In 1969, there were 21 recorded legal changes made affecting LGBT people. In the previous year, there were 7 changes made and 2 in the following year. A total of 107 legal changes were made in the 1960s.
- OctoberServing openly in military becomes ambiguous.There has never been any specific law banning homosexuals from serving in the army. However, Article 235 of 1969 of the Military Penal Code, which prohibits the "practice of a libidinous act, homosexual or not", was often used to persecute gays in the military and try to expel them.
- September 1
- July 19Homosexual activity becomes ambiguous.Even though Iraq's Criminal Code doesn't mention homosexuality in its penal code, Articles such as 401 in the penal code can be used against LGBT community. Efforts have been made to officially recriminalize homosexuality in Iraq, however.
- June 27Homosexual activity becomes legal.Legalized when Canada legalized it.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- May 21Equal age of consent becomes unequal.
- May 14
- January 1Gender-Affirming Care becomes restricted.In 1969, the first gender identity clinic opened in Toronto at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and the first gender-affirming surgery in Canada was performed in 1970. To qualify, applicants had to be employed, be straight, never have been convicted of a crime, have lived as their identified gender for at least two years, and have changed all their legal documents. In 1979, Canada adopted the ICD-9 classification, which included codes allowing for the diagnosis of transsexualism in adults. That same year, Canada legalized sterilization.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.