LGBTQ History Calendar

More than 1,000 people and events are included in the LGBTQ history calendar on Q Spirit. It was compiled by gay Episcopal pioneer Louie Crew Clay. “I am proud to preserve and promote LGBTQ history by posting Louie’s calendar,” said Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry.

Louie Crew Clay (1936-2019) was a Rutgers University English professor and longtime advocate of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights in the Episcopal Church.

His original list is posted here in full — including witty comments in his unique deadpan style. In some cases, Q Spirit added a brief explanation, which is marked in parentheses.  Minor corrections are being made.  Proofreading this massive list is still underway. Frequent mentions of “GWood” followed by numbers appear to be references to pages in the book “A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition” by Gregory Woods.

For more info, go to the announcement Q Spirit adds LGBTQ history calendar. Related calendars include Q Spirit’s Calendar of LGBTQ Saints and Wikipedia’s LGBT/Selected anniversaries.

1/1         Joe Orton was born today

1/1         Poet Katherine Philips was born this date in 1632.  See her poem at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180793  also Wikipedia

1/1         This is the birthday of E. M. Forster (1879) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster

1/1         Today is the birthday (1895) of infamous J. Edgar Hoover.  What a price the world paid for his closet!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

1/1         The Episcopal Church: A safe place for sinners, like the rest of us. — Louie Crew Clay

1/2         Carey Thomas, redoubtable president of Bryn Mawr, was born today

1/2         Today is the birthday of trans woman Lynn Conway, computer scientist, electrical entregineer, and inventor.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

1/2         Birthday of Sir Michael Tippett — one of the first openly gay composers to explore issues of sexuality in his work.  Listen to his oratorio Child of our Times

1/2         The Episcopal Church:  All are welcome here. — Robin Hodson1

1/3         Today is the birthday of musician Marla Glen (1960). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marla_Glen

1/3         The Episcopal Church:  All Saints’ Day, incense and Mozarabic preface to eucharistic prayer canon D. — The Rev. Lee Alison Crawford

1/3         On this day in 1752, Swiss historian Johanes Von Muller was born in Neunkirch, Switzerland. He spent 40 years writing a history of his homeland, but more interesting are his love letters to Charles Victor de Bonstetten a handsome young Swiss writer.

1/4         Today is the birthday of actress Dot Jones.

1/4         Today is the birthday of Cathleen Galgiani, California legislator.

1/4         On this day in 1877, Marsden Hartley the American painter was born in Lewiston, Maine.  His list of friends in Paris reads like a gay Who’s Who

1/4         Today is the birthday of poet Gregory Woods (1953) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Woods

1/4         The Episcopal Church:  All the pageantry, half the guilt. — Bungee Bynum

1/5         Today is the birthday of Kay Lahusen, widow of Barbara Gittings, and the first openly gay photojournalist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Lahusen

1/5         On this day in 1978, Toronto Police laid charges against Pink Triangle Press and three officers under Criminal Code section 159 (“possession of obscene material for distribution”) and section 164 (“use of the mails for purpose of transmitting anything that is indecent, immoral or scurrilous”).

1/5         Birthday of Alvin Ailey in 1931. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey

1/6         Today is the birthday (1984) of Kate McKinnon Berthold, comedian on Saturday Night Live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_McKinnon

1/6         Poet John Wieners (1934) was born today   GWood 15

1/6         The Episcopal Church:  An Ancient Faith for Today’s Communities — Dylan Breuer

1/7         Poet Robert Duncan (1919) was born today.   GWood multiple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Duncan_(poet)

1/7         Today is the birthday (1969) of Rex Lee, actor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Lee_(actor)

1/8         Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba died on this day in 1990.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Gil_de_Biedma

1/8         David Bowie (1947) was born today

1/8         Actress Amber Benson was born this day in 1977. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay, a shy lesbian Wiccan, on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That was one of the few lesbian couples on TV at the time (1999-2002).

1/9         Today is the birthday (1941) of lgbtq activist and musician Joan Baez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez

1/9         Today is the birthday of Richard Halliburton (1900).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Halliburton

1/10       Today is the birthday (1918) of Aaron Bridgers, African-American jazz pianist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Bridgers

1/10       Singer Johnny Ray (Cry), (1927), arrested on numerous ‘morals’ charges, was born today

1/11       On this day in 2000, Britain lifted its ban on gays in the military.

1/11       Today is the birthday (1966) of Utah legislator Jackie Biskupski.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Biskupski

1/12       On 1/12/1985 *Fellowship* published ‘Making Music with a Leper’s Bell’ — its first article about lgbtq issues by an out lgbtq writer.

1/12       On this day in 1939, the state Supreme Court of Georgia rules Ella Thompson could not possibly be guilty of sodomy with her lesbian partner.

1/12       St. Aelred’s Day (Saint Aelred is the patron saint of the LGBTQ Episcopal group Integrity.)

1/13       Today is the birthday (1910) of Greek artist Yannis Tsarouchis.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuPD4dBQ70I  See also http://icalshare.com/calendars/4093/events/724647. ****LGBT add a sublink for Yannis http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/art/2011/09/10/artist-spotlight-yannis-tsarouchis

1/13       Today is the birthday (1940) of Edmund White, author of The Joys of Gay Sex (1977), A Boy’s Own Story, et al.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_White

1/13       Horatio Alger, accused of unnatural familiarity, was born today

1/14       Today is the birthday (1959) of lesbian historian Beryl Satter.

1/14       Yukio Mishima, god-child of St. Sebastian, was born today

1/15       Birthday of Ivor Novello Davies.  http://fyne.co.uk/11/ivor-novello-davies

1/15       Moliere (1622) and his actor boyfriend Michel Baron, rejoice!

1/16       Jeannine Janson, born in 1948.  Co-chair of Goodsoil, which seeks justice for GLBT Lutherans

1/16       Today is the birthday (1967) of transgender writer and film producer Andrea James. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_James

1/17       Today is the birthday of novelist Emily M. Danforth.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_M._Danforth

1/17       Ronald Firbank (1886), fed on champagne, fruit & flowers, was born today

1/17       Today is the birthday of Bisi Alimi (1975), the first Nigerian to come out of the closet on television http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisi_Alimi

1/18       Gay Prince Heinrich, who let George be first president, was born today

1/18       Today is the birthday (1975) of Marcus Brandon, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives and out as gay.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Brandon

1/18       In 1936 the birthday of James Stoll, a Unitarian Universalist minister who became the first ordained minister of any religion in the United States or Canada to come out as gay.   See http://queering-the-church.blogspot.com/2011/12/james-stoll-unitarian-pi

1/19       Edgar Allan Poe (1809) was born today   GWood 149

1/19       Janis Joplin was born today

1/19       Today is the birthday (1932) of gay poet George Macbeth. GWood 63-64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Macbeth

1/19       Today is the birthday of Davis Mac-Iyalla (1972) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Mac-Iyalla

1/20       St. Sebastian feasts with us today!

1/20       Today is the birthday of Pat Parker (1944), poet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Parker  See especially http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/parkerPat.php

1/21        Today is the birthday of Duncan James Grant.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Grant

1/22       George Gordon Lord Byron (1788), was born today

1/22       Today is the birthday (1944), pioneer lgbt politicians who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two terms starting in 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Noble

1/23       Sergei Eisenstein (1898) and his terrible Ivans rejoice!

1/23       Today is the birthday (1934) of Pierre Bourgault, politician, essayist, actor, and journalist.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourgault

1/23       Today is the birthday (1922) of gay poet Vernon Scannell. GWood 78 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Scannell (Editor’s note: Frequent mentions of “GWood” followed by numbers apparently refer to pages in the book “A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition” by Gregory Woods.)

1/24       Today is the birthday of Darnell Moore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darnell_L._Moore

1/24       Royal Hadrian, Frederick the Great, and Gustavus of Sweden, rejoice!

1/24       Today is the birthday (1920) of gay poet Keith Douglas. GWood 57, 65, 68 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Douglas

1/25       Today is the birthday (1968) of Aya Kamikawa, the first transgender person to seek or win elected office in Japan.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kamikawa

1/25       Virginia Woolf (1882) and Somerset Maugham (1874) rejoice!

1/26       Angela Davis was born today!

1/26       Birthday of Ellen Lee DeGeneres (1958)

1/26       Birthday of lesbian poet Susan Griffin (1943).  Treat yourself by reading aloud my favorite of her poems:  http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/304/Answer_to_a_Man_s_Question_by_Susan_Griffin.pdf”

1/26       This is the anniversary of the 2011 martyrdom of David Kato Kisule, founder of Uganda’s gay civil rights movement.

1/27       Today is the birthday (1952) of Tam O’Shaughnessy, educator and scientist.  She was the life partner of astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_O%27Shaughnessy

1/28       Today is the birthday (1971) of Monifah, R&B Singer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGls7lZNpeM   See a bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monifah

1/28       Grant Gallup (1932-2009), Gay priest and Integrity’s first chaplain, was born today

1/28         Today is the birthday (1901) of sculptor James Richmond Barthé.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Barth%C3%A9

1/28       Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873) shares your day!

1/28       On this day in 1994 the NY TIMES reported five lgbtq couples were suing Rutgers University for health benefits, including Ernest and Louie Clay.

1/29       Today is the birthday of Greg Louganis, American Olympic diver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Louganis

1/29       Today is Oprah Winfrey’s birthday (1954).  She has opened the minds of millions of people to become more inclusive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey

1/29       On this day in 1749,  Christian VII was born in Copenhagen. He was rejected by his father as being effeminate. When he became king at 16, the nobles plied him with sex mates to curry favor.

1/30       Today is the birthday (1955) of Thomas Duane, the nation’s first open HIV-positive person to be elected and the only gay member of New York State Senate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Duane

1/30       Today is the birthday of Jack Spicer (1925)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Spicer

1/31       Tallulah Bankhead (1902) and Franz Schubert (1797) rejoice!

1/31       Today is the birthday (1964) of Dawn Prince-Hughes, scientist and author of Songs of the Gorilla Nation

2/1         Langston Hughes (1902) was born today

2/1         This date in 1975, Dr. Howard Brown died.  He was the founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and a major official in public health for New York City

2/1         Today is the birthday (1885) of L.S. Alexander Gumby, archivist whose bookstore was a gathering place for lbtqs of Harlem

2/2         This is the birthday of lgbt musician Billy Preston (1946). Hear him sing his ‘You are so beautiful to me’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1hadElF2c

2/2         Today is the birthday (1882) of gay poet James Joyce. GWood 110. 112 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_joyce

2/2         Pioneer gay historian Jonathan Ned Katz was born this day in 1938. We all owe him an enormous debt of precious gratitude.

2/2         Ernest and Louie Clay-Crew united today, in Fort Valley, GA, 1974

2/3         Birthday of Marlon Riggs (1957), filmmaker and educator. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgJ2LQVFJO0

2/3         Gertrude Stein was born this day, in Allegheny, PA, 1874

2/4         Gay writer and historian Martin Greif was born in New York City in 1938.

2/5         Writer William Burroughs (1914) shares your celebration (Note the centennial)

2/5         Today is the birthday (1960) of professional golfer Jane Geddes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Geddes

2/6         Christopher Marlowe (1564) shares your celebration

2/6         Today is the birthday (1989) of Ramón Novarro, Hollywood’s ‘next male ‘sex symbol’ after the death of Rudolph Valentino. http://bandofthebes.typepad.com/bandofthebes/2013/02/born-february-6-ram%C3%B3n-novarro.html

2/7         This is the birthday (1968) of Canadian Olympian swimmer Mark Tewksbury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tewksbury

2/7         On this day in 1978, Oklahoma passed a ‘Teacher Fitness’ statute, allowing local school boards to fire any teacher who ‘advocates, encourages or promotes’ homosexuality.

2/8         James Dean, born this day in 1931, was born today in Marion, Indiana.

2/8         This is the birthday (1964) of Nicole LeFavour, the first ever openly gay member of the Idaho legislature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_LeFavour

2/9         Gay English engineer Robert Hope-Jones (1859), improver of the pipe-organ, was born today

2/9         This is the birthday (1941) of Sheila Kuehl, the first openly gay person elected to the California legislature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Kuehl

2/9         Today is the birthday of writer and activist Alice Walker.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walker

2/10       The Rev. Sr. Helena Barrett, OSB srbernadetteosb@hotmail .com — Newark (through cronetab) — was born on 2/10/1946. She was the first out lesbian ordained The Episcopal Church:  (1977)

2/10       Today is the birthday of John Berry, Director of the Office of Personnel Management (April 2009-2013) and current U.S. Ambassador to Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berry_(administrator)

2/10       Today is the birthday (1969) of Jazzmun, female impersonator.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazzmun

2/11       Whitney Houston died on his date at age 48 in 2012. http://gawker.com/5886563/meet-whitney-houstons-rumored-lesbian-lover-robyn-crawford

2/11       Today is the birthday (1912) of gay poet Roy Fuller. GWood 58, 67 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fuller

2/11       Today is the birthday of Tammy Baldwin (1962), junior U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Baldwin

2/12       Today is the birthday (1963) of children’s writer Jacqueline Amand Woodson.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Woodson

2/13       It is believed this is the birth date in 518 BC  of Greek poet Pindar. His love of Theoxenus of Tenedos is celebrated in his verses, considered the greatest lyric poetry of ancient Greece.

2/13       Since it takes all sorts:  today is the birthday (1963) of Celeste Beard, convicted for killing her millionaire husband.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_Beard

2/14      Today is the birthday (1971) of director, screenwriter, and producer Angela Robinson.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Robinson

2/15       Susan B. Anthony and her My Dear Chicky Dicky Darling rejoice!

2/15       Today is the birthday of Bill T. Jones (1952), choreographer and dancer.

2/15       Today is the birthday of philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748).  Bentham argued for a tolerant attitude to homosexuals. He attributed prejudice against them as being irrational hatred and antipathy. Louis Crompton of the University of Nebraska wrote that Bentham identified what is now called homophobia and directed his efforts to analyzing it.

2/16       Bishop C. W. Leadbeater & Co., was born this day in 1847. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.W._Leadbeater

2/16       Katherine Cornell, who preferred the company of women, was born today in 1893.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Cornell

2/16       On this day in 1926 film director John Schlesinger was born. Critics complained that his film ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (1969) was too gay

2/17       Today is the birthday (1944) of Robert Dessaix, self-described dilettante, Australian translator, editor, essayist, travel writer, and novelist. http://www.glbtq.com/literature/dessaix_r.html

2/17       Today is the birthday (1975) of Karisu, South Korea’s first transgender entertainer.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harisu

2/18       Today is the birthday of Audre Lorde (1934). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

2/18       Giodano Bruno, philosopher, was burned at the stake this day in 1600

2/18       Today is the birthday (1947) of film critic David Ehrenstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ehrenstein

2/19       A fierce tornado hit tiny Fort Valley, Geogia on this day in 1975.   Anglican orthodox bishop James Dees asked, through the Macon Herald, ‘This is the voice of God. The town of Fort Valley is harboring Solomist [Louie Crew].  Would one expect God to keep silent when homosexuals are tolerated? We remember what He did to Sodom and Gomorrah.’ When the *Atlanta Constitution” asked me for a comment, I replied, “That’s Queer Power!”  We took good aim too, taking the steeple off the white First Baptist Church My friend Richard Young+ wrote, “I don’t buy that, Louie. Tornadoes occur in Georgia often. Now if you caused a typhoon there….” The dean who lived next door to us said that with those credentials I should apply for the new position in Agriculture. Our friend Barbara Carson called, saying, “You and Ernest come this minute and kiss in our garden so our collards will grow.”

2/19       This is the birthday of Dr. Ralph Blair, founder of Evangelicals Concerned

2/19       Carson McCullers was born today, in 1917

2/19       On this day in 1999 Billy Jack Gaither, a 39-year-old gay man in Sylacauga, Alabama, was brutally murdered.

2/20       Today is the birthday (1805) of Angelina Welde Grimke, pioneer lesbian novelist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Grimk%C3%A9

2/20       *On this date in 2001 the Archbishop of Uganda excoriated Louie Crew before the Angliican bishops of Uganda and the Sudan because of the work of Integrity/Uganda.  http://rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/natter_old2/msg00058.html

2/20       Birthday of The Rev. Caro Hall, President of Integrity (lgbtq Anglicans)

2/20       Ernest Clay was born today

2/21        Today is the birthday of Warren Johansson (1934), born as Philip Joseph Wallfield.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Johansson

2/21       Anglican poet W. H. Auden was born in York England on this day in 1907.  He noted, ‘God must like sex:  He made it.’   GWood multiple http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/04/books/the-boys-in-berlin-auden-s-secret-poems.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

2/21       On this date in 1997 Newark’s STAR-LEDGER and Rutgers’ TARGUM reported that several gay professors and our spouses were taking to the NJ Court of Appeals our claim against discrimination regarding health insurance.

2/22       Birthday of Joanna Russ (1937), author of THE FEMALE MAN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ

2/22       Edna St. Vincent Millay was born today in 1892

2/22       This is the birthday of Karla Jay (1947) longtime feminist and lgbtq activist.

2/23       Today is the birthday (1954) of Rt. Rev. Mary Glasspool, the first openly lesbian bishop in the entire Anglican Communion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Glasspool

2/23       Pope Paul II, nicknamed Our Lady of Pity, (1417), was born today

2/24       Playwright Doric Wilson (1939), was born today

2/24       This is the birthday of queer theorist Judith Butler (1956). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler

2/25       On this date in 1974 the *Chronicle of Higher Education* published its first editorial by and about gay faculty.  http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubd/unmasks.html

2/25       On this day in 1983 Tennessee Wiliams died, at 71.

2/25       Today is the birthday (1942) of John Saul, author of suspense and horror novels often on the <i>New York Times</i> Best Seller list.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Saul

2/25       On 2/25/1974 *Chronicle of Higher Education* published ‘Gay Academic Unmasks’ — its first article about lgbtq issues by an out lgbtq writer. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubd/unmasks.html

2/26       Today is the birthday (1935) of Lily Tomlin’s script writer Jane Wagner.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wagner

2/26       King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, born 1861 and still playing dolls at in 1880, was born today

2/26       Today is the birthday (1913) of gay poet William Bell. GWood 28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barker_(poet)

2/27       Today is the birthday (1962) of Chiya Fujino, transexual winner of three major Japanese literary prizes.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiya_Fujino

2/27       Today is the birthday (1933) of gay poet Edward Lucie-Smith. GWood 40-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lucie-Smith

2/27       Today is the birthday (1912) of gay poet Lawrence Durrell. GWood 46 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell2/27   Today is the birthday (1880) of Angelina Weld

2/28       Stephen Spender (1909) was born today

2/28       Today is the birthday (1952) of journalist Pete Williams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Williams_(journalist)

3/1         James Grove Fulton, ‘The Gay Caballero’ congressman from Pittsburgh, was born (1890)

3/1         In March 1976 the vestry of St. Luke’s in Fort Valley, GA wrote a letter to Louie Crew asking him to ‘find some other place of worship that may be more in sympathy to your thinking and efforts toward gay people.’  See Sally Scherer’s report of that episode

3/1         Today is the birthday of journalist and tv anchor Don Lemon.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lemon.  Lemon was voted as one of the 150 most influential African Americans by Ebony magazine in 2009

3/1         Today is the birthday (1921) of gay poet Richard Wilbur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilbur

3/1         Today is the birthday (1900) of gay poet Basil Bunting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Bunting

3/1         In March 1976 *Metanoia Magazine* published its first ever openly lgbtq material. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubd/newleaven.html

3/1         Today is the birthday (1893) of playwright and poet Mercedes de Acosta, sought after by women of the stage on both U.S. coasts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_de_Acosta

3/2         Today is the birthday of Matthew Mitcham (1988), Australian Olympic diver.

3/2         Today is the birthday of Michael Denneny (March 2, 1943).  While working for St. Martin’s Press, he was one of the first editors to publish openly gay and lesbian material in the early 1970s

3/3         Today is the birthday (1878) of gay poet Edward Thomas. GWood 68 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_(poet)

3/3         Today is the birthday (1900) of Ruby Dandridge, Oriole on the Beulah Radio Program.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Dandridge

3/3         Today is the birthday (1947) of poet, novelist and scholar Clifton Snider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Snider

3/3         Today is the birthday of Nicola Slee (1958), noted author and editor. (FB)

3/3         Today is the birthday of Pulitzer winning gay poet James Merrill (1926)   GWood 29-30

3/3         Marriage became legal for lgbtq couples in DC on this day in 2010, the first instance below the Mason-Dixon Line. Onward to Williamsburg, Rocky Mount, Orangeburg, Tallahassee, Plains, Chattanooga, Louisville, Choccolocca, Ida Bena: Let freedom ring.

3/4         On March 4, 1998, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also applied when both parties are the same sex.

