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

Events

March

* 8 — Police, led by

Seymour Pine Seymour Pine (July 21, 1919 – September 2, 2010) was an American deputy police inspector with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) who served on the force from 1941 to 1976. As deputy inspector, he led the police raid on the Stonewall I ...

of the Stonewall raid the year before, raid an illegal gay bar called the Snake Pit in Greenwich Village. 167 people are arrested. * 17 — The film '' The Boys in the Band'' premieres in New York City.

April

* 7 ** ''

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,'' 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

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. * 13 — John Lindsay, the

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, was confronted by protestors from the

Gay Activist Alliance The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was founded in New York City on December 21, 1969, almost six months after the Stonewall riots, by dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). In contrast to the Liberation Front, the Activists Alliance ...

at the Metropolitan Opera House.

May

* 9 — A high school teacher named Ingrid Mykle Montano in

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, is forced to resign after parents complain about her inviting a gay man to speak in one of her sociology classes. * 21 — Bella Abzug speaks at a

meeting, becoming the first politician to court the LGBT community's votes in the United States.

June

* 12 — Lesbians Neva Joy Heckmann and Judith Ann Belew marry in

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. * 24 — The Rockefeller Five, five activists from the Gay Activists Alliance, are arrested during a sit-in at the Republican Senate Committee headquarters. * 27 — Chicago holds the first

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in the USA. * 28 — On the one-year anniversary of the

Stonewall riots The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of Ju ...

, 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.

July

* 1 — The Gay Liberation Task Force meets for the first time at the

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Annual Conference in

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September

* 5 —

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

October

* 13 — London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the

Gay Liberation Front Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was the name of several gay liberation groups, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots. Similar organizations also formed in the UK and Canada. The GLF provided a ...

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:1970 In Lgbt Rights LGBT rights by year 1970 in LGBT history