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Thursday 26 January 2012

January 26th in Queer History

Born this day

Jill Esmond  (1908 –  1990) UK
Actress

Fernand Legros  (1931 –  1983) French
Art Dealer

Alfred Lynch  (1931 – 2003) UK
Actor

Keith Norton  (1941 –  2010) Canadian
Politician / Lawyer

Angela Davis  (1944 – ) US
Professor, Civil Rights Activist

Ellen Degeneres  (1958 –  ) US
Comedian / Actress / Presenter

Scott Amedure  (1963 –  1995) US
Reality TV / Hate Crime Victim

Wendy Melvoin  (1964 –  ) US
Singer / Songwriter / Musician

Died this day


William Eythe (1918 -1957 )  US
Actor

John Caleo (????  - 1992/3) Australian
Lover of Tim Conigrove

Geoffrey Parsons  (1929  - 1995) Australian
Pianist

Diane Whipple (1968 -2001)  US
Lacrosse

David Kato,  ( ? - 2011) Uganda
Hate crime victim, modern Uganda martyr

Sodomy in history, January 26th

1973 — A California appellate court rules that the First Amendment does not protect the right of actors to engage in sodomy or oral copulation for a film.

1996 — The Tennessee Court of Appeals strikes down the state’s sodomy law on privacy grounds. The Tennessee Supreme Court declines to review the decision and asks the Court of Appeals to publish its decision to make it precedent.

1999 — A New York court rules that the state’s prostitution law covers homosexual prostitution.


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