Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention
Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass
Mary Edwards Walker Is Awarded the Medal of Honor
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Speaks Publicly for Gay and Lesbian Rights
Kertbeny Coins the Terms “Homosexual” and “Heterosexual”
Westphal Advocates Medical Treatment for Sexual Inversion
United Kingdom Criminalizes “Gross Indecency”
Two-Spirit American Indian Visits Washington, D.C.
Alice Mitchell Found Guilty of Murdering Her Lover
Oscar Wilde Is Convicted of Gross Indecency
Der Eigene Is Published as First Journal on Homosexuality
Raffalovich Publishes Uranisme et Unisexualité
Ellis Publishes Sexual Inversion
Hirschfeld Founds the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee
Transgender Reporter Covers Spanish-American War Revolts
Police Arrest “Los 41” in Mexico City
Stein Writes Q.E.D.
Freud Rejects Third-Sex Theory
Friedlaender Breaks with the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee
The Eulenburg Affair Scandalizes Germany’s Leadership
Carpenter Publishes The Intermediate Sex
Barney Opens Her Paris Salon
Robles Fights in the Mexican Revolution
U.S. Navy Launches Sting Operation Against “Sexual Perverts”
The God of Vengeance Opens on Broadway
Gide Publishes the Signed Edition of Corydon
Gerber Founds the Society for Human Rights
Wales Padlock Law Censors Risque Theater
Hall Publishes The Well of Loneliness
Davis’s Research Identifies Lesbian Sexuality as Common and Normal
Pandora’s Box Opens
Hollywood Bans “Sexual Perversion” in Films
Nazis Persecute Homosexuals
Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives
Isherwood Publishes Goodbye to Berlin
Thompson v. Aldredge Dismisses Sodomy Charges Against Lesbians
Golden Age of American Gay Literature
Vice Versa Is Published as First Lesbian Periodical
Kinsey Publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Mattachine Society Is Founded
George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen
APA Classifies Homosexuality as a Mental Disorder
ONE, Inc., Is Founded
U.S. Law Prohibits Gay and Lesbian Immigration
Kinsey Publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
ONE Magazine Begins Publication
Evelyn Hooker Debunks Homosexuality as a “Sickness”
U.S. President Eisenhower Prohibits Federal Employment of Lesbians and Gays
Daughters of Bilitis Founded as First National Lesbian Group in United States
Baldwin Publishes Giovanni’s Room
Foster Publishes Sex Variant Women in Literature
United Kingdom’s Sexual Offences Act Becomes Law
The Wolfenden Report Calls for Decriminalizing Private Consensual Sex
First National Lesbian Conference Convenes
Illinois Legalizes Consensual Homosexual Sex
Sarria Is First Out Gay or Lesbian Candidate for Public Office
Rechy Publishes City of Night
Rustin Organizes the March on Washington
Revolutionary Cuba Imprisons Gays
First North American Conference of Homophile Organizations Convenes
Queer Youth Fight Police Harassment at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco
First Gender Identity Clinic Opens and Provides Gender Reassignment Surgery
Los Angeles Advocate Begins Publication
CBS Airs CBS Reports: The Homosexuals
First Student Homophile League Is Formed
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law Preventing Immigration of Gays and Lesbians
United Kingdom Decriminalizes Homosexual Sex
Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop Opens as First Gay Bookstore
NACHO Formally Becomes the First Gay Political Coalition
Metropolitan Community Church Is Founded
Nuestro Mundo Forms as First Queer Organization in Argentina
Gay Catholics Find Dignity
Stonewall Rebellion Ignites Modern Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement
Gay Liberation Front Is Formed
Canada Decriminalizes Homosexual Acts
Time Magazine Issues “The Homosexual in America”
Amazon Bookstore Opens as First Feminist-Lesbian Book Shop
Lavender Menace Protests Homophobia in Women’s Movement
Radicalesbians Issues “The Woman Identified Woman” Manifesto
First Lesbian and Gay Pride March in the United States
Del Martin Quits Gay Liberation Movement
Kameny Is First Out Candidate for U.S. Congress
Lesbian Tide Publishes Its First Issue
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center Is Founded
The Gay Book Award Debuts
The Body Politic Begins Publication
Local Governments Pass Antidiscrimination Laws
First Gay and Lesbian Synagogue in the United States Is Formed
Equal Rights Amendment Fails State Ratification
First Out Gay Minister Is Ordained
Jordan Becomes First Black Congresswoman from the South
Brown Publishes Rubyfruit Jungle
Naiad Press Is Founded
National Gay Task Force Is Formed
Olivia Records Is Founded
Roe v. Wade Legalizes Abortion and Extends Privacy Rights
U.S. Supreme Court Supports Local Obscenity Laws
