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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 2017.

Events

January

• 7 - A new Penal Code comes into effect in Peru after a governmental decree adding the terms sexual orientation and gender identity to existing hate crime and anti-discrimination laws is published in the official gazette.
• 9 - The Constitutional Court of Peru rules that all same-sex marriages performed abroad must be recognized and registered as such in Peru.
• 13 - The president of Finland signs a bill related to social benefits and health care that would finalize implementation of the same-sex marriage law that takes effect March 1, 2017.
• 16 - A lifetime blood ban is replaced by a one-year deferral period in the Republic of Ireland.
• 20 - Following the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, all mentions of LGBT rights are removed from the White House website.
• 30 - The Church of Norway votes to allow same-sex couples to have religious weddings in its churches by amending its marriage liturgy. Individual clergy members can still refuse to perform same-sex weddings, however.
• 31 - Switzerland lifts its lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood and stem cells, replacing it with a 12-month abstinence requirement.

February

• 7 - The Toledo City Council unanimously approves a ban on conversion therapy while also making gender identity a protected class in the city.
• 13
  • Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of France issues a manifesto outlining her ambitions to abolish same-sex marriage and outlaw surrogacy.
  • Malaysia's official Islamic authority openly endorses gay conversion therapy after claiming that sexual orientation can be changed through extensive training.
• 17 - The Finnish Parliament votes 120-48 to kill legislation spurred by a citizen's initiative to rescind the new same-sex marriage law.
• 20 - The Indian Healthy Ministry releases resource material for adolescent peer educators assuring adolescents that feeling same-sex attraction is normal.
• 22 - The Trump administration withdraws guidelines for transgender students in public schools regarding the use bathroom and facilities corresponding with their gender identity.
• 24 - A law giving same-sex partnerships all rights of marriage except adoption and in vitro fertilization goes into effect in Slovenia.
• 28 - Two regions in the Philippines (Baguio City and Dinagat Island) introduce laws that promote equality and prohibit discrimination against individuals based on sexuality and gender.

March

• 1
  • Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Finland with the first weddings taking place the same week. Joint adoption becomes legal as well.
  • A law requiring all single-occupancy bathrooms to be gender-neutral goes into effect in California, the first state to adopt such legislation.
  • British Secretary of Education Justine Greening announces that Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) will be made compulsory in all English schools by 2019.
• 2 - New York City requires school staff to use transgender students' chosen pronouns.
• 6 - The US Supreme Court sends a case involving a transgender high school student in Virginia seeking to use school bathrooms that align with his gender identity back to a court of appeals.
• 20
  • The governor of Utah signs a bill repealing a law forbidding discussion of "promotion" or advocating of homosexuality in schools.
  • Voters in the Osage Nation tribe of northern Oklahoma approve an amendment to the tribe's legal code to allow its judiciary to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
• 27 - The City Council of Columbus approves legislation to prohibit conversion therapy to alter the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT youth.
• 30 - The Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands approves the Marriage Amendment Bill by a vote of 7 to 1 to legalize same-sex marriage.

April

• 7 - New Mexico governor Susana Martinez signs SB 121, which prohibits the use of conversion therapy to alter sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT youth, into law. New Mexico becomes the 7th state in the United States to ban the practice.

May

• 2 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Guernsey.

• 4 - Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Haslam signs HB 1111/SB 1085 into law, seen as an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges.

• 5 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Bermuda by landmark supreme court case.

References

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8. "LGBT rights page disappears from White House web site". Washington Post. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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24. "Regions of the Philippines introduce new anti-discrimination laws - OUTInPerth - Gay and Lesbian News and Culture | OUTInPerth – Gay and Lesbian News and Culture". www.outinperth.com. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
25. "Finland same-sex marriage law takes effect". Washington Blade: Gay News, Politics, LGBT Rights. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
26. "Governor Signs California "All-Gender" Restroom Bill". www.eqca.org. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
27. "Sex education to be made compulsory in schools across England". Gay Star News. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
28. "NYC requires schools to use transgender students' chosen pronouns". NY Daily News. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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31. "Utah just repealed one of its anti-gay laws". PinkNews. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
32. "Osage Nation voters approve same-sex marriage ballot question". Tulsa World. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
33. "Native American tribe votes to recognize same-sex marriage". Gay Star News. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
34. "Columbus Bans 'Ex-Gay' Therapy To Minors". On Top Magazine. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
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39. "The Same-Sex Marriage (Guernsey) Law, 2016 (Commencement) Ordinance, 2017". Guernsey Legal Resources. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
40. Gervin, Cari Wade (5 May 2017). "Haslam signs 'natural and ordinary' bill". The Nashville Post. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
41. Whetstone, Tyler (5 May 2017). "Gov. Bill Haslam signs 'natural meaning' bill into law". Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
42. Gaystarnews.com: Bermuda legalizes same-sex marriage in landmark Supreme Court case

External links

• Media related to LGBT history in 2017 at Wikimedia Commons

• Years in LGBT rights
• 2017 in LGBT history