JANUARY FEBRUARY JANUARY FEBRUARY 25, 1982 No Name Calling Week Wisconsin First In schools across the U.S., students participate in an annual week Wisconsin became the first state to enact a gay and lesbian of educational activities to end name-calling and bullying in their civil rights bill, explicitly protecting gay and lesbian identified communities. people from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. NEW YEAR’S EVE, 1967 Black Cat Raid SOMETIME IN 1969 Police raided the Black Cat Tavern in the Silver Lake neighborhood Nation’s First LGBT Center of Los Angeles, CA during a New Year’s Eve party in 1967. At that In 1969 the founders of the Los Angeles Gay Community Services time, romantic relationships between men were deemed to be Center, known today as the Los Angeles LGBT Center, began illegal and police raids of LGBT bars were common. The Black Cat providing services to LGBT youth and adults. In 1974, after a 3-year raid was unique because it prompted one of the first documented legal battle against the IRS, this Center became the nation’s first protests for LGBT rights and on February 11th, about 200 – 600 openly-LGBT organization to be granted nonprofit, tax-exempt LGBT people from different racial and social backgrounds united to status. It is now the world’s largest LGBT organization. protest the discrimination of LGBT people. BLACK CAT RIOTS, FEBRUARY 11, 1967 PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education) led hundreds in protest when police raided the Black Cat Tavern in Los Angeles and brutally beat patrons and the bartender. Photographed by: Unknown MARCH APRIL MAY MARCH 17, 1912 APRIL MAY 17, 2004 Bayard Rustin’s Birthday Day of Silence Same-Sex Marriage Legal in Massachusetts Bayard Rustin was an openly gay civil rights activists and key All across the U.S. and the world, students choose to be The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court was the first in the advisor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was the architect of the completely silent in their schools to mirror the silencing effect of country to allow same-sex couples the right to marry. It wasn’t 1963 March on Washington. An adamant believer of Gandhi- bullying and harassment on LGBT students and those perceived until June 2015 that U.S. Supreme Court held that same-sex inspired nonviolent protest strategies, he helped bring such to be LGBT. couples had the fundamental right to marry nationwide. tactics to the Civil Rights Movement. Despite his influence, he was asked to step away from the movement because of state persecution of his sexual orientation. He is now celebrated as an APRIL 8, 1990 MAY 22 iconic figure in racial justice and LGBT movements. Ryan White Passes Away Harvey Milk Day Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13 following Harvey Milk was the first gay person to be elected to public office in MARCH 31 a blood transfusion. He and his family faced AIDS-related California. After multiple attempts, Milk was elected to serve on the discrimination within their hometown community and gained San Francisco Board of Supervisors and was responsible for passing International Transgender Day of Visibility national attention after fighting for his right to attend school ordinances to protect LGBT people. Harvey Milk was assassinated This is a day to spread awareness of the transgender community with other students. His story helped lead to the passage of the on November 27, 1978 by a former Supervisor that served on the by uplifting the achievements and accomplishments of federal Ryan White CARE Act, which today funds HIV programs board alongside him. Harvey Milk is now seen as one of the most transgender people worldwide. and initiatives across the country. famous openly out LGBT elected officials. LOS ANGELES GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER, EARLY 1970’S A group of Gay Community Services Center (GCSC) leaders pose on the front porch of the first GCSC headquarters at 1614 Wilshire Blvd. (building no longer exists). Photographed by: Unknown JUNE JULY AUGUST LGBT PRIDE MONTH JULY 14, 2011 AUGUST 12, 2013 FAIR Education Act School Success and Opportunity Act California becomes the first state to mandate the inclusion of California becomes the first state to affirmatively declare that JUNE 23, 1886 students have the right to compete on sports teams and use We’Wha Meets U.S. President Grover Cleveland historical LGBT people and people with disabilities in K-12 public instruction in history and social science classes. It’s important for facilities, such as showers and bathrooms, that respect their We’Wha, an Ihamana of the Zuni Tribe, traveled to Washington all students to learn about influential leaders, movements, and gender identity. Laws that include these protections are crucial to DC with anthropologist Matilda Coxe Stevenson as a cultural events from diverse backgrounds and experiences. respecting the rights and dignity of transgender students. ambassador of the Zuni Tribe. Ihamana is a Zuni term that recognizes two-spirit people. It is noted as the first