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Westfield Pride Westfield Pride is a non profit based in Westfield, IN focused on supporting a mission of equity for all residents.

November 8, 1977Harvey Milk wins a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and is responsible for introducing a g...
10/15/2026

November 8, 1977
Harvey Milk wins a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and is responsible for introducing a gay rights ordinance protecting g**s and le****ns from being fired from their jobs. Milk also leads a successful campaign against Proposition 6, an initiative forbidding homos*xual teachers.

A year later, on November 27, 1978, former city supervisor Dan White assassinates Milk.

October 14, 1979An estimated 75,000 people participate in the National March on Washington for Le***an and Gay Rights. L...
10/14/2026

October 14, 1979
An estimated 75,000 people participate in the National March on Washington for Le***an and Gay Rights. LGBT people and straight allies demand equal civil rights and urge for the passage of protective civil rights legislature.

July 3, 1981The New York Times prints the first story of a rare pneumonia and skin cancer found in 41 gay men in New Yor...
10/13/2026

July 3, 1981
The New York Times prints the first story of a rare pneumonia and skin cancer found in 41 gay men in New York and California. The CDC initially refers to the disease as GRID, Gay Related Immune Deficiency Disorder.

When the symptoms are found outside the gay community, Bruce Voeller, biologist and founder of the National Gay Task Force, successfully lobbies to change the name of the disease to AIDS.

January, 1974Kathy Kozachenko becomes the first openly gay American elected to public office when she wins a seat on the...
10/12/2026

January, 1974
Kathy Kozachenko becomes the first openly gay American elected to public office when she wins a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan City Council.

June 28, 1970Christopher St. Liberation Day commemorates the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Following the ...
10/11/2026

June 28, 1970
Christopher St. Liberation Day commemorates the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Following the event, thousands of members of the LGBT community march through New York into Central Park, in what will be considered America's first gay pride parade.

In the coming decades, the annual gay pride parade will spread to dozens of countries around the world.

April 21, 1966Members of the Mattachine Society stage a "sip-in" at the Julius Bar in Greenwich Village, where the New Y...
10/11/2026

April 21, 1966
Members of the Mattachine Society stage a "sip-in" at the Julius Bar in Greenwich Village, where the New York Liquor Authority prohibits serving gay patrons in bars on the basis that homos*xuals are "disorderly." Society president Dick Leitsch and other members announce their homos*xuality and are immediately refused service.

Following the sip-in, the Mattachine Society will sue the New York Liquor Authority. Although no laws are overturned, the New York City Commission on Human Rights declares that homos*xuals have the right to be served.

July 4, 1965At Independence Hall in Philadelphia, picketers begin staging the first Reminder Day to call public attentio...
10/09/2026

July 4, 1965
At Independence Hall in Philadelphia, picketers begin staging the first Reminder Day to call public attention to the lack of civil rights for LGBT people. The gatherings will continue annually for five years.

One month after June 24, 2011After 23 years together, Phyllis Siegel and Connie Kopelov, became the first legal married ...
10/09/2026

One month after June 24, 2011
After 23 years together, Phyllis Siegel and Connie Kopelov, became the first legal married same s*x couple in NY. They met through an organization called SAGE for LGBTQ+ elders in NYC. At 9:02 am on July 24, 2011 they were pronounced married ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

They couple served as grand Marshalls in the NYC Pride March in 2012

Connie (a Kokomo, IN native) passed away in May of 2016 married to the love of her life

Canine Contingents at Pride: Dogs wearing rainbow bandanas and custom outfits have been staples of marches for decades, ...
10/07/2026

Canine Contingents at Pride:
Dogs wearing rainbow bandanas and custom outfits have been staples of marches for decades, leading to organized community events like Denver's historic "Dogs in Drag" pet parade established in the early 2000s.

August 30, 1956American psychologist Evelyn Ho**er shares her paper "The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homos*xual" at the...
10/06/2026

August 30, 1956
American psychologist Evelyn Ho**er shares her paper "The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homos*xual" at the American Psychological Association Convention in Chicago. After administering psychological tests, such as the Rorschach, to groups of homos*xual and heteros*xual males, Ho**er's research concludes homos*xuality is not a clinical entity and that heteros*xuals and homos*xuals do not differ significantly. Ho**er's experiment becomes very influential, changing clinical perceptions of homos*xuality.

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