Queers in History: 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."