Portal:LGBT/Did you know/9

... that during action by the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to disrupt a Christian morality campaign in 1971, a GLF "bishop" began an impromptu sermon urging people to "keep on sinning"? ... that the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of official mental illnesses in 1973? And that the American Psychological Association followed suit in 1974? ... that Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became the world's first openly gay head of state in the modern era on February 1, 2009? ... that Men who have sex with men are not currently allowed to donate blood in the United States, Austria, the United Kingdom, Finland, or Denmark? ... that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple making love as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history?