Celebrating Pride Month - East Lansing City Council approves first gay anti-discrimination law, 1972

In what would be a small but milestone victory for the LGBT community, the East Lansing City Council passed the very first anti-discrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation in the U.S. March 7, 1972.

The following month, Ann Arbor one-upped its neighbor by prohibiting discrimination against gays, not only for employment but for housing and public accommodations.  It was the first community-wide gay right legislation in the U.S.

In 1971, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor became the first U.S. college to establish an LGBT office on campus.