It's almost the beginning of May which will mark the 10 year anniversary of the Millennium March on Washington DC for Equality in support of civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
A crowd estimated at 750,000 marched to the National Mall in Washington DC on that May day in 2000. One of the largest civil rights marches in the history of the USA.
In comparison, the March on Washington equality march of 1963 which culminated with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream speech had an
estimated 250,000 attendees.
In 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed and prohibited discrimination based
on race.
It took women 71 years to receive federal recognition.
It took the african american community 80 years.
The LGBT battle for equality is the longest running civil rights battle in the history of the USA (86 years and counting).
In 1924 The Society for Human Rights, in Chicago, became the country's earliest known gay rights organization. It’s been 86 years so far!
As a side note, that was before Stonewall.
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