.READ MORE“Walt Whitman”READ MORE“Passing Women”18601846185618591861A white traveler inWyoming records thedeep friendship of twoSioux men, Hail-Stormand Rabbit, who "ate,slept, and huntedtogether, and sharedalmost all that theypossessed." Suchromantic friendships, henoted, were "commonamong many of theprairie tribes."Woman Chief, awoman warrior ofthe Crow Nation,is killed on apeacemakingexpedition. Sheleft behind fourwives.Addie Brown and RebeccaPrimus, two AfricanAmerican women living inthe North, begin theirloving correspondence.Brown writes to Primus, "Ifyou was a man, whatwould things come to?They would come tosomething very quick."Franklin Thompson, bornSarah Emma Edmonds,fights for the Union Armyin the Civil War. Duringthe war, Franklin serves asa spy, nurse, dispatchcarrier and later is the onlywoman mustered into theGrand Army of theRepublic.Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)5
6A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States1875In San Francisco,passing woman JeanneBonnet leads an allwoman gang of formerprostitutes who swearoff men and supportthemselves throughtheft and shoplifting. In1876, Bonnet wasmurdered by an angrypimp while sleepingwith her lover, BlancheBuneau.18861878"Mrs. Nash," alaundress with the 7thUS Cavalry who hadseveral soldierhusbands, dies in theDakota Territory and isrevealed to have beena man. Her lasthusband, a corporal,committed suicide afterthe revelation.We’Wha, an accomplishedZuni Weaver and potter, istwo spirit – born male butliving as a woman. Shespends six months inWashington, DC, and meetsPresident Grover Cleveland,who never realizes this sixfoot Zuni maiden was bornmale.READ MORE“We’Wha”18901895Frances Willard, awhite temperanceactivist, writes in herautobiography: "Theloves of women foreach other grow morenumerous each day.That so little should besaid about themsurprises me, for theyare everywhere."Angelina WeldGrimke, a youngwoman who wouldbecome a celebratedpoet of the HarlemRenaissance, writesto Mamie Burrill, "Ifyou only knew howmy heart beats whenI think of you. Yourpassionate lover,Angelina."18761882188918941896Fitz-Green Halleck, apopular poet whosedefenses of lovebetween meninfluenced WaltWhitman, is honoredwith the first statuecommemorating anAmerican poet,unveiled in NewYork's Central Parkby PresidentRutherford B. Hayes.A young Oscar Wildecalls on Walt Whitmanin Camden, NewJersey, in the midst ofa triumphant crosscountry speaking tour.Widespread presscoverage of the tournoted Wilde'seffeminacy, and onenewspaper wrote,"There is a school ofgilded youths eager toembrace his peculiartenets."Jane Addams and her "devoted companion,"Ellen Gates Starr, found Hull House in Chicago."Frank Blunt," amarried man, isconvicted of theft inFont du Lac, Wisconsin,and is revealed to be awoman named AnnaMorris. Gertrude Field,Morris' wife, vows toappeal the conviction.Writer Sarah Orne Jewettpublishes "Martha's Lady," ashort story celebrating theredemptive power of lovebetween women. Jewett livedfor nearly 30 years in a "BostonMarriage" (romantic friendship)with Annie Adams Fields.READ MORE“Women’s Independence and SexualPossibility”Dr. G. Frank Lydston reports that "there is inevery community of any size a colony of malesexual perverts known to each other, likely tocongregate together, and characterized byeffeminacy of voice, dress, and manner."WATCHScenes From a BostonMarriageREAD MORE“Sarah Orne Jewett”Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)
A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States190719261915A German paper supportive ofhomosexuals prints ananonymous "Letter fromBoston," which reports: "Here,as in Germany, homosexualityextends throughout all classes,from the slums of the North Endto the highly fashionable BackBay. Reliable homosexuals havetold me names that reach intothe highest circles of Boston,New York, and Washington, DC,names which have left mespeechless with astonishment."1925On a speaking tour crossing thecountry Emma Goldman defendslesbianism and homosexuality.Goldman's appearances promptedmany women, unhappy with having tohide their lesbianism, to share theirstories with her.Blueswoman Ma Rainey isarrested in her house in Harlemfor having a lesbian party. Herprotege, Bessie Smith, bails herout of jail the following morning.Rainey and Smith were part of anextensive circle of lesbian andbisexual African-American womenin Harlem.Havelock Ellis notes customs of "sexualinverts."READ MORE“Blueswomen in Harlem”READ MORE“Gay Codes”Crow warrior hero Osh-Tish, a "bade"(man who dressed as a woman), dies.White Indian agents had attacked OshTish and the bade tradition for years,and no other Crow men took up