Events this day in Queer History
2007 – Equality Parade in Warsaw, Poland
2008 – Australian Capital Territory legalises civil partnerships from this date
2009 – Washington Governor Chris Gregoire signs “everything but marriage” bill into law [effective 1st June 2009]
2011 – Ben Cohen’s Acceptance Tour of the USA begins [runs until 29th May 2011]
Born this day
1904 – Daniel Guerin – French Anarchist / Author – Died 14th April 19881923 – Peter Wildeblood – UK / Canadian Journalist / Author / Playwright / Activist – Died 14th November 1999
1930 – Lorraine Hansberry – US Author / Playwright – Died 12th January 1965
1954 – Peter Elliott – Canadian Rector 1962 – Gina Guidi – US Boxer
1965 – Maile Flanagan – US Actress
1978 – Kim Zolciak – US Singer / Reality TV [The Real Housewives of Atlanta]
Died this day
804 – Alcuin of York – English Monk / Poet – Born 735
1999 – Dudley Cave – UK Activist – Born 19th February 1921
Sodomy in history, May 19th
1894 — Ohio repeals its "sex toys" law and expands the ban on any instrument of an "immoral or indecent nature."1947 — The Colorado Supreme Court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man whose love letters to another were admitted into evidence against him.
1965 — North Carolina changes the penalty for sodomy from 5-60 years to a sentence "in the discretion of the court." The following year the North Carolina Supreme Court determines that, due to another law regarding unspecified penalties, the maximum that can be handed down is 10 years.
1976 — The Iowa Supreme Court rules that the state’s sodomy law does not apply to married couples, even though there is no statutory exemption for them.
1981 — Iowa repeals its law requiring a coroner’s investigation of deaths resulting from "unnatural sex" relations.
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