Homosexuality was declared officially non-existent. Iran Gays were executed in Tehran in 1978 after the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power. Cuba Homosexuals were incarcerated in re-education camps during the 1960s and expelled from the country in 1983. Chile Setting up lesbian or gay groups is defined by law as an act of terrorism because it attacks the family. The aim should be to have equal opportunities, and protection against discrimination.
Gays fight back for the first time when police try to raid a gay bar.
In 1974 the American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of pathological diagnoses. He is assassinated in 1978. Death threats from right-wing groups follow. A group of lesbians protest by abseiling into the House of Lords. The Homosexual Matrix , Tripp C A, Meridian, 1987.