2018 Mayor Teresa Tomlinson declares June LGBT Pride Month in Columbus, Georgia. Supreme Court ruling declares same-sex marriage legal in the United States.ĪUG. The city’s MEIS is said to still be “very low” at 36. The move came in response to the City of Columbus poort MEIS score. Hate Crimes Prevention Act enacts federal adopts a law against crimes against those targeted for reasons that include sexual orientation and gender identity.Ģ013 Jeremy Hobbs is appointed by Mayor Teresa Tomlinson to the created position of LGBT Liaison. 2009 The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law against sodomy used to prosecute two male adults, thus ending laws against sexual regulations in all states, including Georgia, where oral, anal, and non-missionary position sex was illegal. Emily Bel became pastor at Forgiving Heart, which she now leads at his home since 2011 on property bought at 2946 Grant Road in North Columbus.ġ999 LGBT-oriented New Covenant Church opens on Linwood Boulevard. First meeting in members’ homes, In 1998, married lesbian Rev. This policy has ripple effects across area Episcopal churches to this day.ġ988 The first church formed upon the mission to serve the local LGBT community, the Forgiving Heart Church opens, an extension of the existing Metropolitan Community Church.
children of God … with full and equal claim” to all Church blessings and inclusion. military, President Donald Trump’s policy took effect, though modified to allow retaining enlisted transgender personnel.ġ976 The General Convention of Episcopal Church took the first step in process spanning centuries of Christian doctrine regarding gays with its declaration that “homosexual persons are …. 2011 Under President Obama, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was allowed to expire, a policy plan to effectively end the ban against gays serving in the military.ĪPRIL 2019 Issuing an executive order in 2017 that forbid all transgenders serving openly in the U.S. 1994 President Bill Clinton enacted the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, ending (in political side-step fashion of kicking the proverbial can down the road) the military’s ban against gays serving in the military.
2018 A gender-bending exploration along themes of sexual-orientation in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” locally produced musical “r+j theory” performed to sold-out audience at the Promenade Amphitheatre.įEB. More than 80 people attended inside while 4 protestors against it convened outside on the sidewalk. 2018 The nationally touring “Drag Queen Reading Hour” is held at the Mildred Terry Public Library. Closed in 2000.ġ999 The late Frank Lovejoy helped organize the region’s first Pride gathering with Chattahoochee Valley Pride held at the surreal artistic vision that is Pasaquan, located on seven acres in rural Marion County.Ģ000 Pride celebration takes form as a march on the RiverWalk to the Promenade Amphitheatre.Ģ001 Pride celebration held inside Jacob’s Hall at Flat Rock Park.Ģ000-2010 LaTweet Weldon holds a residency of monthly Drag Queen performances at the historic Goetchius House on Broadway.Ģ002 Pride celebration features a Love Walk to a rally in Lakebottom Park.Ģ003 City permits start to be issued for annual Pride parades to Tammy Lamb, owner of the Mad Hatter and, later, gay bars the Fat Cat and 1244.Ģ014 The first city’s first public safe-space serving the LGBT community, the Gay Pride Center, opens on 13th St.Ģ015 Gay Pride Center closes due to lack of funding.ĪUG. The nightclub had sponsored the QJ (“Queer Jocks”) softball team since 1993 however, sources say the club was shutdown as a result of efforts to whitewash the town before hosting the 1996 Olympics softball competitionġ996 Two women convert long-time strip-club the Pillow Talk Lounge (1200 block Broadway) into a gay nightclub commonly called PTL. They say I do it, ain’t nobody caught me,ġ995 Active in scene since the seminal ‘80s party days at his Deep Purple nightclub, the late Dave Forker-remembered as “a tremendous force” in the local gay community-was denied renewal of his lease for his Fountain City Yacht Club in the Commerce Building (1200 block 1st Ave.). They must’ve been women, ’cause I don’t like no men’ “Went out last night with a crowd of my friends
Rainey soon after recorded “Prove It On Me Blues” with her lyrics: Her protege, star blues singer Bessie Smith, bailed her out. APRIL 1886 Gertrude “Ma” Rainey is born in Columbus, the start of life of a bi-sexual, entrepreneurial black women born to extreme poverty known around the world as the “Godmother of the Blues.”ġ925 Ma Rainey is arrested in in Harlem after leaving a lesbian party.