People Who Helped the LGBT Community

First off let me just say that this day is an amazing one and I bet we can all guess why. The Supreme court legalize same-sex marriage and that is awesome. Woo Hoo! This needs to be some sort of national holiday for the LGBT community and all of the other people whom support it. But anyways lets get back to the topics of this blog. I will talk about three people who helped the LGBT community so here we go!


Harry Hay

Harry Hay was born April 7, 1912 in Sussex England. Although he was born in England his nationality is American. Harry Hay conceived the idea of a homosexual activist group in August 1948. After signing a petition Progressive party (i don't know what that is but ok). He spoke with other gay men at a party about forming a gay support organization which is a pretty neat idea. He wanted to call the organization "Bachelors For Wallace". He got good responses and wrote organizing principles that night he called it "The Call". Although the men he asked he spoke to the following morning and they were not impressed. Over the next two years, Hay refined his idea, finally conceiving of an "international...fraternal order" to serve as "a service and welfare organization devoted to the protection and improvement of Society's Androgynous Minority", the latter being a term that he later rejected. He planned to call this organization "Bachelors Anonymous". Hay met Rudi Gernreich in July 1950, with the pair soon entering a relationship. Rudi became a financial supporter for the organization but he didn't include his name and he went by "R". On November 11, 1950 the first meeting was held. Later the name of the organization was changed to the "Mattachine Society". Harry Hay died October 24, 2002 in San Francisco he was 90 years old.


Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen was born May 30, 1926 originally named George William Jorgensen Jr. Her parents were George William Jorgensen Sr and Florence Davis Hansen. Christine was a transsexual man who wanted to become a woman. When she returned from working with the military she heard about SRS (Sexual Reassignment Surgery). She began to take female hormones She wanted to go to Sweden cause at the time that was the only place they could do SRS. On September 24, 1951, surgeons at Gentofte Hospital in Copenhagen performed an orchiectomy on her. 13 months later on In November 1952 doctors at Copenhagen University Hospital performed a penectomy on her. She then returned to the United States and eventually obtained a vaginoplasty when the procedure became available there. She entered the public eye after her transformation and encouraged other transsexual people to go through with the surgery. She died May 3, 1989 at the age of 62.


Harvey Milk

Harvey milk was born May 22, 1930 in New York. He was an American politician who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California.He was not open about his sexuality and he didn't participate in civic matters until he was around the age of 40. He served almost 11 months in office and he was also responsible for passing stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978 him and the mayor were assassinated by a man named Dan White he was another cities supervisor. He was aged 48 at the time.