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● 2013.12 — Over 18,000 people who define themselves as Christians sign a petition from Faithful America encouraging a cable network to stand its ground when A&E decides to indefinitely suspend “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson after he shared racist and anti-gay sentiments with GQ magazine. ● 1980.12.01 — American Journal of Psychiatry publishes an article noting that religious conversion is a cure for homosexuality. ● 1990.12.02 — Fordham University, a Jesuit institution, officially recognizes the student group Fordham Lesbians and Gays, after 11 years of attempts, making it the third Roman Catholic university to recognize a gay student group. ● 2015.12.02 — A Chicago-area school district decides to allow a transgender student to use the girls’ locker room, settling a federal civil rights complaint that had sparked emotional reaction and put the district at the center of national debate over treatment of transgender children at school. ● 1968.12.03 — Metropolitan Community Church holds its first same-sex union ceremony. ● 1994.12.06 — The American Medical Association declares its opposition to treatments intended to cure homosexuality. ● 2015.12.09 — Cincinnati Ohio votes to ban reparative/conversion therapy of LGBTQ youth. ● 1989.12.10 — More than 5,000 activists protest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York regarding the Church’s policies on homosexuality and AIDS. ● 1973.12.15 — The governing board of the American Psychiatric Association votes to recommend a change in the classification of homosexuality, to remove it from its list of mental illnesses. ● 1999.12.20 — In Baker v. Vermont, the Vermont Supreme Court orders the state legislature to devise a law to give same-sex couples identical rights to married couples. ● 2015.12.21 — The FDA moves from a lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood to a deferral of one year for any man who has had sex with another man during the past 12 months. ● 2010.12.22 — The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 is signed into law by President Barack Obama. ● 1975.12.26 — Mary Jo Risher loses custody of her son after a jury finds that she is unfit because she is a lesbian. She later appeals, and loses. ● 1990.12.31 — Ian McKellen is knighted by the Queen of England, the first openly gay man to be knighted. |
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