How-to-Educate-Your-Kids-About-Gay-Pride-&-LGBT-Sex-Education-MainPhoto1. The Society for Human Rights was the first gay rights organization in the United States.
Henry Gerber, a German immigrant who experienced discrimination in the U.S. as a homosexual, established the Society for Human Rights in Chicago in 1924. The Society was chartered, but was shut down only a few months later when several members were arrested.

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