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1971 in gay rights
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Events[edit]
- Dr. Frank Kameny becomes the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress when he runs in the District of Columbia's first election for a non-voting delegate to Congress.
January[edit]
- January 1
March[edit]
- March 18
- Sodomy laws
- Oregon legislature decriminalizes adult private consensual homosexual acts but law is repealed before it takes effect January 1, 1972.
- Sodomy laws
- March 24 - American federal judge dismisses laws barring homosexual immigration in granting citizenship to Cuba man.
April[edit]
- April 1 - French magazine Tout seized by police who characterize its call for sexual liberation in that country an "outrage to public morals."
June[edit]
- June 1 - UK newspaper International Times loses an appeal on inndecency charges for running personal ads for gay men.
July[edit]
- July 1 - Gay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE) is founded as Canada's first gay rights organization.
- July 21 - George Klippert is released from prison, two years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Canada.
October[edit]
- October 12 - New York City Department of Consumer Affairs recommends the repeal of a city law banning homosexuals from working in or going to bars.
November[edit]
- November 1 - The Body Politic, Canada's first gay rights magazine hits newsstands.
- November 16 - U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy says he supports laws banning employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.
December[edit]
- December 14 - Sodomy laws: American gay rights activist group Gay Activists Alliance protest in front of the Suffolk County, New York police headquarters after two members were arrested for sodomy.
Births[edit]
Deaths[edit]
External links[edit]
- Web site for Advocate news magazine
- 365gay.com
- Google search for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender news
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