Put LGBTQ+ history on your own life, and on the lives of the people you love. Drag across the years to see what was still a crime, what was still banned, and how old each of you was when it changed.
These are example lifelines. Put yourself on instead, then add the people you want to compare with: a parent, a grandparent, a partner, a kid.
Each bar is a rule that held in the US. Where it thins, states were changing it one by one.
Ages at the turning points, side by side.
Ages are counted by year of birth, so anyone whose birthday falls later in the year was a year younger on the day.
What happened, and who was around to see it.
Every date here was checked against public sources: court rulings, statutes, federal agency notices, and the Wikipedia articles that cite them. State dates for sodomy laws mark when consenting adults of the same sex could no longer be prosecuted there, whether a legislature repealed the law or a court struck it down. State marriage dates mark when couples could marry statewide for good; short windows that were later shut are listed as their own events.
Each lifeline takes a stripe of Gilbert Baker's rainbow flag, oldest person first. Baker said red stood for life.
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