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Friday 19 October 2012

October 19th in LGBT History


Events in LGBT History: 

Born this day

Dmitri Ivanovich: Russian Czarevich (1582 - 1591), Russia
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.


George Nader (1921 – 2002 ) US
Actor / Author

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

Divine  ( 1945 –  1988) US
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."

Chester Biscardi  (1948 –  ) US
Composer

Greg Malone (1948 –  ) Canadian
Impressionist / Actor / Politician

Patrick Cowley  (1950 –  1982) US
Record-producer, born in Buffalo, New York and studied English at Buffalo's university. Cowley died of Aids. 

Andy Humm  (1954 –  ) US
Journalist / Presenter / Activist

Patrick Knight  ( 1962 – ) US
Porn / Bodybuilder

Alvaro Garcia Linera (1962 –  ) Bolivian
Politician

Mark Behr  ( 1963 –  ) South African
Author

Died this day


Christian Wilhelm Allers  ( 1857 – 1915) German
Painter / Printmaker

Edna St Vincent Millay  ( 1892 – 1950 )  US
Poet / Playwright

Nils Asther  (1897 – 1981)  Swedish
Actor  ( – )

Guido Bachmann  (1940  – 2003) Swiss
Author / Actor

Edgar Cano Camacho  ( ?? – 2006 ) Peruvian
Murder Victim

Richard Blackwell  ( 1922 – 2008) US
Journalist / Fashion Designer / Fashion Critic / Presenter / Artist / Actor

Sodomy in history,  October 19th
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. 


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