A couple embraces at the Gay Pride Rally in Toulouse, France, June 18, 2011. (Photo: Guillaume Paumier) The Mattachine Society was one of the earliest US gay rights groups, formed in 1950 to address the overwhelming discrimination gay men and other queer people faced. The criminalization of gay sex in the mid-20th century is well known, and federal anti-sodomy laws weren’t off the books until 2003.
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