Outrage as Westminster’s demand that businesses remove rainbow flags reaches a boiling point. London Mayor: “[demands]…completely out of touch with the needs of 21st century London.”

Nun turned lesbian activist Jean O’Leary dies at 57. Helped create National Coming Out Day and organized the first White house meeting of homosexual leaders with President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Gloria Steinem: “Jean O’Leary was a link of kindness and humanity and inclusive politics who helped the women’s movement to recognize the universal cost of homophobia, and the gay movement to see that marginalizing the voices of lesbians would only diminish its power.”

Suede’s Brett Anderson: “I see myself as a bisexual man who’s never had a homosexual experience. I’ve never seen myself as overtly heterosexual, but then, I didn’t see myself as gay. I sort of saw myself as some kind of sexual being that was floating somewhere. There were specific references to the gay world (in Suede’s lyrics) but the songs were actually trying to say something more universal.”