Many years ago, the state of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in the United States was unbearable. There was a lot of discrimination against these individuals in all spheres of life, be it employment, education and even the worst of all was in the social structures. Right from the time around the 1930s when an organization like American Civil Liberty Union was formed, there was total discrimination against GLBT people in America and across the world.  For instance, the American Civil Liberty Union filled