The National Gay Rights Movement.

In 1924, The Society for Human Rights in Chicago became the earliest known gay rights organization in The United States. Still today in 2007, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered (GLBT) members of society are still fighting very hard everyday to be respected and gain the rights as other American citizens. As the United States of America, a country who fights for a depends on the phrase "the land of the free," to deny millions of American citizens the rights as heterosexual citizens is extremely hypocritical and against what America stands for.
Reports show that over 1000 rights and privileges are denied to homosexuals in our country because they do not have the right to marry. Millions of American citizens fight everyday in a very old social movement that has gained some, but little ground in making the U.S. "the land of the free." This semester I plan on focusing on the GLBT movement, specifically the movement of giving members of the GLBT the right to marry in our country. This is issue is very important in today's times and is even seen as one of the biggest issues in the 2008 presidential election.

Here's a time line of the gay rights movement if you're interested in the slight progress the movement has made over time:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html