October 15, 1952 - One, Inc. was founded in Los Angeles to publish One Magazine. The magazine was published until 1969. One, Inc. still continues as an educational institution.
October 15, 1969 - New York City’s Gay Liberation Front joined a moratorium protest against the war in Vietnam.
October 15, 1973 - The formation of the National Gay Task Force was announced in New York City.
October 15-16, 1977 - The First National Congress of Quebec Gays meets.
October 15, 1977 - The Santa Barbara, California, board of education voted to ban discrimination against GLB students, making it the first US school board to do so.
October 15, 1983 - Eddie Murphy’s HBO special “Delirious” aired. It raised controversy because of several tasteless AIDS jokes and a long diatribe about “faggots.”
October 15, 1987 - Ken Dawson, who had been director of Senior Action in a Gay Environment for six years, resigned. When he began the organization had an annual budget of $45,000 and 100 volunteers, when he resigned the annual budget was $750,000 and 600 volunteers.
October 15, 1988 - A gay rights ordinance was passed in Alexandria, Virginia.
October 15, 1993 - Federal district court judge Kimba Wood ruled that shareholders of Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores Inc should be allowed to vote on retaining a company policy that would forbid employment of gays and lesbians.
October 15, 1999 - The US State Department issued a statement to the government of Uganda expressing “deep concern and consternation” over anti-gay statements made by President Yoweri Museveni.
October 15, 1999 - Washington Times columnist Cal Thomas reported that George W. Bush told a small group of conservative Republicans he would not knowingly appoint a practicing homosexual as an ambassador or department head if elected president.
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