This Day in Queer History

On this day, a San Francisco judge ordered the jury to find defendants not guilty in the Council on Religion and the Homosexual case, a turning point in the homophile movement's fight for civil rights.

On this day, about 200 LGBT people gathered as 40 picketers demonstrated at the Black Cat bar in Los Angeles, building on earlier protests and uniting with counterculture groups against police harassment.

On this day in 1974, Richard North and Chris Vogel were married by a Unitarian Universalist minister in Winnipeg, in what became the first publicized 'gay marriage' in Canada, though the government refused recognition.

On this day in 2013, Kathleen Wynne became Premier of Ontario, the first woman and first openly LGBTQ+ person to lead a Canadian provincial or federal government. Barriers broken at the highest level.