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7-1-1919: In Berlin, Dr Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institute for Sexual Science. Hirschfeld coined the term “transvestite” and was reportedly a crossdresser.

7-2-1999: The Washington Blade reported that U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told the Boston Gay newspaper Bay Windows that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would have "no chance whatsoever" of passage if it included language to prohibit discrimination against transgenders.

7-3-1986: Singer Boy George responded to persistent rumors that his weight loss was caused by AIDS, calling the rumors ridiculous speculation. Soon after he entered a drug treatment facility for heroin addiction.

7-5-1981: A federal court judge found a Houston Texas ordinance that had forbidden cross-dressing unconstitutional.

7-5-1999: Private Barry Winchell, 21, was brutally beaten by fellow soldiers at Fort Campbell Army Base. He died the following day at Vanderbilt University Hospital. Private Winchell was not transgendered. He was beaten to death, however, because he was in a relationship with a transgendered person. His girlfriend was Calpernia Addams, a transsexual and entertainer at The Connection, Nashville's largest gay nightclub.

7-9-1981: Republican Barry Goldwater expressed disgust with the intolerance of the right wing and stated that every good Christian should "kick Jerry Falwell in the ass."

7-12-1998: The New York Times reported on the murder of Ali He'shun Forney, 22-year-old homeless, transgender that occasionally did sex work. Ali was the third sex worker to be murdered in New York in 14 months.

7-13-1984: Jerry Falwell appeared on television and denied that he had ever referred to Metropolitan Community Church, a GLBT affirming church as vile and satanic and its members "brute beasts" on his Old Time Gospel Hour. He offered $5,000 to anyone who could prove that he had. Rev Jerry Sloan of MCC called Falwell's toll-free number and purchased a copy of the tape as proof, and demanded payment of the $5,000. When Falwell refused, Sloan sued and won.

7-16-1746: Mary Hamilton passed as a man and married a woman. Within a few months Mary's physical makeup was revealed. S/he was arrested, charged with fraud, publicly whipped, and imprisoned for six months.

7-18-1999: At 3:50 AM, Hector and Javier Bautista attacked several transgender women with baseball bats in West Hollywood. The two men shouted, "Are you a faggot or a real woman?" One of the transgender women received 13 hits from a baseball bat and was later transported to Cedar Sinai Hospital.

7-19-1884: An editorial in a New York medical journal said that urnings (a term coined by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs to describe men who are attracted to other men) had an irrepressible desire to act like females, and that their "perverted feelings" led to insanity and suicide. The article was an attempt to remove homosexuality from the realm of criminal and into the realm of medical.

7-22-1777: In England, Ann Marrow was found guilty of impersonating a man in marriage and sentenced to the pillory where s/he was so severely pelted that s/he was blinded.

7-23-1987: At its national convention in Miami Florida, Dignity (a GLBT faith based advocacy group) voted to peacefully challenge the Vatican's Ratzinger letter. Referred to homosexuality as " a strong tendency to behavior which is intrinsically evil." It opposed civil rights for gays and lesbians, barred churches from allowing organizations which do not agree with church teachings on homosexuality from using church facilities, and suggested that anti-gay violence should not come as a surprise to society. The same day in San Francisco, several groups protested the Pope's visit, including the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Jewish holocaust survivors.

7-27-1969: In New York a rally was held at Washington Square Park to mark the one month anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

7-27-1940: Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, a church with a primary outreach to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people was born.

7-28-1997: The city council of Evanston Illinois voted unanimously to extend anti-discrimination protection to transgendered people.

7-31-1998: Kristina Sheffield and Rachel Horsham, both male-to-female transsexuals, lost a legal battle to be recognized as women under English law when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the British government had not violated their rights by refusing to issue them new birth certificates or by refusing to allow them to marry men.