October 19th in History, : Dmitri Ivanovich, Russian Czarevich, Patrick Cowley , Divine, Robert Reed

Born this day:

Dmitri Ivanovich: Russian Czarevich
Also called Demetrius Ivanovich, son of Ivan IV and little brother of the Czar Fyodor I. Boris Godunov loved to fellate the boy, but then, after the death of Fyodor, Dmitri was murdered, possibly by order of Godunov, in order to gain the throne himself.

Patrick Cowley:
 American record-producer. He was born in Buffalo, New York and studied English at Buffalo's university. Cowley died of Aids. 

Divine:
 Drag Queen, singer and actor, who was described by People magazine as the "Drag Queen of the Century". The fat fabulous drag queen, immortalized by director John Waters in such films as "Mondo Trasho", "Pink Flamingos", and "Female Trouble", once described himself as "just another man in a dress."

Robert Reed (1932  - 1992)   US 
 Actor, best known for "The Brady Bunch". Married and publicly closeted, he was nevertheless well-known as gay to colleagues on the series. He was HIV positive at the time of his death in 1992  

Sodomy in History,  October 19

1964 — Judge Allen O’Connor of Connecticut is accused of sex with a young man. He resigns and is disbarred.

1994 — A federal judge in New York follows case law in the state and dismisses a public indecency charge against a man for sex in the bushes. He said it couldn’t be seen by others.

Calendar of Sodomy, October

"Sodomy" in History: Aug 19th

1953 — George Ammon dies in the Ohio Penitentiary at the age of 87. He has spent 17 years of his 20-year sentence for sodomy. He would have been released at the age of 90.

1960 — The District of Columbia Court of Appeals reverses the conviction of a man entrapped by police into fondling them and declares that, by using entrapment, the police are attempting to punish the status of being Gay."

Calendar for August

"Sodomy" in History: Aug 18th

1959 — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the deportation of an alien resident of 39 years for solicitation and says that this is the only part of the New York breach of peace law that makes an alien deportable.

Calendar for August

"Sodomy" in History: Aug 9th

1855 — A Cleveland newspaper reports that two men were found "stripped naked" in a puddle after a rainstorm, then adds sarcastically, "It is supposed they were cleaning out the gutter."

1935 — The Governor of Oregon announces that he will not pardon any convicted sex criminals unless they are sterilized sexually. He also says that, following the lead of Nazi Germany, he will look into expanding the state’s sterilization law.

1963 — A Pennsylvania court finds a man guilty of sodomy even though his alleged victim admitted he lied.

1982 — The Michigan Supreme Court overturns the gross indecency conviction of a man for soliciting an undercover police officer for sex for money. The Court says that a third party would have to be involved in order to allow the conviction to stand.

 -Sodomy Laws, Calendar for August.