title: 1976 in LGBT rights
text: # 1976 in LGBT rights
  
  This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1976.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * 1 — Iowa repeals its "sexual psychopath" law. Passed in the wake of a moral panic following the 1954 rape and murder of a young boy, the law had been used to detain dozens of gay men in mental institutions in the 1950s.
  
  ### February
  
  * 12 — The Pennsylvania Council for Sexual Minorities is formed by Governor Milton J. Shapp of Pennsylvania.
  * 29 — New York City's public radio channel, WNET, airs a special titled "OUTREACH: LESBIANS AND GAY MEN".
  
  ### May
  
  * City council of Los Angeles prohibits employment discrimination by the city based on sexual orientation.
  
  ### July
  
  * 1 — U.S. state of Indiana decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
  * 19 — Homosexual activity becomes illegal, as does same-sex marriage, in Liberia.
  
  ### September
  
  * 4 — Start of the three-day "Fourth Annual Gay Conference for Canada and Quebec," held in Toronto, including a rally and march.
  
  ### November
  
  * 4 — A law on decriminalizing male homosexual acts goes into effect in Australian Capital Territory
  