Chicago had the first LGBT-friendly community in the United States. They were out and proud long before Stonewall. Illinois was the first state in the country t

Chicago had the first LGBT-friendly community in the United States. They were out and proud long before Stonewall. Illinois was the first state in the country to repeal its (unenforced) sodomy laws. California, on the other hand, elected Ronald Reagan as governor in order to "send the welfare bums back to work" and then re-elected him because they loved that he banned black people from carrying guns.