Tolerance of Homosexuality in the United States, without a doubt, has gone through a very intense shift. One of the first mentions of a hate crime against a homosexual person was in 1624 against a man named Richard Cornish, who was executed in Virginia for alleged homosexual acts with a male servant. The shift begins to take a turn in the McCarthy era, under Senator Joseph McCarthy due to institutions carried out through him during the late 194os to the 1950s. Under McCarthyism, several homosexual people were executed due to their “private lifestyle”, and being accused of hiding secrets. This era was known as the Lavender scare, which was basically a witch hunt and mass murder of homosexual people, or the Cold War persecution of homosexual people. The shift begins to take a turn in 1969, when the Stonewall Riots begin, where there were numerous, spontaneous, violent demonstrations by the gay community against a police raid as a form of liberation for homosexual people. These riots caused a major shift in the tolerance of homosexual people in the United States, as members of the gay community didn’t really give other Americans the choice to tolerate them, as their demonstrations became violent. Then, finally, in 2015, the members of the gay community were officially addressed by the President of the United States, and it was stated that the intolerance towards these groups of people will not be tolerated any longer.