March 16th in Queer History

Born this day

Rosa Bonheur  (1822 –  1899), French
Artist

IAR Wylie (1885 –  1959), Australian
Author

Karl Meier  (1897 – 1974), Swiss
Entertainer / Director / Editor

Sybille Bedford  (1911 –  2006),UK
Author 

David del Tredici  (1937 – ) US
Composer / Pianist

Jack Nichols  (1938 – 2005), US
Author / Activist

Jon Hinson (1942 – 1995), US
Politician

David Sweetman  (1943 –  2002), UK
Author / Poet / Director

Erling Lae (1947 –  ), Norwegian
Politician

Victor Garber  (1949 – ), US
Actor / Singer

Anthony Gallo  (1962 –  )  Brazilian
Porn / Actor

Pall Oskar [Paul Oscar]  (1962 –  )  Icelandic
Singer / Songwriter / DJ

Donal Og Cusack  (1977 –  ) Irish
Hurler

Andrea Zimbardi  (1980 – )  US
Softball

Tommy Hansen [Filip Trojovsky]  (1982 – )  Czech
Porn / Model / Presenter

Died this day

Harold Monro  (1879 - 1932), UK
Poet

Antonio Botto  (1892 - 1959), Portuguese
Poet

Sodomy in history, March

1679 — New Hampshire outlaws sodomy between men only, with a sentence of death.

1805 — Massachusetts reduces the penalty for sodomy from death to 20 years, but retains the language making the law applicable only to two males.

1855 — Nebraska passes a criminal code, receiving all of the laws of Iowa, which does not have a sodomy law, but also adopting all English common-law crimes, making sodomy a capital offense in the territory.

1961 — The Maryland Court of Appeals upholds a sodomy conviction based on an indictment for "buggery," a word not found in the state’s criminal code.

1970 — Kentucky repeals the sodomy provision of its state UCMJ.

1976 — The Mississippi Supreme Court upholds the state’s crime against nature law against a vagueness challenge.

1987 — A Louisiana appellate court upholds the solicitation conviction of a man for placing his finger through a glory hole in a bookstore and then placing his mouth at the hole, without saying a word.

Sources:

Wikipedia

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On this gay day

Calendar of Sodomy, March