1969 in LGBT rights
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[edit] Events
- California Assemblyman Willie Lewis Brown, Jr., a Democrat, starts an annual tradition of introducing legislation to repeal the state's sodomy law. He was finally successful in 1975.
- Paragraph 175 eased in West Germany.
- Paul Goodman publishes The Politics of Being Queer (1969)
[edit] May
- May 14 - Canada decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults with the passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69.
- May 18 - Minneapolis, Minnesota - FREE (Fight Repression of Erotic Expression) is formed at the University of Minnesota. It is the first student-led group in the United States for gay and lesbian collegians; it is also the first gay and lesbian organization in the state of Minnesota. Its successor is now called the Queer Student Cultural Center.
[edit] June
- June 27 - New York City - The Stonewall riots mark the start of the modern gay rights movement.
[edit] July
- July 1:
- The first "gay pride" demonstration takes place on Christopher Street in New York City.
[edit] October
- October 31:
- Time magazine runs a cover story entitled, "The Homosexual in America." The article's writer refers to homosexuals as mentally ill and immoral.
[edit] Births
- March 4 - Chastity Bono, LGBT activist, daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono.
- March 14 - Mary Cheney, second daughter of Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney
[edit] Deaths
- June 22 - Judy Garland, 47, entertainer and pop icon among gay men
- August 27 - Erika Mann, 64, writer, war correspondent and actress
- October 21 - Jack Kerouac, 47, writer, poet and artist
[edit] See also
- Timeline of LGBT history.
- 1912 in LGBT rights - 1925 in LGBT rights
- 1943 in LGBT rights - 1980 in LGBT rights
- 1990 in LGBT rights.
