Born this day
Jackie Forster (1926 – 1998 ) UK Presenter / Reporter / Actress / Activist
Married her novelist husband, Peter Forster in 1958 but divorced him in 1962 when she realised her true sexual identity. She is noted for being an Actress, a TV Personality, a Feminist and a Lesbian campaigner
Arthur Bell ( 1939 – 1984 ) US Journalist / Author / Activist
Journalist, author and LGBT rights activist, Bell was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front and a founding member of the Gay Activists Alliance in New York City. He wrote two books. Dancing the Gay Lib Blues and Kings Don't Mean a Thing. He wrote his first piece for the Village Voice in 1969, an account of the Stonewall riots, and later became a regular columnist
with "Bell Tells".
Brad Davis (1949 – 1991) US Actor
Boyishly handsome Brad Davis rose to fame for his starring role in Midnight Express (1978). Although newspaper reports after his death described him as "the first heterosexual actor to die of AIDS," his bisexuality was well known to people in the entertainment industry.
Michael Cunningham (1952 – ) US Author
American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.
Jim Neal (1956 – ) US Politician, Businessman, Investment Banker
North Carolina Democrat and a business executive and investment banker who was a candidate in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in 2008. At the time, it was widely reported that he was openly gay, but he did not think this would be a factor in the election. When in fact he lost the primary, there was no indication that sexuality had come into it.
Frank DeCaro ( 1962 – ) US Presenter / Comedian / Author
Author of The Dead Celebrity Cookbook, Frank DeCaro has found success both in serious journalism as a fashion writer and editor and in comedy as a writer, performer, and radio talk show host. DeCaro has been a lifelong gay rights activist and splits his time between Manhattan and Little Falls, New Jersey, with his husband, Jim Colucci whom he married live during the August 16, 2011 broadcast of his radio show.
Georg Uecker (1962 – ) German Actor / Author
German actor and LGBT-activist
Stephen Gilbert (1976 – ) UK Politician
British Liberal Democrat politician, MP for St Austell and Newquay since the 2010 general election, is one of 22 openly gay MPs in the House of Commons (as at 2011).
Died this day
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) Russian. Composer / Musician
Patrick Dennis (1921 - 1976) US Author
American author. His novel "Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade" (1955) was one of the bestselling American books of the 20th century, was adapted for the Broadway play, a screen adaptation, and the popular Broadway musical,"Mame".
Throughout his life, Dennis struggled with his bisexuality, later becoming a well-known participant in Greenwich Village's gay scene.
Joel Crothers (1941 - 1985) US Actor
American actor with a strongly physical resemblance to Tom Selleck, with credits primarily on stage and television, especially soap operas.
Although he was openly gay among friends and family, he was publicly closeted, and at the time of his death from lymphoma in 1986, he was engaged to be married.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Reed (1949 - 2008) US Politician
New York City Council Member from 1998 to 2005, when term limits forced him out of office. He was the first openly gay African-American New York City Council Member.
Sodomy laws in history, November 6
1829 — Florida reinstates common-law crimes, but with a set penalty of up to one year in prison and a $500 fine.
1967 — The Indiana Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction while conceding that the prosecutor was "overenthusiastic" and "overzealous."
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