Events this day in Queer History
2007 – Vermont bans gender identity discrimination in the private sector
2010 – Inaugural Harvey Milk Day, USA [annually thereafter]
2011 – Grand Opening of the Harvey Milk Call Center, San Francisco, USA
Born this day
1870 – Eva Gore-Booth – Irish Poet / Playwright / Suffragette – Died 30th June 19261879 – [or 3rd June 1879] Alla Nazimova – Russian Actress / Producer – Died 13th July 1945
1905 – Tom Driberg, Baron Bradwell – UK Journalist – Died 12th August 1976
1930 – Harvey Milk – US Politician – Died 27th November 1978
1931 – Henrietta Moraes – UK Socialite / Artist’s Muse – Died 6th January 1999
1939 – Paul Winfield – US Actor – Died 7th March 2004
1942 – Rev Peter Gomes, Black Republican Baptist Clergyman
1955 – Dale Winton – UK Presenter
1956 – Dirk Tanghe – Belgian Actor / Director
1970 – Mark Bingham – US PR Executive / 9/11 Hero – Died 11th September 2001
1983 – Natasha Kai – US Footballer
1985 – Chris Salvatore – US Actor / Singer
Died this day
1939 – Willem de Merode – Dutch Poet – Born 2nd September 18871948 – Claude McKay – Jamaican / US Author / Poet – Born 15th September 1889
1967 – Langston Hughes – US Author / Poet – Born 1st February 1902
1971 – A.H. Nijhoff-Wind – Dutch Author – Born 9th June 1897
1989 – Karen Ulane – US Airline Pilot – Born 1949
2003 – Elula Perrin – Vietnamese / French Author – Born 1929
2005 – Bertha Harris – US Author – Born 17th December 1937
2008 – Paul Patrick – UK Teacher / Activist – Born 23rd July 1950
Sodomy in history, May 22nd
1677 — In Connecticut, Nicholas Sension is convicted of sodomy and sentenced only to good behavior for the rest of his life. He has had a 30-year career of solicitations of other men, finally being brought to trial when he outrages sensibilities one too many times.1900 — The Louisiana Supreme Court upholds a conviction under the 1896 oral sex clause. The Court quotes the father of the "victim" as saying that the defendant "sucked the cock of my son Ned until he has lost his mind."
1905 — A California appeals court overturns a sodomy conviction because the information did not make clear that the partner, Frank Derby, was a male. It says that Frank is a common name for women, also. 1923 — New York amends its disorderly conduct law to include any male who "frequents or loiters about a public place soliciting men for the purpose of committing the crime against nature."
1957 — A California appellate court upholds a conviction for attempted sodomy of two prisoners seen kissing.
1970 — The Minnesota Supreme Court overturns the sodomy conviction of a man after restroom surveillance from above.
1995 — The Louisiana Supreme Court overturns a trial court’s finding that the state’s sodomy law is unconstitutional.
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