1971 in LGBT rights

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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights that took place in the year 1971.

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.^[1]
• The Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action) forms in France.^[2]

March

• 18 — Idaho decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults, but the repeal is itself repealed before taking effect.^[3]
• 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.^[3]

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".^[4]

July

• 1
  • 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.^[5]
• 10 — Austria decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.^[6]
• 21 — George Klippert is released from prison, two years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Canada.^[7]

October

• 1 — Connecticut decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.^[6]
• 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.^[8]

November

• 1 — The Body Politic, Canada's first gay rights magazine, hits newsstands.

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.

Notes

1. ↑ Boldt, David R. (February 23, 1971). "Homosexual Files Delegate Papers: Number of Contestants Is Now Eight". The Washington Post. 
2. ↑ Miller, p. 392
3. 1 2 Rutledge, p. 33
4. ↑ Rutledge, pp. 33–4
5. ↑ Rutledge, pp. 36–7
6. 1 2 Rutledge, p. 38
7. ↑ "Man imprisoned for being gay to get posthumous pardon from Trudeau". CBC. February 28, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2016. 
8. ↑ Rutledge, p. 40

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.
• Rutledge, Leigh (1992). The Gay Decades. New York: Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN 0-452-26810-9.

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