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Tuesday 9 October 2012

October 9th in LGBT History


Saint's Day:

Vida Dutton Scudder  ( 1861 – 1954 ) Indian / US, American Lesbian Saint for Our Times

Born this day


Harriet Hosmer (1830 – 1908 ) US
Sculptor

Camille Saint-Saens  ( 1835 –  1921 )  French
Composer / Conductor / Musician

Simeon Solomon  ( 1840 – 1905  ) UK
Painter

Mario de Andrade  ( 1893 – 1945 )  Brazilian
Poet / Author / Historian / Critic / Photographer

Stanley Kwan  (1957 –  )  Chinese
Director / Producer

Maddie Blaustein  ( 1960 –  2008 ) US
Actress

James Dreyfus ( 1968 –  )  UK
Actor

Michael Venus  ( 1973 –  ) Canadian
Actor / Artist / Producer

Michael Causer  (1989 –  2008 )  UK
Hate Crime Victim



Died this day


Benjamin Banneker  ( 1731 –  1806) US
Mathematician

Vida Dutton Scudder  ( 1861 – 1954 ) Indian / US
Author and  American Lesbian Saint for Our Times

Aileen Wuornos   ( 1956 – 2002  )  US
Serial Killer

LeRoy Whitfield  ( 1969 –  2005 ) US
Journalist / Activist

Coccinelle  ( 1931 .–  2006 )  French
Actress / Entertainer



Sodomy in history, October 9th 

1706 — English sailor James Ball is sentenced to death for sodomy with a ship boy.
1900 — The Hawaii Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction secured by a non-unanimous jury verdict.
1958 — The Hawaii Supreme Court rules that people of the opposite sex can be prosecuted for sodomy as well as those of the same sex.
1967 — The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear a challenge to the Washington sodomy law, the first challenge based on privacy rights ever to reach it.
1990 — The Maryland Court of Appeals rules that the state’s sodomy and unnatural and perverted practices law are unconstitutional as applied to people of the opposite sex, but constitutional as applied to those of the same sex. The Court misconstrues case law history in the state to justify its ruling.
1998 — The South African Constitutional Court strikes down the country’s sodomy law under the new constitution.


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