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December 1
1642 - The General Court of Connecticut adopted a list of 12 capital crimes, including "man lying with man." The law was based on the Massachusetts Bay Colony's Liberties of 1641.
1901 - El Universal, a Mexican newspaper, reported that police raided a party attended by single women. The article implied that the women were lesbians.
1975 - Feminist writer Jill Johnston wrote an essay "Are Lesbians Gay?" in which she explained why she believed it was absurd for lesbians to align themselves with the gay movement.
1976 - In Florida, Willard Allen was released from a mental hospital 26 years after he was ordered by a judge to be held there for having sex with another man. His doctors had been recommending his release for almost 20 years.
1980 - The American Journal of Psychiatry published an article recommending religion as a cure for homosexuality.
1981 - The Ontario legislature defeats an amendment to include sexual orientation in human rights code. Five non-violent protesters handcuff themselves to railings in spectators' gallery. The Legislature is disrupted briefly. // The Worldwide Church of God published "The Plain Truth," which speculated that the illnesses being diagnosed in gay men were God's penalty for promiscuity.
1982 - The US House of Representatives voted to provide $2.6 million in funding to the Centers for Disease Control to fight AIDS.
1986 - After being convicted of sodomy, a Georgia man was fined $1,000, sentenced to 10 years probation, and ordered to perform
200 hours of community service.
1988 - The first World AIDS Day was sponsored by the World Health Organization.
1989 - African-American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey died of complications from AIDS.
1997-Keith Boykin of the National Black Lesbian Gay Leadership Forum participated in a meeting with President Clinton to encourage greater inclusion of African American gays and lesbians in the President's Initiative on Race.
1998 - Officials in Miami Florida voted 7-6 to pass a law prohibiting discrimination against gays and lesbians in employment and housing.
1999 - On the 700 Club, televangelist Pat Robertson denounced Canada's leaders because a commercial printer who refused to print stationary for the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives lost a suit charging that he violated Canadian law. He urged Canadian viewers to "throw out those crazies who are now running the country." He implied that a pastor who said that incest and child molestation are wrong could be imprisoned for holding such
beliefs.
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