Gay Rights Timeline: Key Dates In The Fight For Equality
One month after the demonstrations at the Stonewall Inn, activist Marty Robinson speaks to a crowd before the first mass march in support of gay rights in New York on July 27, 1969.
Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer
NBC News
From its beginning with riots against police oppression of gays in New York City more than 40 years ago, the fight for gay rights continues today on new fronts: over marriage, therapies to “cure” homosexuals and one of the country's most popular institutions, the Boy Scouts of America.
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two landmark, same-sex-marriage cases.
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