A new German law formally extends the death penalty to any man found guilty of having sex with another man.
February 4, 1915
Speaking in Chicago, Edith Lees Ellis, openly lesbian wife of Havelock Ellis, exhorts women to begin "organizing a new love world."
February 7. 1977
The U.S. State Department announces it will begin considering job applications from lesbians and gay men -- previously disqualified from this employment opportunity because of their sexual orientation -- for employment in the Foreign Service and other international agencies.
February 16, 1991
February 21, 1903
New York City police conduct the first known raid on a gay bathhouse, the Ariston on West 55th Street. Of the 26 men arrested, 12 are tried on sodomy charges and 7 receive sentences that range from 4 to 20 years in prison.
February 23, 1990
A group of Taiwanese women form Women Chih Chian (Women Among Us), the first lesbian organization for Chinese-speaking women in Asia.
February 29, 1988
Canadian MP Svend J. Robinson comes out in both French and English on national television -- making him his country's first openly gay or lesbian member of Parliament.
- via GLBT Historical Society