time that a two-spirit individual met with a U.S. President, though it is likely JULY 26, 1990 AUGUST 1966 that many at the time considered We’Wha an American Indian Americans with Disabilities Act Compton’s Cafeteria Riot woman representative. The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibited discrimination in Three years before Stonewall, drag queens and trans women rose employment and public accommodations based on physical or up against police harassment at Compton’s Cafeteria, a popular mental abilities, including people living with HIV. 24-hour eatery in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. On JUNE 28, 1969 the riot’s second night, sex workers and street youth joined trans Stonewall Riots women to picket police brutality and economic marginalization. Members of the LGBT community rioted for several days protesting Following the uprising, San Francisco established a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, an LGBT bar in Greenwich groundbreaking transgender clinical and legal services. Village, New York. This event was a critical juncture in the early LGBT movement. In 2016, the location became the first national monument to LGBT rights, the Stonewall National Monument. LOS ANGELES PRIDE PARADE, 1981 Lesbianas de Latino America at the Los Angeles Christopher Street West pride parade. Photographed by: Unknown SEPTEMBER OCTOBER SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 LGBT HISTORY MONTH (U.S.) Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was a discriminatory law that banned OCTOBER 11 lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans from being public about National Coming Out Day their sexual orientation while serving in the armed forces. The ban against transgender people serving in the military was lifted in 2016. In July 2017, President Trump announced his intention to OCTOBER 12 –15, 1979 reinstate a transgender military service ban. First March on Washington for LG Rights About 79,000 demonstrators came together in Washington, DC SEPTEMBER 23 to advocate for the rights of lesbian and gay people in the U.S. It Celebrate Bisexuality Day was a critical moment for nationalizing and uniting the movement for LGBT rights. In 1999, Bi activists created this event, also called Bi Visibility Day. On this day in 2013, President Obama’s administration convened the first-ever White House meeting on bisexuality, with nearly OCTOBER 1956 30 bisexual advocates discussing their issues and concerns with federal officials. Daughters of Bilitis Issues The Ladder Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian civil and political rights organization, issued the first edition of their magazine The Ladder. SEPTEMBER The magazine would continue publishing until 1972. Ally Week MARCH ON WASHINGTON, 1993 Ally week is a time for straight and cisgender youth to learn and talk AUDRE LORDE, 1984 Crowd at Washington Monument during March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay about the best ways to accept, support, and protect LGBT peers. Portrait of Audre Lorde. Photographed by: Stephen Stewart and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Photographed by: Eric Evans OUT for Safe Schools™ is a national program of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, founded in the Los Angeles Unified School District. OUT for Safe Schools™ is made possible, in part, by a generous $100,000 challenge grant from the David & Linda Shaheen Foundation. NOVEMBER DECEMBER The philanthropic couple have been longtime supporters of the Center and fearless advocates for education and youth. NOVEMBER 11, 1950 DECEMBER 1 All photographs are provided courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Founding of the Mattachine Society World AIDS Day The Mattachine Society was founded in Los Angeles in 1950 and is This is a day to increase visibility of AIDS (Acquired Immune one of the earliest known gay rights organizations in the country. Deficiency Syndrome) and HIV (Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus). The day works to erase social stigma encountered by the estimated 34 PRESENTED BY: SPONSORED BY: NOVEMBER 19, 1982 million people worldwide whom live with AIDS. Lorde Signs with The Crossing Press DECEMBER 7, 1999 Audre Lorde, black lesbian poet and feminist writer, signed a contract with The Crossing Press to publish her monumental book El Modena GSA Denied Sister Outsider: Essay and Speeches. Sister Outsider is celebrated After the school board sought to block formation of a Gay Straight as a historic piece of literature exploring the intersections of race, Alliance at El Modena High School in Orange, CA, students successfully sexuality, gender, poverty, and politics. advocated to meet on campus under the Federal Equal Access Act. In doing so, they joined a movement across the US throughout the late NOVEMBER 20 1990s and early 2000s establishing the right of students to form GSAs. Transgender Day of Remembrance DECEMBER 15, 1973 This is an annual day to memorialize those who have been killed due to anti-transgender hate, prejudice, and violence.