Transitions.DIED: Robert Basker, 82, founder of the Mattachine Society The Mattachine Society was the earliest homophile organization in the United States. Founding The organization was founded by Harry Hay along with a small group of friends. in Chicago and Alexander Hamilton Post 448 of the American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , after a lengthy illness, in San Francisco, April 6. DIED: Barnett "Karl" Clark, long-time Broward County, Fla., activist, of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage likely caused by an ulcer, May 5. APPOINTED: Aimee Gelnaw, as executive director of the San Diego-based Family Pride Coalition, effective June 1. CLOSED: Popular New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. nightclub Twilo on several permit violations, May 6. SENTENCED: Daniel R. Chipman, 31, of Green Bay, Wis., to life in prison for the 1997 stabbing death of AIDS activist Jeff Wahlen, May 8. |
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