September 3, 1969The American Sociological Association condemns "oppressive actions against any persons for reasons of sexual preference," making it the first national professional organization to voice support of gay and lesbian civil rights.
September 4, 1983
San Francisco's first Women's Street Fair is held along Valencia Corridor.
September 6, 1935
New York University professor Dr. Louis W. Max tells a meeting of the American Psychological Association that he has successfully treated a "partially fetishistic" homosexual neurosis with electric shock therapy, the first documented instance of aversion therapy used to "cure" homosexuality.
September 15, 1969Gay Power, "New York's First Homosexual Newspaper" and the first to emerge from the post-Stonewall movement, publishes its premiere issue.
September 25, 1791
The French Revolutionary government effectively decriminalizes sodomy by including no mention of sex between consenting adults in its new code of laws.
September 26, 1970
Gay Liberation Front demonstrators persuade Los Angeles bar owners to allow gay patrons to hold hands.
September 29, 1926
The Captive, Edouard Bourdet's melodrama about a young woman's sexual obsession with the wife of her fiancé's boyhood friend, opens on Broadway starring Helen Menken and Basil Rathbone. Its run of 160 performances causes passage of an amendment to the New York state penal code specifically barring plays "depicting or dealing with the subject of sex degeneracy, or sex perversion."
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