5 events documented
On this day, Frank Kameny was fired from the U.S. Army Map Service for being gay, then blacklisted from federal employment. The injustice ignited a lifetime of activism that helped reshape American civil rights, under his rallying cry: 'Gay is Good.'
On this day in 1990, OutRage! established the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Britain, committing to radical nonviolent direct action against homophobia and anti-LGBTQ+ violence.
On this day in 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court ordered the legislature to grant same-sex couples rights identical to married couples, one of the first judicial affirmations of marriage equality.
On this day, Judge Robert Shelby struck down Utah's gay marriage ban. Over a thousand same-sex couples married in the next two weeks before the Supreme Court hit pause.
On this day, Wolfgang Leopold Lauinger died at 99. Imprisoned by the Nazis and by postwar West Germany under Paragraph 175, he spent his life fighting for the rehabilitation and compensation of persecuted gay people.
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