Time Line of Events in The Gay Community of the US

Time line for gay marriage in the past 62 years. These were milestones that took place in front of the public. 

You can’t be for something if you don’t know what that something is. Every issue that was carried to the media made an impact. Some were awful things particularly at the beginning. It looked like we had been in a loosing streak for ever but since the age of the TV, fast newspapers and ultimately the intercommunication structure of today, made every bone broken and every cop busting of doors to gay bars and busting heads to fags it was one step closer until people started realizing that there was something wrong. What if this happened to my son and then when their son started telling them it did happened to him. How about when the sun comes out to his family and introduces the guys he wants to marry? The fire was lit. But the country is a big place to warm up. Today in New York we have Christine Quinn a gutsy lesbian NYorker running for the mayor’s seat. This is progress. We just went to the Supreme court and got what we went there to get. We will go back and expect the same as long as the whole community is with us and people don’t start getting selfish on us. What is there for me? Im not getting married Im not going to get fired, I own my house. I don’t go to porno shops I pay a hot boy and we do it in my bed safely without cops arresting you.What rights do I need? I don’t need any rights. As long as the minimum of the 7ups I call them, the spoilers keeps their heads down and we keep the majority like we have until now we will have the majority of the american people. The message is just. 

Lets give everyone a time line to help us remember but it will have to be change again soon:

{Adam}

Some important events in the history of the gay-rights movement in the United States:

1950: Mattachine Society, widely considered first national gay rights organization, is formed.

1957: Frank Kameny is fired from job as government astronomer because he's gay; his appeal later reaches Supreme Court before being denied.

1969: Stonewall Inn riots break out after patrons of New York City gay bar protest police harassment.

1977: After campaign led by Anita Bryant and other conservatives, Miami-area voters overturn ordinance banning anti-gay discrimination.

1978: In San Francisco, Mayor George Moscone and pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk are assassinated.

1979: First national gay-rights march on Washington.

1985: Rock Hudson dies, after acknowledging he had AIDS

1986: U.S. Supreme Court upholds Georgia anti-sodomy law criminalizing consensual gay sex

1987: Second national gay-rights march on Washington; AIDS memorial quilt displayed on National Mall

1993: "Don't ask, don't tell" policy implemented for U.S. military, allowing gays to serve but not to be open about their sexual orientation.

1996: Congress passes Defense of Marriage Act, stipulating that federal government will not recognize same-sex marriages.

1997: Ellen DeGeneres comes out publicly as lesbian in appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

1998: Gay university student Matthew Shepard killed in Wyoming.

2000: Vermont becomes first state to establish civil unions; Supreme Court upholds Boy Scouts' right to exclude gays.

2003: Supreme Court strikes down Texas law criminalizing consensual gay sex.

2004: Same-sex marriages start in Massachusetts in compliance with state high court ruling; many other states adopt bans on same-sex marriage.

2008: California court orders legalization of same-sex marriage; voters overturn the ruling by approving Proposition 8 limiting marriage to one man, one woman.

2010: Appeals court strikes down Florida's three-decade-old ban on adoptions by gays.

2011: Military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is repealed; New York becomes largest state to approve same-sex marriage.

2012: President Barack Obama endorses same-sex marriage; voters approve it in referendums in Maine, Maryland and Washington state.

2013: Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota raise number of states with same-sex marriage to 12; Boy Scouts vote to let openly gay boys participate.