the baderole after his death.The Broadway performance of TheCaptive, a play about a lesbianrelationship, prompts a New York Statelaw making the performance of any playdepicting "sex perversion" amisdemeanor. The law remained on thebooks until 1967.19141917192419251928Medical article linkswomen's participationin the suffragemovement with"repressedhomosexuality."US immigrationlaw is modifiedto ban "personswith abnormalsexual instincts"from enteringthe UnitedStates.Henry Gerber and six othermen in Chicago found theSociety for Human Rights,the United States' firstknown gay-rightsorganization.Eva Kochever, a Polish-Jewishimmigrant, opens "Eve Addam'sTearoom" in Greenwich Village. Thelesbian gathering place had a signat the door which read, "Men areadmitted but not welcome." In1926, the tea room was raided, andEva Kochever was deported,charged with "disorderly conduct"and writing an "obscene" book,Lesbian Love.Radclyffe Hall's Well ofLoneliness, a novel bannedin England for its lesbiancontent, is published in theUnited States and becomesan immediate best-seller.In 1929, an appellate courtholds that the book is notobscene, and the book iseven more widelydistributed.READ MORE”Medical Theory andHomosexuality”WATCHHenry Gerber’sDeclarationREAD MORE“Henry Gerber”Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)7
8A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States194819331931The Baltimore AfroAmerican covers alocal drag ball,describing the"coming out of newdebutantes into gaysociety."READ MORE“Coming Out”Eleanor Roosevelt and her lover,journalist Lorena Hickok, begintheir voluminouscorrespondence as Rooseveltmoves into the White House.During one separation Hickokwrites: "I've been trying todayto bring back your face. Mostclearly I remember your eyes,with a kind of teasing smile inthem, and the feeling of thatsoft spot just north-east of thecorner of your mouth againstmy lips."19411944Sigmund Freud writes"Letter to anAmerican Mother,"urging compassionand tolerance forhomosexuality.Gay men andlesbians become partof the massivemobilization for WorldWar II, transforminglesbian and gay life inthe United States.READ MORE“Freud’s Letter toan AmericanMother”READ MORE“World War II andthe Growth of GayCommunities”The Armyconducts aninvestigation oflesbian activity atthe Women'sArmy Corpstraining center inGeorgia. Itsfindings lead to acall for morestringentscreening of WACrecruits.1935Kinsey's study of sexualityin the US reveals that 50percent of American menand 28 percent ofAmerican women have"homosexual tendencies,"shocking the Americanpublic.Gore Vidal's novel The Cityand the Pillar is published,providing readers with aninsider's portrait of gaylife.19321934193919421947Molly Dewson, a closefriend of EleanorRoosevelt, is appointedhead of the Women'sDivision of the DemocraticParty by President FranklinD. Roosevelt. Dewson hada life partnership withanother woman, and wasone of many women insuch partnerships whoheld positions in theRoosevelt administration.Hollywood adopts the socalled "Hayes Code," whichstipulates, among otherthings, that "sexperversion or anyinference to it is forbiddenon the screen."lesbianism, to share theirstories with her.The Jewel Box Revue, atroupe of femaleimpersonators, beginstouring the US from itsbase at the Jewel Box inMiami. The show isintegrated, featuringAfrican-American, Latino,Native American, andwhite performers, and isintroduced by StormeDeLarverie in drag as aman.Working withpsychiatrists, themilitary developsguidelines forrecruiters in orderto identify andexclude gay menfrom the services.The State Department beginsfiring suspected homosexualsunder President Truman'sNational Security LoyaltyProgram. By 1955, anti-gaywitch hunts cost more than1,200 men and women theirjobs with the federalgovernment.READ MORE“Government Witch Huntsand Military Discharges”Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)
A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States1950The Mattachine Society, a"homophile" organizationaimed at promotingtolerance of homosexuality,is founded in Los Angeles byHarry Hay.READ MORE‘The Mattachine Society”The lesbian-themed novelWomen's Barracks becomesa bestseller.19551953President Dwight D. Eisenhower issuesExecutive Order #10450, banning theemployment of homosexuals by thefederal government. Many state and localgovernments soon adopted similarpolicies.One, the first openly lesbian and gaynational publication in the United States,puts out its first issue. In 1958, the USSupreme Court ruled that the publicationwas not obscene and could be distributedthrough the US mail.1952Christine Jorgensen isthe first Americanwhose sex reassignmentsurgery became public.Her surgery causes aninternational sensation,and for many, she is thefirst visible transsexualin the media.Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, and sixother women found Daughtersof Bilitis, the first nationallesbian rights group, in SanFrancisco.Allen Ginsberg gives a publicreading of Howl in SanFrancisco. The police charge himwith obscenity but lose in court.READ MORE“Allen Ginsberg”1957A Navy report concludes that there is noevidence that "homosexuals cannotacceptably serve in the military" or thatthey are security risks. The report issuppressed until 1967.The American Civil Liberties Uniondeclares that "homosexuality is a validconsideration in evaluating the risk factorin sensitive positions," and adviseslesbians facing official discrimination tobecome heterosexual.195419561958The Army-McCarthyhearings include thegay-baiting ofWisconsin SenatorJoseph McCarthy's aideRoy Cohn and Armyattorney Jack Welchbefore a nationaltelevision audience.James Baldwin,African-Americannovelist andintellectual, publishesGiovanni's Room, amale love story.Barbara Gittings formsthe first East CoastChapter of the Daughtersof Bilitis.READ MORE“Daughters of Bilitis”Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)9
10A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States1967The Student HomophileLeague at ColumbiaUniversity becomes thefirst lesbian and gaycampus group to gainofficial recognition.19641960Just before the election,Walter Jenkins, PresidentLyndon Johnson's chief ofstaff, is arrested in abathroom two blocks fromthe White House for"indecent gestures." Heresigns immediately.1962Daughters ofBilitis hold thefirst "nationallesbianconvention" inSan Francisco.Illinois becomes firststate to decriminalizehomosexual contactbetween consentingadults.The Oscar WildeMemorial Bookshop, thefirst gay book store inthe United States, opensin Greenwich Village.1961196319651969Hollywood studios alter theproduction code to allowthe depiction of gay menand lesbians again, as longas the subject is treatedwith "care, discretion, andrestraint."Senator Strom Thurmond attempts toderail the Civil Rights March onWashington by accusing March organizerBayard Rustin of being a Communist and a"pervert." Thurmond failed, and in August,more than 250,000 people converged onthe nation's capital to demand jobs andfreedom for African-Americans.Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny andother homophile activists stage the firstpublic picketing to protest governmentdiscrimination against lesbians and gaymen. Pickets are held at the WhiteHouse, the State Department, thePentagon, and Independence Hall inPhiladelphia.Transgender and gendernonconforming people areamong those who resistedarrest in a routine bar raid bypolice on June 28 on theStonewall Inn in New YorkCity’s Greenwich Village, thushelping to ignite the modernLGBT rights movement.WATCHThe Baiting of Bayard RustinWATCHBarbara Gittings: A Fate on the FrontREAD MORE“Bayard Rustin”READ MORE“Barbara Gittings”READ MORE“The Stonewall Riots”Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)
A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States19751970Lesbians stage"Lavender Menace"protest action at afeminist conference,pressing The NationalOrganization forWomen, and thewomen's movement ingeneral, to change itsstance on lesbianism.READ MORE“Lesbian Feminism”11US Civil Service Commission announces it will nolonger exclude homosexuals from governmentemployment.1973The American PsychiatricAssociation declares thathomosexuality per se isnot a psychiatricdisorder.1972In Baker v. Nelson the MinnesotaSupreme Court rules that state lawlimits marriage to opposite-sex couplesand that this limitation does not violatethe United States Constitution. TheUnited States Supreme Court dismissesan appeal, thereby establishing theprecedent on same-sex marriage.Elaine Noble becomes the first openly lesbian orgay legislator as she takes her seat in theMassachusetts House of Representatives.Minneapolis, Minnesota becomes the first U.S. cityto protect transgender people by amending itslocal non-discrimination law to include the phrase"having or projecting a self-image not associatedwith one's biological maleness or one's biologicalfemaleness.”1977Anita Bryant founds"Save Our Children,"and starts organizedopposition to themovement for lesbianand gay rights.READ MORE“Anti-gay Organizingon the Right”1979Over 100,000 peopletake part in the firstMarch on Washingtonfor Lesbian and GayRights.197419761978The Lesbian HerstoryArchives open to the publicin the New York apartmentof Joan Nestle and DeborahEdel. In 1993, the Archives'large and growing collectionmoved to a Brooklynbrownstone.The first Michigan Womyn'sMusic Festival is held inHart, Michigan. The festivalis one of the largest andmost visible lesbian eventsin the United States.Harvey Milk, gay SanFrancisco city supervisor and"Mayor of Castro Street,"and Mayor George Mosconeare murdered in City Hall byformer city supervisor DanWhite.Disco introduces gay cultureto the mainstream.READ MORE“Harvey Milk”READ MORE“Disco Decade”Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)
