This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1970.
Events
March
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]
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]
June
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]
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]
^"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.'