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LGBT Community Timeline

Homosexual and bisexual individuals began to be labeled with various tag words such as “molly” “fancy boy”, “queers”, or “fags”. Homosexuals have been labeled with these terms for a long time, including in the 21st century. Being labeled with these terms has caused a lot of hatred and bullying for the LGBT community. This bullying led to the many suicides of people in the LGBT community throughout time.

Pennsylvania becomes the first state to abolish the death penalty for male on male intercourse. Abolishing the death penalty promoted less hate for the LGBT community throughout time because in 2015, when a man proposed an act that approved of the death penalty as a punishment for homosexuality, many people thought it was absurd. They believed that the act promoted hatred and the LGBT community didn't deserve to get that hatred. This also led to 36 other states abolishing the death penalty for homosexuality in the 21st century.

The first recorded case of homosexuality was in Colonial America, Massachusetts. Five "beastly Sodomitical boys" were discovered on a ship bound from England to Plymouth. They were not prosecuted in Plymouth, but sent back "to be punished in Old England as the crime deserved." The penalty for sodomy in England at this time was death. This case caused the death penalty to be served as a punishment for homosexuality in future times. For example, in 1984, a law was created where Muslim men engaging in homosexual sex can be stoned to death in Mauritania. However, as time progressed, the death penalty for homosexuality was abolished in certain places.

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) ended its ban on gay adult leaders. However, the new policy did still allow church-sponsored Scout groups to ban gay adults for religious reasons. Ending the ban on gay adult leaders helped the LGBT community gain more support because of the fact that people are more accepting of them. This shows how far the LGBT community has come over time because a long time ago, they weren't accepted by people, but now they are more accepted than before. They are being discriminated less than they were in the 1600s to 1900s. This also shows how the oppurtunities for the LGBT community are increasing.

The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Act gets repelled on September 20, allowing gay men and women to join the military openly again. Repealling this act helped eliminate some of the discrimination that the LGBT community faced before. This shows that people have become more accepting of the LGBT community because unlike the 1990s, when people allowed this discrimination against them, people are now taking a stand against the discrimination. There is less discrimination in the workplace for the LGBT community because they are now getting more opportunities, like access to better health care.

President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order to the Department of Health and Human Services to draft new rules for all hospitals accepting Medicare or Medicaid funds. They would require facilities to grant visitation and medical decision-making rights to gay and lesbian partners. The Executive Order promoted equality for the LGBT community because this allowed them to get the same medical oppurtunities as everyone else. It also led to the formation of non-profit organizations that we have today, like GLMA, who are fighting to end homophobia in medical facilities. This also abolished some of the discrimination the LGBT community faces by letting them have more opportunities for things.

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An army of male lovers formed an elite force in Thebes, called the Sacred Band of Thebes. It consisted of 150 male couples, fighting at different battles. Just like Alexander's launch of the Hellenistic Age promoted positivity for the LGBT community, the army did the same as well. The army was accepting of homosexuality, which led them to openly be gay. They inspired many other people to be open up about their sexual orientation in the future because of how the army was freely open about their sexual orientation to everyone else.

The first law against same-sex marriage was promulgated by the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans. This led to the negativity the LGBT community got about marriage in the future because the Christian emperors showcased same-sex marriage as a bad thing. In the 1600s, most people thought it was absurd for there to even be gay or lesbian couples and they were not accepting of marriage. However, this law gets repealed because in the 21st century, same-sex marriage became legal.

Alexander the Great launches the Hellenistic Age in which many people follow the Hellenistic culture that views homosexuality as a positive thing. By launching the Hellenistic Age, Alexander promoted positivity for the LGBT community because of how positively the Hellenistic culture viewed homosexuality. This event started the acceptance of the LGBT community throughout time and it helped lead to things, such as same sex marriage to be legal in the 21st century.

Vermont becomes the first state in the country to recognize civil unions between gay and lesbian couples. This later led to many other states approving civil unions between gay and lesbian couples gradually throughout time. This acceptance also built a foundation for gay marriage to become legal 10 years later because people were starting to be okay with gay and lesbian couples. Clearly, people were more becoming more accepting of the LGBT community than they were in the 1600s because they were accepting of gay and lesbian couples.

President Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act which expands the Federal Hate Crime Law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Clearly, discrimination against the LGBT community is taken more seriously now because acts are put into place to prevent discrimination, unlike in the past, when people discriminated the LGBT community a lot. People discriminate against the LGBT community less now because people don't view them as negatively now compared to the past.

Proposition 8, an amendment banning same-sex marriage in California, is passed into law. This inspires the NOH8 campaign, a social project featuring celebrities, who promote marriage equality. The campaign later lead to the acceptance of gay marriage throughout the United States. Before, in the 1600s, homosexuality was considered a heinous crime and even today it isn't completely accepted; but now, people are fighting for the civil rights that the LGBT community deserves unlike before, where people didn't stand up for them. Fighting against Proposition 8 led to same-sex marriage to be constitutional today.

Challenges and Accomplishments of the LGBT Community

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By APATAA (Samirah Alam, Jaida Smith, Tajairi Neuson, and Chance Hanzy)

LGBT Community Timeline

The Stonewall Riots begin after police raid a popular unlicensed gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, in New York City's Greenwich Village. The riots, which lasted for days, were triggered by police harassment of gays. The Stonewall Riots symbolized the intolerance people had about the harassment towards gay people. It inspired people to fight against gay oppression and it inspired other events in the future that promote equality for the LGBT community, like gay pride parades.

President Bill Clinton enacts "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," a policy preventing gays from openly serving in the military. This policy promoted discrimination against the LGBT community, which took away some of their opportunities and led to the discrimination they face in the workplace today. However, this act got repealed in the 21st century because people started to support the LGBT community and became more accepting of them.

In Los Angeles gay rights activist Harry Hay found America's first National Gay Rights Organization, called the Mattachine Society. They encompassed a vision of gay liberation. This organization became the foundation for the fight for gay rights because it inspired other organizations that exist today, like the Human Rights Campaign. This organization educated people about the rights of the LGBT community and encouraged people to fight today for the rights that the LGBT community don't have.

President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450, banning homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors. The Order lists homosexuals as security risks, along with alcoholics and neurotics. By banning homosexuals from certain jobs during this time, it encouraged more discrimination towards someone based on their sexual orientation. This Executive Order lead to the discrimination that the LGBT community faces in the workplace today, like being fired from a certain job for their sexual orientation.

On the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the nation's first gay pride parades are held in four cities – New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The gay pride parades caused a lot of attention to the public because people were marching to celebrate the culture of the community and to promote equality rights in the LGBT community. This helped the LGBT community gain more support because the parades helped them to educate the public on the LGBT community and persuaded them to support for the things that they were fighting for. The first pride parades were a nonviolent way for them to get what they wanted and it led to the many pride parades that we have today in California.

Homosexuality used to be listed as a mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association. However, in 1973, homosexuality was voted to be off of the list of mental illnesses and taken out of the DSM. Being voted off as a mental illness eliminated some of the hate that the LGBT community was getting because some people realized that there wasn't anything wrong with people that were homosexual. People realized that this was just their way of life. However, there were some people that disagreed with the fact that homosexuality isn't a mental illness, which led to the creation of conversion camps in the 21st century. Those camps are trying to "cure" homosexuality instead of accepting it.

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