Gay history

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3. Post World II Culture
Studies of Sexuality
•Magnus Hirschfield
•Alfred Kinsey
•APA
San Francisco
Pink Triangle

4. 1960s
End of the Civil Rights Movement
Radical Lesbians split off from National Organization of Women (NOW)
Interracial Marriage Act(1967)
Stonewall Riots (June 27th
-29th
, 1969) (Official beginning of the gay rights movement)
Women are still consider property
Queer people are considered to have a mental illness
First man on the moon (1969)

5. Emergence of Gay Bathhouses
New York City Docks
Fire Island
Studio 54
1970s
First Pride Parades 1970
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Health(DSM-II)
Took away homosexuality as a mental disorder (1974)
First completely out Political Figure: Harvey Milk
Elected 1977, Assassinated 1978

6. 1980s
Gay Related Immune Deficiency
(GRID)
Aids
ACT UP
AIDs Memorial Quilt
Building of an Out Community

7. 1990s
Queer Nation (1990)
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (1993)
Human Rights Campaign
Grassroots SAFE ZONE
Matthew Sheppard (1998)
Pedro Zamora Gay Real World Character

8. Opposition Starting in the
1990sWestborough Baptist Church
Family Research Council
Focus on the Family

9. 2000s
Defense of Marriage Act
Sodomy Laws
Prop 8
APA takes Homosexual out of its Language

10. 2000s
Defense of Marriage Act
Sodomy Laws
Prop 8
APA takes Homosexual out of its Language