Timeline: Late May 1987

The Hartford Community Center Project reported that they are in negotiation with the owner of the Wall Building at 495 Farmington Avenue for meeting and office space. The announcement is the result of an eleven month effort to open the state’s first Gay and Lesbian Community Center. The building also provides office space for Metroline and will house the Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective.

The 1987 Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee has announced that the 1987 Pride theme in Connecticut will be Don’t Hide Gay Pride. The festival, which takes place in Hartford’s Bushnell Park, is now in its sixth year and attracts thousands of lesbians and gay men from throughout Connecticut.

Metroline staff writer Richard Hammer tells readers the pride and enjoyment he receives in being a member of The Connecticut Gay Men’s Chorus. As Publicity Chairman he reports the level of pride surpasses anything he has ever felt before. The chorus first performed at the AIDS Vigil held at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford and at the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Right’s Help Feed Hartford event at Trinity College in Hartford. The premier concert however, will take place on June 20, 1997 at the Church of the Redeemer in New Haven.

The National Gay Rights Advocates reported filing a formal complaint with the California Department of Insurance against Aetna Life & Casualty Company located in Hartford. The complaint states that the insurer required a California applicant to submit to the HIV antibody test even though California law explicitly forbids insurance companies to use the test. NGRA learned that other California applicants who maintain they had been tested by Aetna without their knowledge or consent.