Born this day
Sir Dirk Bogarde (1921 – 1999), UK
Actor
James Bidgood (1933 – ) US
Artist / Photographer
James E West (1951 – 2006) US
Army / Politician
Alexandra Billings (1962 – ) US
Actress
Faith Soloway (1964 – ) US
Singer / Songwriter / Musician / Comedian
Scott Mills (1974 – ) UK
Presenter
Angelo Garcia (1976 – ) US
Singer / Songwriter
Lady Gaga (1986 – ) US
Singer / Songwriter / Musician
Katharine Lee Bates (1859 - 1929) US
Author
Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) Polish
Composer / Pianist
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) UK
Author
Actor
Jane Rule (1931 - 2007 ) Canadian.
Writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction. She claimed she was a tomboy growing up and felt like an outsider for reaching six feet tall and being dyslexic. When she was 15 she read The Well of Loneliness and wrote later, "suddenly discovered that I was a freak."
In 1964, Rule published "Desert of the Heart", which featured two women who fall in love with each other and caused Rule to receive a flood of letters from "very unhappy, even desperate" women who felt they were alone and would be miserable. The novel caused her to be sought out by Canadian media, and Rule later wrote, "I became, for the media, the only lesbian in Canada. A role I gradually and very reluctantly accepted and used to educate people as I could."
The book was later made into a movie by Donna Deitch, released as "Desert Hearts" , which quickly became a lesbian classic. The Globe and Mail said of it, "the film is one of the first and most highly regarded works in which a lesbian relationship is depicted favourably."
James Bidgood (1933 – ) US
Artist / Photographer
James E West (1951 – 2006) US
Army / Politician
Alexandra Billings (1962 – ) US
Actress
Faith Soloway (1964 – ) US
Singer / Songwriter / Musician / Comedian
Scott Mills (1974 – ) UK
Presenter
Angelo Garcia (1976 – ) US
Singer / Songwriter
Lady Gaga (1986 – ) US
Singer / Songwriter / Musician
Died this day
Katharine Lee Bates (1859 - 1929) US
Author
Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) Polish
Composer / Pianist
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) UK
Author
Sodomy in history, March
1954 — The Sydney Morning Herald editorializes in favor of decriminalization of sodomy in Australia.
1960 — A New Jersey appellate court upholds the conviction of an attorney (and McCarthy backer) for engaging in fellatio with numerous teenage males.
1972 — The Michigan Court of Appeals again rejects the contention that heterosexuals are exempt from the "crime against nature."
1973 — North Dakota, in passing a new criminal code, becomes the eighth state to repeal its sodomy law.
1973 — The North Carolina Court of Appeals upholds the "crime against nature" law against a vagueness challenge.
1977 — Arkansas reinstates its sodomy law as a misdemeanor and applicable only to people of the same sex. Although the vote is overwhelming (66-2 in the House and 25-0 in the Senate), one-third of the 100-member House and 35-member Senate fail to vote.
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