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Friday, 30 March 2012

March 30th in Queer History

Born this day


Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)French 
Poet associated with the Symbolist movement, and considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
In 1872 he left his wife for what became a stormy relationship with Arthur Rimbaud.

Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946 ) US
Poet



Leen Jongewaard  (1927 –  1996)  Dutch
Actor / Singer / Comedian 

Jean-Claude Brialy  (1933 –   2007) French
Actor / Director 

Gerrit Komrij  (1944 – ) Dutch
Author / Poet / Playwright / Critic

Cydney Bernard  (1953 – )  US
Producer

Tracy Chapman  (1964 – ) US
Singer / Songwriter / Musician

Richard Bluestein  (1967 – )  US
Entertainer

Gerald McCullouch  (1967 – )  US
Actor / Singer / Screenwriter / Director / Boxer


Died this day



Gaetan Dugas  (1953 – 1984 ) Canadian
Flight Attendant [Alleged to be Patient Zero in the AIDS epidemic]


Arnie Zane  (1988 – 1947) US
Photographer / Dancer / Choreographer


Nick Enright (1950 – 2003) Australian 
Playwright / Author


Michael Jeter   (1952 - 2003) US
Actor – Born 26th August

Rupesh Mandal   (? - 2006)  Nepalese Hate Crime Victim

Sodomy in history, March 30th


1867 Alaska is purchased from Russia. All Russian law had been abrogated there five years earlier, and Congress passes no criminal code for it, meaning that sodomy is legal.
1911Missouri amends its sodomy law to include oral sex.
1922 — The Michigan Supreme Court rules that indictments under the "gross indecency" law do not have to be specific.
1961 — The New York Court of Appeals rules that the state’s sodomy law applies only to the partner who is "active" in fucking. This decision is overturned by legislation.
1964 — The Louisiana Supreme Court upholds that state’s sodomy law against a vagueness challenge.
1966 — The Oregon Supreme Court upholds the sodomy conviction of two lovers, one of whom has cross-dressed.


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