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Original version of the gay pride flag, first flown in the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco

• The Briggs Initiative ("Prop. 6") which would have forbidden gays to teach in schools, is defeated in California. U.S. president Jimmy Carter announced his opposition to this measure at a rally in the state, the first such mention by a U.S. president.
• The city of Berkeley, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector.
• San Francisco adds Article 33 to the San Francisco Police Code, which prohibits discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on sexual orientation in the private sector.

April

• April 19 — 1,500 gays and supporters rallied on the steps of the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, in support of the gay rights provision in the city's human rights ordinance.
• April 25 — St. Paul, Minnesota, voters repealed a provision in the city's human rights ordinance that protected gays and lesbians from discrimination. The ordinance was repealed by a 2-to-1 margin; 54,096 in favor of repeal, 31,694 against.

May

• May 9 — Voters in the U.S. city of Wichita, Kansas, repeal a gay rights ordinance by a 2-to-1 margin; 47,276 for repeal, 10,500 against.
• May 23 — Voters in the U.S. city of Eugene, Oregon, repeal an ordinance banning discrimination against gays and lesbians by a 2-to-1 margin.

June

George Moscone (1929–1978)

Harvey Milk (1930—1978)

• June — In Sydney, a gay and lesbian protest march is held on International Gay Solidarity Day to commemorate the Stonewall Riots in the United States. Although the organisers of the march obtain permission, it is revoked at short notice, and police break up the march. 53 of the marchers are arrested, though charges are eventually dropped.
• June 25 — Rainbow flag first used as a symbol of gay pride. The original 8-striped version first flew in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978.

July

• July 1 — A gay protest rally is held in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (Canada), in response to a visit by Anita Bryant.
• July 5 — The Quebec Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission) rules that a Montreal Catholic school board's refusal to rent facilities to a gay group is discriminatory. This represents the first application of Quebec's anti-sexual-orientation-discrimination law since it was passed in 1977.
• July 27 — U.S. state of New Jersey repeals its anti-sodomy laws.

September

• September 10 — A protest is held in London, Ontario (Canada), in response to a visit by Anita Bryant.

November

• November 27 — Moscone–Milk assassinations occur in San Francisco. City mayor George Moscone and member of the city's Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk are assassinated at San Francisco City Hall by former city supervisor Dan White. That night a candlelight march of 30,000 people marched from Castro Street to City Hall in memory of the slain men.

December

• December 2 — Tom Reeves of the Boston-Boise Committee convened a meeting called "Man/Boy Love and the Age of Consent." Approximately 150 interested people attended. At the meeting's conclusion, about thirty men and youths decided to form an organization which they called the North American Man/Boy Love Association, or NAMBLA for short.

Deaths

• November 27 — San Francisco mayor George Moscone and member of the Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk. Milk, a gay activist, was the first openly gay man to hold an office at this high of a level in a major U.S. city.

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