1990 in LGBTQ rights

none July 2025 July 2025 1990 LGBT rights This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1990. Events Reunification of West and East Germany — reunification treaty has an article to prevent West Germany's higher age of consent for sex between men taking effect in the former East Germany. San Diego, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. February 2 — The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in High Tech Gays v. Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office uses rational basis review and rules that the federal government can deny security clearances to homosexuals. March Queer Nation, a direct action group is founded in New York City by activists from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). May 10 — Direct action group OutRage! is formed in the United Kingdom.https://theface.com/life/outrage-lgbtq-rights-campaign-group 30 years of OutRage!: the grassroots group that changed LGBTQ life in the UK forever Levine Nick May 14, 2020 The Face July 9, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20200806221802/https://theface.com/life/outrage-lgbtq-rights-campaign-group August 6, 2020 August 18 - President George Bush signs the Ryan White Care Act, a program for people living with AIDS.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-milestones-american-gay-rights-movement/ Milestones in the American gay rights movement PBS July 9, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20181101215522/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-milestones-american-gay-rights-movement/ November 1, 2018 October 27 — The U.S. Congress repeals a law prohibiting gays from being admitted into the country. November 6 Voters in Seattle, Washington, reject Initiative 35, which would have repealed an ordinance granting domestic partnership rights for medical leave and bereavement leave. By a margin of two to one, voters in Tacoma, Washington, reject a ballot initiative which would have reinstated a gay civil rights law repealed by voters in November 1989. Deborah Glick becomes the first openly gay or lesbian individual elected to the legislature of the U.S. state of New York. December 10 — Colorado Governor Roy Romer issues an executive order prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in the public sector.http://www.qrd.org/qrd/usa/legal/colorado/Evans-v-Romer.BRIEF Evans v. Romer November 12, 1992 District Court, Denver Colorado July 9, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20060927185944/http://www.qrd.org/qrd/usa/legal/colorado/Evans-v-Romer.BRIEF September 27, 2006 17 — Connecticut state legislator Joseph Grabarz comes out, becoming the state's first openly gay state legislator. See also LGBTQ Timeline of LGBT history — timeline of events from 12,000 BCE to present LGBT rights by country or territory — current legal status around the world LGBT social movements References Category:1990s in LGBTQ rights Category:1990 in LGBTQ history