This Day in Queer History

On this day in 1932, Anthony Perkins was born. Best known as Norman Bates in Psycho, he had relationships with Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, and Rudolf Nureyev before dying of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1992.

On this day, the world's first LGBT synagogue, Beth Chayim Chadashim, was founded in Los Angeles. Born from a Wednesday night church meeting of four Jewish attendees, it became a House of New Life for queer Jews.

On this day in 1974, over 1,000 people gathered in Greenwich Village to support a gay and lesbian municipal rights ordinance, opposed by the Catholic Archdiocese and the fire officers union.

On this day in 2017, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-3 that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation violates federal civil rights law, after Kimberly Hively sued Ivy Tech Community College for denying her employment as a lesbian.