1998
U.S.: Roland Tec's movie, All the Rage, shows in selected theaters. * Prompted by the murder of Mathew Shepard, the First Congregational Church of Pelham, in Pelham, NH., formally invites gays and lesbians to join its flock. * George Michael turns lemons into lemonade after being arrested for lewd behavior in a public restroom; his new video opens with a reenactment of his arrest. * The 2nd annual Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network conference takes place in Oakland, Calif. It focuses on ways to make the environment in schools more tolerable for gays. * In Worcester, Mass., two students at the College of the Holy Cross face disciplinary proceedings for sending antigay e-mail messages to all 2,200 students at the college. * Fiji: The Committee on Consequental legislation of Parliament amends the Bill of Rights to explicitly read that homosexual relationships and same-sex marriages remain illegal. * Australia: Perth hosts its largest annual Gay Pride, with over 100,000 people lining the streets.
1993
U.S.: After being lobbied for months by lesbian healthcare activists, the National Institutes of Health agree to add questions about sexual orientation and sexual behavior to the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women's health ever conducted by the federal government. * Gen. Carl E. Mundy Jr., the most vocal of top military officials opposed to the lifting of the ban on gays in the military, tells a TV audience that members of racial and ethnic minorities do not shoot, swim, or use compasses as well as whites. * Reversing an earlier decision, the student senate at Wichita State University votes to recognize '10 percent,' a student gay group. * Steve Kritsick, the Television Veterinarian for ABC's Good Morning America from 1987 to 1989 appears on the program to announce that he has AIDS. * at worst ... the best of Boy George and Culture Club is in record stores. * In Oceanside, Calif., the Marine Corps confirm that 10 active duty Marines (one female and nine males) at Camp Pendleton were involved in posing for and selling gay pornographic photos and videos. * Melissa Etheridge tells Deneuve Magazine: 'I think because of my work and because you know, it's rock n' roll and all that, I tend to be more butch.'
1988
U.S.: Chicago police search for a 6-ft, 280-lb man who dressed in drag to rob a bank in Wauconda, a suburb of Chicago. FBI spokesman Bob Long says the suspect wore sunglasses, earrings, and a necklace. He carried a handbag, and wore a blouse, skirt, and a woman's suit coat. Long said the bandit's outfit resembled one worn by actor Dustin Hoffman in the film Tootsie. * Yugoslavia: In Ljubljana, a new lesbian group called Lesbiska publishes its first bulletin called Lesbozine.
1983
U.S.: In Key West, Fla., Richard Heyman, an art dealer, becomes the first openly gay mayor in the U.S. to be elected by the voters; though two small towns in Missouri and California have gay mayors appointed by the city councils. * In Los Angeles, Greek Orthodox Archbishop Iakovos threatens to withdraw his church from the National Council of Churches, if the application of the gay-oriented Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Churches is accepted by the organization. * Larry Eyler, who police suspect may have been responsible for 18 murders in Illinois and Indiana, is arrested in Chicago for the stabbing murder of Ralph E. Calise. * The ABC soap opera All My Children introduces its first gay character; a lesbian child psychiatrist played by Donna (Saturday Night Fever) Pescow.
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