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2012[edit]

Entertainment[edit]

  • Kate McKinnon became the first openly lesbian cast member of Saturday Night Live; previous SNL cast member Danitra Vance never disclosed her sexual orientation publicly, but was revealed to be a lesbian when she died.[1][2]
  • On 28 June 2012 Diana King declared "Yes I am a Lesbian" to her fans from her official Facebook page, thus becoming the first Jamaican artist to ever publicly come out.[3][4]
  • ParaNorman, released in 2012, had the first openly gay character in a mainstream animated film.[5][6]
  • Adam Lambert's Trespassing is the first album from an openly gay male artist to top the Billboard 200 charts.[7]

Marriage[edit]

  • Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool, hosted the first UK civil partnership on religious premises.[8]
  • Taiwan's first same-sex Buddhist wedding was held for Fish Huang and her partner You Ya-ting, with Buddhist master Shih Chao-hui presiding over the ritual.[9]
  • Navy Chief Elny McKinney and Anacelly McKinney became the first known same-sex couple to marry on a U.S. military base. They were wed at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego.[10]
  • The first same-sex marriage at the U.S. Military Academy was held for a young lieutenant and her partner (Ellen Schick and Shannon Simpson) at the Old Cadet Chapel in West Point's cemetery.[11][12]
  • The first same-sex marriage at the U.S. Military Academy's Cadet Chapel at West Point (not to be confused with the Old Cadet Chapel) was held for Brenda Sue Fulton and Penelope Dara Gnesin.[11][13] Fulton was a veteran and the communications director of an organization called Outserve, which represents actively serving gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender military personnel.[13]
  • The first same-sex couple became engaged in the White House (Ben Schock and Matthew Phelps).[14]

Military[edit]

  • Air Force Col. Ginger Wallace became the first known out member of the U.S. military to have their same-sex partner participate in the pinning ceremony tradition that had been reserved for spouses and family members. Her partner of 10 years, Kathy Knopf, pinned colonel wings on Wallace days after the two attended President Obama's State of The Union address as a guest of the First Lady.[15]
  • In 2012, at a ceremony in Arlington, Army Reserve officer Tammy Smith became the first openly gay, active duty general in American history. Smith was promoted to brigadier general at a private ceremony at the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.[16]
In 2012 Kyrsten Sinema became the first openly bisexual person elected to the U.S. Congress.

Politics and Law[edit]

  • Richard Grenell was a foreign policy spokesperson for Republican Mitt Romney during Romney's 2012 campaign for president of the United States; this made him the first openly gay individual to work as a spokesperson for a Republican presidential candidate.
  • Barney Frank became the first sitting member of Congress to be married to a same-sex spouse.
  • Tammy Baldwin was elected as the first openly lesbian or gay U.S. Senator.[17]
  • Kyrsten Sinema was elected to the House of Representatives, becoming the first openly bisexual member of Congress in American history.[18][19] She represents Arizona's 9th Congressional district.[19]
  • Stacie Laughton became the first openly transgender person elected as a state legislator in United States history. She was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature.[20] In 1992 Althea Garrison had been elected as a state legislator, serving one term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, but it was not publicly known she was transgender when she was elected.[21]
  • Mark Pocan was elected in Wisconsin's 2nd Congressional District, becoming the first openly gay candidate who will follow an openly gay member of the U.S. Congress (in this case Tammy Baldwin).[22]
  • Sean Patrick Maloney became the first openly gay candidate elected to represent New York in Congress.[23]
  • Mark Takano became the first openly gay person of color to win election to the U.S. House. He was elected to represent California's 41st Congressional District.[22]
  • Josh Boschee was elected as North Dakota's first openly gay legislator.[24]
  • City Councilmember Marlene Pray joined the Doylestown, Pennsylvania council in 2012, though she resigned in 2013; she was the first openly bisexual office holder in Pennsylvania.[25][26]
  • Stephen Skinner was elected as West Virginia's first openly gay state legislator.[27]
  • Jacob Candelaria was elected as New Mexico's first openly gay male state legislator.[28]
  • Brian Sims became Pennsylvania's first openly gay state legislator who was out when he was elected.[29]
  • After Brian Sims was elected but before he took office, Rep. Mike Fleck came out as gay, making him Pennsylvania's first openly gay state legislator.[30]
  • David Richardson was elected as Florida's first openly gay state legislator.[31]
  • Colorado Democrats elected Mark Ferrandino as the first openly gay House speaker in state history.[32]
  • President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president officially in favor of same-sex marriage.
  • Kylar Broadus, founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition of Columbia, Missouri, spoke to the U.S. Senate in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.[33][34] His speech was the first-ever U.S. Senate testimony from an openly transgender witness.[34]
  • The first lesbian Super PAC, LPAC, was created to represent the interests of lesbians in the United States, and to campaign on LGBT and women's rights issues.[35][36][37][38]
  • San Francisco voted to become the first U.S. city to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries for uninsured transgender residents.[39]
  • Maine, Maryland, and Washington became the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote.[40] Maine was the very first state to do so, followed by Maryland.[41]
  • California became the first state to sign a ban on therapy that claims to convert gay people into heterosexuals. The California law, enacted in 2012, is as of 2013 held up in federal courts on first amendment grounds.[42][43]
  • In November 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit against JONAH (a Jewish ex-gay organization), Goldberg, and Downing on behalf of Unger, Levin, two other participants, and two of the participants' mothers for fraudulent practices which are illegal under New Jersey's consumer protection laws.[44] The Southern Poverty Law Center noted that the lawsuit is "groundbreaking" insofar as it is the first time a conversion therapy provider has been sued for fraudulent business practices.[45]
  • In 2012, the Bisexuality Report, the first report of its kind in the United Kingdom, was issued.[46] This report, led by Meg Barker (Senior Lecturer in Psychology, OU), Rebecca Jones (Lecturer, Health & Social Care, OU), Christina Richards, and Helen Bowes-Catton and Tracey Plowman (of BiUK) summarizes national and international evidence and brings out recommendations for bisexual inclusion in the future.[46]

Religion[edit]

  • Katie Ricks became the first open lesbian ordained by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)[47]
  • The Right Reverend Doctor Gary Paterson – Elected Moderator of the United Church of Canada, becoming the first openly gay leader of a major Christian denomination in August 2012.[48]
  • Emily Aviva Kapor, an American rabbi who had been ordained privately by a rabbi she defined as "Conservadox" in 2005, began living as a woman in 2012, thus becoming the first openly transgender female rabbi.[49]

Sciences[edit]

  • Sally Ride's obituary reveals that she had been in a 27-year sexual relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy, making her the first and only known LGBT person to have served as an astronaut.
  • Luma Nogueira de Andrade receives a doctorate degree from the Faculty of Education at the Federal University of Ceará, becoming the first transgender individual to receive a doctorate degree in Brazil.[50]

Sport[edit]

Visibility[edit]

  • On September 18, 2012, Berkeley, California became what is thought to be the first city in the U.S. to officially proclaim a day recognizing bisexuals.[53] The Berkeley City Council unanimously and without discussion declared Sept. 23 as Bisexual Pride and Bi Visibility Day.[54]
  • Liverpool was the first city in the world to officially mark IDAHO with a programme of free events.[55]
  • The D.C. Office of Human Rights created America's first government-funded campaign to combat anti-transgender discrimination.[56]
  • Rainbow Jews, an oral history project showcasing the lives of Jewish bisexual, lesbian, gay, and transgender people in the United Kingdom from the 1950s until the present, was launched.[57] It is the United Kingdom's first archive of Jewish bisexual, lesbian, gay, and transgender history.[58]

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