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List Of Years In LGBT Rights
See also *LGBTQ rights by country or territory — current legal status around the world *LGBTQ social movements — historical and contemporary movements *List of LGBT firsts by year *Timeline of LGBT history External links {{Lists of years LGBTQ rights by year, Human rights-related lists, LGBT Tables of years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th Century In LGBT Rights
This is a list of important events relating to the LGBT community from 1701 to 1800. Events 1700s 1704 * 12 December – The Province of New York adopted a statute issuing a general pardon for almost all pending prosecutions, including those for same-sex intercourse. They were abandoned as of that date. 1710s 1714 * 12 December – The Province of South Carolina adopts English common law and criminalizes buggery, punishing same-sex intercourse and zoophilia with the death penalty and forfeiture of property for males only. 1715 * Between 17 November and 19 January – The Province of North Carolina adopts English common law, thus criminalizing anal sex and bestiality with the death penalty. 1718 * 31 May – The Province of Pennsylvania adopts English common law, thus criminalizing anal sex and bestiality with the death penalty. * 14 May – The Province of New Hampshire reword their sodomy statute. 1719 * The Delaware Colony adopts English common law, thus punishing anal interc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1979. Events March * 1 — The new Penal Code of Cuba enters into force, decriminalizing homosexual acts. May * 21 — The White Night riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White is convicted of two counts of voluntary manslaughter instead of murder in the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. White had employed the so-called "Twinkie defense". * 29 — Los Angeles outlaws discrimination against homosexuals in private sector employment and in patronization of business establishments in its city. Mayor Thomas Bradley signs bills into effect July 2. September * 1 ** Harry Hay, his partner John Burnside, Don Kilhefner and Mitchell L. Walker hold the Spiritual Conference for Radical Fairies gathering in Benson, Arizona, with over 75 men in attendance. The success of the event leads the men to form Radical Faeries. ** U.S. state of New Jersey decriminalizes private consensua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1992. Events * The World Health Organization declassifies homosexuality as a mental illness in the latest edition of its list of diseases and health problems, the ICD-10. * U.S. state of California bans sexual orientation discrimination in the private sector. * U.S. states of Vermont and New Jersey ban sexual orientation discrimination in the private sector. * U.S. state of Oregon's Measure 8, approved in a referendum in 1988, is ruled unconstitutional by the Oregon Court of Appeals in the case known as ''Merrick v. Board of Higher Education'', meaning that the 1987 executive order banning public-sector discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation stands. * The City Council of Phoenix, Arizona, prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. * San Mateo County, California, bans employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1991. Events * U.S. state of Connecticut bans sexual orientation discrimination in the private sector. * U.S. state of Hawaii bans sexual orientation discrimination in the private sector. January * 29 — Minnesota governor Arne Carlson issues an executive order banning sexual orientation discrimination in the public sector. April * 16 — The United Kingdom Department of Health issued guidance banning social workers from allowing gay couples to become foster parents. May * 1 — Three same-sex couples file suit in Hawaii alleging that the state constitution guarantees their right to marry. * 19 — The Executive Council of Hong Kong votes to decriminalize homosexuality. August * 16 — New Jersey governor James Florio issues an executive order prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in the public sector. December * 17 — The Minnesota Court of Appeals, overturning a lower cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1990. Events * Reunification of West and East Germany — reunification treaty has an article to prevent West Germany's higher age of consent for sex between men taking effect in the former East Germany. * San Diego, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. February * 2 — The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in ''High Tech Gays v. Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office'' uses rational basis review and rules that the federal government can deny security clearances to homosexuals. March * Queer Nation, a direct action group is founded in New York City by activists from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). May * 10 — Direct action group OutRage! is formed in the United Kingdom October * 27 — The U.S. Congress repeals a law prohibiting gays from being admitted into the country. Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1989. Events * In the United Kingdom, the Stonewall gay rights lobbying group is founded. * In East Germany, Article 151 is deleted from the penal code. Homosexuality and heterosexuality were then treated equally with an age of consent of 14. * Long Beach, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. * Los Angeles County, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. March * 7 — The appeal of a transgender woman against UK law not allowing her to legally change sex and to marry a male is rejected by the European Commission of Human Rights, with one member dissenting and also arguing in favour of same-sex marriage. June * 7 — Denmark creates registered partnerships for same-sex couples, offering identical rights as marriage within the country. November * 7 — Voters repeal gay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1988. Events March * 4 — In South Africa, the Immorality Amendment Act, 1988 imposes an age of consent of 19 for lesbian sex, which had previously been unregulated by the law. This was higher than the age of 16 applying to heterosexual sex. April * In Hungary, Lambda becomes the first LGBT organisation to be registered, also becoming the first such official recognition of an LGBT organization in Central and Eastern Europe. May * May 24 — In the United Kingdom, the Conservative government passes Section 28, a clause that bans the " promotion of homosexuality" by local government. October * 11 — In the United States, National Coming Out Day is founded. * 15 — Alexandria, Virginia, bans discrimination in employment, housing and other practices based on sexual orientation. November * 8 — Voters in Oregon approve Measure 8, repealing Governor Neil Goldschmidt's 1987 executi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1987. Events *Radical AIDS activist group, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), organizes in New York City. *Cathedral City, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. May * 29 — Barney Frank, United States Congressman for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district since 1981, comes out as gay in an interview with ''The Boston Globe''. June * 25 — In ''San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee'' the United States Supreme Court rules that the Gay Games may not use the word "Olympic" in its name because of the trademark held by the USOC. September * 5 — The Homomonument, a memorial to LGBT victims of the Nazis, is dedicated at Amsterdam, Netherlands. October * Governor Neil Goldschmidt(D) of Oregon issues an executive order banning sexual orientation discrimination in state employment. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1986. Events * In New Zealand, the Homosexual Law Reform Act equalizes the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16, the legal age for heterosexual acts. The law was signed by the governor-general July 11, and came into effect August 8. * Davis, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. * Sacramento, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. March * 20 — New York City passes its first anti-discrimination bill. June * 30 — The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the constitutionality of the Georgia state sodomy law in ''Bowers v. Hardwick''. July * 7 — The United States Supreme Court denies certiorari in the case of ''Baker v. Wade'', a constitutional challenge to the sodomy law of Texas. October * 22 — In the battle against AIDS, Surgeon General of the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1985. Events * France prohibits discrimination based on lifestyle ("moeurs"), including homosexuality, in employment and services, public and private. March * 26 — The Supreme Court of the United States, being divided 4—4, affirms the ruling of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals which struck down an Oklahoma state law allowing teachers to be fired for "advocating, soliciting, imposing, encouraging or promoting public or private homosexual activity in a manner that creates a substantial risk that such conduct will come to the attention of school children or school employees". The appellate court found that the law infringed on First Amendment guarantees of free speech. April * 1 ** Harvey Milk High School holds its first classes in New York City. ** Governor Toney Anaya of New Mexico issues an executive order banning public-sector sexual orientation discrimination. May * 12 — The firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1984. Events * Laguna Beach, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. * Oakland, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector. * In Australia, homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in New South Wales and the Northern Territory. March * 14 — The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in '' National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education of the City of Oklahoma City'' rules that a statute allowing teachers to be fired for "advocating, soliciting, imposing, encouraging or promoting public or private homosexual activity in a manner that creates a substantial risk that such conduct will come to the attention of school children or school employees" is facially overbroad and infringes on First Amendment rights. November * 10 — In the United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 In LGBT Rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1983. Events February * In the 1983 by-election for the Bermondsey constituency in South London, Labour candidate Peter Tatchell loses a previously safe seat after a campaign dominated by attacks on his left-wing politics and homosexuality. October * 3 – In the United States, the AFL–CIO labor union votes to support gay rights legislation. November * 18 – New York governor Mario Cuomo signs an executive order banning public sexual orientation discrimination. December * 30 – Ohio governor Richard Celeste issues Executive Order 83-64, which prohibits discrimination in state employment on the basis of sexual orientation. 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 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
