Oct 15th in Queer History

Born this day

Nigel Green ( 1924 – 1972  ) UK
Actor

Jose Quintero  ( 1924 – 1999 )  Panamanian
Director

Michel Foucault,  ( 1926 – 1984 )  French
philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas.

Luz María Umpierre (1947) Puerto American 

Poet

Todd Solondz  ( 1959 –  )  US
Director

Joseph Genaro  ( 1962 – )  US
Singer / Songwriter / Musician

Zeb Atlas  ( 1970 – ) US
Model / Porn / Bodybuilder

Roland Michel Tremblay  ( 1972 –  ) Canada
Author / Poet / Scriptwriter / Producer / Sci-Fi Consultant

Erin McKeown  ( 1977 –  )  US
Singer / Songwriter / Musician

Siiri Nordin  ( 1980 – )  Finnish
Singer

Died this day

Cole Porter  (1891 – 1964)  US
Composer / Songwriter

Jerry Smith  (1943 – 1986 ) US American
Footballer

Andrea Waddell   ( ???? – 2009 )  UK
Murder Victim

Sodomy in history, Oct 15th 

1918 — The Oregon Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction after the prosecutor made reference in the trial to the "past glories of Greece."

1963 — The Georgia Supreme Court overrules a 1917 precedent and holds that cunnilingus is not a violation of the sodomy law.

1975 — The North Carolina Court of Appeals rules that penetration is not necessary to complete an attempt to commit sodomy.

1998 — A federal judge strikes down Maryland’s "unnatural and perverted practices" law on broad privacy grounds and the state does not appeal.

Sources:

Wikipedia

glbtq emcyclopedia

On this gay day

Calendar of Sodomy, October