Born this day
Jean-Jacques-Regis de Cambeceres (1753 – 1824 ) French
Lawyer
Mikhail Kuzmin (1872 – 1936) Russian
Poet / Musician [or 6th October 1872]
Ien Dales (1931 – 1994 ) Dutch
Politician and cabinet minister
Uzi Even (1940 – ) Israeli
Politician / Professor / Activist
James Robert Baker (1946 – 1997 ) US
Author – Died 5th November
Tim Gill (1953 – ) US
Businessman who made his money in IT, gay activist and major political donor to downballot, state races.
Martina Navratilova (1956 – ) Czech / US
Tennis champion
Died this day
Marquis de Custine (1790 – 1857) FrenchAuthor
Margaret Caroline Anderson (1886 – 1973 ) US
Editor
Virgilio Pinera (1912 – 1979) Cuban
Author / Playwright / Poet
Sir Frederick Ashton (1904 – 1988) Ecuadorian
Dancer / Choreographer
Timothy Conigrave (1959 – 1994) Australian
Actor / Playwright / Activist
Renee Barrett-Arjune (?? – 2001) US
9/11 victim
Christopher Skinner (1982 – 2009 ) Canadian
Hate Crime Victim
Sodomy in history, October 18th
1954 — David Trago, the elected sheriff of Jackson County, Ohio, is arrested on sodomy charges. He is a religious fundamentalist and the father of 13 children. The first trial ends in his acquittal, but later he is arrested again for attempting to have sex with a teenage male and is convicted and removed from office.
1981 — An Ohio appellate court sustains the libel verdict against Larry Hustler magazine for a satirical cartoon showing his rival, Penthouse publisher Robert Guccione, engaged in a "homosexual act."
1984 — The U.S. Virgin Islands repeals its sodomy law.
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