1970 in LGBT rights
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[edit] Events
[edit] March
- March 17 - American film Boys in the Band premiers, the first major studio release focusing solely on homosexuality issues.
[edit] June
- June 28 - In the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots, more than 2,000 people march in New York City as part of the first gay pride parade in the United States.
[edit] July
[edit] September
- September 5:
- Colombia changes "homosexual behavior" from a felony into a misdemeanor, and the maximum penalty is reduced to three years.
[edit] Births
- March 18 - Queen Latifah, American musician and actress1
1 - sexuality matter of dispute
[edit] Deaths
- April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, 59, American actress and burlesque performer1
- June 7 - E. M. Forster, 91, British novelist and short-story writer
- September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, 27, American musician and songwriter2
- October 4 - Janis Joplin, 27, American musician
1 - sexuality disputed; bisexual according to Gabriele Griffin's "Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing" (page 91)
2 - sexuality widely disputed; discharged from the U.S. army for having sexual tendencies towards other male soldiers
[edit] See also
- Timeline of LGBT history.
- Table of years in LGBT rights.
- 1925 in LGBT rights - 1934 in LGBT rights
- 1943 in LGBT rights - 1969 in LGBT rights (Stonewall)
- 1990 in LGBT rights.
