View source for LGBT Rights Organizing in the United States: ca. 1895-present

=1895=
Earl Lind writes in a memoir published in 1918 about The Cercle Hermaphroditos, a perhaps apocryphal group formed by androgynes (feminine-identified men) who met at Paresis Hall in New York City to "unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution". See: [[Earl Lind: The Cercle Hermaphroditos, c. 1895]] 


=1903, August=
The Reverend Carl (or Charles) Schlegel, a German-born immigrant to the U.S., talks about organizing Uranians (homosexual men) in the U.S. See: [[Pastor Schlegel Proposes to Organize Uranians in the U.S.: August 1903]]


=1924=
The Society for Human Rights is incorporated in Chicago by Henry Gerber and other men. See: [[Society for Human Rights]]


=1950=
Harry Hay forms the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles, California. See: [[Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society, 1948-1953]] and [[Federal Bureau of Investigation: Mattachine Society, May 21, 1953]]

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