List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year

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This list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) firsts by year denotes pioneering LGBT endeavors organized chronologically. Openly LGBT people remain a demographic minority in most cultures.[clarification needed] In areas that historically are not known for having (or being friendly to) LGBT people who do not remain closeted, a "first" can make it easier for other openly LGBT persons to enter the field or for those who are closeted to come out. Openly LGBT people being visible in society affects societal attitudes toward homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgenderism on a wider level.[citation needed]

One commonly cited example is Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to political office in California, becoming the most visible LGBT politician in the world in the 1970s after decades of resistance to LGBT people by mainstream culture. Milk encouraged LGBT people to come out during his speeches. As a result of his work and assassination along with San Francisco mayor George Moscone, thousands of ordinary people did. In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States".[1]

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[edit] pre-1800s

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[edit] 1800s

  • The earliest published studies of lesbian activity were written in the early 19th century.

[edit] 1856

  • The first known reference to lesbians in Mormon history occurred in 1856, when a Salt Lake man noted in his diary that a Mormon woman was "trying to seduce a young girl.[2]"

[edit] 1897

[edit] 1912

  • The first explicit reference to lesbianism in a Mormon magazine occurred when the "Young Woman's Journal" paid tribute to "Sappho of Lesbos.[2]"

[edit] 1923

  • Lesbian Elsa Gidlow, born in England, published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States, titled "On A Grey Thread."

[edit] 1924

  • Society for Human Rights — First gay rights organization in the United States.[3] Published Friendship and Freedom, the first American gay publication.

[edit] 1936

  • Mona's 440 Club, the first lesbian bar in America, opened in San Francisco in 1936.[4][5] Mona's waitresses and female performers wore tuxedos and patrons dressed their roles.[5]

[edit] 1939

  • Frances V. Rummell, an educator and a teacher of French at Stephens College, published an autobiography under the title Diana: A Strange Autobiography; it was the first explicitly lesbian autobiography in which two women end up happily together.[6] This autobiography was published with a note saying, "The publishers wish it expressly understood that this is a true story, the first of its kind ever offered to the general reading public".[6]

[edit] 1947

  • Vice Versa — First lesbian-interest publication in the United States.

[edit] 1952

  • Christine Jorgensen (born in 1926 named George William Jorgensen, Jr.) a Euro-American became the first widely known person to have sex reassignment surgery.
  • "Spring Fire," the first lesbian paperback novel, and the beginning of the lesbian pulp fiction genre, was published in 1952 and sold 1.5 million copies.[7][8] It was written by lesbian Marijane Meaker under the false name Vin Packer,[7] and ended unhappily.

[edit] 1955

[edit] 1960

[edit] 1961

  • José Sarria — first openly gay person to run for public office in the United States (San Francisco city supervisor).[12]

[edit] 1964

  • The first photograph of lesbians on the cover of lesbian magazine The Ladder appeared in September 1964, showing two women from the back, on a beach looking out to sea.

[edit] 1966

  • The first lesbian to appear on the cover of lesbian magazine The Ladder with her face showing was Lilli Vincenz in January 1966.
  • In 1966 the first case to consider transsexualism in the US was heard, Mtr. of Anonymous v. Weiner, 50 Misc. 2d 380, 270 N.Y.S.2d 319 (1966). The case concerned a transsexual person from New York City who had undergone sex reassignment surgery and wanted a change of name and sex on their birth certificate. The New York City Health Department refused to grant the request, and the court ruled that the New York City and New Jersey Health Code only permitted a change of sex on the birth certificate if an error was made recording it at birth, so the Health Department acted correctly. The decision of the court in Weiner was affirmed in a case brought by Deborah Hartin, Mtr. of Hartin v. Dir. of Bur. of Recs., 75 Misc. 2d 229, 232, 347 N.Y.S.2d 515 (1973) and Anonymous v. Mellon, 91 Misc. 2d 375, 383, 398 N.Y.S.2d 99 (1977).

