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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1980.

• New York (inPeople v. Onofre)^[1] andPennsylvania (inCommonwealth v. Bonadio)^[2] become the firstU.S. states to hold same-sex sodomy laws unconstitutional. No other state's highest court will do so again until theKentucky Supreme Court issues its holding inKentucky v. Wasson in1992.^[3]

• 23 - Serving openly in the Colombian military becomes legal, however Sentence T-099 of the Colombian Supreme Court exempts trans women from serving.^[4]

• 1 - Gay Asians of Toronto is founded byRichard Fung.^[5]

• 2 - The Canadian Union of Postal Workers ratify a federal government document that includes a no-discrimination clause protecting sexual orientation.^[5]
• 3 — Voters inSan Jose andSanta Clara County, California, vote to repeal the city and county gay rights ordinances.^[6]

• 5 — TheLiberal Party of Canada adopts an official resolution to include sexual orientation in theCanadian Human Rights Act.^[7]
• 7 - Vancouver's first gay TV program,Gayblevision, airs.^[5]
• 31 — The Toronto Board of Education (since merged into theToronto District School Board) votes to consider whether to establish a permanent liaison committee with thegay community.

• Mel Boozer is nominated by petition for thevice presidency of the United States at the1980 Democratic National Convention.^[8] After addressing the convention, Boozer withdraws himself from consideration.^[9] Boozer was separately nominated for the office by theSocialist Party USA.^[10]

• 9 — The former municipality ofMetropolitan Toronto passes a declaration about being an equal opportunity employer, but refuses to pass a stronger Metro Bill of Rights which explicitly includes sexual orientation.
• 15 — At its first meeting, the subcommittee established by the Toronto Board of Education to explore the possibility of establishing a liaison with the gay community votes to disband.
• 10 - Germany passes the Transsexuellengesetz, allowing trans people to change their legal gender only if they get surgery, sterilization, and divorce.^[4]
• 18 — The Toronto Board of Education adopts a policy banning discrimination based on sexual orientation while adding a clause forbidding "proselytizing of homosexuality in the schools".^[11]

• 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

• Sears, Thomas James (2001).Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South. Rutgers University Press.ISBN 0-8135-2964-6.
• Shilts, Randy (1987).And the Band Played on: Politics, People, And the AIDS Epidemic. St. Martin's Press.ISBN 0-312-00994-1.
• Smith, Raymond A. and Donald P. Haider-Markel (2003).Gay and Lesbian Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO.ISBN 1-57607-256-8.

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