1973 in LGBT rights

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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1973.

Events

1 – Maryland becomes the first state to ban same-sex civil marriages. It does so by passing a statue restricting marriage to heterosexual couples.^[1]
27 – The Metropolitan Community Church's headquarters in Los Angeles is burned to the ground by an unknown assailant.^[2]^[3] No persons are inside of the building at the time of the fire.

Pride Week 1973, the first major LGBT pride event in Canada, is held simultaneously in several Canadian cities.^[6]

10 – Following a lobbying campaign by the Gay Alliance Toward Equality, Toronto City Council adopts a policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in municipal hiring, making the city the first jurisdiction in Canada to do so.^[7]

5 – The Supreme Court of the United States in Wainwright v. Stone finds that the sodomy law of Florida is not unconstitutionally vague, reversing a Fifth Circuit ruling.^[8]
9 – The Kentucky Court of Appeals rules in Jones v. Callahan that two women were properly denied a marriage license despite the gender neutrality of the state's marriage statute.^[9]

13 – Washington, D.C.'s Title 34 makes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation illegal.^[10]
15 – The board of the American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II. The resolution also urges an end to private and public discrimination and the repeal of laws discriminating against homosexuals.^[11]
20 – The city council of New York City rejects a gay rights ordinance.^[12]
21 – A United States federal judge issues a bulletin stating that the federal civil service may not terminate an employee based on sexual orientation alone.^[13]