LGBT Timeline // Trevor Turnbow

Timeline of Events

         This article is really just a time line of different milestones for LGBT rights, whether they be positive or negative. Some of note, 1952- homosexuality diagnosable as sociopathic personality disturbance, 1953- Eisenhower bans homosexuals from working for the government for security risks, 1969- Stonewall Inn Riots, 1973- Homosexuality removed from list of mental disorders, 1974- Elaine Noble first openly gay candidate elected to state legislature in Massachusetts, 1978-Harvey Milk is the first openly gay man elected to office in california, 1978-creation of the pride flag, etc. etc. etc.
        Reading this article was fascinating. I definitely was surprised by somethings, like how consensual gay sex was illegal in Texas until 2003 with the court case Lawrence V. Texas. It also makes me think about how U.S history, as a class, is taught. In the recent years it has become much better in the means of lying about the uglier parts of American History, and leaving out what we'd rather forget so as to paint us in a nicer light. It has done a good job at addressing the civil rights movements of the times, however the curriculum has failed continually to reference homosexuality at all, in the slightest, we kind of got some in the most recent project about the sixties, but that was added in. There are little to no mention of any homosexual leaders, trailblazers as far as I'm aware in American Pageant, and it's just a little frustrating that the state just kind of glosses over this entire community and everything they've fought for, and what they're still fighting for now.