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Events

  • San Francisco prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the public sector. The city also prohibits companies that have contracts with the city from discriminating based on sexual orientation.

January

  • January 1 — U.S. state of Hawaii repeals sodomy laws.

April

  • April 1 — U.S. state of Delaware decriminalizes consensual homosexual acts between adults.

June

July

  • July 10 — Ann Arbor, Michigan, becomes the first U.S. city to ban discrimination against homosexuals in housing, public accommodation, and employment.
  • July 12 — Delegate Jim Foster becomes the first openly gay person to address a major U.S. party's convention at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

Deaths

  • August 2 — Paul Goodman, U.S. poet, writer, and public intellectual. The freedom with which Goodman revealed, in print and in public, his homosexual life and loves proved to be one of the many important cultural springboards for the emerging gay liberation movement of the early 1970s.

See also

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