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Events

• Radical AIDS activist group, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ("ACT-UP"), organizes in New York City.
• Barney Frank, U.S. congressman for the 4th district of Massachusetts since 1981, comes out as a gay man.
• Cathedral City, California, prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector.

October

• Neil Goldschmidt, governor of the U.S. state of Oregon, issues an executive order banning sexual orientation discrimination in state employment.
• October 1 — The Supreme Court of Minnesota (United States) refuses to rule on the constitutionality of the state's anti-sodomy law, allowing the law to remain on the books.
• October 11 — The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights with an estimated 200,000^[1] participants. The march, demonstration, and rally also included the first public display of Cleve Jones' NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and the first community wedding. The 200,000 person estimate, widely quoted from the New York Times, was made several hours before the march actually began; similarly, most of the pictures used by mainstream media were taken early in the morning, or of the AIDS Quilt viewing area rather than the march itself. Police on the scene estimated numbers during the actual march to be closer to half a million. This event & date would also become the starting point for what would become National Coming Out Day.

December

• December 8 — David Wilshire, British Member of Parliament, introduces Section 28 as an amendment to the Local Government Bill.

Deaths

• August 24 — Bayard Rustin, 75, U.S. civil rights activist, widely acknowledged as the person responsible for the 1963 March on Washington, and a gay rights activist in his later life.

See also

LGBT portal

• Timeline of LGBT history — timeline of events from 12,000 BCE to present
• LGBT rights by country or territory — current legal status around the world
• LGBT social movements

References