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Last Updated: Aug 28, 2009 |
In honor of the 40th anniversary of New York’Äôs Stonewall Riots, OutQ News examines the strides and setbacks of the last 40 years of gay rights movement
Vignettes commemorate significant events including first gay pride march, passage of ’ÄúDon’Äôt Ask, Don’Äôt Tell,’Äù discovery of HIV, and Ellen comes out
NEW YORK ’Äì June 24, 2009 ’Äì SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced that in honor of the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, largely recognized as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, it will broadcast Stonewall 40 Minutes ’Äì a series of one-minute vignettes spotlighting significant events in the Gay Rights Movements over the past 40 years on OutQ, the nation’Äôs first and only radio channel for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Stonewall 40 Minutes will air beginning June 28 and continue through mid July exclusively on OutQ, SIRIUS channel 109 and XM channel 98. The special series is produced and hosted by OutQ News, the channel’Äôs dedicated news team. OutQ News delivers hourly updates and insightful daily coverage of all the news affecting the LGBT community.
Stonewall 40 Minutes will document both the strides and setbacks that occurred in the LGBT community from 1969-2009. Each piece is a testament to progress achieved over the past 40 years, while simultaneously offering a reminder of the steps needed to fully realize true equality. Featured historical moments include the first gay pride marches in New York and LA in 1970; the 1978 assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly-gay elected official in a major city; Bowers v. Hardwick ’Äì the 1986 Supreme Court decision that ruled that it was legal for states to ban gay sex; and the 2005 release of the movie Brokeback Mountain.
Stonewall 40 Minutes will be posted daily and OutQ’Äôs hourly newscasts can be heard on-demand at www.sirius.com/outq.
The events and advances commemorated in Stonewall 40 Minutes:
1969 Stonewall ’Äì the moment that kicked off the modern gay rights movement. On June 28, 1969 a group of gays and lesbians conducted a series of violent demonstrations against a police raid at The Stonewall Inn in New York City’Äôs Greenwich Village
1970 First gay pride marches in New York and LA, the first huge public gatherings for gay rights, precursor to today’Äôs pride parades
1972 One magazine and The Ladder (Daughters of Bilitis) end publishing, publications were from the previous gay movement, this was the true ’Äòchanging of the guard’Äô moment
1973 American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from disorder list ’Äì gays now no longer considered ’Äúmentally ill’Äù
1973 National Gay Task Force founded 1975: Civil Service Commission eliminates gay employment ban for government jobs ’Äì a huge step toward ending discrimination in employment
1975 TIME puts Leonard Matlovich on its cover ’Äì the first US soldier to come out publicly as gay
1977 Dade County FL Passes human rights ordinance, citizens repeal it ’Äì first high-profile instance of rights being given to gay community, then taken away by voters. (The first ’ÄúProp 8’Äù)
1978 Harvey Milk assassinated ’Äì the first out-gay elected to office
1978 Rainbow Flag created ’Äì the creation of the image most associated with the gay rights movement
1980 Human Rights Campaign founded (as HRCF) ’Äì the gay response to the ’Äú Moral Majority’Äù movement, first foray into politics
1981 Billie Jean King outed, Martina Navratilova comes out ’Äì two of the biggest stars ever in women’Äôs sports, revealed to be gay within months of each other
1984 Discovery of HIV- scientists finally discovered the cause of AIDS, search for a cure began
1985 Rock Hudson dies ’Äì the first big star to die of AIDS, puts a face on the crisis.
1986 Bowers v. Hardwick ’Äì the Supreme Court ruled that it was legal for states to ban gay sex
1987 Barney Frank comes out ’Äì first US political figure to voluntarily come out of the closet.
1987 First major ACT UP Protest, 17 arrested ’Äì Brought ACT UP to national attention as a major organization
1987 2nd March on Washington ’Äì drew 500,000 people to DC to support gay rights
1993 Murder of Brandon Teena ’Äì first high-profile murder of a transgender woman, subject of the film Boys Don’Äôt Cry
1993 Passage of Don’Äôt Ask, Don’Äôt Tell ’Äì banned anyone in the military from being openly gay
1995 Introduction of 1st Protease Inhibitor ’Äì eliminated AIDS as death sentence
1996 Defense of Marriage Act passed ’Äì bans the federal government from recognizing gay marriage, allows states to refuse to recognize gay marriages from other states
1996 Supreme Court of the United States strikes down anti-gay CO Amendment 2 ’Äì This was the first major pro-gay ruling ever to come out of the Supreme Court. CO’Äôs Amendment 2 would have banned the state from ever enacting any pro-gay laws
1997 Ellen comes out - Ellen DeGeneres becomes a household name by coming out as a lesbian
1997 South Africa first country to write pro-gay anti-discrimination law into constitution ’Äì Nowhere else had a nationwide anti-discrimination law at the time. The US still doesn’Äôt
1998 Death of Matthew Shepard ’Äì brought attention to hate crimes against gays and lesbians
1998 Hawaii and Alaska become first states to ban gay marriage in constitution ’Äìnow the number of states to constitutionally ban gay marriage is 29
2000 Vermont creates Civil Unions ’Äì the first time a state had ever legally recognized gay couples as being equal to straight married couples.
2000 Dale v. Boy Scouts ’Äì Supreme Court ruled that the boy scouts could continue to kick out gay scouts and leaders
2001 Netherlands first country in world with full marriage rights ’Äì Followed by Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, and Sweden
2002 Murder of Gwen Arujo ’Äì transgender woman killed by four men, one of whom employed ’Äúgay panic’Äù defense
2003 Lawrence v. Texas- Supreme Court reverses its own decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, says states cannot ban sodomy
2003 Gene Robinson elected Episcopal Bishop of NH ’Äì first-ever gay bishop, sparked massive controversy in Anglican Church
2003 SIRIUS XM Radio’Äôs OutQ launches ’Äì first-ever national gay broadcast media
2004 First gay couple married in the United States married in Massachusetts
2004 Jim McGreevey comes out ’Äì first gay governor, resigned due to the scandal that led to his outing
2005 Canada legalizes gay marriage
2005 Brokeback Mountain released ’Äì highest profile and most critically acclaimed gay-themed film ever
2008 California Marriage Legalized, then repealed ’Äì Proposition 8 Sparks national outcry
2009 Gay marriage legalized in NH, ME, IA, VT (and technically CT) ’Äì number of states with gay marriage has quintupled in the last 6 months
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