1967 in gay rights
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See also: 1966 in gay rights, other events of 1967, 1968 in gay rights and the Gay rights timeline.
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Events
July
- 27 July - The 1967 Sexual Offences Act receives Royal Assent. This means that sex between two men is no longer illegal in the United Kingdom. The age of consent for sex acts between men is 21 (compared to 16 for acts between men and women)
November
- 27 November - Craig Rodwell opens Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first gay and lesbian bookstore, in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Births
Deaths
External links
- Web site for Advocate news magazine (http://www.advocate.com)
- 365gay.com (http://www.365gay.com)
- Google search for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender news (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)
- Stonewall's information bank (http://www.stonewall.org.uk/stonewall/information_bank/index.html)
- Peter Tatchell on the 1967 Act (http://www.petertatchell.net/criminalisation%20of%20gays/still%20criminal.htm)