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Saturday 17 November 2012

November 17th in Queer History


Events this day in Queer History


1999 - Methodist minister Jimmy Creech was stripped of his clerical status for presiding over a same-sex holy union.

Born this day

Lord Arthur Somerset (1926 - 1851),  UK. 
Aristocrat / Major

Rock Hudson  (1985 - 1925), US.  
Actor

Daniel O’Donnell (1960 – ) US.  
Politician

RuPaul (1960 – ), US.  
Drag Queen, Singer, Actor, Model

Jose Villarrubia  (1961 – ) Spanish.  
Comic Book Artist

Rebecca Walker (1969 –  ), US. 
Author

Died this day

Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992), US.  
Author, Poet, Activist

James Woods III ( ??? - 1995), US
Co-author of "The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America," died of complications from AIDS at age 32.

Kurt von Ruffin (1901 - 1996 ), German. 
Actor, Singer

Aaron Webster (1959 - 2001), Canadian.  
Hate Crime Victim

John Craxton (1918 / 1922 – 2009), UK. 
Painter


Sodomy laws in history, November 17

1715 — North Carolina adopts all laws of England, making the buggery statute operative.

1960 — A county bar association in Ohio files charges against an attorney for misrepresenting a client arrested for sodomy. The Ohio Supreme Court disbars the attorney and refuses to reinstate him in 1967.

1975 — The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Tennessee "crime against nature" law.

1980 — The Rhode Island Supreme Court affirms that cunnilingus is a "crime against nature."

Sources:

Wikipedia
Today in Gay History, Blue Pride
On This Gay Day

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