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Minneapolis becomes the first city to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against trans people. This ordinance protected those “having or projecting a self-image not associated with one’s biological maleness or biological femaleness.”

Photograph of a crowd marching on Gay Pride Day on June 28, 1975 in downtown Minneapolis. via: Minnesota Historical Society/John Hustad Papers/Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies/University of Minnesota