This month in LGBT History
August
August 12, 1880
Birthday - Radclyffe Hall (Author, The Well of Loneliness)
August 2, 1924
Birthday - James Baldwin (Writer)
August 16, 1958
Birthday - Madonna (Pop icon)
August 28, 1982
First Gay Games held in San Francisco (originally called the Gay Olympics, but challenged by U.S. Olympic Committee in court)
August 12, 2004
California's highest court struck down San Francisco's attempt to legalize same-sex marriages, saying Mayor Gavin Newsom illegally defied the state law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman