1985: William Hoffman’s play about AIDS, As Is, opens at New York City’s Circle Rep Theater.  Less than six weeks later, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart opens at the Public Theater. 1987: AIDS advocacy group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is formed in response to the devastating effects the disease has had on … Read More

1987: Vermont becomes the first state to hand out condoms to prisoners on request.

1892: Popular openly bisexual poet Edna St. Vincent Millay is born. 1979: Studio 54 throws a gala fifty-second birthday party for closeted gay attorney and former McCarthyite Roy Cohn. The event draws several hundreds of the city’s luminaries – including Donald Trump, Barbara Walters, members of both Democratic and Republican parties and most of the city’s … Read More

1973: Twenty year old French actress and star of the The Last Tango in Paris, Maria Schneider, admits to the New York Times that she is bisexual, stating “I’ve had quite a few lovers for my age. More men than women . . . women I love more for beauty than for sex.  Men I … Read More

1987: Having raided and closed down gay bar The Detour (now 4100 bar on Sunset Boulevard) the night before, Los Angeles police raid and shut down the One Way bar, over alleged violations to the city’s fire ordinance.