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The God of Vengeance by Sholom Asch opens at the Apollo Theatre on Broadway. The play includes a love scene between two women. On March 6, the entire case is arrested by the NYPD and charged with "Indecency," ending the play's Broadway run.

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The Boys in the Band performs off-broadway for over 1,000 performances. The story revolves around a group of gay friends coming together for a friend's birthday party in Manhattan, and ends with stories about long-lost lovers, and one character coming out to his wife.

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Police raid and subsequent uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City mark the beginning of the modern LGTBQ movement.

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The American Psychiatric Association (APA) votes to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders and urges an end to discriminatory practices. However, homosexuality continues to be pathologized under different names in APA publications until 1987.

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Democrats are the first political party to add "gay rights" to their platform during the Democratic National Convention. President Jimmy Carter, who was nominated for re-election at the same convention, will lose the 1980 General Election to Ronald Reagan.

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Nearly 800 people are infected with GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disorder). The name is changed to AIDS by the year's end.

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The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer debuts at The Public Theatre. The play focuses on a writer name Ned Weeks, who's trying to nurse his partner back to health from a then-unknown disease, all while pleading for the government to take action.

The play was adapted into a film in 2014. Click the video to watch a clip.

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ACT UP, a direct-action activist group, is founded in the LGBT Community Center in New York City to bring attention to AIDS-related issues using civil disobedience.

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Angels in America, an epic two-part drama by Tony Kushner chronicles the gay experience in American during the mid-80s through a series of interconnected stories that portray both fictional and historical characters. It will go on to win the Pulitzer Prize, multiple Tony Awards, and a 2014 film adaptation.

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RENT, Jonathan Larson's modern re-telling of La Boheme opens on Broadway. The rock musical follows of groups of friends in early 90s New York as they wrestle with love, art, rent, and the AIDS epidemic.

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Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming college student, is brutally beaten by two young men, tied to a fence, and left overnight. He dies six days later.

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Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project present The Laramie Project, which draws from interviews with the people of Laramie, Wyomicng during the aftermath of Matthew Shepards murder.

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New York City expands the definition of "gender" to include protections for transgender and gender non-conforming people in employment, housing, and public accommodations in the NYC Human Rights Law.

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The Supreme Court of the United States overturns sodomy laws, proclaiming rights to privacy and decriminalizing "homosexual" behavior.

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Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

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The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer-winning novel about a bisexual black woman in the 1930s deep south, opens on Broadway.

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President Obama signs the Matthew Shepard Act into law, expanding a 1969 federal hate-crime law to include crimes against the LGBTQ community. It becomes the first federal law to include legal protections for transgender people.

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The Supreme Court of the United States strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and rules California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional. The DOMA ruling effectively legalizes gay marriage at the federal level.

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Fun Home, a musical based on Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel opens on Broadway. It follows Alison as she remembers her childhood, coming to terms with her sexuality, and her relationship with her father, a closeted gay man. The musical went on to be nominated for 12 Tonys, taking home 5, including the first Best Original Score tony to go to an all-female song writing team (Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron)