In 1971, gay rights activist Frank Kameny worked with the Gay Liberation Front collective to demonstrate against the APA's convention.

Chapman was a vocal spokesman for LGBT rights, and in 1972 he lent his support to the fledgling newspaper Gay News, which publicly acknowledged his financial and editorial support by listing him as one of its " special friends ".

Gay rights demonstration in New York City, 1976.

There is no one organization that represents all LGBT people and their interests, although there are two organizations that are inclusive of many of the LGBT community issues: InterPride by coordinating and networking gay pride events worldwide, and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( IGLHRC ), which addresses human rights violations against LGBT and HIV-positive people and works with the United Nations.

From the anarchistic Gay Liberation Movement of the early 1970s arose a more reformist and single-issue " Gay Rights Movement ", which portrayed gays and lesbians as a minority group and used the language of civil rights — in many respects continuing the work of the homophile period.

Gay and lesbian rights advocates argued that one ’ s sexual orientation does not reflect on one ’ s gender ; that is, “ you can be a man and desire a man ... without any implications for your gender identity as a man ,” and the same is true if you are a woman.

Ayuquelén worked with the International Lesbian Information Service, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, and the Chilean gay rights group Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual ( Movement to Integrate and Liberate Homosexuals ) to remove the sodomy law still in force in Chile.

* The lambda was selected as a symbol by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970, and declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1974.

* 1996 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

* 1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.

Gay activists argued that the study would be used by conservatives to undermine gay rights.

* Gay rights became more widely accepted in the Western world.

* May 20 – Gay rights – Romer v. Evans: The Supreme Court of the United States rules against a law that prevents any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals.

* December 15 – Gay rights: The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II.

" Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell called for any damages paid out from the libel case to be donated to gay charities, claiming Williams ' legal actions had created the impression that it is " bad to be gay.

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3, 196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 ( or about 0. 7 cases per 100, 000 population per annum ).

Gay rights advocates have started the group Stop Murder Music to combat the promotion of hate and violence by artists.

" Back in December of 1974, the lambda was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.

" Gay consumers can be very loyal to specific brands, wishing to support companies that support the gay community and also provide equal rights for LGBT workers.

Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell claimed to have met Crisp in 1974 and alleged that he was not sympathetic to the Gay Liberation movement of the time.

" In 1988, in response to a campaign against lesbians at the Marine's Parris Island Depot, activists launched the Gay and Lesbian Military Freedom Project ( MFP ) to advocate for an end to the exclusion of gays and lesbians from the armed forces.

The new social movements of the sixties, such as the Black Power and anti-Vietnam war movements in the U. S, the May 1968 insurrection in France, and Women's Liberation throughout the Western world, inspired some LGBT activists to become more radical, and the Gay Liberation Movement emerged towards the end of the decade.

Within six months of the Stonewall riots, activists started a city-wide newspaper called Gay ; they considered it necessary because the most liberal publication in the city — The Village Voice — refused to print the word " gay " in GLF advertisements seeking new members and volunteers.

Gay activists and their supporters were unhappy with the way in which he targeted gay sex and the risk of infection through anal sexual intercourse as primary vectors of the disease, but Koop was unapologetic claiming such activities entail risks several orders of magnitude greater than other means of transmission.

As early as the mid-eighties, a group of gay rights activists, headed by Henk Krol – the editor-in-chief of the Gay Krant – asked the government to allow same sex couples to marry.

Original UK Gay Liberation Front activists, including Bette Bourne ( on the left ), at LSE 40th anniversary celebration, Tatchell is fourth from the left.

* London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the Gay Liberation Front.

Gay rights activists asked New York State Governor Mario Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to the case, citing the fact that Staten Island District Attorney William Murphy had been the only one of the city's five district attorneys to go on record as opposing the city's anti-gay-discrimination law when it was passed in 1986 ; and that also, in that same year, Murphy had prosecuted a carjacking case involving Taylor, Sarlo and two others that resulted in Taylor, then 16 years old, being adjudicated a juvenile offender when he could have been tried as an adult, and Sarlo receiving the minimum sentence — 1½ to 4½ years — then possible on the charges under which he had been indicted.

Gay activists accuse him of homophobia and sent their appeals to the European Court of Human Rights, complaining the breach of Freedom of Assembly, which is granted in the European Convention on Human Rights.

' Gay activists have sought to introduce a locally acceptable term for ' homosexual ' for two decades, without success.

A close reading of the debates within SiGNeL ( the Singapore Gay News List ) and the local mass media reveals ideological struggles — and, in particular, gay activists ’ role in these struggles — surrounding a basic contradiction between Singapore's exclusionary laws and practices, and official state rhetoric about active citizenship, social diversity, and gradual liberalization.

Jürgen Lemke ( often spelt " Jurgen Lemke " in the English-speaking world ) is considered one of the most prominent East German gay rights activists and has published a book on the subject ( Gay Voices from East Germany, English edition published in 1991 ).

When activists founded the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) in the wake of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969, Jay, openly lesbian, was an early member, and became an active participant, balancing attendance at meetings with working and attending graduate school at New York University, majoring in comparative literature.

The International Gay and Lesbian Archives interviews with notable individuals from the LGBT community includes interviews with many pioneers activists from Los Angeles and around the country.

As the burgeoning Gay Liberation movement took off and became more closely intertwined with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s, ONE Inc., Jim Kepner and a growing group of activists were poised to collect original materials from that critical time period.

I'm tired of that .’” Gay activists across the country attacked films like these, where the homosexual character is portrayed as a disgustingly erotic killer.

Gay activists Harry Hay and John Burnside — who were a couple from 1962 until Hay's death in 2002 — appeared on Pyne's show in 1967.

The Committee Against Investment in South Africa ( CAISA ) and numerous student groups including the Socialist Action Committee, the Black Student Organization and the Gay Students group joined together and succeeded in pressing for the first partial divestment of a U. S. university.

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U. S. A. Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

U. S. forces then recaptured Guam beginning July 21 and invaded Tinian ( see Battle of Tinian ) on July 24, which provided the take off point for the Enola Gay, the plane dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima a year later.

They're Tight " (" Out Tonight "), " Season of Hype " (" Seasons of Love "), " Too Gay 4 U ( Too Het ' ro 4 Me )" (" Today 4 U "), " Pretty Voices Singing " (" Christmas Bells ") and " This Ain't Boheme " (" La Vie Boheme ").

Christopher Street Liberation Day on June 28, 1970 marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with an assembly on Christopher Street and the first Gay Pride march in U. S. history, covering the 51 blocks to Central Park.

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U. S. A. Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

The day before Patton was scheduled to leave Europe for a permanent trip back to the U. S., he and his chief of staff, Major General Hobart R. " Hap " Gay, were on a day trip to hunt pheasants in the country outside Mannheim, Germany.

* U. S. Latinos and Gay Pride

Kennedy's mother, former U. S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, maintained a home in Aquinnah ( formerly " Gay Head ") until her death in 1994.

Ebenezer Gay, a renowned Congregational minister ; U. S. Postmaster General Gideon Granger ; real estate speculator Oliver Phelps, once the largest landowner in America ; composer Timothy Swan ; architect Henry A. Sykes ; sculptor Olin Levi Warner ; Seth Pease, surveyor of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio, most of which were controlled by Suffield financiers and speculators ; and Thaddeus Leavitt, inventor of an early cotton gin, merchant and patentee of the Western Reserve lands.

The City College of San Francisco claims to be the " First Queer Studies Department in the U. S .," with English instructor Dan Allen having developed one of the first gay literature courses in the country in Fall 1972, and the college establishing what it calls " the first Gay and Lesbian Studies Department in the United States " in 1989.

She was a co-sponsor of the Equal Employment Non-Discrimination Act and a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Equality Caucus in the U. S. House led by U. S. Representative Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts.

In his article " Too Gay for the U. S. A .", editor Andrew Webster used the history of Birdo in the lead-in to his article, commenting on how Nintendo tried to hide Birdo's gender confusion, and how " He's just one of a long line of Japanese videogame characters forced to hide their true sexual identity ".

Since working with Terence Fixmer, he has lent his unique vocals to collaborations with Motor, Kloq, Warren Suicide, a duet with Sarah " Client B " Blackwood on Client's " Suicide Sister ", and Die Krupps on another reworking of “ Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn .” Homotronic's ironic " U Look Like a Gay " also features an uncredited performance from McCarthy.

Gay had been Chief of Staff of Third U. S. Army from February 1944 to October 1945, and then Chief of Staff of Fifteenth Army.

Gay bathhouse in the U. S.

* 14 — The U. S. gay rights activist group Gay Activists Alliance protest in front of the Suffolk County, New York, police headquarters after two members were arrested for sodomy.

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U. S. A .. New York, Harper Colophon Books.

* May 19 – U. S. Army Major Harold M. Clark Jr. and Sergeant Robert P. Gay make the first interisland flight in Hawaii, flying from Fort Kamehameha on Oahu to Maui.