“On the Unjust Treatment of Homosexuals” ...... 5 Excerpts from The Drag...... 20 Blue Discharge...... 27 Missions and Purposes of the Mattachine Society...... 35 Executive Order 10450—Security Requirements for Government Employment...... 58 Excerpt from Sexual Behavior in the Human Female ...... 87 Purpose of the Daughters of Bilitis. 92 Giovanni’s Room...... 111 One, Inc. v. Olesen...... 118 Illinois State Code 1961. 130

Coming Out

First Issue of The Los Angeles Advocate...... 149 Stonewall Riot Leaflet...... 155 “Come Out!”...... 161 Radicalesbians: “The Woman-Identified Woman” ...... 168 Statements by the American Psychological Association regarding Homosexuality ...... 179 “The Hope Speech”...... 186 The Five Demands of the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights...... 193

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Growing Ever Stronger

“1,112 and Counting” ��203 Bowers v. Hardwick ��215 ACT UP Founding Document and Speech ��226 Speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention ��237 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ��242 Dyke Manifesto ��256 Romer v. Evans ��265 Ellen DeGeneres Comes Out in Ellen ��277 Lawrence v. Texas ��283 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Majority Decision on Same-Sex Marriages ��292 Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus Mission Statement ��303 Proclamation of LGBT Pride Month ��313 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Act ��320 Unites States v. Windsor ��326 Boy Scouts of America—Statement regarding Membership Standards ��339 Excerpts from Obergefell v. Hodges ��346 Angela Davis: Women’s March on Washington ��355 Danica Roem Election Victory Speech ��360

Appendixes

Glossary ��369 Chronology ��375 Further Reading ��385 Web Resources ��395 Subject Index ��397

vi Supplemental Historical Documents

Volume 1

The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women, by Margaret Fuller (July 1843)...... 17 The Plot of The Drag, by Mae West (1927) ...... 26 The Intermediate Sex from Love’s Coming of Age by Edward Carpenter (1908)...... 41 The Rights of Gay People by the American Civil Liberties Union...... 47 “A Gay Manifesto,” by Carl Wittman (1970) . 51 Quotes from Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)...... 90 Introduction to The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir (1949) . 98 A Brief of Injustices from The Ladder, 1965 Vol. 10 No. 02 (1965)...... 107 ONE’s Articles of Incorporation (1953) ...... 127 President Obama Declares Stonewall Area a National Monument (2016). 160 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Sexual Deviation (1952) . 183 “Homosexuality as a Clinical Entity Does Not Exist” (1957). 183 “Gender Identity Disorder,” as Defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (1994) . 184 Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders, by Harry Benjamin, International Gender Dysphoria Association (2001)...... 185 California Proposition 6, The Briggs Initiative (1978)...... 192 Remembering the March, Twenty-Five Years Later (2004). 198 “The only thing I would change about my sexuality is how others treat me for it.” . 199

Volume 2

Proposition 64 (1986)...... 214 Bill of Rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students (1990)...... 236 Remarks Announcing the New Policy on Gays and Lesbians in the Military (1993) . 253 A Conduct-Based Policy for Gays and Lesbians in the Military...... 254 From President Obama’s Remarks on the Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (2010)...... 255 Order against Discrimination, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1992) Employees ��302 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Strategies and Directions (1973) ��312 National Association of Lesbian and Gay Community Centers, Mission Statement (1994)...... 319 Defense of Marriage Act (1996)...... 337 Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)...... 345 Loretta Lynch’s statement on North Carolina House Bill 2 (Bathroom Bill) (2016)...... 364

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