Thursday, 24 May 2012

May 24th in Queer History


Events this day in Queer History


1988 – Section 28 is enacted in the UK
2007 – Jenny Bailey becomes the UK’s first transsexual mayor

Born this day

1883 – Elsa Maxwell – US Author / Presenter / Columnist –Died 1st November 1963
1967 – Kelli Carpenter-O’Donnell – US Businesswoman
1972 – Greg Berlanti – US Author / Producer / Director

Died this day


1996 – Norman Rene – US Director / Producer – Born 1951
2006 – Fritz Klein – US Psychiatrist / Activist / Author – Born 27th December 1932

Sodomy in history, May 24th

1610 — Virginia colony, via a military regulation, outlaws sodomy with a penalty of death.
1915 — In Ohio, a man enters the State Reformatory for sodomy after allowing himself to be masturbated by another, even though the Ohio sodomy law does not contemplate masturbation.
1963 — A California appellate court upholds the oral copulation conviction of a man after officers listened through his door and heard his bed moving.
1972 — The District of Columbia government announces that it will not prosecute private, consensual sodomy.

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