January 1 - National
Peter McWilliams a self-help writer and activist for Marijuana publishes his first book “Surviving the Loss of a Love”.
January 1 - National
Warren Casey produced one of the most notorious musicals ever written…” Grease”
State equality and discrimination bills
January 1 – Virginia
Liberty University is founded by Jerry Falwell as a private Christian college, an accredited Christian university for evangelical believers.
October 1 - New York
Silvia Rivera, of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent, co-founds Street Transvestites for Gay Power (later Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries [STAR] with Marsha Johnson, an African American activist.
January 1 - Oregon
First identified worship service of a Metropolitan Community Church held at Centenary-Wilbur Methodist Church. The attempt falters, but eventually the congregation is established in 1976 under guidance from Denis Moore, David and John Rushong, and Nita Gates.
December 29 - National
Casey Donovan, model and teacher films “Boys on the Sand” and starts his career in pornography.
September 8 - National
The movie “Sunday bloody Sunday” is released. Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
January 1 - National
Patrick Cowley leaves for San Francisco to study music and later is accredited as the pioneer of electronic dance music. He is one of the first gay men to die from a misdiagnosis of HIV.
March 18 - Idaho
Idaho repeals its sodomy law, then re-instates it because of outrage among Mormons and Catholics.
January 1 - Oregon
Second Foundation organized by committee of Fr. Kiernan Healy, Neil Hutchins, and Dennis Kennedy. Officers are George Oberg, Larry Beck, and Dave Fredrickson. Holds dance in the Pythian Building for first National Gay Pride week.
The Second Foundation launches a newspaper called The Fountain. It is the first specifically gay periodical in Oregon.
June 1 - National
The Unitarian Universalist Church publishes the About Your Sexuality (AYS) curriculum, which attempts to teach a more positive attitude towards homosexuality and bisexuality.
October 1 - Washington D.C.
Dr. Frank Kameny becomes the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress.
January 1 - Oregon
Several feminist lesbians form the Prescott House as a halfway house for women who are getting out of prison that later becomes the Bradley Angle House.
Janaury 1 - National
Paul Rosenfels a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst published “Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process”
July 2 - Oregon
Oregon repeals the 1913 sodomy statute, effective January 1, 1972. The law and its court interpretations had criminalized most types of homosexual conduct. With the reform, all consensual adult private non-commercial sexual conduct is legal. Oregon is the fourth state in the union to repeal its sodomy statute. Despite the repeal, a catch-all solicitation law, "accosting for deviate purposes" is added to the code.
March 1 - National
The first national Dignity newsletter called “Insight” is published for Catholics, with Bob Fournier as Editor.
Patrick Cowley
February 1 - National
“All In the Family” becomes the first television sitcom to tackle homosexuality.
President Richard Nixon
January 1 - Kansas
GLF and the ACLU take KU to court for infringing on students' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Outspoken liberal lawyer William Kunstler (famous for defending the Chicago Seven after the 1968 Democratic Convention) is brought on to argue for the Front.
January 1 - National
Carl Corley a writer and artist wrote his last of 22 erotic gay novels “Jail Mate”.
May 1 - National
Peter Tuesday Hughes a mystery science fiction author publishes “A Walk in the Park”
United States LGBT History for 1971
January 1 - MIchigan
Gayle Rubin calls a meeting of Ann Arbor lesbians, resulting in formation of the Radicalesbians at the University of Michigan.
January 1 – Utah
The Mormon Church publishes a 33-page pamphlet titled “New Horizons for Homosexuals.” In it, Spencer Kimball declares again “Homosexuality CAN be cured if the battle is well organized and pursued vigorously and continuously.”
October 1 - Georgia
The GLF organizes Atlanta’s first permit-authorized Gay Pride March, with 125-150 people participating.
January 1 - California
Winston Leyland becomes the editor and publisher for the “Gay Sunshine Journal”
June 28 - Oregon
The Second Foundation sponsors the first gay pride celebration with indoor events such as dances.
January 1 - National
Michael Greer stars in “Fortune and Men's Eyes” written by John Herbert about a young man's experience in prison, exploring themes of homosexuality and sexual slavery.
January 1 – California
Chuck Holmes a producer founds Falcon Studios.
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