Remove "red" links and expand & update page. The United Stonewall Republic was a proposed micronation created by David Powell from 1996 to 2001. Its creation was inspired by the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act, which effectively wrote discrimination into the United States constitution by prohibiting same-sex marriage and allowing states to disregard the Full Faith and Credit clause of the constitution. Shortly after the passage of the Act, several U.S. states amended their constitutions to include such discrimination. The USR, intended as a socialist GLBT homeland, was founded in response to these actions and was to be located in the Miers and Garwood valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica, across the ice shelf from McMurdo Station.