The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia on May 17 highlights the places in the world where members of the LGBT community still face persecution. The date was chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization's 1990 decision to remove homosexuality from its disease classification list. The day also celebrates the progress made by gay, lesbian, and transgender people in recent decades. Here's a look back at the LGBT movement in pictures.
PHOTO PACKAGE: From Stonewall To Skopje: The Decades-Long Battle For LGBT Rights Around The World
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One of the first openly gay American photojournalists, Kay Tobin Lahusen (right), carries a sign calling for the end of discrimination against homosexuals at a July 4, 1967, march in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Almost 50 years later, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in the United States on June 26, 2015.
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New York City's Stonewall Inn and a reproduction of the June 29, 1969, edition of the New York Post that reported about the police raid that led to the Stonewall riots. The series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay and lesbian community against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn is widely considered the start of the LGBT-rights movement in the United States.
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Demonstrators outside New York's City Hall on June 10, 1970, called for an end to discrimination against gays and lesbians. Members of the Gay Activists Alliance sponsored the demonstration, which included signs reading "Gay is good" and "America, grow up."
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The Gay Freedom Day March in San Francisco on June 26, 1977.