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Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran becomes the first MP to openly identify as pansexual.

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2016- FIRST OPENLY TRANS LABOUR REPRESENTATIVE ELECTED

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2016- FIRST OPENLY TRANS LABOUR REPRESENTATIVE ELECTED

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Anwen Muston is elected to Wolverhampton City Council, making her the first openly transgender woman to be elected as a Labour representative.

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Peter McGraith and David Cabreza become the first same-sex couple to be legally married in the UK at one-minute past midnight on 29 March 2014 — the day the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 came into effect.

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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 receives Royal Assent. Under the legislation, same-sex couples are automatically recognised as the legal parents of children conceived via IVF, regardless of donor eggs or sperm.

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Christopher Cramp and Matthew Roche become the first couple to take part in a civil partnership ceremony on the day the Civil Partnership Act 2004 came into effect.

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The Gender Recognition Act comes into effect, allowing people to legally change their gender in the UK. The law was introduced following the Goodwin & I v United Kingdom ruling.

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Rights group OutRage! holds its first meeting. The group was formed to protest the police’s treatment of LGBT people, and its failure to properly investigate a series of murders targeting the community in West London.

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The LGBTQ+ rights charity Stonewall — named after the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York — is set up by political activists lobbying against Section 28.

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The HIV rights charity National AIDS Trust (NAT) is established with the aim of ending new HIV transmissions and supporting the healthcare rights of those suffering with the disease.

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2007- 'SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY, GET OVER IT!'

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2007- 'SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY, GET OVER IT!'

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The red campaign posters from Stonewall boldly stating ‘Some People Are Gay! Get Over It’ began circulation in 2007. These posters could be seen displayed in all sorts of places. They sent this clear and simple message to homophobia working towards changing the treatment of gay people for the better.

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2003- BAN ON 'PROMOTING' HOMOSEXUALITY IN SCHOOLS IS OVERTURNED

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2003- BAN ON 'PROMOTING' HOMOSEXUALITY IN SCHOOLS IS OVERTURNED

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The ban on 'promoting' homosexuality in schools (Section 28) was overturned.

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The Adoption and Children Act 2002 comes into force, allowing unmarried couples and same-sex couples in England and Wales to adopt for the first time. An equivalent Act was passed in Scotland in 2007.

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2021- US ISSUES FIRST GENDER NEUTRAL PASSPORT

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2021- US ISSUES FIRST GENDER NEUTRAL PASSPORT

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The United States has issued its first gender-neutral passport.

The document has an "X" in the gender box, signalling that the holder does not identify as either male or female.

It was issued to Dana Zzyym, a 66-year-old intersex activist, who sued the State Department over the issue in 2015.

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Gay marriage was made legal in England and Wales, and later in Scotland. In Northern Ireland, gay marriage wasn't made legal until January 2020

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2009- INTERNATIONAL TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY 

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2009- INTERNATIONAL TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY 

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The grassroots holiday swiftly gained traction on social media and was adopted across the country and abroad. Observed each year on March 31, the day honors transgender and gender nonconforming people while raising awareness of the issues that jeopardize their lives.

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Activists Welmore Cook, Theodore Kirkland and Ernest Hopkins organized the first DC Black Pride in 1991. What started as an 800-person gathering is now a celebration that draws more than 300,000 people to Washington, D.C., each Memorial Day weekend.

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed for the first time on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. That weekend, half a million people visited the quilt, which covered a space larger than a football field and included 1,920 panels.

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Gilbert Baker, who described himself as the “gay Betsy Ross,” created the first pride flag from strips of fabric dyed in trash cans in the attic of San Francisco’s Gay Community Center before the city’s 1978 pride parade.

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The first UK Gay Pride Rally is held in London, with around 1000 people marching from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park.

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In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular Greenwich Village nightclub, for the second time in a week — a common occurrence in an era when nearly all aspects of LGBTQ life were criminalized. That night, however, the crowd refused to disperse and patrons clashed with police as the confrontation swelled to include hundreds of demonstrators. Riots continued into the following week.