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Events

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• The city of Washington, D.C., adopts a human rights code banning sexual orientation discrimination in private employment.^[1] This code replaces previous legislation such as Title 34, enacted in 1973 which also granted sexual orientation protection.
• Dade County, Florida, in the United States, enacts a Human Rights Ordinance providing that rights can not be abridged on the basis of sexuality.

February

• February 7 — The city council of Tucson, Arizona, passes an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing and public accommodation.

May

• May 21 — 750 gays and lesbians and supporters in Minneapolis protest the appearance of Anita Bryant who had arrived to perform at the opening of a fruit warehouse.

June

• June 7 — Save Our Children, a campaign founded by Anita Bryant, trading on fears of homosexual "recruitment" and child molestation, results in a repeal of Dade County, Florida's, Civil Rights Ordinance by an overwhelming margin of 69% to 31%.
• June 16 — In Houston, Texas, a protest demonstration of 6,000 gays, lesbians and supporters marches through downtown when Anita Bryant arrives to entertain at a banquet.

July

• July 21 — In Ontario, a committee recommends that the Ontario Human Rights Code be amended to include sexual orientation.

September

• September 1 — The present-day Log Cabin Republicans organization is founded as the "Gay Republicans" club, a group of lesbians and gays within the United States' Republican Party.

October

Anita Bryant, immediately after being pied at a news conference.

• October 14 — Minneapolis gay rights activist Thom Higgins throws a banana cream a pie into the face of Anita Bryant during a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa.
• October 15 — The school board of Santa Barbara, California, votes to ban discrimination against students based on sexual orientation.

November

• November 8 — Harvey Milk becomes the first openly gay man to be elected in a major U.S. city when he is elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The man who would assassinate Milk and city mayor George Moscone less than eleven months later—Dan White—is also elected as head of the Board of Supervisors on this day.
• November 28 — Aspen becomes the first city in the U.S. state of Colorado to pass a gay rights ordinance.

December

• December 15 — Quebec becomes the first jurisdiction (larger than a city or county) in the world to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, certain services and other activities in the public and private sectors.

See also

LGBT portal

• 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

References