8 Important LGBTQIA+ Milestones For Each of the Original 8 Pride Flag Colors

Each color of the rainbow has a unique meaning that represents something different for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Here you can find 8 milestones in LGBTQIA+ rights across the globe.

In 1791, France was the first nation in the world to decriminilize homosexuality and allow same sex relationships.

Even though it was not forbidden, it doesn't mean that it was culturally allowed.

The first known LGBTQIA+ organization, the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, was created in Berlin in 1897.

It was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, who conducted groundbreaking work on transgender identity.

The activism and LGBTQIA+ rights has the Stonewall Riots, in 1969, as an important milestone.

It happened in New York but its resonance was worldwide. In the following year, the first LGBTQIA+ pride event was organized to commemorate the riots.

Homosexuality was considered a mental illness by the World Health Organization until 1990.

However, in 1973 the American Psychiatric Association already had depathologized it.

The first head of state openly gay was elected in Iceland in 2009. 

At that time, Johanna Sigurdardottir couldn't marry her partner, Jónína Leósdóttir. Only in the following year of her election the same-sex marriage was finally allowed.

Going to Latin America, Argentina was the first to recognize same-sex unions. 

Two years later, in 2012, the country also recognized transgender rights, becoming again the first in the region.

Believe it or not, but it was only in 2018 that India's Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality in the country.

Until then, a law dating back to 1861 not only forbade relationships "against the order of nature" as it punished people by a life sentence!