Lisa Ben (a pseudonym that is an anagram for "lesbian") types and mails 12 copies of Vice Versa, the first lesbian newsletter, which includes book and movie reviews, poems, and articles that encourage women to persevere in their quests for more satisfying lives.
June 16, 1992
k. d. lang comes out in a cover story published in The Advocate, which sets off a year of American media reports about "lesbian chic."
June 19, 1975
The American Medical Association approves a resolution that recommends the repeal of state laws banning same-sex acts between consenting adults.
June 20, 1980
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make their debut in San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade.June 27, 1952
The McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act bars immigrants to the United States who are "afflicted with psychopathic personality," which officials say include all homosexuals.
June 30, 1969
A group of residents in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, cuts down all the trees and bushes in part of a local park that is popular as a gay male cruising area.
- via the GLBT Historical Society
