The first openly gay general in the U.S. military was Brigadier General Tammy S. Smith, who was promoted in August 2012, making history as the first officer of flag rank to serve openly after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). Her promotion ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery famously involved her wife, Tracey Hepner, pinning the general's star onto her uniform, symbolizing the integration of her personal and military lives.
24th century BCE. c. 2400 BCE – Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum are believed by some observers to be the first same-sex couple in recorded history.
The Society for Human Rights is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago. The society is the first gay rights organization as well as the oldest documented in America.
Henry Hay Jr.
He cofounded the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated gay spiritual movement. Hay has been described as "the Founder of the Modern Gay Movement" and "the father of gay liberation".
Overview: Frank Kameny was released from government service in 1957 because he was gay. He spent the rest of his life fighting for gay rights and is known as the father of the LGBT rights movement.
The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of LGBTQ pride began in San Francisco, California and subsequently became common at LGBTQ rights events worldwide. Rainbow flag.
Unitarian Universalism was the first denomination to accept openly transgender people as full members with eligibility to become clergy; in 1988 the first openly transgender person was ordained by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).
First openly lesbian or gay candidate to run and win election anywhere in the United States - Kathy Kozachenko (Human Rights Party), Ann Arbor City Council, elected 2 April 1974; while the first openly lesbian and gay elected officials in the United States, Jerry DeGrieck and Nancy Wechsler, were elected to Ann Arbor ...
There was great diversity in expressions of gender and sexuality during the 1800 and 1900s in Victorian England and among the many cultures and tribes of the U.S. As pressures from religious institutions and governments lead to the creation of laws against homosexual practices, homophobia began to increase.
1969: The Stonewall Uprising. June 28, 1969 marks the beginning of the Stonewall Uprising, a series of events between police and LGBTQ+ protesters which stretched over six days.
Gilbert Baker created the original pride flag in 1978. Baker was urged by Harvey Milk to create a symbol for the LGBT community and he chose a flag, which he saw as the most powerful symbol of pride.
What is the prehistory of LGBT activism? Most historians agree that there is evidence of homosexual activity and same-sex love, whether such relationships were accepted or persecuted, in every documented culture.
2450 BCE: The first documentation of a same-sex couple was recorded in Egypt when Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum were buried together in a tomb with paintings that depicted them embracing and kissing. 27 BCE: During the Roman Empire, same-sex marriage was common and largely accepted.
While it's reasonable to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no record of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . .
Harry Hay was a communist activist who co-founded the Mattachine Society, the first enduring gay rights organization, in 1950.
LGBTQ community introduces 73rd gender to the world named as 'Sigma Males'
Although France became the first country to decriminalize homosexual acts (1791) and inspired the first wave of decriminalization in Western Europe, Latin America and the Ottoman Empire, in the 19th century fewer than 25% of humans lived in a country which did not criminalize homosexual relations.
While scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation, they theorize that it is caused by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences. However, evidence is weak for hypotheses that the postnatal social environment impacts sexual orientation, especially for males.
Which Country Has the Largest LGBTQI+ Population? 2026
After years of coordinated international pressure by ILGA member groups in dozens of countries, on May 17, 1990 the World Health Organization delisted homosexuality as a mental disorder. This day, IDAHOTB is our global Pride day.
The rainbow flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) pride and social movements. Also known as the gay pride flag or LGBTQ pride flag. 1.