Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Sodomy in History: September 6


September 6

1809 — English sailor Charles North receives 300 lashes and 2 years of solitary confinement for "indecent liberties" with a ship boy.
1849 — In Philadelphia, an investigation by the Presbyterian Church against minister John Grant begins. He resists dismissal for sex with men by defying the church’s investigative committee.
1878 — In India, a man dies in a mental institution six hours after sex with another man. The autopsy showed that three feet of intestine had been ripped from its wall.


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