12A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States1981Doctors identify first cases of what they term "GayRelated Immune Deficiency" (GRID). Soon the disease'sname is changed to AIDS (Acquired Immune DeficiencySyndrome).The Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press is founded byBarbara Smith, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, HattieGossett, and Myrna Bain in New York City. That sameyear, Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua co-edit This BridgeCalled My Back: The Writings of Radical Women of Color.READ MORE“AIDS” and“Woman of Color Organize”19871985Rock Hudson acknowledgesthat he has AIDS, promptingwidespread public attentionto the epidemic.ACT UP (Aids Coalition to UnleashPower) is founded in New York City.The group's tactics rejuvenatelesbian and gay activism.The Times of Harvey Milk, adocumentary about thecareer and the murder of thegay San Francisco citysupervisor, wins anAcademy Award.READ MORE“AIDS and ACT UP”The Second National March onWashington for gay and lesbianequality draws 500,000.1989Celebrated jazz musician BillyTipton dies in Spokane,Washington, revealing that heis a woman. Tipton, whoplayed in big bands in the ‘40sand ‘50s, lived for 56 years asa man, marrying several timesand raising children.198219861988Wisconsin passes thefirst lesbian and gaycivil rights bill in theUnited States. The lawprohibits bias inhousing, employment,and publicaccommodations.In Bowers v. Hardwick, the SupremeCourt rules that the Constitution allowsstates to pass and enforce sodomy lawstargeting homosexuals.The first National Coming Out Day is observedon October 11 to celebrate the one-yearanniversary of the 2nd National March onWashington.READ MORE“Bowers v Hardwick”The governing board of the City College of SanFrancisco approves the creation of the first gayand lesbian studies department in the UnitedStates.Conservative activist Terry Dolan dies ofAIDS. His funeral is attended byconservative political associates such asSenator Orrin Hatch and Pat Robertson,as well as by Dolan's gay friends.READ MORE“Lesbian and Gay Studies”Adapted and updated from Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America (PBS Online); Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth (NYAC & Lambda Legal);The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline; Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel (Just the Facts Coalition)
A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States131990The Gay and Lesbian Independent School TeachersNetwork (GLSTN) is founded. Only two known highschool student clubs, known as Gay-Straight Alliances(GSAs), exist in the US at the time.Term "outing" is coined by Time magazine to describeMichelangelo Signorile's campaign to identify closetedcelebrities and elected officials.Policies restricting the immigration of lesbians and gaysto the United States are rescinded. Immigrationrestrictions on people with HIV and AIDS, however,remain in place.19921995Black lesbian poet Audre Lordedies of breast cancer. At thetime of her death, she was thepoet laureate of New YorkState.President Bill Clinton signs an executiveorder forbidding the denial of securityclearances on the basis of sexual orientation.Being closeted and vulnerable to blackmail,however, is still a possible grounds for aclearance denial.19911993FTM activist Jamison “James” Green takes over LouSullivan’s FTM newsletter and transforms it into FTMInternational, Inc., the world’s largest information andnetworking group for female-to-male transgenderpeople and transsexual men.The Minnesota state legislature enacts the first statwide law banning discrimination against transgender people.Cheryl Chase founds the Intersex Society of North America to build awareness and offer support to intersex people.Karen Thompson is named legal guardian of her lover,Sharon Kowalski, eight years after a car accident leftKowalski paralyzed and speech-impaired. Kowalski'sfamily had refused to recognize the pair's relationship,and the ruling was a major victory for lesbian and gaycouples.Senator Sam Nunn's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for
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