1975 in LGBT rights

Events

*Pennsylvania governor Milton Shapp, a Democrat, issues the first state executive order banning sexual orientation employment discrimination by the government. [ [http://eqfed.org/pagala/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=8825458 LGBT Civil Rights Bill Introduced in State Senate ] ]

February

*First gay-oriented television commercial aired on two network affiliate stations in Washington D.C.. Lambda Rising Bookstore sponsored the ads on episodes of "Phil Donahue" and "Marcus Welby, M.D.". Stations balked at airing the ads, but relented after getting approval from the Association of Broadcasters Standards Office.

July

*July 1:
**California decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
**Washington decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
*July 3:
**The United States Civil Service Commission ends its policy of automatic disqualification of applications from gays and lesbians.

Births

Deaths

* April 14 - Clyde Tolson, associate director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 40 year companion of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

External links

* [http://www.advocate.com Web site for Advocate news magazine]
* [http://www.365gay.com 365gay.com]
* [http://news.google.com/news?as_q=&svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=gay+lesbian+bisexual+transgender+homosexual&as_eq=&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&as_occt=any&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_minm=1&as_mind=20&as_maxm=2&as_maxd=19 Google search for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender news]
* [http://www.stonewall.org.uk/stonewall/information_bank/index.html Stonewall's information bank]

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