who was the first gay activist in the united states?
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Karl Ulrichs is credited in that article as the first gay activist anywhere (he being located in Germany). The first documented US gay activist is Henry Gerber, who started the Society for Human Rights in 1925 Chicago to combat Illinois sodomy laws.
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Only one, Massachusettes.  Although recently a ruling was made by the New Jersey Supreme Court that they must offer equal rights to gay relationships but the name hasn't been determined.  Whether they call it "marriage" or "civil unions" hasn't been determined yet.
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I suggest you read "Queer Theory" by Annamarie Jagose and "History of Sexuality" by Michel Foucault.\n\nAccording to Jagose, the word "gay" became mainstream in the mid 20th century. Wikipedia reports that it is documented as being used for same-gender sex as early as the 1920s. However, according to Wikipedia as well, the word first became associated with sexual connotations as early at the 17th century:\n\n"The word started to acquire sexual connotations in the late 17th century, being used with meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations". This was by extension from the primary meaning of "carefree": implying "uninhibited by moral constraints". By the late nineteenth century the term "gay life" was a well-established euphemism for prostitution and other forms of extramarital sexual behaviour that were perceived as immoral."\n\nAs for f-ag, it comes primarily from prostitution. I think this is especially interesting (Wiki): \n\n"A f-ag (personal servant) was a junior boy who acted as servant to a senior boy at a British independent school."\n\nNow, I thought I would also bring up that I actually hate the word Homosexual. It was invented in 1869 primarily for the purpose of pathologizing same-sex relations. Homosexual is supposed to be some kind of politically correct term these days, but I find it far more insulting than, say, Queer, because it's seens as the "opposite" of heterosexual. I also suggest you read "The Trouble with Normal" by Michael Warner fore more information.\n\nSo I leave you with this qupte below. Please contact me if you want to discuss this further. I love Queer Theory!\n\n"To me, queer is the radical potential to choose one's gender and one's sexual and social identities, to embrace a radical outsider's perspective, to create culture on our terms and to challenge everything that's sickening about the dominant culture around us" \n--Matt Bernstein Sycamore
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Ronald Reagan (Modern Times) Saving the US from Communism and Liberalism\n\nAbraham Lincoln - Preserving the Union
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Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a socialist in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement. He was born in Crescent City, Florida. His father was a minister of the A.M.E. Church who moved the family to Jacksonville, Florida in 1891. In 1911, Randolph moved to New York City's Harlem in hope of becoming an actor.\n\nRandolph's parents objected to his dramatic aspirations, so while at the City College of New York, he switched his studies to politics and economics. While at City College, he met his future wife, Lucille Green. Green was a teacher who had quit that career and opened a lucrative beauty salon when her first husband died. After their marriage, Randolph's political activities would often cause Lucille the loss of some customers.\n\nAlso at City College, Randolph met Chandler Owen, a sociology and political science student at Columbia University. Together, they formed the radical Harlem magazine, The Messenger, in 1917.\n\nIn 1925, Randolph organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This was the first serious effort to form a labor union for the employees of the Pullman Company, which was a major employer of African Americans. After years of bitter struggle, the Pullman Company finally began to negotiate with the Brotherhood in 1935, and agreed to a contract with them in 1937. The Brotherhood was associated with the American Federation of Labor.
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States, from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal of her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as Civil Rights. After his death she built a career, as author and speaker, as a proponent of the New Deal Coalition and spokesperson for human rights. She was a First-wave feminist (although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment) and created a new role model for First Lady.
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Demnark Vessey (free born black man) was the orcestrator of what would have been the largest slave revolt on the history of the US.  but someone told and he was excecuted along with many others\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p2976.html
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The first case of aids to enter the US was by a male homosexual flight attendant.   The first aids cases were from natives having sex with monkeys.
