1970 in LGBTQ rights

none 1970 LGBT rights 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.https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/the-snake-pit/ The Snake Pit NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project1970-03-09 Homosexuals Hold Protest in 'Village' After Raid Nets 167 en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/09/archives/homosexuals-hold-protest-in-village-after-raid-nets-167.html 2023-10-29 0362-4331 17 — The film The Boys in the Band premieres in New York City.https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/18/archives/screen-boys-in-the-bandcrowley-study-of-male-homosexuality-opens.html Screen: 'Boys in the Band': Crowley Study of Male Homosexuality Opens Canby Vincent 18 March 1970 The New York Times 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.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/awards Midnight Cowboy Awards IMDB March 4, 2021 John Schlesinger wins Best Director at the Academy Awards.https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1970 The 42nd Academy Awards 1970 Oscars 4 October 2014 13 — John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York City, was confronted by protestors from the Gay Activist Alliance at the Metropolitan Opera House.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-gay-activists-challenged-politics-civility-180969579/ How Gay Activists Challenged the Politics of Civility Cohen Sascha 10 July 2018 Smithsonian 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.https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/10/archives/teacher-quits-in-homosexual-dispute.html Teacher Quits in Homosexual Dispute 10 May 1970 The New York Times 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.The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage https://archive.org/details/tozlesbianlibera00myer limited Myers JoAnne Scarecrow Press 2009 978-0810863279 42 June 12 — Lesbians Neva Joy Heckmann and Judith Ann Belew marry in Los Angeles.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/gay-marriage-revolution-evan-wolfson-117412_Page2.html The Making of the Marriage Equality Revolution Zeitz Josh 28 April 2015 Politico 5 March 2019 2 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200602220232/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/gay-marriage-revolution-evan-wolfson-117412_Page2.html/ dead 24 — The Rockefeller Five, five activists from the Gay Activists Alliance, are arrested during a sit-in at the Republican Senate Committee headquarters.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/06/photographic-look-at-the-birth-of-gay-pride.html A Photographic Look at the Birth of Gay Pride Bonanos Christopher 24 June 2014 Intelligencer 27 — Chicago holds the first LGBT Pride parade in the USA.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-chicago-gay-pride-fest-parade-history-2018-htmlstory.html Pride Parade guide: Map, times, transit and a brief history Rumore Kori 24 June 2018 Chicago Tribune 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.https://greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com/tag/christopher-street-liberation-day-march/ Christopher Street Liberation Day March Researching Greenwich Village History greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com en 2018-04-10 July 1 — The Gay Liberation Task Force meets for the first time at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan.https://archives.library.illinois.edu/ala/lots-love-revolutionary-non-revolutionary-kind-history-glbt-round-table/ "Lots of Love (of both the revolutionary and non-revolutionary kind)": the History of the ALA's GLBT Round Table Rayman Denise 24 October 2013 University of Illinois Archives September 5 — Colombia changes "homosexual behavior" from a felony into a misdemeanor, and the maximum penalty is reduced to three years.https://www.thelavendereffect.org/2013/09/05/september-5-in-lgbtq-history/ Annetta Michael September 5 in LGBTQ History September 5, 2013 The Lavender Effect March 4, 2021 October 13 — London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the Gay Liberation Front.Gay Liberation Front Manifesto https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/gay-liberation-front-manifesto 2023-10-29 Bishopsgate Institute en "The first meeting was held on 13 October 1970 at the London School of Economics."George Tom Photographs and stories from the first London Pride march in 1972 https://i-d.co/article/first-london-pride-march-1972/ 2023-10-29 i-d.vice.com en "'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.'" See also LGBTQ 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 Category:1970s in LGBTQ rights Category:1970 in LGBTQ history