1969 in LGBT rights

Events

 * California state assemblyman Willie Brown starts an annual tradition of introducing legislation to repeal the state's sodomy law. He would finally succeed in 1975.
 * Paragraph 175 eased in West Germany.
 * Paul Goodman publishes The Politics of Being Queer

May

 * 14 — Canada decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults with the passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69.
 * 18 — Fight Repression of Erotic Expression ("FREE"), later to be called the Queer Student Cultural Center, is formed at the University of Minnesota in the United States. It is the first gay and lesbian organization in the state, and the first gay and lesbian college student-led group in the country.

June

 * June 27 — The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement.

July

 * 1 — The first "gay pride" demonstration takes place on Christopher Street in New York City.

October

 * 31 — Time magazine runs a cover story entitled, "The Homosexual in America." The article's writer refers to homosexuals as mentally ill and immoral.

Births

 * March 4 — Chaz Bono, gay activist, son of Cher and Sonny Bono.