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6-5-1983: Harvey Fierstein's play Torch Song Trilogy won the Tony Award for Best Play of the 1982-83 season.

6-6-1886: 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.

6-9-1989: The ashes of pioneer transsexual Christine Jorgensen were scattered off Dana Point by her two nieces and two of her closest friends.

6-9-1998: Rev Pat Robertson warned the city of Orlando Florida that God would punish the city with natural disasters for allowing the display of rainbow flags during GLBT Pride Month.

6-11-1998: 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.

6-12-1995: The Employment Non-Discrimination Act was re-introduced in Congress. HRC demanded that transsexuals not be included in the legislation.

6-14-1961: Boy George, musician was born

6-18-1994: The exhibition "Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall" opened at the New York Public Library.

6-20-1923: 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.

6-23-1882: 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.

6-24-1989: The US Postal Service issued a Pride postmark to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

6-27-1969: 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.

6-28-1970: 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.