[edit] 1967

[edit] 1968

[edit] 1960s (year unknown)

  • In the late 1960s in New York, Mario Martino founded the Labyrinth Foundation Counseling Service, which was the first transgender community-based organization that specifically addressed the needs of female-to-male transsexuals.

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1970

  • The Greek letter lambda was selected as a symbol by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970.
  • The first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the U.S. was the Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, which opened in Minneapolis in 1970. It later became True Colors bookstore (with a labrys acting as the "T,") but has since closed.[15]
  • On June 28, 1970, the first gay and lesbian pride parade in the world was held in Los Angeles to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.[16] Today such parades are held annually throughout the world.[17]

[edit] 1971

[edit] 1972

  • John Hospers — first openly gay man to run for president of the United States.[19]
  • William Johnson became the first openly gay person to be ordained in a mainline Protestant denomination, the United Church of Christ.[20]
  • Nancy Wechsler became the first openly gay or lesbian person in political office in America; she was elected to the Ann Arbor City Council in 1972 as a member of the Human Rights Party and came out as a lesbian during her only term there.[21]
  • Camille Mitchell became the first open lesbian to be awarded custody of her children in a divorce case, although the judge restricted the arrangement by precluding Ms. Mitchell's lover from moving in with her and the children.[22]
  • Freda Smith became the first openly lesbian minister in the Metropolitan Community Church (she was also their first female minister).[23][24]
  • Madeline Davis became the first openly lesbian delegate elected to a major political convention when she was elected to the Democratic National Convention in Miami, Florida. She addressed the convention in support of the inclusion of a gay rights plank in the Democratic Party platform. In 1972 she also, along with Margaret Small, taught the first course on lesbianism in the United States (Lesbianism 101 at the University at Buffalo.) That year she also wrote and recorded "Stonewall Nation," the first gay pride anthem, which was produced on 45 rpm record by the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier.
  • Jobriath Boone became the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, Elektra Records.
  • Australian soap opera Number 96 features the first openly gay male character (played by Joe Hasham) in an on-going role on Australian television.[25]

[edit] 1973

  • Sally Miller Gearhart became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country.[26]

[edit] 1974

  • Kathy Kozachenko — first openly gay or lesbian candidate to win public office in the United States (won a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan, city council)
  • Elaine Noble became the first openly gay or lesbian candidate ever elected to a state-level office in America when she was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[27] She had come out as a lesbian during her campaign.[27]
  • Allan Spear - served almost thirty years in the Minnesota Senate, including nearly a decade as President of the Senate.
  • Gay activists in Boston chose the purple rhinoceros as a symbol of the gay movement after conducting a media campaign in 1974. They selected this animal because, although it is sometimes misunderstood, it is docile and intelligent – but when a rhinoceros is angered, it fights ferociously. Lavender was used because it was a widely recognized gay pride color; the heart was added to represent love and the "common humanity of all people."[citation needed]
  • In December 1974, the lambda was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.

[edit] 1975

  • Elaine Noble — first openly gay or lesbian candidate elected to a state legislature in the United States (Massachusetts commonwealth legislature)
  • Minneapolis became the first city in the United States to pass trans-inclusive civil rights protection legislation.[28]

[edit] 1976

  • In 1976 the first case in the United States which found that post-operative transsexuals could marry in their post-operative sex was decided. It was the New Jersey case M.T. v. J.T., 140 N.J. Super. 77, 355 A.2d 204, cert. denied 71 N.J. 345 (1976). Here the court expressly considered the English Corbett v. Corbett decision, but rejected its reasoning.

