This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights that took place in the year 1971.

Events

  • Frank Kameny becomes the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress when he runs in the first election for the District of Columbia's non-voting delegate to Congress.
  • The Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action) forms in France.

March

  • 18 — Idaho decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults, but the repeal is itself repealed before taking effect.
  • 24 — In a case granting citizenship to a Cuban man, a federal judge rules that homosexuality alone cannot bar a person from becoming a United States citizen.

May

  • 15 — The first Gay Power march in Europe takes place in Örebro, Sweden, by a group called :sv:Gay Power Club.

July

  • 1
  • The Gay Alliance Toward Equality is founded as Canada's first gay rights organization.
  • In the United Kingdom, the International Times loses an appeal on indecency charges for running personal ads for gay men.
  • 10 — Austria decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.
  • 21 — George Klippert is released from prison, two years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Canada.

August

  • 28 - An "Age of Consent" protest is held in London.This protested the age of consent discrepancies between homosexual and heterosexuals couples.

October

  • 1 — Connecticut decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.

November

  • 1 — The Body Politic, Canada's first gay rights magazine, hits newsstands.

December

  • 14 — The U.S. 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.

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See also

  • Timeline of LGBT history — timeline of events from 12,000 BCE to present
  • LGBT rights by country or territory — current legal status around the world
  • LGBT social movements

Notes

References

  • Miller, Neil (1995). Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York, Vintage Books. .
  • Rutledge, Leigh (1992). The Gay Decades. New York: Penguin Books Ltd. .