1998U.S.: Advertising Age magazine runs a series of articles about increased visibility of mainstream businesses advertising in the gay and lesbian market. * The 12th World AIDS Conference is broadcast on the World Wide Web. * The New York Times Magazine cover story is Uniforms in the Closet, and focuses on the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. * Rep. Barney Frank and his partner, Herb Moses, separate after more than 10 years together. * Frugal Gourmet Jeff Smith, in an effort to avoid a trial, settles out of court with seven men who accuse him of molesting them as teens. * Netherlands: The 14th Annual Conference of the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization is held in Driebergen. * Austria: Journalist Hubertus Czernin says Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, the disgraced ex-leader of the country’s Roman Catholic church had sex with up to 2,000 seminarians and monks. * Switzerland: The 12th World AIDS Conference opens in Geneva. *
1993U.S.: PBS celebrates Gay Pride Month by airing three specials: Larry Kramer, Armistead Maupin Is A Man I Dreamt Up and Lives In The Balance: The Lesbian and Gay Movement in the 1990s. * The Rhode Island House of Representatives judiciary committee vote 9-7 to reject a gay-rights bill. * In Topeka, Kan., police raid the offices of anti-gay activist Fred Phelps, arresting him and seizing office equipment valued at $37,000. He is booked on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, and a felony charge of aggravated intimidation of a witness. * President Clinton chooses Kristine Gebbie, former director of the Washington State health department, in the newly created position of White House AIDS policy chief.
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1988U.S.: Leonard Matlovich, a decorated Vietnam veteran and gay activist, dies from AIDS at the age of 44. * Lesbian activist Jane Adams Spahr says: ‘Every man should own at least one dress … and so should lesbians.’ * Art Agnos becomes the first San Francisco mayor to ride in the city’s Gay Pride parade. * When asked by The New York Times if he inspired the Noel Coward song ‘Mad About The Boy,’ actor Douglas Fairbanks says: ‘I always thought it was Cary Grant.’ * Apple Computer Inc. add a ban on anti-gay discrimination to its corporate nondiscrimination policy. * Australia: Students studying dolphins in Western Australia find they engage in both heterosexual and homosexual activity. According to researcher Richard Connor: ‘There’ll be a group of four or five males and it seems like one of them goes, ‘Let’s get Pointer!’ and then the other males start mounting him with erections. So much of the sexual interaction seems to be purely social. The males are constantly mounting each other.’
1983U.S.: Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown is in bookstores. In an interview with Chicago’s GayLife Brown says: ‘Every woman is her own worst enemy. Because deep down, every woman believes the shit she’s told about being a woman.’ * National Secretary of Moral Majority Inc., Greg Dixon, an Indianapolis Baptist Minister, tells USA Today: ‘We are not merely talking about a moral issue, but a grave public health issue. If homosexuals are not stopped, they will in time infect the whole nation, and America will be destroyed—as entire civilizations have fallen in the past. Modern Science has now confirmed that the God of the Old Testament was not a ‘dirty bully’ when he called for the extermination of entire nations who were infected with venereal disease.’ * Colombia: The first conference of Latin American and Caribbean lesbians and gay men takes place in Bogota.