Saint's Day:
Vida Dutton Scudder ( 1861 – 1954 ) Indian / US, American Lesbian Saint for Our Times
Born this day
Harriet Hosmer (1830 – 1908 ) US
Sculptor
Camille Saint-Saens ( 1835 – 1921 ) French
Composer / Conductor / Musician
Simeon Solomon ( 1840 – 1905 ) UK
Painter
Mario de Andrade ( 1893 – 1945 ) Brazilian
Poet / Author / Historian / Critic / Photographer
Stanley Kwan (1957 – ) Chinese
Director / Producer
Maddie Blaustein ( 1960 – 2008 ) US
Actress
James Dreyfus ( 1968 – ) UK
Actor
Michael Venus ( 1973 – ) Canadian
Actor / Artist / Producer
Michael Causer (1989 – 2008 ) UK
Hate Crime Victim
Died this day
Benjamin Banneker ( 1731 – 1806) US
Mathematician
Vida Dutton Scudder ( 1861 – 1954 ) Indian / US
Author and American Lesbian Saint for Our Times
Aileen Wuornos ( 1956 – 2002 ) US
Serial Killer
LeRoy Whitfield ( 1969 – 2005 ) US
Journalist / Activist
Coccinelle ( 1931 .– 2006 ) French
Actress / Entertainer
Sodomy in history, October 9th
1706 — English sailor James Ball is sentenced to death for sodomy with a ship boy.
1900 — The Hawaii Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction secured by a non-unanimous jury verdict.
1958 — The Hawaii Supreme Court rules that people of the opposite sex can be prosecuted for sodomy as well as those of the same sex.
1967 — The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear a challenge to the Washington sodomy law, the first challenge based on privacy rights ever to reach it.
1990 — The Maryland Court of Appeals rules that the state’s sodomy and unnatural and perverted practices law are unconstitutional as applied to people of the opposite sex, but constitutional as applied to those of the same sex. The Court misconstrues case law history in the state to justify its ruling.
1998 — The South African Constitutional Court strikes down the country’s sodomy law under the new constitution.
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