This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1972.

List of years in LGBT rights (table)
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Events

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  • San Francisco prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the public sector. The city also prohibits companies that have contracts with the city from discriminating based on sexual orientation.[citation needed]
  • The U.S. state of Ohio repeals its sodomy law.[1][2]

January

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  • 1 — U.S. state of Hawaii repeals its sodomy law.[3]

March

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  • 7 — East Lansing, Michigan, becomes the first United States city to ban discrimination against homosexuals in housing, public accommodation, and employment.[4]

April

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  • 1 — U.S. state of Delaware decriminalizes consensual homosexual acts between adults.[3]

June

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July

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October

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Deaths

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  • August 2 — Paul Goodman, U.S. poet, writer, and public intellectual. The freedom with which Goodman revealed, in print and in public, his homosexual life and loves proved to be one of the many important cultural springboards for the emerging gay liberation movement of the early 1970s.[11]
  • December 31 — Henry Gerber, German-born American LGBT rights activist. Founded the Society for Human Rights, the first LGBT organization in the United States.[12]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Ohio". www.glapn.org. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Ohio Prohibited Consensual Sexual Activity Laws". FindLaw. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b William N. Eskridge, Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 (NY: Penguin Group, 2008), 201, available online, accessed April 9, 2011
  4. ^ Faderman, p. 228; American Independent: Todd Heywood, "East Lansing celebrates nation’s oldest LGBT nondiscrimination law," March 6, 2012 Archived March 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 6, 2012
  5. ^ "Gay News 1972". British Library. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  6. ^ "The Gay Liberation Front". LSE History. 25 April 2023. Archived from the original on 13 July 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  7. ^ "'What I learnt from the first Pride march 50 years ago'". openDemocracy. 1 July 2022. Archived from the original on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  8. ^ Bianco, p. 318
  9. ^ "Homosexual plans to run for seat on school board". Toronto Star, July 25, 1972.
  10. ^ Baker v. Nelson, 409 US 810 (United States Supreme Court 2010-10-10).
  11. ^ "Paul Goodman 1911-1972". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  12. ^ "Henry Gerber". Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-08-26.

References

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  • Bianco, David (1999). Gay Essentials: Facts For Your Queer Brain. Los Angeles, Alyson Publications. ISBN 1-55583-508-2.
  • Faderman, Lillian (2007). Great Events From History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Events, 1848-2006. Salem Press. ISBN 1-58765-264-1.