American Bar Association Calls for Repeal of Laws Against Consensual Sex
Lesbian Herstory Archives Is Founded
Lambda Legal Authorized to Practice Law
Homosexuality is Delisted by the APA
Bisexual Forum Is Founded
The Front Runner Makes The New York Times Best-Seller List
Antigay and Antilesbian Organizations Begin to Form
Abzug and Koch Attempt to Amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lesbian Connection Begins Publication
Noble Is First Out Lesbian or Gay Person to Win State-Level Election
First Gay and Lesbian Archives Is Founded
First Novel About Coming Out to Parents Is Published
Gay American Indians Is Founded
Rule Publishes Lesbian Images
Gay Latino Alliance Is Formed
U.S. Civil Service Commission Prohibits Discrimination Against Federal Employees
Anna Crusis Women’s Choir Is Formed
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in “Crimes Against Nature” Case
Katz Publishes First Lesbian and Gay History Anthology
Army Reservist Ben-Shalom Sues for Reinstatement
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Holds Its First Gathering
Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Gay and Lesbian Rights
Combahee River Collective Issues “A Black Feminist Statement”
National Women’s Conference Convenes
Quebec Includes Lesbians and Gays in Its Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
Toronto Police Raid Offices of The Body Politic
Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association Is Founded
Lesbian and Gay Workplace Movement Is Founded
U.S. Supreme Court Distinguishes Between “Indecent” and “Obscene”
International Lesbian and Gay Association Is Founded
Antigay and Antilesbian Briggs Initiative Is Defeated
White Murders Politicians Moscone and Milk
Moral Majority Is Founded
First Gay British Television Series Airs
First March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
First National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference Convenes
Lesbian and Gay Asian Collective Is Founded
Alyson Begins Publishing Gay and Lesbian Books
Gay Writers Form the Violet Quill
Human Rights Campaign Fund Is Founded
U.S. Navy Investigates the USS Norton Sound in Antilesbian Witch-hunt
Canadian Gay Postal Workers Secure Union Protections
Faderman Publishes Surpassing the Love of Men
Gay and Lesbian Palimony Suits Emerge
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Is Founded
This Bridge Called My Back Is Published
GALA Choruses Is Formed
Toronto Police Raid Gay Bathhouses
Reports of Rare Diseases Mark Beginning of AIDS Epidemic
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Concert Tour
Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Is Founded
New York City Gay Men’s Chorus Performs at Carnegie Hall
Lesbian and Gay Youth Protection Institute Is Founded
Lorde’s Autobiography Zami Is Published
Lesbian Academic and Activist Sues University of California for Discrimination
Wisconsin Enacts First Statewide Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Law
Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Is Renamed AIDS
First Gay Games Are Held in San Francisco
Studds Is First Out Gay Man in the U.S. Congress
First National Lesbians of Color Conference Convenes
AIDS Virus Is Discovered
San Francisco Closes Gay Bathhouses and Other Businesses
West Hollywood Incorporates with Majority Gay and Lesbian City Council
Berkeley Extends Benefits to Domestic Partners of City Employees
GLAAD Begins Monitoring Media Coverage of Gays and Lesbians
Lesbian Film Desert Hearts Is Released
Actor Hudson Announces He Has AIDS
Bowers v. Hardwick Upholds State Sodomy Laws
Paula Gunn Allen Publishes The Sacred Hoop
South Asian Newsletter Trikone Begins Publication
AZT Treats People with AIDS
Californians Reject LaRouche’s Quarantine Initiative
Anzaldúa Publishes Borderlands/La Frontera
Asian Pacific Lesbian Network Is Founded
Compañeras: Latina Lesbians Is Published
Shilts Publishes And the Band Played On
VIVA Is Founded to Promote Latina and Latino Artists
Radical AIDS Activist Group ACT UP Is Founded
Old Lesbians Organize for Change
Lambda Rising Book Report Begins Publication
U.S. Congressman Frank Comes Out as Gay
Second March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
Latin American and Caribbean Lesbian Feminist Network Is Formed
Macho Dancer Is Released in the Philippines
Canada Decriminalizes Sex Practices Between Consenting Adults
M. Butterfly Opens on Broadway
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center Opens
Report of the Presidential AIDS Commission
First National Coming Out Day Is Celebrated
Oregon Repeals Ban on Antigay Job Discrimination
First World AIDS Day
Act Up Paris Is Founded
Vaid Becomes Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Helms Claims Mapplethorpe’s Photographs Are Indecent
