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

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]

7— Midnight Cowboy, the first major Hollywood film to feature a same-sex sexual encounter between two men, wins the Oscar for Best Picture.
7 — John Schlesinger wins Best Director at the Academy Awards.[3]
13 — John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York City, was confronted by protestors from the Gay Activist Alliance at the Metropolitan Opera House.[4]

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.[5]
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.[6]

12 — Lesbians Neva Joy Heckmann and Judith Ann Belew marry in Los Angeles[7]
24 — The Rockefeller Five, five activists from the Gay Activists Alliance, were arrested during a sit-in at the Republican Senate Committee headquarters.[8]
27 — Chicago holds the first LGBT Pride parade the USA[9]
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. [10]

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

London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the Gay Liberation Front.[12]

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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