1976 in LGBT rights

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Wikipedia on Answers.com:

1976 in LGBT rights

Top
            List of years in LGBT rights       (table)
... 1966 .  1967 .  1968 .  1969  . 1970  . 1971  . 1972 ...
1973 1974 1975 -1976- 1977 1978 1979
... 1980 .  1981 .  1982 .  1983  . 1984  . 1985  . 1986 ...
Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +...

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1976.

Contents

Events

January

  • 1 — Iowa repeals its "sexual psychopath" law.[1] Passed in the wake of a moral panic following the 1954 rape and murder of a young boy, the law had been used to detain dozens of gay men in mental institutions in the 1950s.

May

July

  • 1 — U.S. state of Indiana decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.

September

  • 4 — Start of the three-day "Fourth Annual Gay Conference for Canada and Quebec," held in Toronto, including a rally and march.

Notes

  1. ^ Miller (2002), p. 296

References

  • Miller, Neil (2002). Sex-crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s. Los Angeles, Alyson Books. ISBN 1-55583-659-3.

See also


Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

Copyrights: