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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, raide an illegal gay bar called the Snake Pit in Greenwich Village. Over 160 people are arrested.[1]
- 17 — The film The Boys in the Band premieres in New York City.[2]
April
- 7— Midnight Cowboy, the first major Hollywood film to feature a same-sex sexual encounter between two men, wins the Oscar for Best Picture. [3]
- 7 — John Schlesinger wins Best Director at the Academy Awards.[4]
- 13 — John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York City, was confronted by protestors from the Gay Activist Alliance at the Metropolitan Opera House.[5]
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.[6]
- 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.[7]
June
- 12 — Lesbians Neva Joy Heckmann and Judith Ann Belew marry in Los Angeles.[8]
- 24 — The Rockefeller Five, five activists from the Gay Activists Alliance, are arrested during a sit-in at the Republican Senate Committee headquarters.[9]
- 27 — Chicago holds the first LGBT Pride parade the USA[10]
- 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. [11]
July
- 1 — The Gay Liberation Task Force meets for the first time at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan.[12]
September
- 5 — Colombia changes "homosexual behavior" from a felony into a misdemeanor, and the maximum penalty is reduced to three years.[13]
November
- London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the Gay Liberation Front.[14]
See also
- 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
Notes
- ^ "The Snake Pit". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (18 March 1970). "Screen: 'Boys in the Band': Crowley Study of Male Homosexuality Opens". The New York Times.
- ^ "Midnight Cowboy Awards". IMDB. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
- ^ "The 42nd Academy Awards | 1970". Oscars.
- ^ Cohen, Sascha (10 July 2018). "How Gay Activists Challenged the Politics of Civility". Smithsonian.
- ^ "Teacher Quits in Homosexual Dispute". The New York Times. 10 May 1970.
- ^ Myers, JoAnne (2009). The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage. Scarecrow Press. pp. 42. ISBN 978-0810863279.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bonanos, Christopher (24 June 2014). "A Photographic Look at the Birth of Gay Pride". Intelligencer.
- ^ Rumore, Kori (24 June 2018). "Pride Parade guide: Map, times, transit and a brief history". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Christopher Street Liberation Day March | Researching Greenwich Village History". greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Annetta, Michael (September 5, 2013). "September 5 in LGBTQ History". The Lavender Effect. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
- ^ Miller, p. 390
References
- Miller, Neil (1995). Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York, Vintage Books. ISBN 0-09-957691-0.
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