New York governor Mario Cuomo issues an executive order banning public sexual orientation discrimination.
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In the 1983 by-election for the Bermondsey constituency in South London, Labour candidate Peter Tatchell loses a previously safe seat after a campaign dominated by attacks on his left-wing politics and homosexuality.
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