Friday, 19 August 2011

"Sodomy" in History: Aug 19th

1953 — George Ammon dies in the Ohio Penitentiary at the age of 87. He has spent 17 years of his 20-year sentence for sodomy. He would have been released at the age of 90.
1960 — The District of Columbia Court of Appeals reverses the conviction of a man entrapped by police into fondling them and declares that, by using entrapment, the police are attempting to punish the status of being Gay."

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