October 29th in Queer History,

Born this day

Ann-Marie MacDonald (1958 – ) Canadian.  Author,  Playwright.

Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist, who won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees,and has received the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit. She is married to the playwright and theatre director Alisa Palmer




Nicole Conn (1959 – ) US.  Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Film director, producer, and screenwriter most famous for her debut feature, the lesbian love story, Claire of the Moon (1992).
In 2004, POWER UP! named Conn one of the top ten gay women in show business.



Karin Giphart ( 1968 – ) Dutch Author, Poet, Singer

Dutch writer and singer-songwrite. On her thirtieth she recognized that she was a lesbian.

Died this day

Charles Coypeau d’Assoucy (1605 - 1677 ) French.  Musician, Poet

French musician and burlesque poet, part of a group of "free spirits" around the philosopher Pierre Gassendi, which also included Cyrano de Bergerac, Tristan l'Hermite, Saint-Amant, Paul Scarron, and Molière. It has been suggested that d'Assoucy was for a time Cyrano's lover, although they later fell out, and attacked each other with their pens.


Guthrie McClintic ( 1893 - 1961 ) US.  Theatre Director, Producer

Successful homosexual theatre director, film director and producer based in New York, who was joined in lavender marriages to actress Estelle Winwood, and then to actress Katharine Cornell--herself a lesbian—for forty years.




Richard Hall (1926 - 1992 ) US.  Author

Writer of novels, short stories, plays, and critical writings, who focused almost exclusively on issues of gay identity and community.




Gerald Arpino (1923 - 2008) US.  Ballet, Choreographer

American dancer and choreographer, the artistic director and co-founder of The Joffrey Ballet. Joffrey died of AIDS in 1988



Saint's Day


St Anna / Euphemianos of Constantinople, Cross-Dressing Saint

Sodomy laws in History, October 29

1649 — In Plymouth, Richard Berry accuses Teage Joanes of having sexual relations with him. Berry admits the falseness of the charge and is flogged.

Source:
Calendar of Sodomy, October