1984 in LGBTQ rights

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1984.

• Laguna Beach, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector.
• Oakland, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector.
• In Australia, homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in New South Wales and the Northern Territory.

• 14 — The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education of the City of Oklahoma City rules that a statute allowing teachers to be fired for "advocating, soliciting, imposing, encouraging or promoting public or private homosexual activity in a manner that creates a substantial risk that such conduct will come to the attention of school children or school employees" is facially overbroad and infringes on First Amendment rights.^[1]

• 10 — In the United Kingdom, Chris Smith comes out as gay, becoming the first openly gay member of the House of Commons.
• 29 — West Hollywood, California, approves a gay rights ordinance.^[2]

• 5 — Berkeley, California, extends domestic partnership benefits to the same-sex partners of city employees.^[3]

• Timeline of LGBT history
  — timeline of events from 12,000 BCE to present
• LGBT rights by country or territory
  — current legal status around the world
• LGBT social movements

• Kenney, Moira (2001). Mapping Gay L.A.: The Intersection of Place and Politics. Temple University Press.
  ISBN 1-56639-884-3
  .
• Rutledge, Leigh (1992). The Gay Decades. New York, Penguin.
  ISBN 0-452-26810-9
  .