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Stonewall Riot
Violent protest against police raids of gay bars; widely regarded as beginning of LGBT civil rights movement in US -
Washington DC ordinance
First jurisdiction to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation in custody battles -
Sandy Schuster and Madeleine Isaacson
Nation's first lesbian couple to win custody battle -
First gay adoption
Couple in CA becomes first known gay couple to jointly adopt -
New Jersey adoption law
New Jersey becomes first state to explicitly allow gay couples to jointly adopt -
HB 7013
Florida repeals 1977 law banning gay adoption -
Obergefell v. Hodges
Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage