This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1981.
Events
February
5 –
Toronto police raid city
bathhouses, arresting 286 people and charging 20 for operating a brothel (see
Operation Soap). No sex work was uncovered.[1][2]
6 – About 3,000 protestors stage the largest-ever
sit in protests in Toronto streets to decry city police raids on bath houses. This became seen as Toronto's version of the
Stonewall Riots.[1][2]
In France, the government of
François Mitterrand repeals Mirguet Amendment. A reform of the sex offences law equalises the age of consent (effect August 4 the following year).[5]