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British Land's LGBT History Timeline ( Pdf 4.1 MB ) 2003 1972 It becomes illegal 2016 1952 to discriminate The first Pride against lesbian, gay (June) is held in London, and bisexual people 2004 1 million people Alan Turing convicted of in the workplace ‘gross indecency’ which attracting approximately 1988 Facebook attend the Pride 2,000 participants launched march in London resulted in his being Margaret Thatcher, 2013 2017 chemically castrated introduces Section 28. as a social and later committing Restricting the 'promotion' networking 1969 of homosexuality and 'the site suicide (January) Neil Armstrong teaching..of the acceptability 1990 Alan Turing 50,000 gay and bisexual becomes first man of homosexuality as Take That is given a posthumous men granted to walk on the moon a pretended family release their royal pardon relationship’ first single posthumous pardons 1950 2017 1992 2014 2016 1969 2004 1985 (September) World Health The Marriage The ‘Message from the The Stonewall riots Back to Organisation declassifies (Same Sex Couples) Civil partnerships Unseen World’ public in America trigger the Future same-sex attraction Act 2013 officially 1967 legalised in the artwork at Paddington the modern LGBT released 1988 as a mental illness comes into force Central celebrates the United Kingdom liberation movement in life and work of the US and beyond Homosexuality Stonewall UK 2016 Alan Turing decriminalised in is formed in response 1982 2003 (June) England and Wales to Section 28 and other 2007 barriers to equality President Obama declares Terry Higgins dies First iPhone the Stonewall Inn Section 28 is released America’s first of AIDS and the UK’s first repealed in England, AIDS charity, national monument Wales and to LGBT rights Terrence Higgins Trust, Northern Ireland is formed %ULWLVK/DQG 0QUJPOo1SFGFSSFE LGBT HISTORY TIMELINE $GGLVRQ*URXS+BOVBSZ.
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