September 5, 1991 US AIDS activists inflate a 35 foot condom on the roof of homophobic United States Senator Jesse Helms' house.
September 6, 1935New York University professor Dr. Louis W. Max tells a meeting of the American Psychological Association that he has successfully treated a "partially fetishistic" homosexual neurosis with electric shock therapy delivered at "intensities considerably higher than those usually employed on human subjects," the first documented instance of aversion therapy used to "cure" homosexuality.
September 8, 1983In San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that federal immigration authorities cannot prevent lesbians and gay men from entering the United States solely because of their sexual orientation.
September 9, 1779 Alexander Hamilton writes to John Laurens, his dearest friend, with depths of sentiment that are equaled only in letters he later pens to his wife Eliza: "Like a jealous lover, when I thought you had slighted my caresses, my affection was alarmed and my vanity piqued."
September 11, 1961The Rejected, the first American television documentary about homosexuality, airs on San Francisco's public station KQED with guests including anthropologist Margaret Mead and Dr. Evelyn Hooker, the first psychologist to demonstrate that male homosexuals were no more likely to suffer from mental illness than heterosexual males.
September 13, 1996A bill to ban employment discrimination against lesbians and gay men is defeated by one vote in the United States Congress.
September 20, 1996Despite protests from Amnesty International, 24 guest workers in Saudi Arabia receive the first 50 lashes of their sentences of 200 lashes for alleged "homosexual behavior." When their punishment is complete, the government deports the workers.
September 23, 1970Although a character on the CBS Television series Medical Center who announces "I am a homosexual" is portrayed as someone with an "unfortunate condition," the program is acclaimed as the first sympathetic treatment of a gay man in an American TV drama.
September 28, 1292John de Wettre, 29, a knife maker, is burned at the stake in Ghent after being convicted of committing an act "detested by God" with another man, the first execution for sodomy in Western Europe for which records still exist.
September 6, 1935New York University professor Dr. Louis W. Max tells a meeting of the American Psychological Association that he has successfully treated a "partially fetishistic" homosexual neurosis with electric shock therapy delivered at "intensities considerably higher than those usually employed on human subjects," the first documented instance of aversion therapy used to "cure" homosexuality.
September 8, 1983In San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that federal immigration authorities cannot prevent lesbians and gay men from entering the United States solely because of their sexual orientation.
September 9, 1779 Alexander Hamilton writes to John Laurens, his dearest friend, with depths of sentiment that are equaled only in letters he later pens to his wife Eliza: "Like a jealous lover, when I thought you had slighted my caresses, my affection was alarmed and my vanity piqued."
September 11, 1961The Rejected, the first American television documentary about homosexuality, airs on San Francisco's public station KQED with guests including anthropologist Margaret Mead and Dr. Evelyn Hooker, the first psychologist to demonstrate that male homosexuals were no more likely to suffer from mental illness than heterosexual males.
September 13, 1996A bill to ban employment discrimination against lesbians and gay men is defeated by one vote in the United States Congress.
September 20, 1996Despite protests from Amnesty International, 24 guest workers in Saudi Arabia receive the first 50 lashes of their sentences of 200 lashes for alleged "homosexual behavior." When their punishment is complete, the government deports the workers.
September 23, 1970Although a character on the CBS Television series Medical Center who announces "I am a homosexual" is portrayed as someone with an "unfortunate condition," the program is acclaimed as the first sympathetic treatment of a gay man in an American TV drama.
September 28, 1292John de Wettre, 29, a knife maker, is burned at the stake in Ghent after being convicted of committing an act "detested by God" with another man, the first execution for sodomy in Western Europe for which records still exist.
