1970 in LGBT rights

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

Events

March

  • 8 — Police, led by Seymour Pine of the Stonewall raid the year before, raid an illegal gay bar called the Snake Pit in Greenwich Village. 167 people are arrested.[1][2]
  • 17 — The film The Boys in the Band premieres in New York City.[3]

April

May

  • 9 — A high school teacher named Ingrid Mykle Montano in Phoenix, Arizona, is forced to resign after parents complain about her inviting a gay man to speak in one of her sociology classes.[7]
  • 21 — Bella Abzug speaks at a Gay Activist Alliance meeting, becoming the first politician to court the LGBT community's votes in the United States.[8]

June

  • 12 — Lesbians Neva Joy Heckmann and Judith Ann Belew marry in Los Angeles.[9]
  • 24 — The Rockefeller Five, five activists from the Gay Activists Alliance, are arrested during a sit-in at the Republican Senate Committee headquarters.[10]
  • 27 — Chicago holds the first LGBT Pride parade in the USA.[11]
  • 28 — On the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots, what started out as a march on Christopher Street in New York City of a few hundred people turned into thousands of people ending in Central Park. It brought gay and lesbian individuals together to demonstrate that they were a sizable minority population.[12]

July

September

  • 5 — Colombia changes "homosexual behavior" from a felony into a misdemeanor, and the maximum penalty is reduced to three years.[14]

October


See also

Notes

  1. ^ "The Snake Pit". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
  2. ^ "Homosexuals Hold Protest in 'Village' After Raid Nets 167". The New York Times. 1970-03-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  3. ^ Canby, Vincent (18 March 1970). "Screen: 'Boys in the Band': Crowley Study of Male Homosexuality Opens". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Midnight Cowboy Awards". IMDB. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  5. ^ "The 42nd Academy Awards | 1970". Oscars. 4 October 2014.
  6. ^ Cohen, Sascha (10 July 2018). "How Gay Activists Challenged the Politics of Civility". Smithsonian.
  7. ^ "Teacher Quits in Homosexual Dispute". The New York Times. 10 May 1970.
  8. ^ Myers, JoAnne (2009). The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage. Scarecrow Press. pp. 42. ISBN 978-0810863279.
  9. ^ Zeitz, Josh (28 April 2015). "The Making of the Marriage Equality Revolution". Politico. Archived from the original on 2 June 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  10. ^ Bonanos, Christopher (24 June 2014). "A Photographic Look at the Birth of Gay Pride". Intelligencer.
  11. ^ Rumore, Kori (24 June 2018). "Pride Parade guide: Map, times, transit and a brief history". Chicago Tribune.
  12. ^ "Christopher Street Liberation Day March | Researching Greenwich Village History". greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  13. ^ Rayman, Denise (24 October 2013). ""Lots of Love (of both the revolutionary and non-revolutionary kind)": the History of the ALA's GLBT Round Table". University of Illinois Archives.
  14. ^ Annetta, Michael (September 5, 2013). "September 5 in LGBTQ History". The Lavender Effect. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  15. ^ "Gay Liberation Front Manifesto". Bishopsgate Institute. Retrieved 2023-10-29. The first meeting was held on 13 October 1970 at the London School of Economics.
  16. ^ George, Tom. "Photographs and stories from the first London Pride march in 1972". i-d.vice.com. Retrieved 2023-10-29. 'The picture was a mixture of men and women all having a good time, and it said to meet at six o'clock on Wednesday 13 October. [...] That was the first ever meeting of the UK Gay Liberation Front.'