New Haven, Connecticut: citing Romans 1:26 as the basis for the law ("If any woman change the natural use into that which is against nature. . . ."), Connecticut becomes the first American colony to make same-sex acts between women punishable by the death penalty.
March 3, 2002
San Francisco, California: the LGBT Community Center opens--the first built in the United States from the ground up.
March 11, 1778
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Lieutenant Frederick Gotthold Enslin becomes the first American to be discharged from the United States Army on a charge of attempted sodomy.
March 14, 1987
New York City: Larry Kramer and some 300 other activists form the direct action group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). March 22, 1993
San Francisco, California, and elsewhere: Lawrence Poirier comes out to his best friend Michael in cartoonist Lynn Johnston's popular comic strip For Better or for Worse. Some 40 newspapers in the United States and Canada refuse to run the four-week story.
March 24, 1985
Los Angeles, California: portraying an imprisoned South American hairdresser in Kiss of the Spider Woman, William Hurt wins the first Academy Award for best actor given to someone playing a gay character.March 29, 1976
Washington, D.C.: the United States Supreme Court rules that Virginia's anti-sodomy laws, which date back to colonial times, are constitutional.
