Born this day
Filippo de Pisis (1896 – 1956) Italian
Painter
Frank Thring (1926 - 1994) Australian
Character actor.
Valentino Garavani (1932 – ) Italian
Fashion Designer
Mychal F Judge (1933 – 2001) US
Firefighter and Priest, known as the Saint of 9/11, for his heroic work and death at the Twin Towers, 2001.
Logan Carter (1954 – 1988) US
Actor / Entertainer / Model
Daniel Conahan (1954 – ) US
Serial Killer
Ken Cheuvront (1961 – ) US
Politician
Billy Bean (1964 – ) US
Baseball
Patrick Boothe (1980 – ) US
Singer
Died this day
Wick Ederveen (1953 - 1994 ) Dutch
Actor / Director
William Dale Jennings (1917– 2000) US
Author / Activist
Patrick Fyffe [aka Dame Hilda Bracket] (1942 – 2002) UK
Comedian / Singer / Entertainer
Sakia Gunn (1987 - 2003) US
Hate Crime Victim
2008 – Australian Capital Territory legalises civil partnerships [effective 19thMay 2008]
Sodomy in history, May 11
1926 — The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that police may enter a home without a warrant to arrest people for sodomy if they see them enter the home. The Court says: "To uphold defendant’s contention would seriously embarrass the enforcement of law, and license the defendant and her kind to continue their abominable practices under the protection of the law."
1983 — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rules that placing part of your body into an adjoining booth obviates privacy rights.
1988 — The Oregon Court of Appeals decides that a consensual act of fellatio occurring in a parked car in a driveway off a downtown street is occurring in a private place.
1990 — An Oklahoma appellate court rules that the sodomy law is not violated by placing a finger in the rectum.
2001 – 52 people arrested on “The Queen Boat” moored in the Nile, Egypt. 50 charged with “habitual debauchery” & “obscene behaviour” and 2 charged with“contempt of religion.”
2001 – 52 people arrested on “The Queen Boat” moored in the Nile, Egypt. 50 charged with “habitual debauchery” & “obscene behaviour” and 2 charged with“contempt of religion.”
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