Events this day in Queer History
2004 – Tasmania adopts registered partnerships as part of their Relationships Act 20032007 – Registered partnerships begin in Switzerland
2007 – Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations come into effect inNorthern Ireland, UK
2008 – Same-sex civil unions adopted in New Hampshire, USA & Uruguay
2009 – Norway adopts same-sex marriages / Allows joint & step adoption by same-sex couples / IVF/artificial insemination for women married to, or in a relationship with women
2009 – North Cyprus legalises homosexuality
2010 – New Hampshire, USA adopts same-sex marriages effective this day
Born this day
Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), ItalianOne of the Borgia family, notorious for their many excesses. He was believed to have reduced Rome to unparalleled depths of depravity, and the city teemed with assassins and prostitutes of both sexes. Alexander was himself much given to womanizing, having sired eight or more children, including the infamous Lucrezia Borgia, but he was apparently not averse to the charms of young men as well.
Katherine Philips (1632 – 1664) UK
Poet, who may have had a ten-year relationship with "Lucasia", from 1651 to 1661. At their more ecstatic, Philips' poems celebrate the sublime "mysteries" of love between women.
EM Forster (1879 – 1970) UK
A prolific and internationally acclaimed writer. His works display his acute awareness of the social and political problems of his time and his belief in the power of human connection. Though best known for novels, he wrote numerous short stories and nonfiction works.
“Maurice,” his only novel to deal directly with a homosexual theme, was not published until a year after his death, at the author’s request. Written when homosexuality was illegal in England, the book revolved around a gay man and his relationships. Though unwilling to publish “Maurice,” Forster fought against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall’s novel about a lesbian Englishwoman, “The Well of Loneliness” (1928).
Albert Mol (1917 – 2004) Dutch
Author / Actor
James Hormel (1933 – ) US
A philanthropist and community leader who was the first openly gay United States Ambassador.
Joe Orton (1933 – 1967) UK
Playwright
Eloy de la Iglesia (1944 – 2006) Spanish
Director
Nahum B Zenil (1947 – ) Mexican
Artist
Romy Haag (1951 – ) Dutch
Dancer / Singer / Actress / Club Manager
Adriano Marquez (1965 – ) Spanish
Porn
Joey Stefano (1968 – 1994) US
Porn
Magdalen Hsu-Li (1970 – ) US
Singer / Painter / Poet / Activist
Peter Raeg (1975 – ) Australian
Porn
Died this day
Loie Fuller (1862 - 1928) US
Dancer / Lighting Designer
Victor Buono (1938 - 1982 ) US
Comedian / Actor
Cesar Romero (1907 - 1994 ) US
Actor
Jim Hutton (1949 - 2010 )
Hairdresser / Former lover of Freddie Mercury
Sodomy in history, January
New laws take effect repealing consensual sodomy laws inIllinois (1962),
Oregon (1972),
Hawaii (1973),
Ohio (1974),
California (1976),
Guam (1978),
Iowa (1978),
Alaska (1980),
American Samoa (1980).
Sources:
Wikipedia
On this gay day
Calendar of Sodomy, January
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