July 1, 1919Magnus Hirschfeld opens the Institute of Sexual Research in Berlin.
July 2, 1981
The New York Times publishes its first story about a mysterious disease that will later be named AIDS.
July 7, 1992
Some fifty activists attend the first public meeting of the Lesbian Avengers in New York City.
July 9, 1928
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is published in Paris and appears in book stalls--becoming the first major novel written in English with an explicitly pro-lesbian theme.
July 10, 1972
The city council of Ann Arbor, Michigan, passes the first comprehensive gay and lesbian municipal rights ordinance in the United States.
July 13, 1984
Brothers, the first American television show with an openly gay lead character, premiers on the Showtime cable network.
July 15, 1975
Santa Cruz County, California, becomes the first in the United States to outlaw job discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
July 25, 1985A spokesperson for Rock Hudson acknowledges that the actor is suffering from AIDS, marking a turning point in public awareness of the disease and galvanizing support for efforts to fight it.
July 27, 1982
At a meeting convened by the Centers for Disease Control, representatives of various gay, government, and health organizations agree to use the term "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome," or AIDS, to describe the mysterious disease reaching epidemic proportions among gay men in the United States.
