Timeline of LGBTQ history in the United States

This is a timeline of notable events in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community in the United States.

Richard Grenell The First Gay Man to work The White House or to have a Cabinet Position in The White House[265]

The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village , Manhattan , site of the June 28, 1969 Stonewall riots , the cradle of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. ^{[

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Walt Whitman circa 1860.

Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn , who started a witch hunt against LGBT federal employees during the Lavender scare .

Conmemorative plaque in honor of the Stonewall riots .

Jack Baker and Michael McConnell (r), 1970

Harvey Milk in June 1978.

Gerry Studds , first openly LGBT person to serve in the US Congress.

First same-sex wedding in San Francisco, California (2008).

President Barack Obama during the enactment ceremony of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act .

Edith Windsor , who sued the federal government in United States v. Windsor .

Tammy Baldwin , first openly LGBT person elected to the US Senate.

Crowds outside the Supreme Court celebrating the verdict of Obergefell v. Hodges , on June 26, 2015.