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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1970.

Events[]

8 — Police, led by Seymour Pine of the Stonewall raid the year before, raide an illegal gay bar called the Snake Pit in Greenwich Village. Over 160 people are arrested.^[1]
17 — The film The Boys in the Band premieres in New York City.^[2]

7— Midnight Cowboy, the first major Hollywood film to feature a same-sex sexual encounter between two men, wins the Oscar for Best Picture. ^[3]
7 — John Schlesinger wins Best Director at the Academy Awards.^[4]
13 — John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York City, was confronted by protestors from the Gay Activist Alliance at the Metropolitan Opera House.^[5]

9 — A high school teacher named Ingrid Mykle Montano in Phoenix, Arizona, is forced to resign after parents complain about her inviting a gay man to speak in one of her sociology classes.^[6]
21— Bella Abzug speaks at a Gay Activist Alliance meeting, becoming the first politician to court the LGBT community's votes in the United States.^[7]

12 — Lesbians Neva Joy Heckmann and Judith Ann Belew marry in Los Angeles.^[8]
24 — The Rockefeller Five, five activists from the Gay Activists Alliance, are arrested during a sit-in at the Republican Senate Committee headquarters.^[9]
27 — Chicago holds the first LGBT Pride parade the USA^[10]
28 — On the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots, what started out as a march on Christopher Street in New York City of a few hundred people turned into thousands of people ending in Central Park. It brought gay and lesbian individuals together to demonstrate that they were a sizable minority population. ^[11]

1 — The Gay Liberation Task Force meets for the first time at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan.^[12]

5 — Colombia changes "homosexual behavior" from a felony into a misdemeanor, and the maximum penalty is reduced to three years.^[13]

London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the Gay Liberation Front.^[14]

^ "The Snake Pit". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
^ Canby, Vincent (18 March 1970). "Screen: 'Boys in the Band': Crowley Study of Male Homosexuality Opens". The New York Times.
^ "Midnight Cowboy Awards". IMDB. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
^ "The 42nd Academy Awards | 1970". Oscars.
^ Cohen, Sascha (10 July 2018). "How Gay Activists Challenged the Politics of Civility". Smithsonian.
^ "Teacher Quits in Homosexual Dispute". The New York Times. 10 May 1970.
^ Myers, JoAnne (2009). The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage. Scarecrow Press. pp. 42. ISBN 978-0810863279.
^ Zeitz, Josh (28 April 2015). "The Making of the Marriage Equality Revolution". Politico.
^ Bonanos, Christopher (24 June 2014). "A Photographic Look at the Birth of Gay Pride". Intelligencer.
^ Rumore, Kori (24 June 2018). "Pride Parade guide: Map, times, transit and a brief history". Chicago Tribune.
^ "Christopher Street Liberation Day March | Researching Greenwich Village History". greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
^ Rayman, Denise (24 October 2013). ""Lots of Love (of both the revolutionary and non-revolutionary kind)": the History of the ALA's GLBT Round Table". University of Illinois Archives.
^ Annetta, Michael (September 5, 2013). "September 5 in LGBTQ History". The Lavender Effect. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
^ Miller, p. 390

Miller, Neil (1995). Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York, Vintage Books. ISBN 0-09-957691-0.