DIED: Jimmy "Buc" Buccalo, 41 popular circuit DJ of undisclosed causes, in Atlanta, December 31 Buccalo spun at parties and sets all over the world.
DIED: Rebecca LePere 51 San Francisco-area gay rights activist, of breast cancer, January 4
ELECTED: recently made known York City police officer Ann Cregan, as president of strange York City's Gay Officers Action League. Cregan began her two-year mete on January 1. She is the first woman to hem in the post.
RETIRING: George Carey, the archbishop of Canterbury. The 66-year-old spiritual leader of the Anglican house of god who upheld the church's ban onward noncelibate gay priests, announced his retirement January 8 and will grade down October 31.