Roberta Flack:
Ballad of the Sad
Young Men
National Coming out
TLC:
Day: National coming out Waterfalls
day was was founded on
October 11 th 1988, by Queer
Activist Robert Eichberg
and Jean O'Leary.
Queen:
Break Free
1969
During the 1960’s many
Social Activist Movements
were occurring (civil rights,
Chicano Movement, etc)
This is what gave stone wall
it’s momentum. This soft
melody beat, I included not
only because it’s a lyrical
masterpiece that came out
around the same time. But
because this song, reflects
the attitude and bitter
feelings that queer folk
could’ve experienced pre-
stonewall riot. Getting drunk
to numb the pain. Also
included NWA’s Fuck the
police, because of the
attitudes of many queers
towards the police during the
time
1973
In 1973 the American
Psychiatric
Association removed
homosexuality from
its list of psychiatric
disorders
And in 1977 the first
actively gay man
Harvey Milk was put
in a political office in
san fran
2010
1988
Diana Ross:
I’m Coming
Out
Ricky Martin came
out, to the surprise
of much of his latin
America fan basis.
Born this way, is a
sum up of what
many used as the
reasoning for being
queer was that they
were born this way
1995
1995 is when death from
aids hit an all time high.
The number of deaths hit
41,699 people had died
before it had a massive
decrease, probably with
the efforts of safer sex
and drug practices and
uses
Frank Ocean
Came out as
Bi to the
world when,
the field of
hip hop was
extremely
rooted in
homophobia Gay Marriage
was legalized
within the U.S.
In Utah
discrimination
laws were
passed to
prevent
discrimination
based on queer
identities Utah passed
laws to
criminalize
hate crimes
based on
sexual
orientation
or gender
identity
2012 2015 2019
Lady
Gaga:
Born this
Way
Frank Ocean:
Thinking About
You
Mackle
Moore:
Same Love