The Gay movement extents beyond that time but I think the most crucial years of the movement were the 1960s and 1970s when the first major progress was made and the situation of the homosexuals was especially dire. ... Part II: The Early Gay Rights Movement in the US 1. 1860-1935: "The Movement that did not exist- The early gay movement from 1860 to about 1935 developed mostly in Germany and England before it became first suppressed and later almost totally obliterated during Nazism and Stalinism. In the US, there has been apparently no notable organized gay rights activity during th...

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