1971 in LGBT rights

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights that took place in the year 1971.

Events

 * Frank Kameny becomes the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress when he runs in the first election for the District of Columbia's non-voting delegate to Congress.
 * The Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action) forms in France.

March

 * 18 — Idaho decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults, but the repeal is itself repealed before taking effect.
 * 24 — In a case granting citizenship to a Cuban man, a federal judge rules that homosexuality alone cannot bar a person from becoming a United States citizen.

April

 * 1 — The French magazine Tout is seized by police, who characterize its call for sexual liberation in that country an "outrage to public morals".

July

 * 1
 * The Gay Alliance Toward Equality is founded as Canada's first gay rights organization.
 * In the United Kingdom, the International Times loses an appeal on indecency charges for running personal ads for gay men.
 * 10 — Austria decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.
 * 21 — George Klippert is released from prison, two years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Canada.

October

 * 1 — Connecticut decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.
 * 12 — The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs recommends the repeal of a city law banning homosexuals from working in or going to bars.

November

 * 1 — The Body Politic, Canada's first gay rights magazine, hits newsstands.

December

 * 14 — The U.S. gay rights activist group Gay Activists Alliance protest in front of the Suffolk County, New York, police headquarters after two members were arrested for sodomy.