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Gay\nMuch commentary about this adjective referring to homosexuals exists, mostly having to do with usage. Our concern here, however, is etymology and two mistaken notions prevail. The first is that gay, meaning homosexual, originated as an acronym for Good As You. The second is that it is of relatively recent origin, dating only to the late 1960s. Both of these ideas are in error.\n\nMany, believe that gay came to mean homosexual only in the late 1960s with the Stonewall riot and the rise of the gay rights movement. This is not the case. The error these people are making is confusing the adoption of the term by the heterosexual community, and thus the English language as a whole, with its origin. The term is in fact much older, being used by homosexuals to refer to themselves with certainty as early as the 1920s, and possibly as early as the 1860s.\n\nLighter gives the earliest usage cite as a 1922 quote from Gertrude Stein's "Miss Furr & Mrs. Skeene" which appeared in Vanity Fair. It is uncertain, however, if Stein's use of gay in this case is a reference to lesbianism or to the [then] conventional sense of gay meaning happy:\n\nThey were ... gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, ... they were quite regularly gay.\nThe first unequivocal written use of gay to mean homosexual is in 1929, in Noel Coward's musical Bittersweet. In the song Green Carnation, four overdressed, 1890s dandies sing:\n\nPretty boys, witty boys, You may sneer\nAt our disintegration.\nHaughty boys, naughty boys,\nDear, dear, dear!\nSwooning with affectation...\nAnd as we are the reason\nFor the "Nineties" being gay,\nWe all wear a green carnation.\n\nThe penultimate line refers to the 1890s, which were commonly called the gay nineties. In general usage, this appellation had nothing to do with homosexuality, but in this context, Coward clearly uses it as a double entendre. \n\nGay appears again in 1933 in Ford and Tyler's Young & Evil. In 1938 in the movie Bringing Up Baby, the character played by Cary Grant, when asked why he is wearing women's clothing replies, "Because I just went gay all of a sudden." In retrospect, this is obviously a joke intended to slip past the censors. In their 1941 book Sexual Variations, Gershon Legman and G.V. Henry cite gay as a slang term for homosexual, which indicates that it was in use for some time prior.\n\nLighter also indirectly cites an 1868 song by female impersonator Will S. Hays titled, Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store. The lyrics do not explicitly link the word with homosexuality, but they can be interpreted that way, especially if sung by a man in drag. Then again, that may be reading too much into the lyrics. You be the judge:\n\nIt's about a chap, perhaps you know,\nI'm told he is 'Nobody's beau,'\nBut maybe you all knew that before,\nHe's a lively clerk in a Dry-Goods Store.\nO! Augustus Dolphus is his name,\nFrom Skiddy-ma-dink they say he came,\nHe's a handsome man and he's proud and poor,\nThis gay young clerk in the Dry-Goods Store.\nOK, so gay was definitely in use in the 1920s, and perhaps earlier, but how did the term come to be associated with homosexuals? Several possibilities exist, but the acronym for Good As You is not one of them. \nThe most likely explanation is that it derives from gaycat or geycat, a slang term for a tramp or hobo who is new to the road. Gaycats were commonly in the company of older tramps, implying a homosexual relationship. The term, according to Lighter, dates to at least the 1890s. Gaycats were employed as lookouts while other hoboes committed crimes. The OED2 cites the 1935 Underworld & Prison Slang by N. Ersine as defining geycat as a homosexual boy. The origin of gaycat is unknown. Green, however, says a gay cat was a tramp who offered sexual services to women.\n\nAnother possible origin is the late nineteenth century slang usage of gay to mean promiscuous. A
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I don't know, maybe it was being the first gay pres..
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As gay as Alfred E. Newman!
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None at all is your answer.  As a hetero male, I can say with all sincerity that only homophobes and individuals insecure with their OWN sexuality object to equal rights for gays.  Love is love.....end of story.
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The civil rights movement was more for everyone that was being descrimintated as opposed to the gay rights movement was specificaly for gays.\nThey are both the same because they served the purpos of trying to get veryone to have the same, equal rights, but the gay rights movement was more specific. Though the civil rights movment was focused on mainly blacks, it was more for everyone, as opposed to just gays.
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The American people banned gay marriage
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That totally depends on what kind of organization you're looking for.  DC has a huge and thriving gay community.  We have a youth pride event, a black pride event, a general capitol pride event, an interfaith pride event.  We have twenty-something groups, bars, restaurants, sex clubs, community service organizations, movie clubs, square dancers, drag queens, radical faeries.  You name it, we've got it.  I'm providing a list of suggested sources below.  These are the local gay news sources and the places to find out about nearly every gay thing happening in DC.
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This must be the Gay NEO-CONSERVATIVES Page. You should ask GAY RUSH LIMBAUGH, and or SEAN HENITY. They seem to be in love with him, and I have been told They keep a picture of BUSH in their wallets. "GAY"!!!
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."  Thomas Jefferson. If my neighbor is gay it doesn't hurt me either, there is also no scientific studies that proove two gay parents will raise a gay child either. This is America we live in.