[edit] 1977

[edit] 1978

Harvey Milk in 1978. Milk was the first openly gay elected politician in California
  • Harvey Milk — first openly gay or lesbian candidate elected to political office in California; first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States
  • San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corp — world's first openly gay musical group[dubious – discuss]
  • Samois, the first lesbian S/M group in the United States, was founded.[34]
  • Robin Tyler became the first out lesbian on U.S. national television, appearing on a Showtime comedy special hosted by Phyllis Diller. The same year she released her comedy album, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Groom, the first comedy album by an out lesbian.[35]
  • Gilbert Baker raised the first Rainbow Flag at San Francisco Pride on June 25, 1978.

[edit] 1979

[edit] 1970s (year unknown)

  • Angela Douglas founded TAO (Transsexual/Transvestite Action Organization), which published the Moonshadow and Mirage newsletters. TAO moved to Miami in 1972, where it came to include several Puerto Rican and Cuban members, and soon grew into the first international transgender community organization.

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1981

  • Mary C. Morgan became the first openly gay or lesbian judge when she was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to the San Francisco Municipal Court.[36]
  • Ien Dales - first lesbian member of the cabinet of the Netherlands
  • Tennis player Billie Jean King became the first prominent professional athlete to come out as a lesbian, when her relationship with her secretary Marilyn Barnett became public in a May 1981 "palimony" lawsuit filed by Barnett.[37] Due to this she lost all of her endorsements.[38]

[edit] 1983

[edit] 1984

[edit] 1985

[edit] 1986

  • Becky Smith and Annie Afleck became the first openly lesbian couple in America granted legal, joint adoption of a child.[48]

[edit] 1987

[edit] 1988

[edit] 1989

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 1990

  • Justin Fashanu — first professional Football (Soccer) player ever to identify himself publicly as gay (Swedish footballer Anton Hysén recently [2011] became the second).

[edit] 1991

  • An episode of Fox's Roc (TV series) airing on October 20 ("Can't Help Loving That Man") depicted the first same-sex marriage on U.S. prime time television.
  • Dale McCormick became the first open lesbian elected to a state Senate (she was elected to the Maine Senate).[51]
  • Sherry Harris was elected to the City Council in Seattle, Washington, making her the first openly lesbian African-American elected official.[52]
  • The first lesbian kiss on television occurred; it was on L.A. Law between the fictional characters of C.J. Lamb (played by Amanda Donohoe) and Abby (Michele Greene).[53]
  • The first Southern Comfort Conference was held. The Southern Comfort Conference is a major[54] transgender conference that takes place annually in Atlanta, Georgia.[55][56] It is the largest,[56] most famous, and pre-eminent such conference in the United States.[57]

[edit] 1992

  • Althea Garrison was elected as the first transgender state legislator in America, and served one term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives; however, it was not publicly known she was transgender when she was elected.[58]
  • The first Dyke March (a march for lesbians and their straight female allies, planned by the Lesbian Avengers) was held in Washington, D.C., with 20,000 women marching.[59][60]
  • The Triangle Ball was held; it was the first inaugural ball in America to ever be held in honor of gays and lesbians.
  • Roberta Achtenberg became the first openly gay or lesbian person to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate when she was appointed to the position of Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity by President Bill Clinton.[61]

[edit] 1994

[edit] 1995

[edit] 1996

  • Michael Kirby — first openly gay judge of the High Court of Australia (appointed February 1996; named his male partner in his 1999 entry in "Who's Who in Australia")
  • Bob Brown — first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia (elected March, his term started July)
  • South Africa — first country to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution.
  • The first lesbian wedding on television occurred, held for fictional characters Carol (played by Jane Sibbett) and Susan (played by Jessica Hecht) on the TV show Friends.[64]

[edit] 1997

[edit] 1998

[edit] 1999

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 2000

  • The Transgender Pride flag, created by transgender woman Monica Helms, was first shown, at a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Civil unions were legalized in Vermont (the first state to do so) and Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson became the first couple in the United States to be civilly united.[74]