Death of Transgender Jazz Musician Billy Tipton
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Gender-Role Stereotyping Is Discriminatory
Watkins v. United States Army Reinstates Gay Soldier
Lambda Literary Award Is Created
ACT UP Protests at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Is Founded
United Lesbians of African Heritage Is Founded
Artists Sue the National Endowment for the Arts
Coming Out Under Fire Documents Gay and Lesbian Military Veterans
Queer Nation Is Founded
BiNet USA Is Formed
Americans with Disabilities Act Becomes Law
Asian Lesbian Network Holds Its First Conference
LeVay Postulates the “Gay Brain”
Revisionist Criticism Recasts Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Stone Publishes “A Posttranssexual Manifesto”
Asian Lesbians and Gays Protest Lambda Fund-Raiser
Leather Archives and Museum Is Founded
The Advocate Outs Pentagon Spokesman Pete Williams
California Governor Wilson Vetoes Antidiscrimination Bill
Minnesota Court Awards Guardianship to Lesbian Partner
Canada Grants Asylum Based on Sexual Orientation
Canadian YMCA Extends Family Discounts to Gays and Lesbians
Transgender Nation Holds Its First Protest
Celebrity Lesbians Come Out
Indians Struggle to Abolish Sodomy Law
Canadian Government Antigay Campaign Is Revealed
Feinberg Publishes Transgender Liberation
Massachusetts Grants Family Rights to Gay and Lesbian State Workers
Canadian Military Lifts Its Ban on Gays and Lesbians
Oregon and Colorado Attempt Antigay Initiatives
Intersex Society of North America Is Founded
Monette Wins the National Book Award for Becoming a Man
The Wedding Banquet Is First Acclaimed Taiwanese Gay-Themed Film
Hawaii Opens Door to Same-Gender Marriages
Battelle Sex Study Prompts Conservative Backlash
First Dyke March Is Held in Washington, D.C.
March on Washington for Gay, Lesbian, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation
Achtenberg Becomes Assistant Housing Secretary
Clinton Appoints First AIDS Czar
Lesbian Mother Loses Custody of Her Child
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy Is Implemented
Transgender Man Brandon Teena Raped and Murdered
Employment Non-Discrimination Act Is Proposed to U.S. Congress
National Association of Lesbian and Gay Community Centers Is Founded
Navratilova Honored for Her Career in Tennis
Stonewall 25 March and Rallies Are Held in New York City
Japanese American Citizens League Supports Same-Gender Marriage
U.N. Revokes Consultative Status of International Lesbian and Gay Association
The Advocate Outs Oscar Nominee Nigel Hawthorne
Athlete Louganis Announces He Is HIV-Positive
International Bill of Gender Rights Is First Circulated
Lesbian Couple Murdered in Oregon
Hart Recognized as a Transgender Man
U.S. President Clinton Signs Defense of Marriage Act
Transgender Scholarship Proliferates
Canadian Supreme Court Reverses Gay Academic’s Firing
Gay College Student Shepard Is Beaten and Murdered
First International Retreat for Lesbian and Gay Muslims Is Held
Screening of Fire Ignites Violent Protests in India
Littleton v. Prange Withholds Survivor Rights from Transsexual Spouses
First Middle Eastern Gay and Lesbian Organization Is Founded
Baker v. Vermont Leads to Recognition of Same-Gender Civil Unions
United Kingdom Lifts Ban on Gays and Lesbians in the Military
Hollywood Awards Transgender Portrayals in Film
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
Chinese Psychiatric Association Removes Homosexuality from List of Mental Disorders
Japanese Human Rights Council Recommends Lesbian and Gay Rights
First Gay and Lesbian Television Network Is Launched in Canada
Sylvia Rivera Law Project Is Founded
Transgender Rights Added to New York City Law
Gays and Lesbians March for Equal Rights in Mexico City
Irish American Lesbian Gains Canadian Immigrant Status
Transgender Teen Gwen Araujo Is Murdered in California
Australian Court Validates Transsexual Marriage
Transsexuals Protest Academic Exploitation
New Mexico Amends Its Human Rights Act
Buenos Aires Recognizes Same-Gender Civil Unions
Canada Legalizes Same-Gender Marriage
U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Texas Sodomy Law
Singapore Lifts Ban on Hiring Lesbian and Gay Employees
Wal-Mart Adds Lesbians and Gays to Its Antidiscrimination Policy
Massachusetts Court Rules for Same-Gender Marriage
Transgender Day of Remembrance and Remembering Our Dead Project
Robinson Becomes First Out Gay Bishop in Christian History
Transgender Athletes Allowed to Compete in Olympic Games
United Kingdom Legalizes Same-Gender Civil Partnerships
United Kingdom’s Gender Recognition Act Legalizes Transsexual Marriage
Spain Legalizes Same-Gender Marriage
Roman Catholic Church Bans Gay Seminarians
Jiménez Flores Elected to the Mexican Senate
Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Transamerica Receive Oscars
