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12 Cards in this Set
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13 January 1958 |
Supreme Court, in its first ruling in favour of gays, refuses to let the postal service ban a gay magazine as 'obscene' |
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4 July 1965 |
First reminder day anti-discrimination outside independence Hall, Philadelphia, becomes an annual event |
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21 April 1966 |
Drink 'sip-in' at a New York bar refusing to serve gays; New York City Commission on human rights rules gays must be served |
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August 1968 |
The North American Conference of Homophile Organisations issues a Homosexual Bill of Rights calling for equality |
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28 June 1969 |
Police raid on the Stonewall Inn, New York; three day riot follows; this gets little media coverage |
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28 June 1970 |
Marches in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and LA on Stonewall Anniversary, now seen as the first ever Gay Pride |
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15 December 1973 |
American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses |
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January 1974 |
Kathy Kozachenko is the first ever American to get elected while admitting to be gay; joins city council of Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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8 November 1977 |
Harvey Milk is elected in San Francisco; introduces a ruling to stop people being fired for being gay; campaigns against Proposition 6 |
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27 November 1928 |
Harvey Milk is assassinated |
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21 May 1979 |
Dan White, Milk's assassin, is given only 7 years in prison for the killing: the leniency is thought to be due to Milk being gay; 5000 protesters to march on San Francisco's city hall and rioting breaks out; over 120 people are injured |
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14 October 1979 |
National March on Washington for lesbian and gay rights (at least 100,000 people) urges equal rights and protective legislation |