1979 in gay rights
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See also: 1978 in gay rights, other events of 1979, 1980 in gay rights and the list of 'years in gay rights'
Events
- May 21 - White Night Riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White uses the Twinkie defense to get a conviction of voluntary manslaughter instead of murder in the assassination of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.
- October 14 - Washington, DC - The first gay rights march was held in the United States' capital with about 100,000 people in attendance.
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)