June 28, 1969, the day of the Stonewall Riots.
Attend a gay rights protest and start meeting some people. Just remember not all protest groups are the same or stand for the same issues, so if at first the group does not seem right to you, try again.
Jared Banzoff
Civil Rights movement
The kind of protest that was used in 1960 in North Carolina was the civil rights.
Gay rights first became public in 1969. But it wasn't until the 2000's that gay people started demanding full equal rights.
Just like how other people protest.
the civil rights
gay rights are positive rights.
Protest protest protest. Freedom of speech makes noise.
In 1924, when the Society for Human Rights in Chicago became the country's earliest known gay rights organization.
You don't get rights for being gay. In fact, depending on where you live, you lose rights for being gay.
There has not been an openly gay president for the United States of America. President Obama is the first president to openly support gay rights, but he is not gay himself.