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1975 in LGBTQ rights

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Overview of the events of 1975 in LGBT rights

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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1975.

Events

January

1 -California decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.^[1]^[2]
7 — AMaricopa County clerk issues a marriage license to a same-sex couple.^[3]

February

The first gay-oriented television commercial airs on twoWashington, D.C. stations. TheLambda Rising bookstore sponsored the ads on episodes ofPhil Donahue andMarcus Welby, M.D.. Stations balked at airing the ads, but relented after getting approval from the Association of Broadcasters Standards office.^[4]^[5]
6 -John Damien, a racing steward atWoodbine Racetrack inToronto,Ontario, Canada, is fired from his job for beinggay, sparking a legal battle that eventually leads to the inclusion of sexual orientation in theOntario Human Rights Code in 1986.^[6]

March

26 —Boulder County, Colorado clerk Clela Rorex begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.^[7]Colorado Attorney General J.D. MacFarlane later issues an opinion that the licenses are invalid and orders that no additional licenses be issued.^[3]

April

Milton Shapp, governor of theU.S. state ofPennsylvania, issues the first state executive order banning sexual orientation employment discrimination by the government.^[8]

July

1 — The U.S. state ofWashington decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.^[9]
3 — TheUnited States Civil Service Commission ends its policy of automatically disqualifying gay and lesbian applicants.^[10]

Deaths

February 10 —Lige Clarke, LGBT rights activist and journalist. Murdered inVera Cruz, Mexico.^[11]

See also

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

References

^Painter, George."The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States - California".www.glapn.org. Retrieved1 November 2023.After years of lobbying, and after the adoption of the explicit privacy language in the California Constitution, a consenting adults law was enacted in 1975.
^Tayrien, Mary Lee (1976)."CALIFORNIA "CONSENTING ADULTS" LAW: THE SEX ACT IN PERSPECTIVE".San Diego Law Review.13 (439): 440. Archived fromthe original on September 7, 2020. RetrievedJune 11, 2025.
^^a ^bLahey, Kathleen A. and Kevin Alderson (2004).Same-sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political, p. 18. Insomniac Press.ISBN 1-894663-63-2
^O'Bryan, Will (June 8, 2005)."Firmly Rooted".Metro Weekly. Archived fromthe original on September 15, 2015. RetrievedJune 11, 2025.
^Sue Levin,In the Pink: The Making of Successful Gay- and Lesbian-Owned Businesses, Haworth Press, 1999.ISBN 978-1560239413; Frank Muzzy,Gay and Lesbian Washington D.C., Arcadia Publishing, 2005.ISBN 0-7385-1753-4
^Robert Rothon,"The forgotten hero".Xtra Magazine, January 17, 2007.
^"Colo. Clerk Recalls Issuing Same-Sex-Marriage Licenses — In 1975".NPR.org. July 18, 2014. Retrieved2015-09-04.
^Burton, William (8 October 2018)."The story of how Pennsylvania's governor became an unlikely LGBTQ hero".LGBTQ Nation. Retrieved1 November 2023.
^"Chapter 9.79.100 RCW Dispositions Sex Crimes".Washington State Legislature. RetrievedJune 11, 2025.
^Johnson, David K. (2009).The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, p 210. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.ISBN 0226401960
^Bullough, Vern L. (2002).Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Contextp. 239. Routledge.ISBN 1-56023-193-9

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