Gay Civil Rights

• What was the society for human rights?

  It was the first gay rights movement starting in 1924 with a german immigrant called Henry Gerber - it was forced to disband in 1925 but not before publishing a few issues of America's first gay newsletter
• Friendship and Freedom newsletter

  First gay interest newsletter in America
• Mattachine Society

  Society founded in Los Angeles in 1951 that advocated gay rights
• Stonewall Riots

  - New York city - Triggered activist protests among gays and lesbians - police raided gay bar - people fought back - became symbol of oppression of gays, began the gay pride movement
• When were the Stonewall Riots?

  June 1969
• Why couldn't gay women and men be served in bars in New York during the 1960s?

  Due to liquor laws that considered the gathering of homosexuals to be 'disorderly
• When were the sip-ins of the Mattachine Society?

  Sit ins in 1966 that took place in bars in New York - they visited taverns, declared themselves as gay and waited to be denied service so they could sue. Due to publicity, the anti-gay liquor laws were quickly reversed
• When was gay marriage legalized in the US?

  June 2015