1979 in LGBT rights
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[edit] Events
[edit] March
[edit] May
- May 21:
- White Night Riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White uses the "Twinkie defense" to get a conviction of voluntary manslaughter instead of murder in the assassination of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.
- May 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.
[edit] June
- The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras is held for the first time, a year after the protest march in 1978.
[edit] September
- September 1:
- Harry Hay, his partner John Burnside, Don Kilhefner and Mitch Walker hold the first Radical Faerie gathering in Benson, Arizona with over 75 men in attendance.
- New Jersey decriminalizes private consensual homosexual acts.
- September 14:
- An education arbitration board in Smeaton, Saskatchewan orders Don Jones to be reinstated in his teaching job after he was fired for being gay.
[edit] October
- October 14
- Washington, DC - The largest gay rights march up to that time was held in the United States' capital - the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights with about 100,000 people in attendance.
