8 — Police, led by Seymour Pine of the Stonewall raid the year before, raid an illegal gay bar called the Snake Pit in Greenwich Village. 167 people are arrested.^[1]^[2]
17 — The film The Boys in the Band premieres in New York City.^[3]

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- Midnight Cowboy, the first major Hollywood film to feature a same-sex sexual encounter between two men, wins the Oscar for Best Picture.^[4]
- John Schlesinger wins Best Director at the Academy Awards.^[5]
13 — John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York City, was confronted by protestors from the Gay Activist Alliance at the Metropolitan Opera House.^[6]

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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.^[7]
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.^[8]

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12 — Lesbians Neva Joy Heckmann and Judith Ann Belew marry in Los Angeles.^[9]
24 — The Rockefeller Five, five activists from the Gay Activists Alliance, are arrested during a sit-in at the Republican Senate Committee headquarters.^[10]
27 — Chicago holds the first LGBT Pride parade in the USA.^[11]
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.^[12]

July

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1 — The Gay Liberation Task Force meets for the first time at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan.^[13]

September

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5 — Colombia changes "homosexual behavior" from a felony into a misdemeanor, and the maximum penalty is reduced to three years.^[14]

October

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13 — London gay activists hold the first meeting of the London incarnation of the Gay Liberation Front.^[15]^[16]

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^ "The Snake Pit". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.

^ "Homosexuals Hold Protest in 'Village' After Raid Nets 167". The New York Times. 1970-03-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-29.

^ 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. Archived from the original on 2 June 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2019.

^ 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.

^ "Gay Liberation Front Manifesto". Bishopsgate Institute. Retrieved 2023-10-29. The first meeting was held on 13 October 1970 at the London School of Economics.

^ George, Tom. "Photographs and stories from the first London Pride march in 1972". i-d.vice.com. Retrieved 2023-10-29. 'The picture was a mixture of men and women all having a good time, and it said to meet at six o'clock on Wednesday 13 October. [...] That was the first ever meeting of the UK Gay Liberation Front.'

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