1976 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 1976.

Events

1 — Iowa repeals its "sexual psychopath" law.^[1] Passed in the wake of a moral panic following the 1954 rape and murder of a young boy, the law had been used to detain dozens of gay men in mental institutions in the 1950s.

City council of Los Angeles prohibits employment discrimination by the city based on sexual orientation.

1 — U.S. state of Indiana decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.

4 — Start of the three-day "Fourth Annual Gay Conference for Canada and Quebec," held in Toronto, including a rally and march.

Miller, Neil (2002). Sex-crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s. Los Angeles, Alyson Books. ISBN 1-55583-659-3.