DIED: Eugene H Nickerson.

DIED: Eugene H Nickerson, 83 pro-gay novel York federal judge best known for trying to strike down the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, of complications from stomach surgery January 1

APPOINTED: Mona Noriega, as regional director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's Midwest Regional Office, December 19

DECIDED: That a woman who helped raise a child with her lesbian former partner can seek for visitation rights despite the biological mother's objection, according to the Pennsylvania supreme court, December 28

ENACTED: California law AB 25 authored by means of Assemblywoman Carole Migden, which expands domestic-partner rights to include adoption, January 1

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