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Landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Is a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court held that restricting U.S. federal interpretation of "marriage" and "spouse" to apply only to opposite-sex unions

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Landmark United States federal statute enacted in December 2010 that established a process for ending the Don't ask, don't tell (DADT) policy thus allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to serve openly in the United States

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Hollingsworth v. Perry were a series of United States federal court cases that legalized same-sex marriage in the State of California. The case began in 2009 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, which found that banning same-sex marriage violates equal protection under the law.

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American Act of Congress, passed on October 22, 2009, and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009, as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010

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Known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections.

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Must apply for marriage in person, together at the same time. You must be 18 years of age to be married in the state of Massachusetts.

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Landmark civil rights case by the United States Supreme Court. The Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas in a 6–3 decision and, by extension, invalidated sodomy laws in 13 other states, making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory.

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Vermont became the third U.S. state after Hawaii and California to offer legal status to same-sex couples, and the first to offer a civil union status encompassing the same legal rights and responsibilities as marriage.

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United States federal law that, prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states.

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517 U.S. 620, is a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with sexual orientation and state laws.

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DADT was the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994

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Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, is a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults

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 First state anti-discrimination based on sexual orientation laws (1980) 

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 First state anti-discrimination based on sexual orientation laws (1980) 

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Wisconsin became the first state to ban both public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in 1982. Minnesota became the first state to ban employment discrimination based on both sexual orientation and gender identity when it passed the Human Rights Act in 1993.

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First time gay rights were viewed from the election. Anti-discrimination on sexual orientation.

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American politician who first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a state law limiting marriage to persons of the opposite sex did not violate the U.S. Constitution

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American Psychiatric 		Association reassessment of homosexuality (1970) 

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American Psychiatric 		Association reassessment of homosexuality (1970) 

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The statement was revoked about all gays being mentally ill

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Christopher Street Liberation Day (1970) 

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Christopher Street Liberation Day (1970) 

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First anniversary of the Stonewall riots, and first gay pride day in United States history.

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Series of violent events by members of the LGBT community on the police after a raid happened at the Stonewall Inn, in New York City.

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First state to revoke the Sodomy Laws was Illinois. Sodomy laws remained in 13 other states.

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First U.S. Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and the first to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality

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Eisenhower banned all homosexuals from working in the government fields

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 American Psychiatric Association 			homosexuality classification (<1950)

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 American Psychiatric Association 			homosexuality classification (<1950)

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Organization that claims if you are apart of the LGBT community means you are mentally ill.

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LGBT rights organization first to recognize gay rights. First American publication for homosexuals, Friendship and Freedom.