Today in LGBTQ+ history
One day, one story. The milestones, the firsts, and the moments that got left out of the textbooks.
July
July 28
The Pronoun 1927
Illinois becomes the first US state to decriminalise homosexuality 1961
July 29
The NSA purges 26 employees as “sexual deviates” 1961
We Shall Overcome 1973
July 30
Bush calls for marriage to be codified as one man, one woman 2003
Fléau Social 1960
July 31
Sixteen People Picket the Pentagon 1965
August
August 1
Canada’s first Pride was a picnic on an island 1971
A president opens a human rights book fair by saying gay people have none 1995
A tribe legalised same-sex marriage sixteen months before its state 2011
Two states at midnight 2013
August 2
Sexuality No Longer a Security Risk 1995
The Eloquent Menace 1924
Two Hands 1984
Paper Bags 1987
August 3
The Expired Warrant 1982
The Bulletproof Vest 2003
Forty-Three Rights 2009
Rose-Gold Gowns 2019
August 4
Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Women 1921
Findings of Fact 2010
Five Cows and a Shetland Pony 1983
August 5
A Beer Bottle in Each Hand 1961
Fifteen Minutes In 1969
In Extremis 2013
August 6
In Public or Private 1885
Company G 1862
Fifty to Thirty-Eight 1994
August 7
The Avalot de la Seu 1519
Four Hundred and Sixty-Three 1994
What Margie Hunter Did 1995
August 8
The Girlfriend 1924
Signed R 1922
Poster Boy 1983
August 9
The Word 1986
The Abominable Act 1858
A Song for You 1963
August 24
Pay It No Mind 1945
August 25
The Letter 1918
August 26
The Bedrooms of the Nation 1969
Christopher and His Kind 1904