1983 in LGBT rights

Events

February

• In the 1983 by-election for the Bermondsey constituency in South London, Labour candidate Peter Tatchell loses a previously safe seat after a campaign dominated by attacks on his left-wing politics and homosexuality.

  October

• 3 — In the United States, the AFL-CIO labor union votes to support gay rights legislation.

  November

• New York governor Mario Cuomo issues an executive order banning public sexual orientation discrimination.

  December

• 30 — Ohio governor Richard Celeste issues Executive Order 83-64, which prohibits discrimination in state employment on the basis of sexual orientation.