This Day in Queer History

On this day in 1956, about 30 people attended the first public meeting of the Mattachine Society at New York City's Diplomat Hotel. Small in number, enormous in courage.

On this day in 1975, the Chicago Board of Education approved a plan allowing teachers to answer students' questions about homosexuality for the first time. Knowledge replaced silence.

On this day in 1978, thirty-five men in Bethesda, Maryland created the Gay Married Men's Association. For over thirty years, GAMMA offered support to men in heterosexual marriages coming to terms with their attraction to other men.

On this day in 1980, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence formed in San Francisco. Part drag, part protest, part street theater, the queer 'nuns' used camp and satire to fight intolerance and promote safe sex.

On this day, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that each partner in a lesbian couple could adopt the other's children, ending a long legal battle for Tal and Avital Yaros-Hakak and their three kids.