LGBTQ Rights: A Historical Overview and a Comparison of LGBT Laws in Maryland and Texas

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Pre 1800s – In 1648, the first trial for homosexuality in Canada, a gay military drummer is
provided death sentence by few priests who were local Sulpician. The military drummer is
stationed at Ville –Marie, New France. The matter got intervened by the Jesuits and the life
of the drummer got spared only on one condition that he would accept the position of the first
executioner of New France (Ciszek, 2017).
1800s- In 1897, the Scientific Humanitarian Committee is founded by Magnus Hirschfield on
May 14th. It was the first official organization designed for homosexual rights.
1920s- In the year 1924, a German immigrant Henry Gerber established the Society of
Human Rights in Chicago. It is the first documented organization for gay rights movement in
the United States. During the World War I, he was influenced to create this organization by
Germany’s ‘homosexual emancipation group’.
1940s- According to History.com Editors (2018), in 1948, Alfred Kinsey claimed in his book
‘Sexual Behavior’, that the orientation of male sexuality rests on a continuum somewhere
between the heterosexuality and homosexuality.
1970s- In 1978, Harvey Milk became the first gay man elected in a political office in
California. He was previously the supervisor of the San Francisco city.
1990s- In the year 1987, the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was
held by the Gay rights proponents. The event became marked as the first national coverage of
ACT UP, that sought to improve the lives of the victims of AIDS (Parco & Levy, 2016).