April 3rd in Queer History

Events this day in Queer History

2009 – Same-sex marriages legalised in Iowa, USA [becoming effective 27thApril 2009]

Born this day

Miguel Bosé (1956 - ), Spanish 
Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.

Marlon Brando  (1924 –  2004) US
Actor  

William Bast  (1931 – )  US
Screenwriter / Author

Lino Brocka  (1939 –  1991)  Filipino
Director  

David Hyde Pierce  (1959 –  )  US
Actor

James Matthew Jones  (1961 – )  US
Activist

Saint's day

Richard of Chichester (1197 – 1253), UK

Bishop, who had a particularly close life-long friendship (probably not sexual) with Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury

Died this day

Peter Pears  (1910 - 1986)  UK Singer  

David Herbert  (1908-1995)  UK
Author / Socialite / Interior Designer

 Lionel Bart  (1930 - 1999) UK Composer

Evelyn Irons  (1900 - 2000) UK
Journalist

Sodomy in history, 

April 3

1930 — West Virginia outlaws oral sex. With its new criminal code, it finally eliminates the term "buggery" from its sodomy law.

1939 — Colorado outlaws oral sex, more than 11 years after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that fellatio was not a "crime against nature." It also lowers the maximum penalty from life to 14 years. The law includes an emergency clause, but why 11 years could pass before it became an emergency is unclear.

1963 — Colorado repeals its ban on voting by anyone convicted of sodomy.

1975 — New Mexico passes a sexual offenses revision, repealing the state’s sodomy law, but retaining common-law crimes.

1989 — The Washington Court of Appeals finds a privacy interest in sex in enclosed restroom stalls.

Sources:

Wikipedia

glbtq emcyclopedia

On this gay day

Calendar of Sodomy, April