Born this day
1910 – Inge Meysel – German Actress – Died 10th July 20041926 – Christine Jorgensen – US first widely known sex-reassignment recipient– Died 3rd May 1989
1928 – Joan Chalmers – Canadian Philanthropist
1950 – Bertrand Delanoe – French Politician
1955 – Colm Toibin – Irish Author / Critic
1960 – Micah Barnes – Canadian Singer
1964 – Oscar van den Boogaard – Dutch Author
1967 – Allison Adler – US Producer / Screenwriter
1974 – Luis – US Musician
Died this day
1593 – Christopher Marlowe – UK Poet / Playwright – Born 26th February 1564
1995 – Glenn Burke – US Baseball – Born 16th November 1952
1986 – Perry Ellis – US Fashion Designer – Born 3rd March 1940
2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy – French Actor / Director – Born 30th March 1933
2010 – Peter Orlovsky – US Poet – Born 8th July
Sodomy in history, May
1668 — New Jersey passes its own sodomy law, separate from that of New York, mandating the death penalty, and applicable only to males.1854 — Congress creates the Kansas and Nebraska Territories and makes no provision for criminal laws therein. Therefore, sodomy is legal in them.
1973 — The Florida Supreme Court upholds the state’s "unnatural and lascivious acts" law, declaring that the words "unnatural and lascivious" are not vague or overbroad. Just 17 months earlier, the same court struck down the "crime against nature" law as too vague.
1975 — The District of Columbia Court of Appeals rules that a Gay bath house is a public place and any sex occurring therein is in a public place.
1980 — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court strikes down the state’s "voluntary deviate sexual conduct" law because it is discriminatory against persons not married to each other.
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