1989: A planned college production of “The Normal Heart” provokes protests and violence in Springfield, MO. However, all 8 performances sell out in four hours.

1783: In West Point, New York, Deborah Sampson is honorably discharged from the Massachusetts Regiment. Wounded in one of several battles in which she fought, Sampson had escaped discovery for almost a year and a half until falling sick with a fever. One of the earliest American examples of a passing woman, Sampson formed several attachments with women while dressed as a man. She later marries and receives a military pension.

1965: After a series of demonstrations, this was the final East Coast Homophile Organizations (ECHO) White House picket. Demonstrators felt, with this event, that picketing the White House had lost its effectiveness as a tactic.

1986: Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop releases the first government publications for the public on gay safer sex practices.

1976: Ads appear in The Advocate for “Gay Weekend”, a board game in which players try to accumulate as many “tricks” as possible

1932: Robert Reed, best known for playing the ideal father and husband of the 1970s, Mike Brady, is born John Robert Rietz, Jr. in the northeast Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois.