DIED: George Buse, 75 Chicago gay activist and World War II veteran, April 20
DIED: James Chalgren, 48 Minnesota gay and AIDS activist, of liver failure in Minneapolis, April 22
DIED: Robert F Craig, 65 longtime political activist and publisher of West Hollywood Calif.-based Frontiers Newsmagazine, of AIDS complications, April 28
APPOINTED: James P Fox chief of staff to Sen Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) as executive director of AIDS Action, effective in November,
OVERTURNED: An Arlington shire Va., law granting benefits to the same-sex partners of shire employees, by the state highest court, April 21.