January 2nd in Queer History

Born this day

M Carey Thomas (1857 – 1935) US
Suffragette

William Haines (1900 – 1973) US
Actor

Sir Michael Tippett (1905 –  1998) UK
Composer

Christopher Durang (1949 – ) US
Playwright / Actor

Marlo Broekmans ( 1953 – ) Dutch
Photographer

Todd Haynes (1961 – ) US  Director

Adam Elliot  (1972 – ) Australian
Director / Author / Animator

Saints' day:

Saints Basil and Gregory Nazianzus

Died this day

Jess Collins (1923 - 2004) US
Artist

John Wojtowicz (1945 – 2006) US
Bank Robber

Casey Johnson (1979 - 2010) US
Socialite

Sodomy in history, 

January 2nd

1806 — Ohio repeals its common-law reception statute. Since it has no sodomy law, sodomy becomes legal and remains so for nearly eighty years.

1992 — The Idaho Court of Appeals reaffirms a 1913 decision that a sentence of life imprisonment for private, consensual sodomy is both permissible and constitutional.

Sources:

Wikipedia

glbtq emcyclopedia

On this gay day
Calendar of Sodomy, January