Over 20,000 people marched in the Europride Parade, held in Warsaw Poland. It was the first time the parade had been held in Eastern Europe. A week of LGBT events preceded the parade.
Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois signs into law a major revision of the state’s criminal code. Among its provisions was a repeal of the statute criminalizing sodomy. This made Illinois the first state to eliminate criminal penalties for consensual…
The first AIDS Walk is held, organized by AIDS Project Los Angeles. Over the next decades, AIDS walks and runs would become a major fundraising tool of AIDS service organizations and an important means of raising public awareness of the epidemic.