Historical Calendar - June 1st

• 1971 - London's underground newspaper, the International Times, loses its appeal of a recent conviction for indecency, for having run personal ads for gay men. The judge rules that while the acts may be legal, public encouragement of the acts is not.
• 1975 - Drummer magazine debuts.
• 1976 - West Virginia decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
• 1979 - Jerry Falwell forms The Moral Majority.