3/5            Pier Paolo Pasolini began life today in Bologna, Italy (1922)

3/5         Today is the birthday of Rebecca Voelkel (1969), IWR and Faith Work Director at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

3/5         Dr. Louise Pearce, medical researcher and lover of Dr. Josephine Baker, was born in 1865 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Pearce

3/6         Philanthropist, writer and political activist Betty Millard died on this day in 2010.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Millard

3/6         Today in 1475:  Michelangelo Buonaroti was born in Caprese, Tuscany. The great painter had several lovers, but none so loved as TOMMASSO Cavalieri to whom he wrote exquisite love sonnets.  http://rictornorton.co.uk/michela.htm

3/6         Today is the birthday (1904) of gay poet Parker Tyler. GWood 79 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Tyler

3/7         Dandy Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac, was born today in Paris in 1855.   He vomited for 24 hours after he slept, chastely, with Sarah Bernhardt.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Montesquiou

3/7         Today is the birthday (1964) of writer, comedian, and actress Wanda Sykes.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Sykes

3/7         Today is the birthday of journalist Lorena A. Hickock (1893), lover of Eleanor Roosevelt.  `Hick darling… Oh, I want to put my arms around you….  I ache to hold you close.’  Sorry, Franklin

3/8         As a state senator from California, Roy Arthur Ashburn, made his public debut as homosexual on this date in 2010, after being arrested for drunk driving when he left a gay club.  He is a Republican and fiercely anti-gay

3/8         Today is the birthday (1985) of Joseph Arndt, organist extraordinaire!

3/8         Today is the birthday (1976) of JoCasta Zamarripa, one of two openly lgbt members of the Wisconsin legislature.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoCasta_Zamarripa

3/8         Today is the birthday (1929) of poet and publisher Jonathan Williams.   GWood 17, 26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Williams_(poet)

3/8         Today is the birthday (1968) of German theologian David Berger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berger_(theologian)

3/9         On this date, Lt. Frederick Gotthold Enslin was drummed out of the Continental Army for ‘attempting to commit sodomy with John Monhart, a soldier,’ 1778

3/9         Today is the birthday of Matthew Vines, brilliant young gay theologian who takes conservative readings of Scripture seriously. (Vines is the author of the bestseller “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships.”

3/9         Vita Sackville-West, lover of Virginia Woolf, was born at Knole, Kent, 1892. (Vita wrote many books and more were written about her, including “Vita & Virginia: The Lives and Love of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West” by Sarah Gristwood.)

3/10       Today is the birthday (1955) of Holly Hughes, painter and performance artist.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Hughes_(performance_artist)

3/10       Today is John Rechy’s birthday (1931).   I grew up a criminal in most states,  *City of Night* came out in 1963, the year that I fled the U.S. to come out in the night streets of London, far away from family and others who might have been distressed had I been arrested.  Rechy knew my world, a world that straight writers at that time almost never mentioned. (The groundbreaking 1963 gay novel “City of Night” by Mexcian American author John Rechy is available)

3/10       On this date in 1974 the FBI gave me a copy of its record on me as I had requested through the Freedom of Information Act. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/FBI_GBI_on_Crew.pdf

3/11          Today is the birthday of journalist LZ Granderson (1972).  He won the 2009 the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for online journalism

3/11       Today is the birthday (1957) of drag queen The Lady Chablis.  What a treat!  (Wikipedia says, Through exposure in the bestselling nonfiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and its 1997 film adaptation, she became one of the first trans performers to be introduced to a wide audience. ) See a bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Chablis

3/12       Liza Minnelli was born today (1946).  In 2010 she received the Straight for Equality in Entertainment Award, for ‘her lifelong support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.’ (A favorite Liza Minnelli movie will always be “Cabaret,” based on gay author Christopher Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel, “Goodbye to Berlin.”)

3/12       This is the birthday of Jack Kerouac (1922).  He becomes more and more gay as biographers come and go. (Kerouac wrote the Beat Generation classic Jack Kerouac’s book “On the Road.”)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_kerouac

3/12       Today is the birthday of Randall Kenan (1963).  (Randall Kenan writes about what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States in books such as “Let the Dead Bury Their Dead.”) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Kenan

3/12       Edward Albee knew that he was gay at 12 and a half.  In 2011 when he won the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement, he stated in his speech, ‘A writer who happens to be gay or lesbian must be able to transcend self. I am not a gay writer. I am a writer who happens to be gay.’ (Edward Albee won the Tony Award for best play in 1963 with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee

3/13       Hugh Walpole, who propositioned Henry James, was born today in New Zealand in 1884.  James cried tearfully, ‘I can’t!  I can’t!’  Hmm

3/13       Today is the birthday (1892) of Janet Flanner, pioneer journalist. (Books by Janet Flanner, known as Genet, include “Paris was Yesterday.”  “She was a leading member of the influential coterie of mostly lesbian women that included Natalie Clifford Barney and Djuna Barnes,” says Wikipedia.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Flanner

3/14       Today is the birthday (1969) of Mary Cheney, daughter of former Vice-President of the U.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cheney

3/14       George Washington, as the nation’s first commander-in-chief in general orders for 3/14/1778, gave his views on gays in the military.  His Excellency approved  ‘with abhorrence and detestation of such infamous crimes orders Lieutt. Enslin to be drummed out

3/15       Beware the Ides, Ms. Caesar, wife to all husbands & husband to all wives!  Beware!  ‘Look how the queen rules the world with his finger.’

3/15       Today is the birthday (1982) of Kwame Harris, gay Jamaican-born football tackle of six seasons in the NFL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Harris

3/16       Novelist I. A. R. Wylie was born in Melbourne on this day in 1885, and later wrote a book about her love affair with Dr. Sara Josephine Baker. (The book is “My Life with George: An Unconventional Autobiography.”)

3/16       Today is the birthday (1822) of Rosa Bonheur.  (The cross-dressing painter honored an “androgyne Christ.”)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Bonheur

3/17       Today is the birthday (1938) of one of the most respected dancers of all time, Rudolf Nureyev.

3/17       Today is the birthday (1912) of Bayard Rustin, the genius behind the Civil Rights Movement.

3/17       Today is the birthday of Steven Fales (1970), playwright and Mormon gay activist.(His book “Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the Off-Broadway Hit” was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Fales (His book “Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the Off-Broadway Hit” was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.)

3/18       Today is poet Wilfred Owen’s birthday (1893). Brace yourself for one of the most powerful moments of 20th-century music: Owen’s poem “Strange Meeting,” as part of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem.” I shall never forget hearing… (The gay World War I poet’s work is collected in “Complete Poems” by Wilfred Owen.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen

3/18       Today is the birthday of actor Edward Everett Horton (1886), famous for the Nervous Nellie characters he portrayed.  He was life partner to actor Gavin Gordon.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Everett_Horton

3/18       On this day in 1990 OutWeek magazine published a story with the cover headline ‘The Secret Gay Life of Malcolm Forbes,’ by Michelangelo Signorile, which outed Forbes as a gay man. Signorile was critical of the media for helping Forbes publicize many aspects of his life while keeping his homosexuality a secret. (Signorile is an outspoken gay journalist and author of “Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power.”)

