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Wednesday 20 March 2013

March 20th in Queer History


Events this day in Queer History


2009 – Adoption by same-sex couples legalised in Denmark

Born this day


Edmund Goulding (1891 - 1959) US 
Film writer and director.


Eyre de Lanux  (1894 –  1996)  US
Author / Artist

Michael Redgrave  (1908 –  1985) UK
Actor / Author / Director

Sviatoslav Richter  (1915 –  1997) Soviet
Pianist

Ernst van Heerden   (1916 – 1997)  South African
Poet


Anthony Blond   (1928 - 2008) UK
British publisher and author. Blond, who was openly bisexual, was twice married, and also had a long relationship with Andrew McCall.


Coos Huijsen  (1939 – ) Dutch
Politician

Jaime Chavarri  (1943 – ) Spanish
Actor / Director / Screenwriter


John Boswell  (1947 - 1994 ) US 
Prominent historian and a professor at Yale University. Many of Boswell's studies focused on the issue of homosexuality and religion, specifically homosexuality and Christianity.


Sue Sanders  (1947 – )  UK
Activist / Teacher

Paula Aboud  (1950 – ) US
Politician

Alexandra Potvin (1966 – )  Belgian
Presenter

Cathy DeBuono  (1970 – ) US
Actress

Declan Bennett  (1981 – )  UK
Singer

Ruby Rose  (1986 – )  Australian
Model / Presenter

Xavier Dolan (1989 – ) Canadian
Actor / Director


Died this day  



Lord Alfred Douglas (1870 - 1945) UK Author / Poet / Translator

British writer and poet and lover of Oscar Wilde. Bosie, as he was known to his friends, married Olive Cunstance in 1902 and they had a son, Raymond, that same year. The 1997 film 'Wilde' tells the story about his relationship with Oscar Wilde. 



Brendan Behan (1923 –  1964) Irish
Poet / Author / Playwright



Agustin Gomez-Arcos (1939 – 1998) Spanish 
Author


George Weber   (1961 - 2009)  US
Presenter / Murder Victim

Sodomy in history, March


1835 — Missouri outlaws consensual sodomy by statute, with a penalty of not less than 10 years and no maximum stated.
1858 — Tennessee adopts a new criminal code and changes the wording of its sodomy law, but leaves the penalty as 5-15 years.
1905 — Delaware eliminates the pillory as a punishment for crime. Since 1852, those convicted of sodomy have been required to stand in the pillory for one hour prior to imprisonment.
1924 — Virginia, responding to the Virginia Supreme Court decision of the preceding year, amends its oral sex provision of the sodomy law to include people of the opposite sex as well.
1957 — The Illinois Supreme Court upholds the sodomy conviction of an optometrist with a male patient after very conflicting witness testimony.
1979 — The North Carolina Court of Appeals rules that the "crime against nature" law applies to heterosexuals.


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