[edit] 2001

Pim Fortuyn

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2003

  • Ang Ladlad — the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party
  • David Cicilline — first openly gay mayor of a U.S. state capital (Providence, Rhode Island)
  • Gene Robinson — first openly gay person to be ordained bishop in a major Christian denomination
  • On 1 November 2003, Taiwan Pride, the first gay pride parade in the Chinese-speaking world, was held in Taipei, with over 1,000 people attending.[82] It has taken place annually since then, but still, many participants wear masks to hide their identity because homosexuality remains a social taboo in Taiwan. However, the 2010 parade attracted 30,000 attendees and increasing media and political attention, highlighting the growing rate of acceptance in Taiwan. Since 2010, there has also been a pride parade in Kaohsiung, which attracted over 2,000 people.[83]
  • In 2003 Reuben Zellman became the first openly transgender person accepted to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he was ordained in 2010.[84][85][86]

[edit] 2004

  • Bill Siksay — first openly gay Canadian elected to a first term as Member of Parliament
  • Felipe "Alejandra" González Pino — First transgender councilman in Chile (Lampa commune)[citation needed]
  • Oras Tynkkynen — first openly gay member of parliament in Finland. Initially appointed as a replacement for an MP who stepped down, was elected to his seat in 2007.
  • The first all-transgender performance of the Vagina Monologues was held. The monologues were read by eighteen notable transgender women, and a new monologue revolving around the experiences and struggles of transgender women was included.[87]
  • Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon became the first same-sex couple to be legally married in the United States,[88] when San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom allowed city hall to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.[89] However, all same-sex marriages done in 2004 in California were annulled.[90] After the California Supreme Court decision in 2008 that granted same-sex couples in California the right to marry, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon remarried, and were again the first same-sex couple in the state to marry.[91][92] Later in 2008 Prop 8 illegalized same-sex marriage in California,[93] but the marriages that occurred between the California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage and the approval of Prop 8 illegalizing it are still considered valid, including the marriage of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.[94] However, Del Martin died in 2008.[95]
  • Same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of Massachusetts, and Marcia Hams and Sue Shepard became the first same-sex couple to marry in Massachusetts,.[96][97]
  • Same-sex marriage was legalized in part of Oregon, as after researching the issue and getting two legal opinions, the commissioners decided Oregon's Constitution would not allow them to discriminate against same-sex couples. The Chairwoman of the Board of Commissioners ordered the clerk to begin issuing marriage licenses.[98] Mary Li of Portland and her partner, 42-year-old Becky Kennedy, became the first same-sex couple to marry in Oregon.[99] However, later that year, Oregon voters passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as involving one man and one woman.[100] The same-sex marriages from 2004 were ruled void by the Oregon Supreme Court.[101]

[edit] 2005

  • Bonnie Bleskachek became the first openly lesbian fire chief of a major metropolitan area in the United States (Minneapolis).
  • Liverpool Register Office became the UK's first to include a gay couple on the front cover of civil ceremony promotional material[102][103]
  • Transgender activist Pauline Park became the first openly transgender person chosen to be grand marshal of the New York City Pride March, the oldest and largest LGBT pride event in the United States.

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2007

  • Jenny Bailey — the first openly transgender mayor in the United Kingdom.[107]
  • Theresa Sparks — first openly transgender police commissioner (San Francisco).[108] In 2003 Theresa Sparks had been the first openly transgender woman ever named "Woman of the Year" by the California State Assembly.[109]
  • Jalda Rebling, a German woman born in Holland and ordained in America, became the first openly lesbian cantor ordained by the Jewish Renewal movement.
  • From 2007 to 2008 actress Candis Cayne played Carmelita Rainer, a transgender woman having an affair with married New York Attorney General Patrick Darling (played by William Baldwin), on the ABC prime time drama Dirty Sexy Money.[110][111][112] The role made Cayne the first openly transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character in prime time.[110][111][112]
  • Joy Ladin became the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution (Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University).[113][114]

