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Munu

(96 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 06:38 AM 21 hrs ago

A little bit of Minneapolis history.

https://19thnews.org/2025/12/minneapolis-redefined-lgbtq-history-1975/
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On December 30, 1975, just before the New Year, the city council passed trans-inclusive protections unlike anything the U.S. has been able to achieve.

It was likely one of the last pieces of city policy passed that winter, just before the New Year, a parting gift from a progressive city council.

On December 30, 1975, Minneapolis became the first city to adopt a trans-inclusive LGBTQ+ non-discrimination ordinance. Fifty years later, the United States still lacks similar protections on a federal level.

Minneapolis was special in that the right people were there at the right time, said Seth Goodspeed, director of development and communications at OutFront Minnesota, the state’s largest LGBTQ+ rights organization.

“Minneapolis, since the early ’70s, has really been a leader in the gay rights movement,” he said. “That comes out of a lot of the student organizing at the University of Minnesota in the late 60s.”

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Minneapolis jaymac 21 hrs ago #1

jaymac

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Thu Jan 8, 2026, 07:13 AM
21 hrs ago

and Minnesota have also given us incredible legislators like Paul Wellstone, Hubert Humphrey and Al Franken ( pushed out by hyperbolic pols who won't be forgotten.)

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