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Tuulikki Pietila (1917 – 2009) Finnish
Artist
David March (1925 – 1999) UK
Actor
Ned Sherrin (1931 – 2007) UK
Presenter / Author / Director
Duane Michals (1932 – ) US
Photographer
Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) US
Author / Poet / Activist
David Ehrenstein (1947 – ) US
Film Critic / Journalist / Author / Blogger
Margaret Smith (1961 – ) UK
Politician
Christopher Sieber (1969 – ) US
Actor / Singer
Ben Harvey (1979 – ) US
Presenter
Artist
David March (1925 – 1999) UK
Actor
Ned Sherrin (1931 – 2007) UK
Presenter / Author / Director
Duane Michals (1932 – ) US
Photographer
Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) US
Author / Poet / Activist
David Ehrenstein (1947 – ) US
Film Critic / Journalist / Author / Blogger
Margaret Smith (1961 – ) UK
Politician
Christopher Sieber (1969 – ) US
Actor / Singer
Ben Harvey (1979 – ) US
Presenter
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Michelangelo (1475 - 1564 ) Italian
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Charlotte Cushman (1816 - 1876 ) US
Actress / Singer / Playwright / Director
Scott O’Hara (1961 - 1998 ) US
Porn / Poet / Editor / Publisher / Author
Laurel Hester (1956 - 2006) US
Police Officer
Barbara Gittings (1932 - 2007) US
Activist
A prominent American activist for gay equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that brought attention to the ban on employment of gay people by the largest employer in the US at that time: the United States government.Sculptor / Painter / Architect / Poet / Engineer
Charlotte Cushman (1816 - 1876 ) US
Actress / Singer / Playwright / Director
Scott O’Hara (1961 - 1998 ) US
Porn / Poet / Editor / Publisher / Author
Laurel Hester (1956 - 2006) US
Police Officer
Barbara Gittings (1932 - 2007) US
Activist
Sodomy in history, February
1854 — Alabama is the first state in the nation to make conviction of the "crime against nature" a specific grounds for divorce.
1893 — The Washington Supreme Court notes that Washington has no sodomy law, even though it is indictable under the common-law statute.
1930 — The Iowa Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction despite "conflict and contradictions" in the testimony.
1937 — Vermont outlaws oral sex, which the statute calls "fellation."
1957 — The Arkansas Supreme Court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man committed on a blind boy of borderline intelligence, after the trial judge determined him competent to testify because "he believes in God" and had the Bible read to him.
1893 — The Washington Supreme Court notes that Washington has no sodomy law, even though it is indictable under the common-law statute.
1930 — The Iowa Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction despite "conflict and contradictions" in the testimony.
1937 — Vermont outlaws oral sex, which the statute calls "fellation."
1957 — The Arkansas Supreme Court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man committed on a blind boy of borderline intelligence, after the trial judge determined him competent to testify because "he believes in God" and had the Bible read to him.
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