Sunday, 15 January 2012

January 15th in Queer History

Born this day

Loie Fuller (1862 –  1928) US 
Dancer

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 – 1952) US 
Photographer / Photojournalist

Mazo de la Roche (1879 – 1961) Canadian
Author

Ivor Novello (1893 –  1951) UK
Actor / Playwright / Composer

Disley Jones (1926 – 2005) UK
Set Designer

Agustin Gomez-Arcos (1939 – 1998) Spanish 
Author

Kate Hogan (1957 – ) US 
Politician

Zak Spears (1965 – ) US 
Porn

Jeffrey Altergott (1968 –  ) US 
Singer / Songwriter

Mason Wyler (1984 – ) US 
Porn

Died this day

Francois Raucourt (1756 - 1815) French 
Actress

Modest Tchaikovsky (1850 - 1916 ) Russian 
Playwright, brother of the composer Peter Ilyich  Tchaikovsky 


Torvald Tu (1893 - 1955) Norwegian 
Poet / Playwright / Author

Brian Howard (1905 - 1958) UK
Poet

John Dall (1918 - 1971) US 
Actor

Sodomy in history, January 15th

1892 — An Ohio newspaper reports the arrest of a man for throwing a kettle of hot soup over his wife because she wouldn’t leave the house so that he could "sleep with" a man he brought home.

1958 — An Ohio appellate court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man while conceding that there is evidence that he was framed.

1958 — A Texas appellate court upholds the right of the state to try sodomy defendants without an attorney.

1968 — The Virginia Supreme Court rules that merely placing the mouth on a penis does not violate the state’s sodomy law.

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