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The book Homosexual Behavior Among Males: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Species Investigation by Wainwright Churchill breaks ground as a scientific study approaching homosexuality as a fact of life rather than as a sin, crime or disease, and introduces the term "homoerotophobia", a possible precursor to "homophobia".
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then Canada's Minister of Justice, introduces an Omnibus Bill to overhaul Canada's criminal laws, which includes decriminalizing homosexual acts. Trudeau famously tells reporters, "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation," and "What’s done in private between two consenting adults doesn’t concern the Criminal Code." ^[1] After 18 months of debate, the bill becomes law in 1969.

A raid occurred at the Black Cat Bar, in the Silverlake area near Los Angeles, where some patrons fought back against the LAPD, fueling the formation of gay rights groups in California.^[2]

27 July - The Sexual Offences Act 1967 receives Royal Assent, decriminalizing sex between two men in private in England and Wales. The age of consent for sex acts between men is put at 21 (compared to 16 for acts between men and women)

27 November - Craig Rodwell opens Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first gay and lesbian bookstore, in Greenwich Village, New York City.