May 18th in Queer History

Born this day

1913 – Charles Trenet – French Singer / Author – Died 19th February 2001
1914 – Pierre Balmain – French Fashion Designer – Died 29th June 1982
1921 – Patrick Dennis – US Author – Died 6th November 1976
1925 – Robin Blaser – US / Canadian Author / poet – Died 7th May 2009
1926 – Bob Benny – Belgian Singer [or 28th May 1926] – 29th March 2011
1934 – Don Bachardy – US Artist
1938 – Lori Shannon – US Drag Queen / Columnist – Died 11th February 1984
1941 – Miriam Margolyes – UK Actress
1967 – Alonso Duralde – US Author / Film Critic
1968 – Breck Stewart – Canadian Porn / Singer / Actor / Director
1978 – Danny Leary – US Comedian
1980 – Felicia Pearson – US Actress / Author / Rapper

Died this day

1988 – Anthony Forwood – UK Actor / Actor’s Manager – Born 3rd October 1915
2000 – Wim Ibo, Dutch cabaret historian, b. April 10

Sodomy in history, May 18th 

1846 — Michigan raises the maximum penalty for sodomy from 3 years to 15 years and repeals the 1841 law allowing prosecution on proof of penetration only.
1943 — The Michigan Supreme Court overturns a trial court’s action in denying a Gay man convicted of gross indecency a jury trial to determine if he had recovered from his "psychopathy." The Court points out that the jury trial was required by law.
1979 — Massachusetts bans those convicted of sodomy from being school bus drivers.
1983 — An Ohio trial court dismisses an importuning charge against a man who had been blatantly solicited by an undercover police officer and responded to the solicitation.
1990 — Kansas attempts to overrule the 1989 decision of the state’s Supreme Court that cunnilingus wasn’t a violation of the state’s sodomy law by passing a law that covers only heterosexual cunnilingus.

Sources:

Wikipedia

glbtq emcyclopedia

On this gay day

Calendar of Sodomy, May