Queer Events On This Day In History...
1954 Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker are given indefinite jail terms (read: life) for killing Pauline's mother Honora Parker in Victoria Park, Christchurch, New Zealand. The case casts a dark shadow over lesibianism in New Zealand for more than a decade.
1970 The New York Times runs a front page story with the headline HOMOSEXUALS IN REVOLT. (It was a slow news day.)
1972 Greater Cincinnati Gay Society files suit to require the Secretary of State to grant them articles of incorporation. Their request was denied on the grounds that homosexual acts were illegal. The court agrees that the state was not required to grant incorporation to an organization which promotes the acceptance of homosexuality.
1987 Bayard Rustin, a gay man who organized the March on Washington for Civil Rights in 1964, dies of cardiac arrest in New York City.
1988 American actor Leonard Frey dies of complications from AIDS at age 49. He played Harold in the 1969 film, "The Boys in the Band."
1993 During a Holocaust remembrance, Oregon governor Barbara Roberts criticizes anti-gay ballot initiatives in the state.
2004 Organizers of the Mobo Awards announce that musicians who promote violence against homosexuals will not be nominated for the British award. The Mobos are designed to celebrate the best in urban music from around the world.
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