Events this day
2009 – Delaware, USA ban sexual orientation discrimination under the Delaware Code, but not gender identity
2010 – Helsinki Pride, Finland - attacked by 3 men with smoke and gas bombs
Born this day
Thelma Wood (1901 – – USSculptor 1970)
Andreas Burnier (1931 – 2002) Dutch
Author
Jeronimo Saavedra (1936 – ) Spanish
Politician
Brigitte Fassbaender (1939 – ) German
Opera Singer
Peer Raben (1940 – 2007) German
Composer
Michael Brown (1951 – ) UK
Politician
Frans Bakker (1952 – ) Dutch
Singer
Tommy Sexton (1957 – 1993) Canadian
Openly gay television actor and comedian, who died of complications from AIDS. After his death, his colleague Greg Malone campaigned for HIV and AIDS education in Sexton's memory. His sister, filmmaker Mary Sexton, produced a documentary film about him, Tommy...A Family Portrait, in 2001.Along with Malone and their co-star Andy Jones, Sexton was a posthumous recipient of the Earle Grey Award, the lifetime achievement award of Canadian television's Gemini Awards, in 2002.
The Tommy Sexton Centre, a new assisted housing complex for people living with HIV and AIDS, was opened in St. John's in 2006.
Mathew Bose (1973 – ) UK
Actor / Model
Died this day
Arthur Warren (1974- 2000) USHate Crime Victim
Ivan Suchinski ( ? - 2001) Belarusian
Club Owner / Hate Crime Victim
Nimrod Ping (1947 – 2006 ) UK
Architect / Politician
Sodomy in history,
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