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Wednesday 6 June 2012

June 6th in Queer History

Born this day

1869 – Siegfried Wagner – German Composer – Died 4th August 1930
1894 – Violet Trefusis – UK Author – Died 29th February 1972 
1948 – Al McAffrey – US Politician / Funeral Director 
1949 – Holly Near – US Singer / Actress / Author 
1952 – Harvey Fierstein – US Actor / Playwright 
1955 – Sandra Bernhard – US Singer / Actress / Comedian 
1959 – Marcel Musters – Dutch Actor / Singer 
1965 – Mark Lund – US Author / Publisher / Producer / Presenter 
1970 – JC Adams – US Author / Editor / Journalist / Director
1977 – Matt Heinz – US Doctor / Politician 
1981 – TJ Jourian – Lebanon / Armenia / Cyprus – Reality TV [Transgeneration] / Activist

Died this day

1993 – James Bridges – US Screenwriter / Director – Born 3rd February 1936

Sodomy in history, June 
6


1671 — Plymouth Colony exempts males under 14 and forced parties from the death penalty for sodomy.
1940 — Congress amends the Assimilative Crimes Act to absorb state laws enacted through February 1, 1940. The first revision since 1933, this makes oral sex on federal property in three additional states.
1950 — The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejects the contention that the 1949 "psychopathic offender" law repealed the state’s sodomy law.
1979 — The Ohio Supreme Court upholds the state’s law prohibiting the "offensive" solicitation of a person of the same sex. The Court says that homosexuality was accepted in the Dark Ages and Victorian times, but not in the modern, sexually liberated world.
1986 — Hawaii revises the conflict in its age of consent law by lowering the age for all activity to 14.
2001 — Estonia equalizes the age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual sex.


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