50 years ago, Minneapolis redefined LGBTQ+ rights

The 19th News ^ | Dec 15, 2025 | Kate Sosin

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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.

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Don't you just love the way the left redefines "protection?"

Protection... from what?

[ComputerGuy]

That belongs on the city letterhead.

[Tell It Right]

The fiction from the article: But despite that pendulum, Minneapolis changed minds, Goodspeed said, if only because it showed that non-discrimination protections actually didn’t change much for straight or cisgender people.

“You’re able to say, ‘We passed this two years ago, last year, in the past five years, and nothing’s really changed, there is no boogeyman under the bed,’” he said. “We’ve had these protections since the 1970s and all these fears that they might have … just never came to fruition.”

But the reality is that straight white men are being told not to apply for jobs. While our kids are taught in schools to do the gay stuff at early ages. The "boogeyman" is real and it's called the Democrat Party.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Don’t look at the massive Somali fraud in Minneapolis. Look at 50 years of LGBTQ+ rights instead!!!

[Red Badger]

And things went downhill for them ever since.............

[Blue Highway]

Were trannies even a thing back in 1975?

[Omnivore-Dan]

To protect one group of people more than others is discrimination. the opposite is also true. Affirmative Action is a prime example of discrimination.

[bankwalker]

Were illegals even a thing back in 1965?

[Omnivore-Dan]

Never heard of trannies until maybe sometime during the late ‘90’s, but homos & dykes have always been around.

[JimRed]

Protection... from what?

Us NORMALS, of course!

If They'd just keep their perversion to themselves, they'd be left alone.

[Vaduz]

They always have been in the 50’s Eisenhower deported thousands of them.

[JimRed]

Were trannies even a thing back in 1975?

Look up Christine Jorgensen. 1944.

[JimRed]

Were illegals even a thing back in 1965?

Yes. We called the Mexican/South-Central Americans "wetbacks". But this is back when they actually took the jobs few Americans wanted and were among the best workers you could hire.

[rktman]

Widely accepted in the ‘some-alee neighborhoods? No? Weird eh?

[Beowulf9]

The idea is to get the kids not to procreate. Make the boys ‘girls’. Encourage ‘safe sex’ and meanwhile the homosexual community is loaded with std’s. Aids is on the rise but let’s not talk about that.

[Responsibility2nd]

Minneapolis.

Fag friendly AND muzzie friendly?

/smirk

[pawpawrick]

Keep in mind that this is the state that elected a professional wrestler nicknamed “The Body” as governor.

[Retain Mike]

"LGBTQ+ rights"

Have to love that new definition.

Now they can get onboard with whatever popular social contagion arises.

[Responsibility2nd]

Don't forget how they elected Senator Groper also..

[Tell It Right]

Never heard of trannies until maybe sometime during the late ‘90’s, but homos & dykes have always been around.

IMHO today there are two kinds of trannies: the ones who just change their clothes and expect to be treated like the opposite sex, and the ones who undergo hormone and perhaps surgery to enact physical changes as well.

The former have always been around: we called them cross dressers and we laughed at them. The latter have been around for a while too, we called it "sex changes" or transexuals. We laughed at them too. Both groups were very few in number, almost non-existent.

The left changed the wording from "dressers" and "sex" to "gender", which they rebranded to pretend it has multiple shades instead of being binary (just simply male or female). It's all in the way the left has branded the word "gender". But it's all in branding.