Utah
Apostle Spencer W. Kimball speaks to seminary and institute teachers at BYU. A large portion of his talk entitled “A Counseling Problem in the Church” addressing homosexuality. “A cure for this malady [homosexuality] lies in self-mastery.”
National
“Life“ magazine runs positive cover story on “Homosexuality in America”
State equality and discrimination bills
President Lyndon Johnson
National
Jerry Herman a successful writer releases “Hello Dolly” as a single which would be incorporated into a Broadway show.
United States LGBT History for 1964
New York
Randy Wicker was one of the most visible homosexuals in New York. He spoke to countless church groups and college classes and became the first openly gay person to appear on East Coast television with an appearance on The Les Crane Show. Wicker is credited with organizing the first known gay rights demonstration in the United States. He was born Charles Gervin Hayden, Jr., in 1938 in Plainfield, New Jersey. When he told his family about his involvement in the nascent gay rights movement they asked him to change his name. He chose Randolfe Hayden Wicker and came to be known as Randy Wicker.
Washington D.C.
Series of public demonstrations held in Washington, D.C. by the East Coast Homophile Organizations to protest U.S. government discrimination against lesbians and gay men
California
First U.S. gay community center opens, in San Francisco, led by The Society for Individual Rights
New York
A proposed revision to a New York State law that would decriminalize “sexual deviation” (i.e., homosexuality and adultery) is praised by Episcopalians and denounced by Roman Catholics. The revision is later dropped by the NY state Legislature.
Oregon
Oregon Journal columnist Doug Baker states that the “Unmentionables,” his term for homosexuals, were so numerous in Portland that one local businessman promised to take “vigilante action” against them.
April 1 - Washington D.C.
The U.S. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, preventing states from infringing on the rights granted to African Americans by amendments to the U.S. constitution after the Civil War. Passage is considered the result of massive civil disobedience and protest campaigns led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and organized by Bayard Rustin.
Oregon
The Portland City Council asks the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to revoke the liquor licenses of all of Portland’s Gay and Lesbian bars. The OLCC refuses, noting that the bars are operating within the law.
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