Question: The murder of a gay man on what date led to the founding of Maine's oldest LGBT rights organization?
Context: LGBT rights in the Maldives are still in development as the country continues to strongly oppose law reform and LGBT rights developments through the Universal Periodic Review and other recommendations.  The Maldives was one of the initial 57 (now 54) members to sign a document opposing LGBT rights in the UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity in 2008.  In 2011, the Maldives further rejected a landmark proposal for an LGBT rights resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Council put forth by the Republic of South Africa.  Since then, many other attempts to develop LGBT Rights in the country have been rejected by the Government.  Homosexuality was originally criminalised in the Maldives in the 1880s.  The Maldives law criminalises homosexuality and prescribes criminal penalties for same-sex sexual conduct and relationships.  The Penal Code of the Maldives works with Islamic Shariah Law to punish any acts relating to homosexuality through prison sentences, death penalties, and lashings.  Despite this, homosexuality is rarely prosecuted but remains a social taboo where sexual orientation discrimination occurs frequently and those in the LGBT community are subject to hate crimes and other human rights violations. The Russian LGBT Network (Russian: Российская ЛГБТ-сеть ) is a non-governmental LGBT rights organization working for the social acceptance of and protection of the rights of LGBT people in Russia.  Founded in 2006, it was reformed into the first (and only) Russian inter-regional LGBT rights organization on October 19, 2008.  The organization is a member of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) and is led by Russian LGBT rights activist Igor Kochetkov. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements are social movements that advocate for the equalized acceptance of LGBT+ people in society.  In these movements, LGBT people and their allies have a long history of campaigning for what is now generally called "LGBT rights", sometimes also called "gay rights" or "gay and lesbian rights".  Although there is not a primary or an overarching central organization that represents all LGBT+ people and their interests, numerous LGBT rights organizations are active worldwide.  The earliest organizations to support LGBT+ rights were formed in the 19th century. Tucson Lesbian and Gay Alliance (dba: Tucson Pride) is Arizona's first and oldest LGBT pride organization and one of the oldest LGBT pride organizations in the nation.  Tucson Pride organizes and promotes the greater Tucson metropolitan areas LGBT pride parade ("Pride on Parade") and pride festival ("Pride in the Desert") which are currently held at the start of October each year in Tucson, Arizona, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and their allies. EqualityMaine (formerly the Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance) is a political advocacy organization in Maine, United States.  Founded in 1984 after the murder of Charlie Howard, it is the oldest and largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organization in the state.  In 2008, they were a primary opponent of an attempt to revoke an anti-discrimination law in Maine.  In 2009, EqualityMaine was one of the main supporters of a push to recognize same-sex marriage in Maine. In 1975, the Houston GLBT Political Caucus, the oldest southern LGBT rights organization is founded.  In 1979, Houston Gay Pride Parade was first held in Neartown, Houston.  The Texas Democratic Party added certain LGBT rights to the party's platform in 1980. The Blue Diamond Society(Nepali: नील हीरा समाज) is an LGBT rights organization in Nepal.  It was founded in 2001 to advocate to change the existing laws against homosexuality and to advocate for the rights of Nepal's marginalized gay, transgender and other sexual minority communities.  BDS also aims to educate the Nepalese on proper sexual health, advocate for queer minorities in local governments, encourage artful expression of LGBTQ+ youth, and document violence against Nepalese queers.  Another contribution to Nepal's LGBTQ+ communities is to provide care, counseling, and services to victims of HIV/AIDS.  Blue Diamond Society is currently led by Executive Director Manisha Dhakal, and was founded and led until 2013 by Sunil Babu Pant, the first gay legislator in Nepal's history and one of 29 experts at the meeting for The Yogyakarta Principles.  One of the Blue Diamond Society's most recent accomplishment occurred when Sunil Babu Pant and fellow human rights activists filed a case with Nepal's Supreme Court in 2007 that led to a verdict by the Court ordering the government to repeal all laws that explicitly discriminate against members of the LGBT community.  The law also ordered the government to legalize gay marriage. The Millennium March on Washington was an event to raise awareness and visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and issues of LGBT rights in the US, it was held April 28 through April 30, 2000 in Washington, DC.  The Millennium Pride Festival was held prior to the March, it was a huge event that saw thousands flock to the US capital.  A march from the Washington Monument to the front lawn of the Capitol took place on April 30, where the crowd was addressed by several members of Congress and, via video, by President Bill Clinton.  Estimates of attendance ranged from 200,000 to 1 million people.  One of the weekend's more successful events was the sellout Equality Rocks concert produced by LGBT rights organization Human Rights Campaign.  The concert was held in Washington's RFK Stadium and included stars such as Melissa Etheridge, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, Garth Brooks, and k.d. lang. Charles O. Howard (January 31, 1961 – July 7, 1984) was an American murder victim in Bangor, Maine in 1984.  As Howard and a male companion, Roy Ogden, were walking down the street, three teenagers, Shawn I. Mabry, age 16, James Francis Baines, age 15, and Daniel Ness, age 17, harassed and assaulted Howard for being gay.  The youths chased the pair, yelling homophobic epithets, until they caught Howard and threw him over the State Street Bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream, despite his pleas that he could not swim.  He drowned, but his friend escaped and pulled a fire alarm.  Charlie Howard's body was found by rescue workers several hours later. The Society for Human Rights was an American LGBT Rights organization established in Chicago in 1924.  Society founder Henry Gerber was inspired to create it by German Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld and his work with the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee.  It was the first recognized gay rights organization in the United States, having received a charter from the state of Illinois, and produced the first American publication for homosexuals, "Friendship and Freedom".  A few months after being chartered, the group ceased to exist in the wake of the arrest of several of the Society's members.  Despite its short existence and small size, the Society has been recognized as a precursor to the modern gay liberation movement.
Answer: July 7, 1984