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4 days ago · LGBT history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality of ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender peoples and cultures around the world.
3 days ago · This is a timeline of notable events in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in the United States. 19th century [ edit ] Walt Whitman circa 1860.
2 days ago · Learn about the LGBTQ community, a group of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer and face discrimination and oppression. Explore the history, flag, and activism of the LGBTQ movement and its allies.
5 days ago · Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advocates equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender persons, and queer persons—and calls for an end to discrimination against LGBTQ persons in employment, credit, housing, public accommodations, and other areas of life.
2 days ago · History of lesbianism. Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, Two women. Italian Renaissance engraving. Statue of two ancient Egyptian women, Idet and Ruiu, depicted in a form typical of married couples, Museo Egizio. [1] Lesbianism is the sexual and romantic desire between women.
5 days ago · Stonewall riots, series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. As the riots progressed, an international gay rights movement was born.
4 days ago · A research guide to primary and secondary sources for LGBTQ history. 1995 comic courtesy of LGBT Studies database, Gay Sunshine courtesy of Archives of Human Sexuality & Identity & TransSisters courtesy of Digital Transgender Archive.
