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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1971.
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[edit] Events
- Frank Kameny becomes the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress when he runs in the first election for the District of Columbia's non-voting delegate to Congress.
- The Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action) forms in France.[1]
[edit] March
- 18 — Idaho decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults, but the repeal is itself repealed before taking effect.[2]
- 24 — In a case granting citizenship to a Cuban man, a federal judge rules that homosexuality alone cannot bar a person from becoming a United States citizen.[2]
[edit] April
- 1 — The French magazine Tout is seized by police, who characterize its call for sexual liberation in that country an "outrage to public morals".[3]
[edit] July
- 1
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- The Gay Alliance Toward Equality is founded as Canada's first gay rights organization.
- In the United Kingdom, the International Times loses an appeal on indecency charges for running personal ads for gay men.[4]
- 10 — Austria decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.[5]
- 21 — George Klippert is released from prison, two years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Canada.
[edit] October
- 1 — Connecticut decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.[5]
- 12 — The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs recommends the repeal of a city law banning homosexuals from working in or going to bars.[6]
[edit] November
- 1 — The Body Politic, Canada's first gay rights magazine, hits newsstands.
[edit] December
- 14 — The U.S. 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.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Miller, p. 392
- ^ a b Rutledge, p. 33
- ^ Rutledge, pp. 33–4
- ^ Rutledge, pp. 36–7
- ^ a b Rutledge, p. 38
- ^ Rutledge, p. 40
[edit] References
- Miller, Neil (1995). Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York, Vintage Books. ISBN 0099576910.
- Rutledge, Leigh (1992). The Gay Decades. New York: Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN 0452268109.
[edit] 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
