Born this day
1869 – Siegfried Wagner – German Composer – Died 4th August 19301894 – 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
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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1950 — The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejects the contention that the 1949 "psychopathic offender" law repealed the state’s sodomy law.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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