1971 in LGBT rights
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[edit] Events
- Dr. Frank Kameny becomes the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress when he runs in the District of Columbia's first election for a non-voting delegate to Congress.
[edit] January
[edit] March
- March 18
- March 24 - In a case granting citizenship to a Cuban man, a U.S. federal judge dismisses laws barring homosexuals from immigrating to the United States.
[edit] April
- April 1 - French magazine Tout seized by police who characterize its call for sexual liberation in that country an "outrage to public morals."
[edit] June
- June 1 - UK newspaper International Times loses an appeal on inndecency charges for running personal ads for gay men.
[edit] July
- July 1 - Gay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE) is founded as Canada's first gay rights organization.
- July 21 - George Klippert is released from prison, two years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Canada.
[edit] October
- October 12 - New York City Department of Consumer Affairs recommends the repeal of a city law banning homosexuals from working in or going to bars.
[edit] November
- November 1 - The Body Politic, Canada's first gay rights magazine hits newsstands.
- November 16 - U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, a Democrat, says he supports laws banning employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.
[edit] December
- December 14 - Sodomy laws: American gay rights activist group Gay Activists Alliance protest in front of the Suffolk County, New York police headquarters after two members were arrested for sodomy.
