1972 in LGBTQ rights

none 1972 LGBT rights This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1972. Events San Francisco prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the public sector. The city also prohibits companies that have contracts with the city from discriminating based on sexual orientation.https://www.sfgayhistory.com/timeline/the-1970s/ The 1970s SF Gay History 27 September 2015 June 10, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20180109071625/https://www.sfgayhistory.com/timeline/the-1970s/ January 9, 2018 The U.S. state of Ohio repeals its sodomy law.Ohio https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/usa/ohio/ohio.htm 30 October 2023 www.glapn.org live https://web.archive.org/web/20230923202746/https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/usa/ohio/ohio.htm 23 September 2023Ohio Prohibited Consensual Sexual Activity Laws https://www.findlaw.com/state/ohio-law/ohio-prohibited-consensual-sexual-activity-laws.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20230330205450/https://www.findlaw.com/state/ohio-law/ohio-prohibited-consensual-sexual-activity-laws.html 30 March 2023 30 October 2023 FindLaw January 1 — U.S. state of Hawaii repeals its sodomy law.William N. Eskridge, Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 (NY: Penguin Group, 2008), 201, available online, accessed April 9, 2011 March 1 - Different parts of Norway legalize homosexual activity and age of consents becomes equal. 7 — East Lansing, Michigan, becomes the first United States city to ban discrimination against homosexuals in housing, public accommodation, and employment.Faderman, p. 228; American Independent: Todd Heywood, "East Lansing celebrates nation’s oldest LGBT nondiscrimination law," March 6, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120318194209/http://www.americanindependent.com/213471/east-lansing-celebrates-nations-oldest-lgbt-nondiscrimination-law March 18, 2012 , accessed March 6, 2012 April 1 — U.S. state of Delaware decriminalizes consensual homosexual acts between adults. 5 - Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia, Turkmenistan, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, all a part of the Soviet Union, recognizes the right to change legal gender with surgery. 21 - In Sweden, it becomes legal to change genders, but requires surgery.https://www.equaldex.com/timeline/1972 1972 in LGBT Rights History Equaldex June 10, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250421144531/https://www.equaldex.com/timeline/1972 April 21, 2025 21 - In Norway, homosexuality is decriminalized. June 27 — Gay News, the first gay magazine in the United Kingdom, publishes its first issue.https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item107459.html Gay News 1972 British Library March 4, 2021 July 1 — The U.K. Gay Liberation Front holds the first ever U.K. Gay Pride in London.25 April 2023 The Gay Liberation Front https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2023/04/25/the-gay-liberation-front/ 31 October 2023 LSE History live https://web.archive.org/web/20230713174023/https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2023/04/25/the-gay-liberation-front/ 13 July 2023'What I learnt from the first Pride march 50 years ago' https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/gay-pride-march-fifty-anniversary-glf-legacy/ 1 July 2022 31 October 2023 openDemocracy en live https://web.archive.org/web/20230716122425/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/gay-pride-march-fifty-anniversary-glf-legacy/ 16 July 2023 12 — Delegates Jim Foster and Madeline Davis become the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. political party's convention at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.Bianco, p. 318 24 — Peter Maloney announces his candidacy for the Toronto Board of Education in the Toronto municipal election, 1972, becoming Canada's first known openly gay political candidate."Homosexual plans to run for seat on school board". Toronto Star, July 25, 1972. October 10 — The United States Supreme Court issues its ruling in Baker v. Nelson, in which the plaintiffs sought to have Minnesota's restriction of marriage to different-sex couples declared unconstitutional. The Court dismisses the case "for want of a substantial federal question". Baker v. Nelson 409 US 810 United States Supreme Court 2010-10-10 https://www.scribd.com/doc/21017674/Baker-v-Nelson-409-U-S-810-1972 Deaths August 2 — Paul Goodman, U.S. poet, writer, and public intellectual. The freedom with which Goodman revealed, in print and in public, his homosexual life and loves proved to be one of the many important cultural springboards for the emerging gay liberation movement of the early 1970s.https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-goodman Paul Goodman 1911-1972 Poetry Foundation March 4, 2021 December 31 — Henry Gerber, German-born American LGBT rights activist. Founded the Society for Human Rights, the first LGBT organization in the United States.Henry Gerber Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame http://www.glhalloffame.org/index.pl?item=18&todo=view_item 2009-08-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20090703190650/http://www.glhalloffame.org/index.pl?todo=view_item&item=18 2009-07-03 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 References Bianco, David (1999). Gay Essentials: Facts For Your Queer Brain. Los Angeles, Alyson Publications. 1-55583-508-2. Faderman, Lillian (2007). Great Events From History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Events, 1848-2006. Salem Press. 1-58765-264-1. Category:1970s in LGBTQ rights Category:1972 in LGBTQ history