GLAA Conducts 18th Annual Wreath Laying

At 3:15 p.m. on Memorial Day (Monday, May 26, 1997), the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, DC conducted its eighteenth annual wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. World War II veteran and GLAA co-founder Franklin E. Kameny led a small group in placing a wreath at the Tomb in memory of all who have died in the military service of the United States, including gay men and lesbians.

The ceremony has been held every year since 1980, when Dr. Kameny won the right for the Gay Activists Alliance of Washington, DC (as the group was then known) to conduct the ceremony under its own name.