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Thursday 18 October 2012

October 18th in LGBT History


Born this day


Jean-Jacques-Regis de Cambeceres  (1753 – 1824 ) French
Lawyer

Mikhail Kuzmin  (1872 –  1936) Russian
Poet / Musician [or 6th October 1872]

Ien Dales  (1931 – 1994 )  Dutch
Politician and cabinet minister

Uzi Even  (1940 –  )  Israeli
Politician / Professor / Activist

James Robert Baker  (1946 – 1997 ) US
Author – Died 5th November

Tim Gill (1953 –  )  US
Businessman who made his money in IT, gay activist and major political donor to downballot, state races.

Martina Navratilova (1956 – ) Czech / US
Tennis champion

Died this day

Marquis de Custine  (1790 – 1857) French
Author

Margaret Caroline Anderson  (1886 – 1973 ) US
Editor

Virgilio Pinera  (1912 – 1979) Cuban
Author / Playwright / Poet

Sir Frederick Ashton  (1904 – 1988) Ecuadorian
Dancer / Choreographer

Timothy Conigrave  (1959 – 1994) Australian
Actor / Playwright / Activist

Renee Barrett-Arjune  (?? – 2001) US
9/11 victim

Christopher Skinner  (1982 – 2009 ) Canadian
Hate Crime Victim



Sodomy in history, October 18th


1954 — David Trago, the elected sheriff of Jackson County, Ohio, is arrested on sodomy charges. He is a religious fundamentalist and the father of 13 children. The first trial ends in his acquittal, but later he is arrested again for attempting to have sex with a teenage male and is convicted and removed from office.
1981 — An Ohio appellate court sustains the libel verdict against Larry Hustler magazine for a satirical cartoon showing his rival, Penthouse publisher Robert Guccione, engaged in a "homosexual act."
1984 — The U.S. Virgin Islands repeals its sodomy law.

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