Events this Day in Queer History
1980 - Michael Harcourt, an alderman consistently supportive of the gay community, is elected mayor of Vancouver.
1989 - Massachusetts passed a statewide gay rights law
1992 - Thirty-five members of The Cathedral Project, a gay Roman Catholic group, demonstrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City to protest a Vatican directive urging bishops to oppose laws banning anti-gay bias.
1992 - Thirty-five members of The Cathedral Project, a gay Roman Catholic group, demonstrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City to protest a Vatican directive urging bishops to oppose laws banning anti-gay bias.
Born this day
Sara Josephine Baker (1873 – 1945), US.
Author
Georgia O'Keefe (1887 - 1986), US.
Bisexual artist
Paul Moore (1919 – 2003) US.
Marine, Bishop
Bishop of the Episcopal Church and served as the 13th Bishop of New York. During his lifetime, he was perhaps the best known Episcopal clergyman in the United States, and among the best known Christian clergy in any denomination.
Although twice married and the father of nine children, he was bisexual. This was firmly revealed after his death. Honor Moore, the oldest of his revealed that her father was bisexual with a history of gay affairs in a story she wrote about him in The New Yorker and in the book The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir.
Fred Richmond ( 1923 – ), US.
Navy, Politician, Pianist
Patricia Marion Fogarty(1940 - )
Illustrator and photographer, lover of filmmaker Jayne Parker.
Dawn Airey (1960 – ) UK
Television Executive [Five]
Judy Gold (1962 – ), US
Comedian / Actress , Author, Producer
Jeroen Willems (1962 – ), Dutch.
Actor, Singer, Director
Evan Adams (1966 – ), Canadian.
Actor, Playwright, Doctor
Francois Ozon (1967 – ), French.
Director, Screenwriter
Todd Klinck (1974 – ), Canadian. Author / Director / Producer
Stephanie Thomas (1982 – ), US . 2002 Hate Crime Victim
Died this day
Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908 - 1942) Swiss.Author, Journalist –
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978 ), US.
Anthropologist
Robert McCall (1958 - 1991), Canadian.
Figure Skater
Jacques Morali (1947 -1991), French.
Music Producer
Mary Meigs (1917 - 2002 ), US.
Painter , Author
Hanne Haller (1950 - 2005), German.
Singer, Composer, Author, Producer, Sound Engineer
Donathyn J Rodgers (? - 2005), US.
Murder Victim
Fred Goldhaber (1947– ) US
Teacher
Griffith Vaughan Williams ( 1940– 2010 ) UK
Activist
Sodomy laws in history, November 15
1636 Plymouth colony outlaws consensual sodomy with a penalty of death.1912 Portland newspapers report what becomes known as the "Vice Clique Scandal." Some 68 men are involved in prosecutions for private, consensual sexual relations.
1935 Oregon adopts a new sterilization law and requires names of all known "sexual perverts" in the state to be turned over to the Board of Eugenics.
1941- Heinrich Himmler announced a decree that any member of the Nazi SS or the police who had sex with another man would be put to death.
1950 The Puerto Rico Supreme Court rules that emission is not necessary for a conviction of sodomy.
