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Gay History – January 18: The Gay King of America, Anita Bryant Wants to “Save The Children” and An American Family
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 – November 30, 1642: Capt. Richard Cornish Becomes the First Person Sentenced and Hanged for Sodomy in America
Gay History - November 30, 1642: Richard Cornish, also known as Richard Williams, an English ship captain is reported to…
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Gay History – October 20: ACT-UP Protests the UN, Dr. Evelyn Hooker, and the First Gay Wedding On TV May Surprise You
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: KKK Foiled In Gay Bar Bombing Plan, Georgia’s Sodomy Apology, and the US Navy’s Explosive Gay Frame-Up
LGBT HISTORY: October 18, 1990: Three white supremacists: are convicted of conspiring to blow up Neighbours Disco a gay bar…
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Gay History – September 8, 1292: John de Wettre of Belgium Burned at the Stake for Sodomy
On this date September 8 in 1292 in the Belgium city of Ghent, 29 year old knife maker John de Wettre was found with another…
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Gay History – August, 1673: Plymouth Colony Convicts Two Men Of “Spending their seed one upon another”
On August 6, 1673 Plymouth Colony convicted two men of “Lewd Behavior and Unclean Carriage”.
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Gay History – August 7, 1931: American Solider Found Guilty of Sodomy Sent To Alcatraz Prison
Clyde Findell Hicks was born in Oak Grove, Durham, North Carolina on September 5, 1910. On April 13, 1930 at…
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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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