1942: The German SS informs concentration camp commandants that they are free to sterilize any of the prisoners under their control. The directive gives official approval to the practice, already instituted in some camps, of castrating males suspected of sexual attraction to other men.
This afternoon, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie, signed that state’s Marriage Equality law.
1979: San Francisco swears in its first openly gay police officers. Within a year, 1 out of every 7 new recruits is LGBT.
2008: Same-sex marriages begin to be officially performed in Connecticut.
1950: In Los Angeles, Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Dale Jennings, Bob Hull and Chuck Rowland, hold the first meeting of the Mattachine Society, under the name Society of Fools.
Join The Lavender Effect and Consulting Advisor Michael Annetta this Sunday, November 10, 2013 at Bent-Con in Burbank for our first ever Bent-Con panel!