[edit] 2008

Rachel Maddow in August 2008

[edit] 2009

  • Eva Brunne became the first lesbian bishop in the world and the first bishop of the Church of Sweden to be in a registered same-sex partnership.
  • Lesbian and Gay Band Association — first LGBT-represented contingent marching in a U.S. presidential inaugural parade. The parade on January 20 was in celebration of Barack Obama's incoming administration.
  • Jared Polis — first male U.S. congressperson to be openly gay when first elected to office
  • Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir — Prime Minister of Iceland, and the first openly homosexual head of government in modern times. (On an elected basis, in contrast to Per-Kristian Foss, who was briefly acting Prime Minister of Norway in 2002.)
  • Carol Ann Duffy — first openly lesbian Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
  • Alejandro Freyre and José María di Bello — first same-sex marriage in Latin America.[128]
  • Gareth Thomas — first openly gay professional rugby player still playing the game.[129]
  • Annise Parker was elected as the first openly gay or lesbian mayor of Houston, Texas.[130]
  • Diego Sanchez became the first openly transgender person to work on Capitol Hill; he was hired as a legislative assistant for Barney Frank.[131] Sanchez was also the first transgender person on the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) Platform Committee in 2008.[132][133]
  • Barbra “Babs” Siperstein was nominated and confirmed as an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee, becoming its first openly transgender member.[134]
  • Kitzen and Jeni Branting married in the Coquille Indian tribe's Coos Bay plankhouse, a 3-year-old meeting hall built in traditional Coquille style with cedar plank walls. They were the first same-sex couple to have their marriage recognized by the tribe, of which Kitzen was a member.[135][136]
  • Same-sex marriage was legalized in Iowa, and Shelley Wolfe and Melisa Keeton became the first lesbian couple (and the second same-sex couple) to marry in Iowa.[137][138]
  • Same-sex marriage was legalized in Vermont,[139] and Claire Williams and Cori Giroux became one of the first same-sex couples to marry in Vermont (others including them married the moment same-sex marriage was legalized).
  • Guido Westerwelle became the first openly gay foreign minister and vice chancellor of Germany.
  • All My Children featured daytime TV's first lesbian wedding.[140]
  • Simone Bell became the first African-American lesbian elected to serve in a U.S. state legislature.[141]