3/19       Today is the birthday of Marie Alford-Harkey, Deputy Director at Religious Institute and sometime Vice-President of Integrity. (She is the author of “Bisexuality: Making the Invisible Visible in Faith Communities.”)

3/19       On March 19, 2012, Nobel Prize winner Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf defended her nation’s laws which make the committing of homosexual acts – ‘voluntary sodomy’ – punishable by up to one year in prison.

3/19       Today is the birthday of Moms Mabley (1894). Wikipedia says, “She came out as a lesbian in 1921 at the age of twenty-seven, becoming one of the first openly gay comedians.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms_Mabley

3/19       Today is the birthday of novelist Dan Curzon (1938). (He is the author of the 1971 gay novel “Something You Do in the Dark.”)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Curzon

3/20       Birthday of Yale scholar John Boswell (1947).  What a gift to us all! (Boswell is the author of “Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality” and “Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe.”) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boswell

3/20       Today is the birthday of BeBe Zahara Benet (1981), ‘America’s Next Drag Superstar’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBe_Zahara_Benet

3/20       On this day in 1975, the Macon Herold, a national newspaper of the John Birch Society, warned that ‘homosexuals are operating out of Fort Valley [GA]….allegedly under the direction of Lewis Crew’

3/20       Opera star Lauritz Melchior was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was virtually a household name for his singing at New York’s Met. He went to Hollywood and appeared in MGM’s musicals. Novelist Hugh Walpole had been his lover and patron. But, Melchior traded him in for a sailor.

3/20       Wayne Roberts Abernathy died on this date in 1995.  ‘The years have not, cannot dim my memory of the enormity of his talent as a pianist and an organist and, even more, the merry music of life he created for countless folk through his generosity of spirit

3/21       Today is the birthday of Dottie Fuller, many-time deputy from the Diocese of El Camino Real. sometime member of the Executive Council The Episcopal Church: , many-time national officer of Integrity

3/21       Today is the birthday (1981) of Rashad Taylor, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.

3/21       Today is the birthday of Gaye Adegbalola (1944), lesbian singer born as Gaye Todd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaye_Adegbalola

3/21       Moussorgsky, addicted to exclusively strait men, was born this day in Karevo, 1839. (Russian composter Mussorgsky’s music includes “Pictures at an Exhibition” and “Night on Bald Mountain.”

3/21       Today is the birthday of Zackie Achmat.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zackie_Achmat

3/21       Today is the birthday (1962) of Rosie O’Donnell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_O%27Donnell

3/22       Today is the birthday (1989) vlogger Tyler Oakley.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Oakley

3/22       This is the birthday of Ilana Kloss. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilana_Kloss

3/22       Today is the birthday (1975) of Guillermo Díaz, actor.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_D%C3%ADaz_(actor)

3/23       Today is the birthday (1947) of Diane Sands, a member of the Montana House of Representatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Sands

3/23       This date in 1875, J. C. Leyendecker, perhaps the most successful commercial artist of the 20th century, was born in Montabour, Germany. Best known as the creator of the Arrow Shirt Man, his work is still sexy. When the ads first appeared in magazines carloads of letters from female fans would arrive daily. But, the model was not available. He was Leyendecker’s lover Charles Beach. (His art is collected in “J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist” and other books.)

3/24   Today is the birthday (1930) of actor Kenneth Nelson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Nelson

3/24       Today is the birthday (1954) of Bonnie Cullison, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Cullison

3/25       Elton John, tuneful bisexual, was born in, well, Middlesex (1947) on this day. (The gay side of Elton John, as well as his rock-n-roll music, is highlighted in the 2019 biopic “Rocketman.”)

3/25       Today is the birthday of Sheryl Swoopes, three-time MVP and the first player to be signed to the WMBA when it was created. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes

3/26       Today is the birthday of Michael Bibler, scholar and authority on the gay South. (Bibler’s books include “Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968.”)

3/26       Corso the Beat, Housman the Traditionalist, Tennessee of Mississippi all began gay lives on this day

3/27       Today is the birthday of poet Xavier Villaurrutia y González (1903)  http://www.enotes.com/topics/xavier-villaurrutia

3/27       Actress Maria Schneider was born in Paris. The highlight of her career came playing opposite Marlon Brandon in ‘Last Tango in Paris’. In 1975, for several days, she declared herself to be insane and checked herself into a Rome mental hospital. It turned out she only wanted to be with partner, American heiress Patty Townsend. When the truth leaked out she was a lesbian, Hollywood dropped her like a hot potato.

3/27       This is the birthday of gay writer, poet, and art critic Frank O’Hara   GWood 46-52 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O%27Hara

3/28       Jane Rule, Canadian, author of “Lesbian Images,” was born this day in 1931. (The book explores lesbianism as portrayed by authors from Gertrude Stein to Colette, from Vita Sackville-West to May Sarton and Willa Cather.)

3/28       This is the birthday (1921) brilliant actor Dirk Bogarde.   It’s time to watch for yet another time his chilling performance in the 1961 film The Victim.

3/28       This is the birthday of Kevin Sessums (1956).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Sessums

3/29       Today is the birthday (1915) of gay poet Denton Welch. GWood 105, 112 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_Welch (Welch’s books include “Maiden Voyage” and his letters are collected in “Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver.”

3/29       Today is the birthday of Luiza Sá, Brazilian Musician.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiza_Sá

3/29       On March 29, 2010, Ricky Martin confirmed he is a ‘homosexual man.’  He noted, ‘I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.’  See http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/29/ricky-martin-confirms-he-is-a-homosexua

3/30       Today is the birthday (1950) of Wal Torres, a transgender Brazilian gender therapist and sexologist.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal_Torres

3/30       Today is the birthday (1964) of singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman.

3/30       Paul Verlaine, who shot his lover Rimbaud for infidelities, was born in Metz this day in 1844

3/30       Today is the birthday (1967) of Richard Bluestein, internet performance artist.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bluestein

3/31       Nikolai Gogol, gay novelist, was born this day in the Ukraine in 1809.4/1   Holland was the first country in the world to legalize gay marriage. The first four couples were married in the Amsterdam city hall on 4/1/2001.

4/1         Today is the birthday (1895) of blues singer Alberta Hunter.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Hunter

4/1         Today is the birthday of Lucille Bogan (1897), among the first blues singers ever to be recorded.

4/1         Today is the birthday of science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany (1942 in Harlem).  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany

4/2         Today is the birthday of David M. Halperin (1952), American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Halperin (Halperin’s books include “Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography” and “One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love.”

4/2         On this date in 1805, Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark. He is famous for his fairy tales.  He had difficulty finding men who would reciprocate.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen

4/2         Today is the birthday (1929) of gay poet Edward Dorn. GWood 77, 78 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Dorn

4/3         Today is the birthday of Matt Haines, current president of Integrity, a young and fearless prophet.

4/3         Today is the birthday of Anne Lister (1791-1840), landowner, traveller, diarist, and recorder of an active lesbian life.

