( March 11-17 )
1996
U.S.: Muffin Spencer-Devlin becomes the first lesbian golf player to "come out" when she speaks openly about her lifestyle in a magazine profile. * According to a report by the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, fewer gays were injured in bias-related assaults in New York City in 1995 than in 1994. * Magic Johnson's book What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS is withdrawn from health classes at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, N.Y., after parents complain about graphic descriptions of oral and anal sex. * Market researchers say that lesbians are four times more likely than members of the general public to buy Subarus. The Japanese automakers make an ad showing two outdoorsy-looking women smiling at each other. The line: ''It loves camping, dogs and long-term commitment. Too bad it's only a car." * A bill being considered by the Rhode Island state legislature would require schools to let parents review AIDS and sex education materials. * Love! Valour! Compassion! is in movie theaters, also The Birdcage, starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane in the remake of La Cage Aux Folles. * The Report, the group that produced the infamous Gay Agenda video, produces a new video entitled The Ultimate Target of the Gay Agenda: Same-Sex Marriage, which is unveiled at an Iowa rally to kick off the National Campaign to Protect Marriage. * Italy: In Turin, Ferdinando Attanasio, a member of the notorious "AIDS Gang," a trio who brazenly robbed banks without disguise knowing they could not go to jail under Italian law because they were terminally ill, dies at age 38. * Italian gay activists express outrage after the Vatican newspaper urges Roman Catholic voters to shun candidates backing proposed gay-rights legislation in the coming election.
1991
U.S.: The National Examiner claims that country music star, Randy Travis, is secretly gay. Travis denies it. * In Indiana, a group of gay, lesbian and bisexual alumni/alumnae of the University of Notre Dame forms. * The Cincinnati City Council pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination by the city on the basis of sexual orientation, HIV status, marital status and Appalachian regional origin.
1986
U.S.: Valerie Terrigno, the first openly lesbian mayor of a U.S. city, admits to poor financial judgment in administering federal funds and is found guilty of embezzling $9,000 intended for the poor and homeless. Terrigno was named the first mayor of West Hollywood when the city was incorporated in 1984. * The 7th annual Lesbian and Gay Health Conference and National AIDS Forum begins in Washington. Workshops on health, AIDS service organizations, AIDS providers and education, sexual compulsivity, antigay violence, aging, and addiction were presented by health and mental healthcare providers, medical researchers and educators. * A bill prohibiting school employees from teaching that "homosexuality is a normal or acceptable form of behavior" passes the Idaho House of Representatives by a vote of 54-26.
1981
U.S.: The second national conference on "Law and the Fight for Lesbian and Gay Rights" takes place in Pittsburgh. * In Tallahassee, State Sen. Tom Tobiasson, who introduced legislation to ban gay groups from Florida community college campuses, says: "I think they ought to take all those queers and send them back to California where they come from." * New York's Gay Scene reports that "Son of Sam" murderer David Berkowitz has fallen in love with New York State's only transsexual convict, Louis ( Diane ) Quirros. * Researchers at the University of Southern California find that divorced lesbian mothers foster happier children than divorced heterosexual women do.
