September 10 Washington, D.C. The […]

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1980-09-10

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September 10 Washington, D.C. The United States Department of Justice announced that it would modify the procedure by which lesbians and gay men had been excluded from entering the United States. Officers of the INS were no longer allowed to question travellers about their sexual orientation. Lesbians or gay men who voluntarily declared their homosexuality would still be barred from entry. Questioning of travellers could still lead to harassment, as when two women and one man were turned back while trying to visit Niagara Falls, N.Y., on September 12, 1980, after they declared that they were going to visit gay bars for the evening.

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