This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1983.
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Events edit
February edit
- In the 1983 by-election for the Bermondsey constituency in South London, Labour candidate Peter Tatchell loses a previously safe seat after a campaign dominated by attacks on his left-wing politics and homosexuality.
October edit
- 3 – In the United States, the AFL–CIO labor union votes to support gay rights legislation.
November edit
- New York governor Mario Cuomo issues an executive order banning public sexual orientation discrimination.[1]
December edit
- 30 – Ohio governor Richard Celeste issues Executive Order 83-64, which prohibits discrimination in state employment on the basis of sexual orientation.[2]
See also edit
- 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
References edit
- ^ http://www.buffalostate.edu/equity/documents/Orientation.doc Archived 2007-07-05 at the Wayback Machine (Microsoft Word document)
- ^ Ohio Court of Appeals, First District. Greenwood v. Taft, Stettinius & Hollister Archived 2010-12-14 at the Wayback Machine. Danpinello.com. 1995-09-13. Accessed: 2011-01-23.