June 5

1983 – Harvey Fierstein’s play Torch Song Trilogy won the Tony Award for Best Play of the 1982-83 season.

June 6

1886 – Annie Ryan married Annie Hindle, who gave her name as Charles Hindle, in Grand Rapids Michigan. Gilbert Sarony, a female impersonator, was one of the witnesses.

June 9

1989 – The ashes of pioneer transsexual Christine Jorgensen were scattered off Dana Point by her two nieces and two of her closest friends.

June 11

1998 – Nineteen-year-old Brendan McGarity was arrested for vandalizing rainbow flags which had been displayed in Orlando Florida for GLBT Pride Month. He said he did it because of Rev Pat Robertson’s warnings that God would punish the city with natural disasters for allowing the display of the flags.

June 12

1995 – The Employment Non-Discrimination Act was re-introduced in Congress. HRC demanded that transsexuals not be included in the legislation.

June 14

1961 – Boy George, musician was born

June 20

1923 – Fred G Thompson of Chicago was arrested on suspicion of murder. Until the arrest Thompson had passed as Mrs. Francis Carrick, wife of Frank Carrick. He was found not guilty.

June 23

1882 – Dr. William Hammond delivered a paper to the American Neurological Association on a “disease” which makes males believe themselves to be females. As an example he spoke of Native Americans who lived as the opposite sex.

June 24

1989 – The US Postal Service issued a Pride postmark to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

June 27

1969 – Police raided the Stonewall, a bar in Greenwich Village, shortly after midnight for selling liquor without a license. When police began loading GLBT patrons into paddywagons and – according to many sources – Sylvia Rivera, transgender activist and later co-founder of S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries, ca. 1970) began to fight back which began the riot. Police were forced to take shelter inside the bar. The next evening people gathered outside the bar and police, who showed up to prevent a second night of rioting, started a riot.

June 28

1970 – Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, was arrested for blocking the sidewalk following a demonstration in Los Angeles. While in jail a MTF pre-operative transsexual was brutally beaten after being placed in the same cell with male heterosexual prisoners. Perry arranged for her release and went on a hunger strike to convince authorities not to put transsexuals in cells with male heterosexuals.