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Gay History – July 9, 1550: Italian Humanist and Historian Jacopo Bonfadio Convicted of Sodomy and Beheaded
Jacopo Bonfadio was born in Garda, Italy in 1508 and was educated at Verona and Padua. of sodomy, for which he was arrested, tried, and condemned to…
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Gay History – June 30: Cincinnati Police Ignore Anti-Gay Public Pool Riot, GA Sodomy Law Upheld, and Jacob Israel de Haan Assassinated
June 30, 2000: David Copeland, 24, is convicted murder for planting a bomb in a London gay bar a year…
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Gay History – June 23, 1629: Five “Beastly Sodomiticall Boys” Busted By Puritan Preacher On Way To Salem, M.A.
June 23, 1629The Rev. Francis Higginson, a preacher with a Puritan bent in the Church of England, left his parish…
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Gay History – June 7: Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” Dade County Gay Rights Repeal Succeeds
1977 - A referendum, in Dade County, Florida forced by fundamentalist Christian Anita Bryant, husband Bob Green and their "Save…
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Gay History – March 16, 1680: New Hampshire Makes Gay Sex Punishable By Death
Legislators of New Hampshire pass the colony’s first capital laws, copied almost word for word from the Plymouth laws of…
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Gay History – March 1, 1642 – 1656: Puritan Boys Gone Wild!
The Plymouth Colony Court heard a case brought against Edward Michell and Edward Preston for “lewd & sodomitical practices tending…
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Gay History – January 18: The Gay King of America, Betty Berzon, An American Family, Anita Bryant, and The L Word
January 18, 1977 – In Miami, Florida: Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen, launches a nationwide crusade against gay and…
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Gay History – October 20th: ACT-UP at the UN!, Dr. Evelyn Hooker, and the First Gay Wedding On TV
October 20th. 1958: Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s is published in the November issue of Esquire Magazine. Gay men everywhere…
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GAY HISTORY – October 18: The KKK’s Gay Bombing Threat, Georgia’s Sodomy Apology, and The US Navy’s Explosive Gay Frame-Up
October 18th. 1977: Citizens United to Protect Our Children, an organization in Portland OR, announced they had failed to…
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Lost Gay History – September 8, 1292: John de Wettre of Belgium Burned at the Stake for Sodomy
On this date in 1292 in the Belgium city of Ghent, 29 year old knife maker John de Wettre was found with another man committing…
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