March 5 in LGBTQ History
2004: The Wisconsin State Assembly approved of an amendment to the state constitution (68-27) that would ban both same-sex marriages and civil unions.
March 4 in LGBTQ History
1971: Village Voice columnist Jill Johnston comes out in her article, “Lois Lane is a Lesbian,” sparking a controversy between feminism and lesbianism that results in various Johnston antics, including simulating an orgy during a panel discussion moderated by Norman Mailer. 1972: The California DMV reports that while the majority of the 65,000 vanity license plates … Read More
March 3 in LGBTQ History
2010: Congress approves a law signed in December 2009 that legalizes same-sex marriage in the Washington, DC
March 2 in LGBTQ History
1976: Mayor George Sullivan of Anchorage, Alaska vetoes a municipal civil rights ordinance that would have extended protections in housing and employment to LGBT people, proclaiming that the “people of Anchorage should not be forced to associate with sexual deviates.” 1982: Wisconsin becomes the first U.S. state to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual … Read More
March 1 in LGBTQ History
1977: Blueboy Forum, which bills itself as the U.S.’s first gay-oriented TV show, debuts on New York cable. 2012: Maryland passes legislation to legalize gay marriage, becoming the eighth state to do so.
February 28 in LGBTQ History
1971: The New York Times publishes a front page story with the headline “More Homosexuals aided to become Heterosexual”
February 27 in LGBTQ History
1989: The U.S.S.R. reports the case of twenty-nine infants and six mothers who all contracted AIDS in the same hospital through a single unsterile syringe that was used over and over again.
February 26 in LGBTQ History
1990: Refusing to consider the cases of Ben-Shalom v. Stone and Woodward v. U.S., the U.S. Supreme Court effectively upholds the right of the American military to discharge gays and lesbians of the armed forces.
February 25 in LGBTQ History
1982: Wisconsin becomes the first state in the U.S. to enact a statewide gay rights statute. 1983: Tennessee Williams dies at the age of 71 in his suite at the Hotel Elysee in New York City.
February 24 in LGBTQ History
1982: Jerry Falwell is hit in the face with two fruit pies by protester at the annual convention of the Bible Baptist Fellowship. 2004: President George W. Bush announces that he supports a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.