https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms Made with procrastination en-us 2019-03-26 01:25:28 UTC 2025-10-10 01:00:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345067894 2019-03-26 01:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345067894 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345068095 an American LGBT Rights organization established in 1924. It was the first recognized gay rights organization in the United States.]]> 2019-03-26 01:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345068095 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345071611 the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world.
Before 1950, homosexuality as considered a sociopathic personality disorder.]]> 2019-03-26 01:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345071611 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345072481 Order, signed on April 27, 1953 by President Eisenhower, that authorized broad categories of American citizens identified as threats to national security–including those with criminal records, alcoholics, LGBT members and “sex perverts”–to be excluded or terminated from federal employment.]]> 2019-03-26 01:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345072481 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345072996 a landmark United States Supreme Court decision for LGBT rights in the United States. It was the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and the first to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality.]]> 2019-03-26 01:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345072996 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345073357 2019-03-26 02:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345073357 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345073574 Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to get rid of its sodomy law. It did so in 1961, when it adopted an overall revision of its criminal laws.]]> 2019-03-26 02:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345073574 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345073832  a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ]]> 2019-03-26 02:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345073832 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345074077 2019-03-26 02:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345074077 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345074384  the East Coast Homophile Organization (ECHO) began holding annual Reminder Marches in Philadelphia each Fourth of July. To commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, ECHO approved moving the 1970 march to New York City for the last weekend in June. ]]> 2019-03-26 02:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345074384 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345074719 a case in which the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a state law limiting marriage to persons of the opposite sex did not violate the U.S. Constitution.]]> 2019-03-26 02:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345074719 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345075185 Homosexuality is no longer listed as a category of disorder. The diagnosis is replaced with the category of “sexual orientation disturbance”.]]> 2019-03-26 02:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345075185 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345075457 Harvey Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.]]> 2019-03-26 02:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345075457 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345075618 2019-03-26 02:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345075618 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345075744 In 1980, the Democratic National Convention was the first American political party to officially incorporate a plank preventing discrimination by sexual orientation into their platform. Both Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, the Democratic Party’s 1980 candidates for President, supported the addition of gay rights to the platform.]]> 2019-03-26 02:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345075744 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345076126 Wisconsin became the first state to ban both public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in 1982. ]]> 2019-03-26 02:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345076126 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345076401 a U.S. 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]]> 2019-03-26 02:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345076401 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077114 2019-03-26 02:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077114 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077211 the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994.]]> 2019-03-26 02:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077211 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077457 a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with sexual orientation and state laws. It was the first Supreme Court case to address gay rights since Bowers v. Hardwick, when the Court had held that laws criminalizing sodomy were constitutional. It voided an amendment to the Colorado state constitution that prohibited laws protecting the rights of homosexuals.]]> 2019-03-26 02:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077457 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077842 a 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.]]> 2019-03-26 02:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077842 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077981 2019-03-26 02:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345077981 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345078068 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.]]> 2019-03-26 02:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345078068 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345078238 a 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.]]> 2019-03-26 02:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345078238 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345078385 In 2003, Massachusetts became the first state to allow gay marriage after its highest court ruled the state’s ban violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples.]]> 2019-03-26 02:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345078385 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345078808 a ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the 2008 California state election. The proposition was created by opponents of gay marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling, In re Marriage Cases found the previous ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

]]> 2019-03-26 02:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345078808 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345080043 an American Act of Congress, passed on October 22, 2009, and signed into law by President Barack Obama. Conceived as a response to the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, the measure expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.]]> 2019-03-26 02:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345080043 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345081893 2019-03-26 02:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345081893 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345082004 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.]]> 2019-03-26 02:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345082004 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345082229 The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 is a landmark United States federal statute enacted in December 2010 that established a process for ending the Don't ask, don't tell policy, thus allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces.]]> 2019-03-26 02:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345082229 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345082499 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 is unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

]]> 2019-03-26 02:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345082499 brawlins1 https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345082871 a 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. ]]> 2019-03-26 02:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/brawlins1/4mf555j9phms/wish/345082871