Johnson, Dick Leitsch, Seymore Pine and Craig Rodwell.ġ970 The first gay pride marches were held in multiple cities across the United States on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, including San Francisco and Los Angeles / West Hollywood.ġ973 The American Psychiatric Association, after considerable advocacy by Frank Kameny and members of the Mattachine Society, changed the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. Key people at the riots who went on to tell their stories were: Sylvia Rivera, Martha P. The Stonewall Riots became a pivotal, defining moment for gay rights. Some level of rioting continued over the next six nights, which closed the Stonewall Inn.
In response to an unprovoked police raid on an early Saturday morning, over 400 people, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight people protested their treatment and pushed the police away from the area. One of the outgrowths was the establishment of the National Transsexual Counseling Unit (NTCU) in support of transgender people.ġ969 The Stonewall Riots, New York City. The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in Greenwich Village in New York City. After several days, the protests stopped.
Transgender and drag queens in San Francisco reacted to ongoing harassment by the police force. 1967: Sexual Freedom League formed in San Francisco in support of bisexual people.ġ955 The term gay was used throughout Europe earlier, but this is the year most agree that gay came to mean same-sex relationships between men.ġ965 John Oliven, in his book, Sexual Hygiene and Pathology, used the term transgender to mean a person who identifies with a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth.ġ966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, San Francisco. 1732 The term lesbian first used by William King in his book, The Toast, published in England which meant women who loved women.ġ869 Hungarian journalist Karl-Maria Kertheny first used the term homosexual.ġ894 The pamphlet, “Psychopathia Sexualis” was translated from German and one of the first times the term bisexual is used.