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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
June
- 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. [1]
September
- 5 — Colombia changes "homosexual behavior" from a felony into a misdemeanor, and the maximum penalty is reduced to three years.
November
- London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the Gay Liberation Front.[2]
Notes
- ↑ "Christopher Street Liberation Day March | Researching Greenwich Village History". greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ↑ Miller, p. 390
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.
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
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