1970s in LGBTQ rights

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the 1970s.

Private, consensual same-sex activity was decriminalized in

Considering the profound stigma still attached to homosexuality at the dawn of the 1970s, the movement, although still nascent, saw tremendous gains over the course of the decade. The

• 1970 – The first Gay Liberation Day March is held in New York City; The first LGBT Pride Parade is held in Los Angeles; The first "Gay-in" held in San Francisco; Carl Wittman writes A Gay Manifesto;^[16][17] CAMP (Campaign Against Moral Persecution) is formed in Australia.^[18][19]
• Frank Kameny becomes the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress; The University of Michigan establishes the first collegiate LGBT programs office, then known as the "Gay Advocate's Office." The UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was recognized as a political movement in the national press and was holding weekly meetings of 200 to 300 people.^[22]
• Quaker group, the Committee of Friends on Bisexuality, issued the "Ithaca Statement on Bisexuality" supporting bisexuals.^[7]
• 1973 – On the 15 October the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry Federal Council declares homosexuality not an illness – the first such body in the world to do so; in December the American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II), based largely on the research and advocacy of Evelyn Hooker.^[25] Malta legalizes homosexuality;^[26][27] In West Germany, the age of consent is reduced for homosexuals to 18 (though it is 14 for heterosexuals).^[28][29][30]
• Los Angeles, California.^[32]
• 1975 – Homosexuality is legalized in South Australia;^[4] homosexuality is legalized in California due to bill authored by and successfully lobbied for in the state legislature by State Assemblyman from San Francisco Willie Brown; Elaine Noble becomes the second openly gay American elected to public office when she wins a seat in the Massachusetts State House; the first National Homosexual Conference is held in Melbourne, Australia; Panama is the second country in the world to allow transsexuals who have gone through gender reassignment surgery to get their personal documents reflecting their new sex.^[33]

LGBT pride flag

• 1976 – Robert Grant founds the Christian Voice to take his anti-homosexual-rights crusade national in United States; the Homosexual Law Reform Coalition and the Gay Teachers Group are started in Australia; the Australian Capital Territory decriminalizes homosexuality between consenting adults in private and equalizes the age of consent;^[5] and Denmark equalizes the age of consent.^[34]
• Dade County, Florida enacts a Human Rights Ordinance; it is repealed the same year after a militant anti-homosexual-rights campaign led by Anita Bryant.^[14] Quebec becomes the first jurisdiction larger than a city or county in the world to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in the public and private sectors; Croatia,^[35] Montenegro,^[36] and Slovenia^[37] legalise homosexuality. Publication of the first issue of Gaysweek
  , NYC's first mainstream gay weekly.
• rainbow flag is first used as a symbol of homosexual pride; Sweden establishes a uniform age of consent. Samois the earliest known lesbian-feminist BDSM organization is founded in San Francisco;^[38] well-known members of the group include Patrick Califia and Gayle Rubin; the group is among the very earliest advocates of what came to be known as sex-positive feminism; The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) is established.^[39] Theatrical release and television broadcast of the feature documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
  , and publication of the book transcribed from it.
• Radical Faerie gathering in Arizona,^[40] and Spain^[41] decriminalize homosexuality. A number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness. This was followed by an activist occupation of the main office of the National Board of Health and Welfare. Within a few months, Sweden became the first country in the world to remove homosexuality as an illness.^[23] The Village Station police raid
  occurs, nicknamed "Dallas's Stonewall".

See also

• Table of years in LGBT rights

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