[edit] 2010s

[edit] 2010

[edit] 2011

[edit] 2012

  • Katie Ricks became the first open lesbian ordained by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)[172]
  • Air Force Col. Ginger Wallace became the first known out member of the U.S. military to have their same-sex partner participate in the pinning ceremony tradition that had been reserved for spouses and family members. Her partner of 10 years, Kathy Knopf, pinned colonel wings on Wallace days after the two attended President Obama's State of The Union address as a guest of the First Lady.[173]
  • Navy Chief Elny McKinney and Anacelly McKinney became the first known same-sex couple to marry on a U.S. military base. They were wed at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego.[174]
  • President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president officially in favor of same-sex marriage.
  • Barney Frank became the first sitting member of Congress to be married to a same-sex spouse.
  • Sally Ride's obituary reveals that she had been in a 27-year sexual relationship with Tam O’Shaughnessy making her the first known LGBT person to have served as an astronaut.
  • Liverpool was the first city in the world to officially mark IDAHO with a programme of free events.[175]
  • Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool, hosted the first UK civil partnership on religious premises.[176]
  • Liverpool Football Club became the first Premier League club to take a stand against homophobia and be officially represented at a UK 'Pride' event at Liverpool Pride.[177]
  • In 2012, at a ceremony in Arlington, Army Reserve officer Tammy Smith became the first openly gay, active duty general in American history. Smith was promoted to brigadier general at a private ceremony at the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.[178]
  • Kylar Broadus, founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition of Columbia, Missouri, spoke to the U.S. Senate in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.[179][180] His speech was the first-ever U.S. Senate testimony from an openly transgender witness.[180]
  • The D.C. Office of Human Rights created America’s first government-funded campaign to combat anti-transgender discrimination.[181]
  • Taiwan's first same-sex Buddhist wedding was held for Fish Huang and her partner You Ya-ting, with Buddhist master Shih Chao-hui presiding over the ritual.[182]
  • Berkeley, California became the first city in America to officially proclaim a day recognizing bisexuals.[183][184] The Berkeley City Council unanimously and without discussion declared Sept. 23 as Bisexual Pride and Bi Visibility Day.[183][184]
  • The first lesbian Super PAC, LPAC, was created to represent the interests of lesbians in the United States, and to campaign on LGBT and women's rights issues.[185][186][187][188]
  • Tammy Baldwin was elected as the first openly lesbian or gay U.S. Senator.[189]
  • Kyrsten Sinema was elected to the House of Representatives, becoming the first openly bisexual member of Congress in American history.[190][191] She represents Arizona's 9th Congressional district.[191]
  • Mary Gonzalez became the first state representative to come out as pansexual.[192]
  • Stacie Laughton became the first openly transgender person elected as a state legislator in United States history. She was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature.[193] In 1992 Althea Garrison had been elected as a state legislator, serving one term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, but it was not publicly known she was transgender when she was elected.[194]
  • San Francisco voted to become the first U.S. city to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries for uninsured transgender residents.[195]
  • Mark Pocan was elected in Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District, becoming the first openly gay candidate who will follow an openly gay member of the U.S. Congress (in this case Tammy Baldwin).[196]
  • Sean Patrick Maloney became the first openly gay candidate elected to represent New York in Congress.[197]
  • Mark Takano became the first openly gay person of color to win election to the U.S. House. He was elected to represent California’s 41st Congressional District.[196]
  • Josh Boschee was elected as North Dakota's first openly gay legislator.[198]
  • Stephen Skinner was elected as West Virginia's first openly gay state legislator.[199]
  • Jacob Candelaria was elected as New Mexico's first openly gay male state legislator.[200]
  • Brian Sims became Pennsylvania's first openly gay state legislator who was out when he was elected.[201]
  • After Brian Sims was elected but before he took office, Rep. Mike Fleck came out as gay, making him Pennsylvania's first openly gay state legislator.[202]
  • David Richardson was elected as Florida's first openly gay state legislator.[203]
  • Colorado Democrats elected Mark Ferrandino as the first openly gay House speaker in state history.[204]
  • Maine, Maryland, and Washington became the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote.[205] Maine was the very first state to do so, followed by Maryland.[206]
  • The first same-sex marriage at the U.S. Military Academy was held for a young lieutenant and her partner (Ellen Schick and Shannon Simpson) at the Old Cadet Chapel in West Point’s cemetery.[207][208]
  • The first same-sex marriage at the U.S. Military Academy's Cadet Chapel at West Point (not to be confused with the Old Cadet Chapel) was held for Brenda Sue Fulton and Penelope Dara Gnesin.[207][209] Fulton was a veteran and the communications director of an organization called Outserve, which represents actively serving gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender military personnel.[209]
  • The first same-sex couple became engaged in the White House (Ben Schock and Matthew Phelps).[210]
  • The Right Reverend Doctor Gary Paterson - August 2012 - Elected Moderator of the United Church of Canada, becoming the first openly gay leader of a major Christian Denomination.[211]
  • City Councilmember Marlene Pray joined the Doylestown, Pennsylvania council in 2012, though she resigned in 2013; she was the first openly bisexual office holder in Pennsylvania.[212][213]

