Jan 1 - The first same-sex marriages take place in Maryland.
Jan 13 - At the Golden Globes, Jodie Foster sorta/kinda comes out while accepting a lifetime achievement award.
Jan 15 - 80-year old actor/singer Jim Nabors, most famous for playing the title role in the 1960's CBS sitcom, Gomer Pyle, marries his partner of 38 years in Seattle.
Jan 21 - In his inaugural address, President Obama makes a reference to Stonewall and is the first president to mention gay rights in an inaugural address.
Feb 3 - Hungarian-born, gay porn superstar Arpad Miklos is found dead in his Manhattan apartment, apparently the victim of a suicide. He was just 45 years old.
Feb 20 - In a new TV commercial for the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, a woman reading at the beach informs a man, whom she thinks is flirting with her, that her husband is at the bar getting her a drink. The fellow then replies that his husband is at the bar as well!
Feb 24 - The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles appears very briefly during the opening of tonight's Academy Awards telecast, joining host Seth MacFarlane in a song called I Saw Your Boobs.
Feb 25 - Gay divorce is the cover story of this week's issue of New York Magazine (cover date 3/4).
March 6 - Mexico's Supreme Court rules that anti-gay expressions like 'maricon' are not protected under the constitution's Freedom of Expression.
March 15 - In a blow to the Republican party's anti-gay platform, Republican senator Rob Portman of Ohio reverses his stand against same-sex marriage in support of his gay son.
April 6 - Liza Minnelli makes a guest appearance as herself on tonight's episode of Smash.
April 17 - New Zealand becomes the 13th nation to legalize same-sex marriage.
April 29 - NBA veteran Jason Collins becomes the first active player of one of the Big Four sports leagues to come out. He did it in an interview in Sports Illustrated, which hit newsstands today.
May 2 - Rhode Island becomes the 10th state to legalize same-sex marriage.
May 7 - Less than a week after Rhode Island, Delaware's governor signs into law legislation legalizing same-sex marriage there.
May 7 - Famed club DJ and music producer, Peter Rauhofer, dies from a brain tumor at the age of 48.
May 10 - Despite sporting the Ryan Murphy pedigree, his NBC sitcom about gay parenting, The New Normal, is cancelled after one season.
May 14 - Minnesota becomes the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage. 56 million Americans, or 18% of the US population, now live in states that allow gay couples to marry.
May 17 - Michael Musto, the Village Voice's iconic entertainment and gossip columnist, is let go by the paper after nearly 30 years.
May 18 - France becomes the 14th nation to legalize same-sex marriage. With a population of 65 million, it passed South Africa as the most populous country where same-sex couples can marry.
May 18 - On Saturday Night Live, a parody TV commercial airs for "Zanax for Gay Summer Weddings", formulated for heterosexuals attending gay weddings who feel insecure because of how perfect they are.
May 23 - The Boy Scouts of America vote to allow openly gay youths as members, while continuing its policy of excluding openly gay adult leaders.
May 26 - The TV movie, Behind the Candelabra, airs on HBO. It looks at the relationship of Liberace (played by Michael Douglas) and his much younger lover, Scott Thorson (played by Matt Damon).
June 3 - The Fosters, a drama about a lesbian couple raising their family of inter-racial children, debuts on ABC Family.
June 20 - Exodus International, a ministry that claimed people could change their sexual orientiation from homosexual to heterosexual through reparative therapy, announces it will shut down after 37 years of operation. Its president also issues a profuse apology.
June 26 - In two landmark decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court overturns DOMA and also upholds an earlier Circuit court ruling that invalidated Prop 8 in California, thus restoring same-sex marriage in the nation's most populous state.
June 30 - In honor of Gay Pride Day and the legalization of gay marriage in Washington state, the Seattle Mariners become the first Major League Baseball team to fly the rainbow flag at a game.
June 30 - Russian president, Vladimir Putin, signs into law legislation that bans gay "propaganda".
July 1 - This week's issue of the New Yorker celebrates week's Supreme Court regarding same-sex marriage by showing Bert & Ernie on its cover snuggling in front of the TV.
July 11 - Orange is the New Black, a drama set in a women's prison, debuts on Netflix.
July 17 - With Queen Elizabeth giving her royal stamp of approval to Parliament's legislation, England legalizes same-sex marriage.
July 28 - Just four months into his papacy, Pope Francis makes a surprisingly compassionate comment about gay priests, saying that "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" It is also notable that he uses the term "gay" rather than "homosexual".
Aug 2 - Secretary of State John Kerry announces that effectively immediately the US will treat visa applications of married same-sex couples in the same manner as opposite-sex spouses.
Aug 11 - Chelsea's popular bar Splash closes after nearly 22 years, unable to staunch the flow of patrons to bars and clubs in Hell's Kitchen.
Aug 28 - The Internal Revenue Service announces that all same-sex couples who are legally married will be recognized as such for federal tax purposes, even if the state where they live doesn't recognize their union.
Sept 2 - In her fifth attempt, 64-year-old lesbian swimmer, Diana Nyad, successfully swims for 53 hours between Havana, Cuba and Key West - without a shark cage.
Sept 22 - For the third time in the past four years openly gay actor Jim Parsons wins the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Sitcom for his portrayal of lovable science nerd Sheldon on CBS's The Big Bang Theory.
Sept 26 - In its 11th season, CBS's hit sitcom Two and a Half Men replaces its "half man" with the lesbian daughter of one of the Two Men.
Oct 3 - For the first time since co-starring on Will & Grace seven years earlier, Sean Hayes returns to NBC in the sitcom Sean Saves the World, playing a gay man raising his teen daughter.
Oct 21 - The first gay marriages take place in New Jersey, the 14th state to legalize them.
Oct 25 - The lesbian drama, and winner of the Palme de Or at Cannes, Blue is the Warmest Color, opens in US theaters. Much attention is given to the NC-17-rated movie's explicit 7-minute sex scene.
Nov 5 - Openly gay Washington state senator Ed Murray is elected mayor of Seattle and delivers his acceptance speech with his husband at his side.
Nov 20 - Illinois joins 15 other states and DC in legalizing same-sex marriage.
Nov 22 - The movie Philomena opens. It tells the true story of Philomena Lee, who searched for her son Michael 50 years after she game him up for adoption. In the course of her search she discovers that he was gay and died of AIDS.
Dec 10 - India's Supreme Court declares homosexual sex illegal, reversing a ruling four years ago that had struck down the ban.
Dec 19 - To absolutely no one's surprise, figure skating great Brian Boitano, who won a gold medal for the US at the 1988 Winter Olympics, finally came out. This came two months after he turned 50.
Dec 19 - New Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage, the sixth state to legalize it in 2013 and seventeenth state overall (and DC).
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