Article: Good news, bad news.(Time line 2003)(gays)(Calendar)

January

1 Lesbian couple Joanna Bare and Helen Rubin give birth to Washington, D.C.'s first baby of the year.

3 Lesbian feminist Monique Wittig, 67, dies of a heart attack in Tucson.

4 Clonaid, a company that claims to have produced the first human clone, claims a second cloned child has been born, to a Dutch lesbian.

7 Owners of New York City's Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the nation's oldest gay bookstore, announce that poor sales are forcing them to close the store. But the shop is saved after the owners of Washington, D.C.'s Lambda Rising bookstore buy it several weeks later.

16 Tom Tunney is sworn in as Chicago's first openly ...

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