[edit] 2013

  • Barack Obama mentioned the word "gay" and the issue of gay rights for the first time in a speech at the U.S. presidential swearing in; specifically, he did so in his inaugural address.[214]
  • Kathleen Wynne became the first openly LGBT premier of a Canadian province, namely Ontario, after defeating Sandra Pupatello in the third round of voting of the Ontario Liberal party's leadership race on January 26, 2013. Sworn in on February 11, 2013, she is the party's first openly LGBT leader and Ontario's first female premier.[citation needed]
  • Robbie Rogers announced he was gay on February 15, 2013, becoming the only male fully capped international association footballer to do so.
  • Jason Collins on April 29, 2013, became the first active male professional athlete in a major North American team sport to publicly come out as gay.
  • Rep. Mark Pocan's spouse Philip Frank became the first same-sex spouse of a federal lawmaker to officially receive a House Spouse ID.[215][216] In 2009, Marlon Reis, the spouse of Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), was issued a congressional spouse ID, but later card services told him that he had been given the designation accidentally.[216]
  • Autumn Sandeen, a U.S. veteran and transgender woman, received a letter from a Navy official stating, “Per your request the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) has been updated to show your gender as female effective April 12th, 2013.” Allyson Robinson of Outserve declared, "To our knowledge, this is the first time that the Department of Defense has recognized and affirmed a change of gender for anyone affiliated, in a uniformed capacity — in this case a military retiree." [217]
  • For the first time the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs decided to allow the same-sex spouse of a military veteran to be buried in a U.S. national cemetery. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki gave permission for retired Air Force officer Linda Campbell, 66, to bury the ashes of her same-sex spouse Nancy Lynchild at Williamette National Cemetery in Oregon.[218]
  • The first same-sex kiss ever on a Eurovision stage occurred at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest when Krista Siegfrids, who sang "Marry Me", ended her semi-final performance by kissing one of her female dancers.[219]
  • Dr. Saul Levin was named on May 15, 2013 as the new chief executive officer and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association, making him the first known openly gay person to head the APA.[220]
  • Ukraine had its first gay pride march, which was held in Kiev.[221]
  • Robbie Rogers joined the Los Angeles Galaxy, making him the first openly gay male athlete to compete in Major League Soccer.[222]
  • Rehana Kausar and Sobia Kamar, both from Pakistan, became the first Muslim lesbian couple to get married in a civil ceremony in the United Kingdom.[223]
  • Fallon Fox came out as transgender, thus becoming the first openly transgender athlete in MMA history.[224]
  • Jallen Messersmith of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., came out and is believed to be the first openly gay player in U.S. men's college basketball.[225]
  • Guy Erwin became the first openly gay bishop to be elected to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America; he was elected to the Southwest California Synod of the ELCA.[226]
  • France legalized same-sex marriage and adoption, and Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau became the first couple to have a legal same-sex marriage under the new law.[227]
  • Major General Patricia “Trish” Rose became the first openly lesbian two-star general in the U.S. Air Force, and the highest ranking openly gay officer in the entire U.S. military at the time. [228]
  • The Bi Writers Association, which promotes bisexual writers, books, and writing, announced the winners of its first Bisexual Book Awards. [229] An awards ceremony was held at the Nuyorican Poets Café. [230]
  • Kristin Beck, formerly Chris Beck, came out as the first openly transgendered retired Navy SEAL.[231]
  • The U.S. Senate confirmed Nitza Quiñones Alejandro to a federal judgeship, making her the first openly gay Latina to hold such a post. [232]
  • Cason Crane became the first openly gay man to summit Mount Everest. [233]

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[edit] References

  1. ↑ Smith, Raymond, Haider-Markel, Donald, eds., (2002). Gay and Lesbian Americans and Political Participation, ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-256-8, p. 204.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gay & Lesbian Mormons. Affirmation. Retrieved on 2010-11-30.
  3. ↑ Hogan and Hudson, p. 244
  4. ↑ Duberman, Martin; Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey (Editors) (1989). Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay & Lesbian Past. New York: Meridian. ISBN 0-452-01067-5. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 James R. Smith San Francisco's Lost Landmarks, Quill Driver Books, 2004 ISBN 1884995446 p. 84
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 History Detectives . Investigations – Diana. PBS. Retrieved on 2010-11-30.
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