Introduction: Imagine finding your perfect person. This person makes you laugh. You do everything with this person, and you want to spend the rest of your life with this person. Now imagine the government tells you that you cannot marry your person. This is a reality for countless Homosexual couples across the world, and includes an even more gruesome history within the United States.

• Main Points to Mention: Beginning of Shift – First reported execution of a homosexual man named Richard Cornish, in 1624.
  • • • • Brief history of Gay rights
        • Sodomy Laws
        • McCarthyism and the Lavender Scare
        • The Riots at Stonewall
• Main Points about turn of Shift – First “Pride Parade” known as Christopher Street Liberation Day March one year after Stonewall Riots in 1970.
  • • • • The Annual Reminder in Philadelphia
        • “GRID” to “AIDS”
        • Shift in Public Attitude towards Homosexual Couples
• Modern Day Shift:
  • • • • Barack Obama State of the Union Address mentions people of the LGBT+ Community
        • Supreme Court Ruling to Legalize Gay Marriage
• Impact to Everyone, and how it benefits the rest of the United States people

Conclusion: Homosexual tolerance in the United States has shifted greatly since first recorded in 1624, to 2015 when gay marriage was declared legal by the Supreme Court. Living in a country where people are not able to marry each other, solely because of their gender is ridiculous, and not the business of the government. Love is not something that should not be tolerated, as it is the one thing that is able to bring people together without condition. The government does not get to decide the quality of a relationship based on the gender of two individuals, because that is not their job.