4/3         This is the birthday of Marlon Brando, in Omaha, Nebraska. He told his biographer in the 1970s,  ‘Like many men I too have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed.’  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando

4/4         Emperor Caracalia, female impersonator, was murdered at 9 in Mesopotamia, 217 A.D. on this date

4/4         Today is the birthday (1932) of Anthony Perkins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Perkins

4/5         Bette Davis, happy birthday!

4/5         Birthday of Fred Ellis, past president of Integrity

4/6         Today is the birthday (1955) of Rob Epstein — director, producer, writer and editor.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Epstein (He won two Academy Awards for the films “The Times of Harvey Milk” and “Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.”)

4/6         William Rufus De Vane King was was born on this date in 1786 in North Carolina.  He lived with bachelor U.S. President James Buchanan, whom Andrew Jackson called ‘Miss Nancy.’

4/7         Violette Le Duc was born this date in 1907, listed in Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History from Antiquity to World War II. Routledge; London. 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette_Leduc

4/7         Today is the birthday (1912) of Harry Hay, early leader in the lgbt rights movement.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay (“He was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated gay spiritual movement.” — Wikipedia. Hay’s speeches and writing are collected in “Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder.”  His life story is told in the biography “The Trouble with Harry Hay” by Stuart Timmons.)

4/8         Leonardo da Vinci and two other young men are accused of having had sex with Jacope Saltarelli, 17, on this day in 1476. (They were acquitted on June 16.)

4/8         The APA took us off its sick list on this day in 1974. (A better known date is December 1973.)

4/9        Today is the birthday (1896) of Sir Robert Helpmann, dancer extraordinaire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Helpmann

4/9         Today is the birthday (1821) of Charles Baudelaire.

4/9         Baudelaire is born in Paris on this date in 1821.  Proust and Gide both vouched that Baudelaire was gay.

4/10       Buggery we chose, & Buggery we will allow’ — the Earl of Rochester, Restoration playwright, born this day in 1647

4/10       Today is the birthday (1750) of James Ogilvy Findlater.  Did he flee from heterosexism or from the jeopardy he incurred by making a joke?  I wish today’s wealthy were as generous with public works projects as he.

4/11       On this day in 1993, President Bill Clinton announced his ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy regarding gays in the American military.

4/11       Today is the birthday of Maher Sabry (1967), pioneer gay activist in Egypt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Sabry

4/12       French humanist Marc-Antoine Muret, burned in effigy as a sodomist, was born this day near Limoges in 1526.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-Antoine_Muret

4/12       Today is the birthday (1947) of Alex Briley, a member of the Village People.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Briley

4/12       Today is the birthday (1964) of musician Amy Ray. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Ray

4/13       In 1890 the birthday of Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy from Michigan. He and his college roommate Edward Kemp were inseparable for life.

4/13       This is the birthday of Deborah A. Batts (1947), Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Batts

4/14       This is the birthday poet Jericho Brown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyvUY_sQnic (Brown, a gay poet, won the Pulizter Prize for his 2019 poetry collection “The Tradition.”)

4/14       We would have no MESSIAH had we no gay George Frederick Handel, who died this day in London, 1759

4/14       Ellen DeGeneres came out this day in 1997.

4/15       Anniversary of the day that Abraham Lincoln met Joshua Speed.  http://www.queersinhistory.com/was-abraham-lincoln-gay.htm (Themes of sexuality in his life and music are explored in “Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas” by Ellen Harris.)

4/15       Bessie Smith was born today (1894)  Do it, girl!

4/15       Today is the birthday (1907) of artist, photographer, and fashion designer George Platt Lynes. Kinsey took an interest in his work.

4/15       On this day in 2012 Presbyterians ordained Katie Ricks, their first out lesbian minister. ‘Our chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Her forever!” (Lutibelle’s translation of the Westminster Catechism).

4/16       Birthday of Essex Hemphill (1957) pioneer African American gay poet and activist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXpogGVb66w (His book “Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry” received the National Library Association’s GLBT New Author Award in 1993. He edited the book “Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men.”)

4/17      Greek gay poet Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt on this day in 1863.  GWood multiple  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_P._Cavafy (His critically acclaimed book “C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems” includes frank treatment of gay themes.)

4/17       Today is the birthday (1941) of Irena Klepfisz.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Klepfisz

4/18       Birthday of Gavin Creel (1976) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Creel

4/18       Today is the birthday of John Paul DeCecco, editor emeritus of The Journal of Homosexuality and Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco.

4/18       Vice-President Wm Rufus King, First Lady of bachelor President James Buchanan, died on this day in Cahawba, Arkansas, in 1853, after only 45 days in office. King and Buchanan shared a home for 15 years before Buchanan became president.

4/19       Today is the birthday (1985) of Sabrina Jalees.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Jalees

4/19       Today in 1982, Sergeant Cochrane, a 14 year veteran of the NYPD, created shock waves by testifyingbefore a NYC Council hearing in favor of a gay rights bill.  A member of the Policemen’s Benevolent Association asserted that he knew no gay policeman.  Cochrane replied, ‘“I am very proud of being a New York City Police Officer, and I am equally proud of being gay.”

4/20       Today is the birthday (1937) of Star Trek actor George Takei. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei

4/20       Today is the birthday (1962) of Nancy Helen Sutley, leader of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Sutley

4/20       Today is the birthday of Richard Kirker, former director of the Gay Christian Movement in England

4/21       Birthday of the Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Kaeton (1949), smart, fearless lesbian priest extraordinaire (and my sometime body guard in the presence of our enemies).

4/21       Today is the birthday (1914) of Muriel Inez Crawford.

4/22       Madame De Stael was born near Paris on this day in 1766. She seduced and lived for 19 years with Juliette Recamier the most celebrated beauty of her time.

4/22       Today is John Waters birthday (1946), one of my favorite directors and a fascinating American.  I love his book CARSICK, an s account of his recent hitchhike across the country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters

4/22       Today is the birthday of The Rev. Horace Griffin (1961), author of Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbian and Gays in Black Churches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbo9JTrM9ws

4/23       Saints Day for St. George, who thought of himself as the ‘Bridegroom of Christ.’  See http://queering-the-church.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html

4/23       Today is the birthday (1979) of Marco McMillan, African American and the first gay man openly to be a candidate for public office in Mississippi.   He was murderd at age 33.  What a loss! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_McMillian

4/23       Today is the birthday (1875) of Antoinette Corisande Élisabeth, Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre (née de Gramont), Natalie Barney’s beloved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_de_Gramont

4/23       Today is the birthday of William Shakespeare (1564).  Read his tribute to the beauty of a boyfriend in Sonnet 18 — http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15555   GWood  multiple

4/23       James Buchanan, possibly the U.S.’s only gay president, was born on this day in 1791, near Mercerburg, Pennsylvania.  Andrew Jackson called him ‘Miss Nancy.’

4/24          Today is the birthday (1926) of Rt. Rev. Otis Charles, retired Bishop of Utah, retired Dean of Episcopal Divinity School, out gay bishop, treasured friend of so many of us, husband of  Felipe Sanchez Paris, champion of justice issues galore…..

