October 16th in Queer History: Oscar Wilde, Paul Monette, and Prince Eugène of Savoy-Soisson

Born this day:


1663:  Eugène of Savoy-Soisson, royal prince and military general
1854:  Oscar Wilde, playwright, easthete and gay icon
1945:  Paul Monette, writer.
1966: Mark Gatiss;UK, Actor, Writer

Died this day:

Al-Hakem II (915 - 976), Spain

Muslim Caliph of Cordoba

Sodomy in History, October 16

1749 — North Carolina adopts the English sodomy law explicitly.

1943 — The Tennessee Supreme Court rules that fellatio is prohibited by the state’s "crime against nature" law, although the decision is neither published nor publicized.

1958 — The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a conviction for sodomy after the police entered without a warrant to search the defendant’s home.




Source:
Calendar of Sodomy, October