PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education).

1972 Nov. 1 That Certain Summer, a made for TV movie, airs as the ABC Movie of the Week. It is the first TV movie to deal with the subject of homosexuality sympathetically. Martin Sheen and Hal Holbrook, big name stars at the time, play lovers.

1975 Jan. 24 ABC debuts Hot l Baltimore, a short lived Norman Lear series, which features the first gay couple on TV. On the show, the characters George and Gordon are an older gay couple.

1977 Sept. 13 On the primetime TV series Soap, Billy Crystal plays Jodie Dallas, a gay man.

1983 April 29 The Hunger, a horror film, is released. The film features a love triangle between a doctor, played by Susan Sarandon, and a vampire couple,played by Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie. The film develops a cult following, partly because of the lesbian seduction scene between Sarandon and Deneuve.

1985 July 25 Rock Hudson issues a press release announcing that he has AIDS. His announcement elevates AIDS awareness to a whole new level.



Oct. 2 Rock Hudson becomes the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness.



Nov. 11 NBC airs An Early Frost, a TV movie of the week, featuring Aidan Quinn as a Chicago attorney who goes home to tell his parents that he is gay and has AIDS. It is the first major film that deals with the subject of AIDS. Top

1986 July 25 The made-for-TV movie, My Two Loves, airs. The film features Mariette Harley questioning her sexuality after her husband