November 27, 1978
Openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone assassinated by Dan White
This month in LGBT History
November
November 17, 1925
Birthday - Rock Hudson (Movie star)
November 22, 1943
Birthday - Billie Jean King, Tennis Champion, Founder of the Women's Sports Foundation in 1974
November 2, 1961
Birthday - k.d. lang (Country singer turned lesbian icon)
November 27, 1978
Openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone assassinated by Dan White
November 29, 1990
President Bush signs into law new immigration bill which drops ban on gay immigrants
November 2, 2004
Voters in 11 states approve constitutional amendments limiting Marriage to one man and one woman
November 17, 2005
Intersection of Christopher & Hudson Sts. renamed "Sylvia Rivera Way" by NYC in honor of the Stonewall veteran and transgender activist
November 16, 2006
National Assembly of South Africa passes the Civil Union Bill