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"Dr. Kameny, LGBT activist and co-founder of the Mattachine Society, helped to overturn sodomy laws in the 1960s and eliminate homosexuality as a mental illness from the DSM."

"Beginning in 1965, LGBT groups would picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to inform and remind the American people that LGBT people did not enjoy basic civil rights protections."

"October 14, 1979 - The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights takes place. It draws an estimated 75,000 to 125,000 individuals marching for LGBT rights."

"Pride month has only been acknowledged by 2 US Presidents. Bill Clinton + Barack Obama."

"Harry Hay lived in a house adjacent to the stairs when he founded the Mattachine society in 1950, one of the first gay rights organizations in the U.S."

"Two years before Stonewall, The Black Cat was raided by police. Two patrons were so enraged they began The Advocate, a publication for the gay population of LA and the largest LGBT magazine."