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Timeline of History: 1980 to present
Significant Events in the history of the Los Angeles–based
movement for homosexual rights
Feb. 18 [Sun]: Barbara Gittings dies of breast cancer.
Sept. 30: Memorial service for activist Vern L. Bullough at the Steve Allen Theater at the Center for Inquiry-West in Los Angeles.
June. 21: Vern L. Bullough dies of cancer.
Feb. 28: Robert J. Sandoval dies at 56. Sandoval was one of the city’s first openly gay prosecutors, who later became a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Sandoval and his partner were among the first gay male couples to adopt a child in Los Angeles county.
Jan. 24: Betty Berzon dies.
Nov. 24: Gay novelist Joseph Hansen dies at his home in Laguna Beach, CA.
June 30: The Business Alliance of Los Angeles [BALA] honors HIC President Jim Schneider at the Proud Bird restaurant.
2003
Jan. 19: Morris Kight dies.
Tangents Online launched.
Joseph Hansen publishes Cutbank Path.
2001
Nov. 8 [Th]: ONE Institute & Archives Board of Directors hold a Special Meeting at which they vote to censure Jim Schneider.
2000
June 25th [Su]: Memorial Service for William Dale Jennings, emceed by HIC President Jim Schneider. This is the first public event at ONE Institute’s USC facility, 909 West Adams, in Los Angeles.
May 11 [Th]: Mattachine founder Dale Jennings dies in La Mirada, CA, of respiratory failure.
1999
1998
Nov. 16 [Mo]: The City Council of West Hollywood presents Morris Kight with a Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of his 79th birthday.
Oct.: John O’Brien resigns as Director of ONE/IGLA. Jim Schneider becomes head of the Building Committee and begins to works with USC to get the facility at 909 West Adams ready for a public opening.
Oct. 7: Matthew Shepard killed in Wyoming.
May 22 [Fr]: Jim Kepner’s Memorial Service held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.
1997
Nov. 15: Jim Kepner dies.
Jim Schneider elected onto the Board of Directors of ONE/IGLA.
Walter Williams, with the assistance of John Waiblinger, Misha Shutt, and Ernie Potvin, launches the International Gay and Lesbian Review as an online publication of ONE Institute Press, web-hosted by the University of Southern California.
Feb. 14: Don Slater dies of heart failure.
1996
Merger of ISHR and ONE, Incorporated with ISHR the “surviving corporation” and ONE Inc. the “merging corporation” (see the ISHR website).
1995
Dec. 11: The International Gay and Lesbian Archives: Natalie Barney / Edward Carpenter Library changes its legal name to ONE Institute, The International Gay and Lesbian Archives, known as ONE / IGLA. Ammended Articles of Incorporation are signed by John O’Brien, President, and Reid Rasmussen, Secretary.
March 5: ONE, Inc. founder Martin Block dies.
ONE Institute of Homophile Studies ceases to operate as an educational facility.
July 26/27: William Lambert Dorr Legg dies in his sleep.
June 10: Dale Jennings interviewed by Edward Alwood, author of Straight News: Gays Lesbians, and the News Media, by Columbia University Press (1996).
1993
Joseph Hansen publishes Living Upstairs.
1992
Joseph Hansen publishes Jack of Hearts. He is awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.
Joseph Hansen publishes The Boy who was Buried This Morning and A Country of Old Men: The Last David Brandstetter Mystery.
1990
1989
1988
IGLA moves from Hollywood to an office on Robertson Blvd. in West Hollywood.
March 18: The Gay Archives: Natalie Barney / Edward Carpenter Library legally changes its name to The International Gay and Lesbian Archives: Natalie Barney / Edward Carpenter Library.
October 11: ONE supporter Morgan Farley dies of natural causes in San Pedro, California.
Joseph Hansen publishes Obedience.
Joseph Hansen publishes Early Graves.
October 11: March on Washington. Jim Kepner cochairs the Los Angeles March on Washington Committee. Over 30,000 people from Los Angeles participate. Their slogan: “For Love and For Life, We’re Not Going Back!”
June 7: Helen “Sandy” Sandoz dies of lung cancer in Anaheim.
1986
April: Bowers v. Hardwick Supreme Court decision denies homosexuals protection from state laws.
Joseph Hansen publishes The Little Dog Laughed.
1985
April 21: Passing of Mattachine founder Rudi Gernreich.
Feb: Dale Jennings contacts Don Slater and begins his renewed affiliation with the movement by working for the Homosexual Information Center [HIC].
1984
Jim Kepner’s National Gay Archives becomes the International Gay and Lesbian Archives (IGLA).
Joseph Hansen publishes Nightwork and Steps Going Down.
Spring: Reed Ericson requests that ONE Institute vacate the Milbank Esate. A lawsuit ensues.
Jan 29: Convocation Ceremony and Open House for ONE Institute, held at the Milbank Estate. A Masters Degree in Homophile Studies are awarded to Deborah Ann Coates, and Doctoral Degrees were awarded to Michael Anthony Lombardi (now Michael Lombardi-Nash) and Paul David Hardman.
1983
June 1: ONE, Incorporated moves from Venice Blvd. to Arlington Hall, a mansion in the Pico-Arlington district of Los Angeles known as the Milbank Estate. Reed Erickson had recently purchased the property for $1.9 million andpromised to donate it to ONE, Incorporated in May, 1983.
Joseph Hansen publishes Job's Year.
1982
Joseph Hansen publishes Backtrack and Gravedigger.
Spring: The first degrees in Homophile Studies awarded at a ceremony celebrating ONE’s 30th anniversary. Over 600 attend the event, held at the Los Angeles Hilton. Presentations are made by “Lisa Ben,” Del Martin, and Phylis Lyon.
1981
Aug. 11: Dorr Legg announces that the Office of Private Postsecondary Education of the State of California had authorized ONE Institute Graduate School to offer a program of courses leading to the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Homophile Studies.
Joseph Hansen publishes A Smile in His Lifetime.
1980
 This chronology was created by C. Todd White from information gathered while researching his doctoral dissertation, Out of Many... A Social History of the Homosexual Rights Movement. Dr. G. Alexander Moore was director of White’s dissertation committee, in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
Posted by C. Todd White • This page was last updated on 3/17/07
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