Marriage Equality Throughout U.S History by Colleen Craig https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9 Timeline of Events en-us 2019-03-25 14:12:29 UTC 2019-03-27 03:14:05 UTC hello@padlet.com 1950's ccraig22 https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344987626 The Society for Human Rights was an American LGBT Rights organization established in Chicago in 1924. Society founder Henry Gerber was inspired to create it by the work of German doctor Magnus Hirschfeld and the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee.

Classification of gay, lesbian, and bisexual underwent changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association until be completely left out in the third edition.

Executive Order 10450  was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 banning homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of
its private contractors. The order listed homosexuals as security risks, along with alcoholics and neurotics. 

In 1958 the first LGBT Supreme Court Case to deal with homosexuality occurred dealing with free speech. One Inc. a pro-gay magazine company published pieces in support of the LGBT community. Following the release of their work they received harassment from the U.S Post Office. One postmaster Otto Oleson reported the magazine was filthy and refused to mail it out.   
]]> 2019-03-25 19:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344987626 1960's ccraig22 https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344988666 Illinois sodomy ruling
A state law code, that became effective on January 1, 1962, and eliminated the state's sodomy laws. It was the first state to eliminate its sodomy laws and established an age of consent 


The Stonewall riots were 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.]]> 2019-03-25 19:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344988666 1970's ccraig22 https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344989210 In 1975 the American Psychiatric Association called on all mental health professionals to take the lead in "removing the stigma of mental illness that has long been associated" with homosexuality

On June 28, 1970 the Christopher Street Liberation Day in New York and the Christopher Street West Association in Los Angeles marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the first Gay Pride Parades in United States history.

On May 18, 1970 a gay couple Richard Baker, and James Michael McConnell applied for a marriage license in Minneapolis. The clerk Gerald Nelson, denied the couple solely because they were the same sex. The couple filed a suit in the district court to force Nelson to issue the license. Their case was said to violate the U.S Constitution and they did not receive the license. 

Harvey Bernard 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]]> 2019-03-25 19:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344989210 1980's ccraig22 https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344989445 The 1980 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party nominated President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale for reelection. The convention was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City from August 11 to August 14, 1980.

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.

Bowers v. Hardwick is a 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, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did not differentiate between homosexual sodomy and heterosexual sodomy. This case was overturned in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas.

]]> 2019-03-25 19:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344989445 1990's ccraig22 https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344989636 "Don't ask, don't tell" was the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994, when Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 issued on December 21, 1993, took effect, lasting until September 20, 2011.

Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620, is 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

The Defense of Marriage Act was 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.]]> 2019-03-25 19:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344989636 2000's ccraig22 https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344990107 When the civil unions law went into effect on July 1, 2000, 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.

Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, is 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.

Massachusetts authorized same-sex marriages within the state following the Supreme Judicial Court ruling on November 18, 2003 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the state constitution for state agencies to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples.

Proposition 8 was created by opponents of same-sex marriage prior to the final ruling on In re Marriage Cases as a voter ballot initiative. Its wording was precisely the same as Proposition 22, which as an ordinary statute, had been invalidated in 2008, but by re-positioning it as a State constitutional amendment it was able to circumvent the ruling from In re Marriage Cases . Therefore did it reverse same sex marriages that had been performed during May to November 2008 (i.e. after In re Marriage Casesbut before Proposition 8. 

The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act, is an 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.

]]> 2019-03-25 19:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344990107 2010's ccraig22 https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344990389 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.

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.

United States v. Windsor 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, by Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional under the Due process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. 

Obergefell v. Hodges, is 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.]]> 2019-03-25 19:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ccraig22/cs8nj5omvlf9/wish/344990389