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Sunday, 18 March 2012

March 18th in Queer History

Events this day in Queer History


Born this day

LGBT people born 18th March:
1790 – Marquis de Custine – French Author – Died 18th October 1857
1893 – Wilfred Owen – UK Poet / Soldier – Died 4th November 1918
1910 – Pepi Lederer – US Actress / Author – Died 11th June 1935
1927 – John Kander – US Composer / Songwriter
1928 – Charlotte von Mahlsdorf – German Museum Founder – Died 30th April 2002
1931 – John Fraser – UK Actor
1939 – Michael Kirby – Australian Judge
1943 – Jaime Chavarri – Spanish Actor / Director / Screenwriter [or 20th March 1943]
1951 – Tret Fure – US Singer / Songwriter
1961 – Grant Hart – US Musician
1966 – Anne Will – German Presenter
1973 – Patrick Harvie – UK Politician
1974 – Kent Larson – US Porn [or 19th March 1974]
1979 – Brandon Lee – US Navy / Composer / Actor / Porn / Hate Crime Victim
1983 – Corbin Michaels – US Porn
1987 – Gari McDonald – Bahaman Beauty Queen / Model
And those who died:
1980 – Tamara de Lempicka – Polish Artist – Born 16th May 1898
2003 – Karl Gorath – German Imprisoned for homosexuality – Born 12thDecember 1912
2008 – Hazel Barnes – US Philosopher / Author – Born 16th December 1915

Died this day


Sodomy in history, March 18th


1796 — New Jersey passes its first sodomy law in nearly a century and eliminates the death penalty. The maximum sentence is set at 21 years at solitary and hard labor. The law still applies only to males.
1916 — Virginia outlaws oral sex between persons of the same sex only, while retaining anal sex as a crime between persons regardless of sex.
1941 — A California appellate court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man. The corroborative evidence was a tube of vaseline "similar" to the one his partner claimed was used.
1964 — Georgia allows the reduction of felony sentences for sodomy to a misdemeanor.
1971 — Idaho adopts a new criminal code, repealing its sodomy law and abrogating common-law crimes. The repeal doesn’t last long due to religious opposition.
1994 — A Florida appellate court overturns a sex conviction for acts in closed restroom stalls, finding a right to privacy therein.


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