During the final weekend in June, drag queens and queer street kids riot at the Stonewall Inn, in New York City.

In Canada on August 28, the federal government decriminalizes homosexual acts for consenting adults over 21, under then-Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau. Trudeau utters his famous "the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation" statement.

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