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Events

• The World Health Organisation declassifies homosexuality as a mental illness in the latest edition of its list of diseases and health problems, the ICD-10.
• U.S state of California bans sexual orientation discrimination in the private sector.^[1]
• U.S. states of Vermont and New Jersey ban sexual orientation discrimination in the private sector.^[2]
• U.S. state of Oregon's Measure 8, approved in a referendum in 1988, is ruled unconstitutional by the Oregon Court of Appeals in the case known as Merrick v. Board of Higher Education, meaning that the 1988 executive order banning public-sector sexual orientation stands.^[3]
• The City Council of Phoenix, Arizona, prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector.
• San Mateo County, California, bans employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector.

June

• The Lesbian Avengers, a direct action group, is founded in New York City by activists from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ("ACT-UP").

September

• September 24 — Kentucky becomes the fifth U.S. state to hold that laws criminalizing same-sex sodomy are unconstitutional when the Kentucky Supreme Court issues its holding in Kentucky v. Wasson. The decision, based on the rights of privacy and equal protection under the Kentucky Constitution, explicitly and boldly yet accurately predicts that other jurisdictions and the nation as a whole will eventually reach the same conclusion.

October

• October 27 — The Federal Court of Canada orders the Canadian military to stop discriminating against gays.

November

• November 3 — Voters in the U.S. state of Colorado approve Amendment 2 by 53 percent. The amendment, later the subject of Romer v. Evans, prohibited sexual orientation discrimination bans in Colorado. The amendment would never go into effect as it is soon challenged in court.
• November 3 — Oregon Ballot Measure 9 (1992) is defeated in a referendum. The measure would have prohibited sexual orientation discrimination bans in Oregon.^[4]
• November 5 — A clause prohibiting anti-gay verbal abuse in schools is repealed by the Fairfax County, Virginia, board of education out of concerns that it promotes homosexuality.

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