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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A GAY MAKES
2002-10-02
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1997
U.S.: This is the 4th year in which the recognition of October as Lesbian and Gay History Month is celebrated. * Veteran lesbian activist Virginia "Ginny" Apuzzo, former executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, is formally announced as the Clinton administration's new Assistant to the President for Management and Administration. * PolyGram announces that Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales is breaking sales records. "Candle in the Wind" 1997 has so far sold 26 million copies. * Elton John makes a rare TV sitcom appearance on CBS-TV's The Nanny. * Singapore: The Controller of Undesirable Publications bans Janet Jackson's new album Velvet Rope because of three songs about battery and abuse, homosexuality and sexuality. * Britain: Openly gay historian, Alfred Leslie Rowse, dies at his home in Cornwall. * The 1st gay and lesbian party to be held on the site of a British Labour Party conference is held at the Metropole Hotel in Brighton.
1992
U.S.: Salt Lake City passes two gay-rights ordinances, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment and services. * In Portland, Ore., Police Chief Tom Potter receives death threats for openly supporting gay rights, in a state that is soon to vote on an anti-gay bill. Potter's own lesbian daughter, Kate, is an officer in his department, and he has joined her on two Gay Pride Marches. * Philippines: The 4th Asian Lesbian and Gay Regional Conference takes place in Manila, and is dubbed "a success," even though lesbian delegates boycott the conference. Japanese spokesman, Teishiro Minami, says: "Lesbians in Asia have different agendas and don't seem interested in working with gay men."
1987
U.S.: Thirteen major ballet and modern dance companies offer their services to "Dancing for Life" in the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center. Participating are the American Ballet Theater, The Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, and others. * After coming out to his family, Michael Martini of San Mateo, Calif., and three of his friends, are attacked with golf clubs and an ax by his parents and grandparents. While they're smashing up his car, one of Martini's friends, Dennis May, climbs out of the vehicle and is badly beaten. * The Sisters of St. Francis, a Philadelphia Catholic order of nuns, gives a $2000 grant to the New York-based Catholic Coalition for Gay Civil Rights, to conduct seminars on "Homosexuality, Homophobia and Holiness." * Canada: In Vancouver, a judge awards Gail Meredith legal guardianship of her lover Judy, who suffers from a degenerative disease causing premature senility. Meredith wins the case, after her lover's father and brother contested her right to control Judy's healthcare and legal affairs.
1982:
U.S.: Twenty uniformed police raid Blues, a New York Black gay bar, lashing out with billy clubs, and causing $30,000 worth of damage in the process: the jukebox, pinball machine and the DJ's sound equipment are all smashed. * In Norfolk, Va., police confiscate copies of the controversial German film, Taxi Zum Klo, claiming it's in violation of the city's obscenity laws. * Scott Thorson, a former chauffeur of Liberace, files a palimony suit in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming he lived with the glitzy pianist as man and wife for six years. Thorson claims he was evicted from the house, after finding Liberace in bed with an 18-year-old man. The lawsuit is settled in 1986, with Thorson receiving $170,000, a gold Rolls Royce, a white Auburn, a Doberman pinscher, and an English sheepdog. * Iran: In Teheran, the country's Islamic legislators, establish new penalties for moral offenses: Homosexuality, drinking alcohol, and kissing for pleasure are specifically outlawed. "Persistent Homosexuality" is now punishable by execution.
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