4/24       Today is the birthday of Very Rev. Robert V. Taylor (1958) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_V._Taylor

4/24       Willa (a.k.a. William) Cather died in NYC on this day, 1947. O pioneer! (Cather, who spent the last 39 years of her life with a woman as her domestic partner, is author of novels such as “O Pioneers!”)

4/25       Today is the birthday of Cyril Nri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Nri

4/25       Today is the birthday of Graham Payn (1918), life partner of Noel Coward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Payn

4/25       King Edward II is born in Caernavon Wales in 1284.  For his repeated homosexual ‘offenses,’ Edward was murdered by having a red-hot poker inserted in his anus.

4/26       Birthday of The Rev. Michael Hopkins, past president of Integrity.

4/26       Ma Rainey, the ‘woman-lovin’ woman, was born this day in Columbus, Georgia, 1866. (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” won two Academy Awards in 2021. The film is based on the play by August Wilson.)

4/26       Mel Soriano married Stephen Mulder on this day in 2014.  What joy! Mel is Secretary and Director of Communications for Integrity.

4/26       Today is the birthday (1889) of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

4/26       William Shakespeare was baptized on this date in 1564.  He dedicated his Sonnets, through which he expected to be remembered, to his boyfriend, the mysterious ‘W.H.’  The vast majority celebrate erotic affection for the male beloved; a few at the end mock

4/26       Birthday of Lily Parr http://fyne.co.uk/11/lily-parr

4/27       Today is the birthday (1917) of Mary Meigs.

4/27       This is the birthday of James Duke Mason (1992), grandson of British actor James Mason.

4/27       Today is the birthday (1905) of gay poet C. Day_Lewis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Day_Lewis

4/28       On this date in 1981, Marilyn Barnett filed a palimony suit against tennis icon Billie Jean King. At the time, King denied that she is a lesbian, although she acknowledged the affair.

4/28       Today is the birthday (1959) of Pedro Segarra, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Segarra

4/28       Today is the birthday (1943) of English conductor Dr. Jeffrey Tate.  He and I were house mates at 28 Trigon Road in Kennington near the oval in 1965-66, while Jeffrey was doing his medical residency at Guy’s Hospital.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GK_S

4/29       Today is the birthday (1930) of Jim Toy, pioneer activist and a dear personal friend.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Toy

4/29       Today is the birthday of singer Rod McKuen in Oakland, California. His ‘new age’ songs made him a celebrity in the late 60s. He onced told an interviewer ‘I have had sex with men. Does that make me gay?’

4/30            Today is the birthday  (1984) of Seimone Augustus.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seimone_Augustus

5/1         On 5/1/1977 *Change Magazine* published ‘Teaching Gay Students’ — its first article about lgbtq issues by an out lgbtq writer.

5/1         On this day in 1974 Gay activists marched in Portugal for the first time, demanding an end to the country’s sodomy laws and a repeal of all statutes that discriminate against gays and lesbians.

5/1         Today is the birthday of Hadiyo Jim’ale (1971), Executive Director of Queer Somalis.

5/2         On this day in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died.  He left the bulk of his estate to Clyde Tolson, his ‘companion’ of over 40 years.

5/2         Today is the birthday (1902) of Mabel Hampton, philanthropist and activist for black and lgbt organizations.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Hampton

5/2         Today is the birthday (1978) of Shaun T, fitness trainer and choreographer.  Ernest uses his dvd Hip-Hop Abs, and I watch.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_T

5/3         May Sarton was born this day in Wendelgem, Belgium, 1912  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Sarton#Works_and_themes

5/3         Today is the birthday (1877) of gay scholar Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás, one of the founders of paleobiology and Albanian studies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Franz_Nopcsa

5/3         Today is the birthday (1948) of Miriam Ben-Shalom, Staff Sereant discharged for homosexuality in 1976.  She fought back and won eleven years later.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Ben-Shalom

5/4         Keith Haring was born this day — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring

5/4         On this date in 1985, Ed Gallagher, offensive tackle at the University of Pittsburgh, tried to commit suicide as he struggled to come to terms with his sexuality.  When will this madness end? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gallagher_(American_football)

5/4         Today is the birthday (1979) of entertainer Lance Bass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Bass

5/5         Del Martin was born on May 5, 1921. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Martin

5/5         Tyrone Power was born a ‘coprophiliac’ on this day in 1913, in Cincinnati

5/6         Rudolph Valentino, ‘the pink powder puff,’ was born this day in Catellaneta, Italy

5/6         Today is the birthday (1914) of gay poet Randall Jarrell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Jarrell

5/6         Today is the birthday (1942) of Judy Davenport.  http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=276

5/7         Birthday of Jane Redmont, editor for World Council of Church, Orbis Books, et al.

5/7    In 1910 the birthday of D. Shewin Bailey, the first modern Anglican theologian to revisit biblical condemnations of homosexuality.  See http://queering-the-church.blogspot.com/2011/05/canon-derrick-sherwin-bailey-pioneering.html

5/7         On this day in 1840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votinsk, Russia.  His Sixth Symphony is often performed at ‘The Homosexual Symphony..’

5/8         Today is the birthday of Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954), philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Anthony_Appiah

5/8         Today is the birthday of Sarah Vaillancourt (1985), Canadian women’s hockey player. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaillancourt

5/9         On this date in 1971 Andy Warhol’s play ‘Pork’ opened. The cast included a sixteen-year-old drag queen named Harvey Fierstein.

5/9         President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to say he supports same-sex marriage, announcing his position on May 9, 2012

5/10       Today is the birthday (1904) of musician Frieda Belinfante, prominent lesbian and a member of the Dutch Resistance duing WW2.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Belinfante

5/10       Circa 320 BC, actual date unknown, Theocritus was born in Syracuse. He developed the pastoral verse form. His poems are highly homoerotic.

5/11       Today is the birthday (1933) of Father Mychal Judge.  http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=303

5/11       The body of Dr. George Duncan was dragged out of River Torrens in Adelaide, South Australia, where he had been thrown the day before. The law school lecturer and gay activist became a martyr to the gay and lesbian movement across Australia, and his murder led to the decriminalization of homosexuality, starting in South Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Duncan

5/11       Andrew Lang, Executive Director at UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns, born today in 1953

5/11       Today in 2003 15-year-old Sakia Gunn was stabbed at the main traffic intersection in Newark.  Her murderer killed her because she was a lesbian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakia_Gunn

5/12       On this day in 1975 California decriminalized same sex acts between consenting adults.

5/12       Today is the birthday (1987) of Robbie Rogers, professional soccer player.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Rogers

5/13       Birthday of Armistead Maupin in 1944 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistead_Maupin

5/13       Today is the birthday of Cheryl Dunye (1966). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Dunye

5/14       Das ist gut, nicht wahr?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lesbiche_-_1928_-_D-_Die_freundin_1928.jpg

5/14       Today is the birthday of singer Mélange Lavonne.  Listen to her powerful rap from a pulpit charging Christians for promoting anti-lgbt violence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdjSRu8na3o  See a bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lange_Lavonne [on

5/14       Today is the birthday of William Alexander Percy (1885), gay lawyer, planter, and poet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alexander_Percy

5/14       Physician Magnus Hirschfeld was born 14 May 1868 in Kolberg, Prussia.

