October 18, 1907 - 2,000 people attended a debate on the repeal of Paragraph 175, Germany’s sodomy law.October 18, 1977 - Citizens United to Protect Our Children, an organization in Portland OR, announced they had failed to get enough signatures to get a recall election of Mayor Neil Goldschmidt after he declared Portland Gay Pride Day.
October 18, 1990 - Former Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell declared that he believed he made a mistake by voting to uphold Georgia’s sodomy laws in the 1986 Bowers v Hardwick case.
October 18, 1990 - Three white supremacists were convicted of conspiring to blow up a gay bar in Boise, Idaho.
October 18, 1991 - Admiral Frank B Kelso, chief of naval operations, announced that the explosion of the USS Iowa which killed forty-seven men had been proven not to have been caused by a wrongful intentional act and apologized to the family of Clayton Hartwig. Hartwig had been accused of intentionally causing the blast as an act of suicide following the break up of a homosexual affair. (It was not proven that he was homosexual.)
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