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

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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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