1970 in LGBTQ rights

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1970.

Events

8 Ã¢ÂÂ Police, led by Seymour Pine of the Stonewall raid the year before, raid an illegal gay bar called the Snake Pit in Greenwich Village. 167 people are arrested.
17 Ã¢ÂÂ The film The Boys in the Band premieres in New York City.

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Midnight Cowboy, the first major Hollywood film to feature a same-sex sexual encounter between two men, wins the Oscar for Best Picture.
John Schlesinger wins Best Director at the Academy Awards.
13 Ã¢ÂÂ John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York City, was confronted by protestors from the Gay Activist Alliance at the Metropolitan Opera House.

9 Ã¢ÂÂ A high school teacher named Ingrid Mykle Montano in Phoenix, Arizona, is forced to resign after parents complain about her inviting a gay man to speak in one of her sociology classes.
21 Ã¢ÂÂ Bella Abzug speaks at a Gay Activist Alliance meeting, becoming the first politician to court the LGBT community's votes in the United States.

12 Ã¢ÂÂ Lesbians Neva Joy Heckmann and Judith Ann Belew marry in Los Angeles.
24 Ã¢ÂÂ The Rockefeller Five, five activists from the Gay Activists Alliance, are arrested during a sit-in at the Republican Senate Committee headquarters.
27 Ã¢ÂÂ Chicago holds the first LGBT Pride parade in the USA.
28 Ã¢ÂÂ On the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots, what started out as a march on Christopher Street in New York City of a few hundred people turned into thousands of people ending in Central Park. It brought gay and lesbian individuals together to demonstrate that they were a sizable minority population.

1 Ã¢ÂÂ The Gay Liberation Task Force meets for the first time at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan.

5 Ã¢ÂÂ Colombia changes "homosexual behavior" from a felony into a misdemeanor, and the maximum penalty is reduced to three years.

13 Ã¢ÂÂ London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the Gay Liberation Front.