1998
U.S.: Internet Entertainment Group simulcasts a 'safe sex concert' featuring the alternative rock band, Wank, live from the U. of California at Los Angeles. * The last episode of Ellen airs on ABC. * Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin announces she will run for Congress as an open lesbian. * Mexico: Mexico City's Federal District Legislative Assembly, the city council, stages a Forum on the Defense of the Rights of Homosexuals and Lesbians.
1993
U.S.: Col. Frederick Peck 'outs' his son, Scott, during Senate hearings on 'gays in the military.' Peck Sr., speaks out against President Clinton's plans to drop the ban, saying the military provides no 'safe and tolerant haven' for people like his son. * The boycott of Colorado continues: The Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses will move their headquarters out of Denver, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science cancels their 1999 annual meeting. * In Pensacola, Fla., court judge Nickolas Geeker sentences Matthew Dale Boyett, 19, convicted of the murder of a gay man, to death. * The Springs of Life Church, which produced the anti-gay video The Gay Agenda, releases The Gay Agenda in the Public Schools. * Three soldiers from Fort Sill, Okla., are arrested for allegedly wrestling nude in mud near a busy street in nearby Lawton. * In Salina, Kan., anti-gay activist, the Rev. Fred Phelps, and 12 of his supporters, picket a church because the pastor performed a same-sex commitment ceremony. * Leaders of Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati say they will fight their denomination's ban on the ordination of gays and lesbians. * In Portland, Maine, 300 people participate in a gay pride parade.
1988
U.S.: After torturing and robbing one gay man in Hartford, Conn., two teenagers from a Catholic high school go out drinking and looking for someone else to beat up. They find Richard Reihl, 33, who they bludgeon to death in his own apartment. The judge sentences the two boys to 35 and 40 years in prison. * After commissioning Episcopal bishop John Spong to write a book of his views on sexuality, the official United Methodist Church publishing house cancels the book's release, because of the bishop's pro-gay views. The book, Living In Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality, is published by Harper & Row. * Top three lesbian books in the Different Light stores: More Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel, Lesbian Couples by D. Merilee and G. Dorsey Green, and Lesson In Murder by Claire McNab.
1983
U.S.: In West Hartford, the University of Connecticut Law School refuses to allow the U.S. military to recruit students on the campus, because they discriminate against lesbians and gay men. * Judge B. Wilkinson bans the gay German movie Taxi Zum Klo from being screened in Richmond, Va. * The Journal of The American Medical Association publishes a study by Dr. James Oleske, claiming eight New Jersey children may have contracted AIDS from casual contact. This starts a nationwide panic, with police departments handing out rubber gloves to officers. * Netherlands: Four young men convicted of violently attacking several gay people are ordered by a judge in Amsterdam to redecorate the offices of a local gay organization.
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