MIT

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MIT

• MIT added sexual orientation to it's
  non-discrimination policy in 1981

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Out of the Past
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Michael Wigglesworth Day of Doom (1662)
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Sarah Orne Jewett Annie Adams Fields Boston
Marriage (1896)
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Henry Gerber Society for Human Rights (1924)
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Bayard Rustin (1940-1964)
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Barbara Gittings - Washington protest (1965)
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Kelli Peterson Gay Straight Alliance (1996)
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Out of the Past Timeline

• 1624 Va. colonist excuted for homosexual acts
• 1777 Thomas Jefferson reduces penalty for sodomy
  in Virginia
• 1860 Leaves of Grass
• 1882 Oscar Wilde -gt Walt Whitman NJ
• 1917 U.S. bans immigrations of persons with
  abnormal sexual instincts
• 1934 Hollywood Hayes Code bans film portrayal
  of perversion
• 1941 US War mobilization transforms lesbian and
  gay life
• 1942 US military guidelines exclude gay men
• 1948 Kinsey report
• 1955 Allen Ginsberg arrested after public reading
  of Howl
• 1960 First national lesbian convention
• 1965 Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny lead
  Washington protest
• 1967 Oscar Wilde memorial bookshop is first gay
  bookshop in US
• 1969 Stonewall Riots spark gay and lesbian
  liberation movement
• 1973 American Psychiatric Association revises
  stance on homosexuality
• 1978 Harvey Milk murdered
• 1979 First March on Washington for Lesbian and
  Gay rights
• 1986 Supreme Court upholds state sodomy laws
• 1987 ACT UP is founded in New York

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Literature

• Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
• Walt Whitman
• Emily Dickinson

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Oscar Wilde
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The Future