LGBTQIA+ history

This article presents a partial timeline of LGBTQIA+ history by including excerpts of other articles on this wiki. Follow the "Main article" links to view the complete articles.
==Landmark eras, events, legislation, and court cases==
===Gross indecency===
===Paragraph 175===
===During the Nazi regime (1933-1945)===
====Gay men====
====Lesbians====
===Mid-20th century===
====Annual Reminder (1965–1969)====
====Compton's Cafeteria riot====
====Stonewall riots====
===Defense of Marriage Act===
===Lawrence v. Texas===
===Equality Act 2010===
===United States v. Windsor===
===Obergefell v. Hodges===
===Pulse tragedy===
The Pulse tragedy—also known as the Pulse shooting, Pulse massacre, Orlando nightclub shooting, etc.— was a mass shooting at the popular gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016. It was one of the club's weekly Latin Nights and the shooting began when more than 300 peopleThe exact number of patrons in Pulse at the time of the shooting has not been determined, but it was initially reported as 321. The club did not use a clicker counter to track occupancy as required. For more, see "9 Investigates whether Pulse was over capacity night of shooting". were still there.
The perpetrator of the massacre used a military-style rifle and a handgun to shoot 102 people, killing 49 victims and injuring 53 survivors with gunshots. After he held dozens of hostages in restrooms for three hours while claiming he had bomb vests to detonate, law enforcement officers breached a wall with their explosives and ramming devices, then shot and killed the perpetrator.
This attack is the deadliest act of violence against LGBTQIA+ people in the United States, surpassing the 1973 arson at UpStairs Lounge gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana that killed 32 people. It is also the deadliest terrorist attack within the U.S.A. since September 11, 2001, and it was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in the U.S.A. until the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. The murdered victims were predominantly both LatinxQLatinx, founded after the Pulse tragedy to advance and empower Central Florida's LGBTQ+ Latinx community, defines Latinx as "A gender-neutral term for individuals of Latin American descent and ethnic background." Many other Orlando-area organizations and individuals use Latinx for themselves or as a community term when referring to those affected by what happened at Pulse, rather than others such as Latinos, Latin Americans/latinoamericanos, or Hispanics/hispanos. Aside from QLatinx, examples of these groups include: Poder Latinx, One Orlando Alliance, Alianza for Progress, and the Contigo Fund. Although the term "Latinx" is not specific to LGBTQ+ people, most (but not all) of the Latinx people killed at Pulse were also LGBTQ+. (See the Hispanic Federation for an example of an organization using the term specifically for LGBTQ+ Latinx people.) While this article uses Latinx to encompass all people it could apply to, the usage does not mean they all self-identified with it. and LGBTQIA+ and ranged in age from 18 to 50 years old.
===Don't Say Gay===
==Ongoing and recurring events==
===HIV/AIDS pandemic===
===Pride===
===Wear It Purple Day===
==See also==
*Religious Discrimination Bill 2021
*Book ban
==Notes==
==References==