[TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Container][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event event_date=”1914″ event_dateicon=”dashicons-calendar” event_title=”Medical article says participation in women’s suffrage movement due to homosexuality” event_titlealign=”left” event_icon=”” link_icon=””]The doctors that wrote the article said that, although not all women’s rights activists were lesbians, they were “attempting to invade a man’s sphere,” which, they said, indicated sexual deviance.[/TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event event_date=”1917″ event_dateicon=”dashicons-calendar” event_title=”US law changed to ban LGBT citizens from entering country” event_titlealign=”right” event_icon=”” link_icon=””]A law regulating immigration into the United States a is changed to prevent “persons with abnormal sexual instincts” from entering the country.[/TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Section section=”323366″ custompost_name=”Founding of the first gay rights group”][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event event_date=”1931″ event_dateicon=”dashicons-calendar” event_title=”Media coverage” event_titlealign=”left” event_icon=”” link_icon=””]A drag ball is described as the “coming out of new debutantes into gay society” by The Baltimore Afro-American.[/TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event event_date=”1941″ event_dateicon=”dashicons-calendar” event_title=”LGBTQ individuals become part of mobilization for WWII” event_titlealign=”right” event_icon=”” link_icon=””]Moving  away from small towns and out of parent supervision, being in the military was the first chance to explore homosexual feelings for many men and women. After this “awakening,” many could not go back to life as it was before, and so gay communities in San Francisco and New York grew immensely.[/TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event event_date=”1942″ event_dateicon=”dashicons-calendar” event_title=”LGBTQ individuals barred from entry into the military” event_titlealign=”right” event_icon=”” link_icon=””]In an attempt to exclude gay men from serving in the military, officials work with psychiatrists to develop a system to identify them upon application/ drafting.[/TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Section section=”323648″ custompost_name=”The Kinsey study”][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Section section=”323652″ custompost_name=”The Mattachine Society”][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event event_date=”1952″ event_dateicon=”dashicons-calendar” event_title=”The first well-known transgender individual” event_titlealign=”left” event_icon=”” link_icon=””]The publication of Christine Jorgensen’s sexual reassignment surgery became an international sensation.[/TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event event_date=”1953″ event_dateicon=”dashicons-calendar” event_title=”Dwight D. Eisenhower bars homosexuals from working for the government” event_titlealign=”right” event_icon=”” link_icon=””]President Dwight D. Eisenhower bans homosexuals from working for the federal government by passing executive order #10450.[/TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Section section=”323848″ custompost_name=”Founding of first lesbian rights group” section_icon=””][TS_VCSC_Timeline_CSS_Event event_date=”1957″ event_dateicon=”dashicons-calendar” event_title=”Groundbreaking Navy study” event_titlealign=”left” event_icon=”” link_icon=””]A study done by the Navy states that the claim that “homosexuals cannot