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Saturday, 21 January 2012

January 21st in Queer History

Born this day

Duncan Grant ( 1978 - ? ) UK
Painter

Cristobal Balenciaga (1895 –  1972) Spanish
Fashion Designer

John Bodkin Adams (1899 – 1983) UK
Serial Killer

Christian Dior (1905 – 1957) French
Fashion Designer

John Savident – UK
Actor

Dallas Taylor (1967 – ) US
Porn

Diane Whipple (1968 –  ) US
Lacrosse

Tom Katt [David Papaleo] (1970 –  ) US
Bodybuilder / Model / Personal Trainer / Porn

Amy Lame (1971 –  ) US
Presenter / Comedian / Columnist

Jason Wood (? - 2010) UK
Comedian / Singer / Drag Queen

Thomas Berling (1979 – ) Norwegian
Footballer

Johann Hari (1979 – ) UK
Journalist / Columnist

Scott Tanner (1979 – )  US
Porn

Died this day


Lytton Strachey  (1880 - 1932) UK
Author / Poet / Critic

William Alexander Percy (1885 - 1942 ) US
Lawyer / Poet

Sandro Penna (1906 - 1977 ) Italian 
Poet

James Beard (1903 - 1985 ) US
Chef and food writer. The central figure in the story of the establishment of a gourmet American food identity, Beard was an eccentric personality who brought French cooking to the American middle and upper classes in the 1950s. Beard noted in his memoirs that he knew by the time that he was seven, that he was gay,

Billy Tipton (1914 - 1989 ) US
Pianist / Saxophonist

Peer Raben (1940 - 2007) German
Composer

Sodomy in history, January

1915 — A California appellate court upholds the lewd and lascivious acts conviction of a man and ponders human sexuality in a long paragraph.

1952 — The Montana Supreme Court overturns a sodomy conviction because of testimony of other alleged sexual partners of the defendant. In addition, the only evident sex was spanking, something not covered by the sodomy law.

1958 — The District of Columbia Court of Appeals rules that charges of homosexual indecency must be corroborated more stringently than charges of heterosexual

1966 — The Minnesota Supreme Court reverses a sodomy conviction because the public was excluded from the trial and, in dictum, states that a husband and wife are not immune from prosecution for sodomy. indecency.

1970 — A federal court in Texas strikes down the Texas sodomy law as overly broad in its application but, a year later, the U.S. Supreme Court reverses on a technicality.


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