5/14        Eminent sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld died on this day in 1935.   What a mix of brilliance and courage!  Its also his birthday (1868).

5/14       Canada decriminalized homosexual acts between consenting adults on this date in 1969.

5/14       Joanna Johnson Comes Out: ‘The Bold And The Beautiful’ Star Reveals She’s A Lesbian”. Huffington Post. May 14, 2010

5/15      Episcopal Church, remember May 15th.  It is important in our history.  In a 7-1 decision on May 15, 1996 the Court for the Trial of a Bishop dismissed charges against Bishop Walter C. Righter.  He was on trial charged with heresy for ordaining Barry Stopfel, a gay man in a committed relationship, in the Diocese of Newark.  The court concluded that the Episcopal Church ‘has no doctrine prohibiting the ordination of homosexuals,’ and that Bishop Righter did not contradict the ‘core doctrine of the church.’ The one dissenter on the court, Andrew Fairfield, left The Episcopal Church after his retirement and now serves in the Anglican Church of North America, a group born of opposition to the Episcopal Church’s support of lgbtq persons as priests and bishops. Bishop Righter died September 11, 2011, fifteen years after he was exonerated.  May he rest in peace and may light perpetual shine upon him. Imagine where TEC would be if he had been convicted as a heretic!

5/15       John E. Fortunato — sixth president of Integrity (1981–1982), author of EMBRACING THE EXILE, and psychologist — was born on May 15, 1947. Rejoice!

5/15       Today is the birthday (1887) of gay poet Edwin Muir. GWood 68 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Muir

5/15       Today is the birthday (1935) of Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, drag queen, composer, and author of 20+ books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihiro_Miwa

5/16       Today is the birthday of poet Cheryl Clarke — feminist, activist, poet…. and a major force for justice in my life. She’s a beloved colleague at Rutgers and an inspiration to me and to so many others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Clarke

5/16       Liberace was born this day

5/16       Elizabeth Peabody, founder of the first kindergarten in the U.S. and an intimate of transcendentalist Margaret Fuller, was born this day in Billerica, Mass., in 1804

5/17       In 2012 opponents failed again to overturn a law that requires California public schools to cover the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

5/17       Today is the birthday (1956) of Annise Parker, Mayor of Houston.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annise_Parker

5/18       In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage on this date. The court found the prohibition of gay marriage unconstitutional because it denies dignity and equality of all individuals.

5/18       Today is the birthday (1980) of Felicia Pearson (Snoop on THE WIRE). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Pearson

5/18       Cade Russo-Young was born to two lesbian mothers on this day in 1980. She was later at the center of a major court decision restricting surrogate fathers from diminishing lesbian families.  http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/other/lawreview/deliberate

5/19       Oscar Wilde was released today (1897) after two years of hard labor in the Redding Gaol — made holy ground by his presence there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde#Exile

5/19       Today is the birthday of Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930)   She wrote for the Daughters of Bilitis using only the initials ‘L.H.’ for fear of discrimination against her as a black lesbian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry (Hansberry is best known for her play “A Raisin in the Sun.”)

5/20       Alcuin of Tours is on The Episcopal Church: :’s calendar for today.  His pet name for his male students are legendary.  See http://web.archive.org/web/20001205163500/http://www.bway.net/~halsall/lgbh/lgbh-gaysts.html#alcuin

5/20       On 5/20/96 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in  the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays & lesbians.

5/21       Today is the birthday (1994) of British Olympic diver Tom Daley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Daley

5/21       Today is the birthday of Ron Buckmire, program officer at the National Science Foundation and lgbt activist.

5/21       Today is the birthday of Terry Helbing, one of the co-founders of Gay Presses of New York.

5/22       Today is the birthday of Sasha Alyson (1952), pioneer gay pubisher.

5/22       Today is Harvey Milk‘s birthday

5/22       On this day in 334 BC, the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. ‘The central personal relationship of Alexander’s life was with his friend, general, and bodyguard Hephaestion, the son of a Macedonian noble.’  — Wikipedia

5/22       Today is the birthday of Peter J. Gomes (1942), preacher, theologian, and Professor at Harvard Divinity School

5/22       Today is the birthday of Paul Winfield (1939). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winfield

5/23       Margaret Fuller, lesbian transcendentalist, was born this day in 1810, in Cambridgeport, Mass. [Among other accomplishments, she was the first woman granted access to the Harvard library.]

5/23       Today is the birthday (1904) of Libby Holman, actress.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Holman

5/23       Today is the birthday (1985) of activist Maya Keyes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Keyes

5/24       On this day in 1976, Tales of the City made its debut in The San Francisco Chronicle.

5/24       Today is the birthday (1934) of Jane Byrne, Chicago’s only female mayor (1979-83), and the first mayor to recognize the gay community.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Byrne

5/25       On this day in 1895 Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years at hard labor after his conviction on sodomy charges.

5/25       On May 25, 1913 Colonel Alfred Redl, 49, director of intelligence for the Army of Austria-Hungary from 1907 to 1912, committed suicide after being discovered that he had passed secrets to the Russian Empire for eleven years. Redl had betrayed his nation a

5/26       Today in 1987. Sakia Gunn was born in Newark.  She lived to be only 15 and was murdered for being a lesbian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakia_Gunn

5/26       Today is the birthday (1951) of Sally Ride, astronaut and the first American woman in space. “Ride?”  Indeed! What a stellar lesbian adventure! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride

5/26       On this day in 1951 gay British spies Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess defected to the Soviet Union, sparking a witch hunt for gays in the British Foreign Office

5/27       On this day in 1993 Russia decriminalized consensual adult male to male sex acts.

5/27       Today is the birthday (1907) of pioneer conservationist Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson [Love letters between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman are published in the book, “Always, Rachel.”]

5/28      Today is the birthday of Patrick White (1912), gay writer and the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_White

5/28       Today is the birthday of Elizabeth Carl, whose ordination was in the eye of the heterosexist tornado headed toward General Convention in Phoenix in 1991. The church of epiphany indeed! Thank you God for shining in the countenance of the courageous, for letting us see You in Elizabeth Carl’s face, in Ron Haines’, and in the faces of so many others who eschew ways to make their own life easier and choose instead, hard ways, ways that make others’ lives easier and hasten your realm on earth as it is heaven. http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_nu

5/29       On this day in 1987, Congressman Barney Frank came out.

5/29       This is birthday of Melvin Dixon (1950), scholar who wrote about black gay men. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Dixon

5/29       Today is the birthday of Bishop Gene Robinson (1947). [Gene Robinson writes about his life and theology as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop in “In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God.”]

5/30       Birthday of Bertrand Delano, out gay Mayor of Paris, born in French Tunisia in 1950

5/30       Christine Jorgensen was born today

5/30       On 5/30/1977 *Christianity & Crisis* published ‘Peace of Christ Is Not For Gays’ — its first article about lgbtq issues by an out lgbtq writer. http://rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubd/nopeace.html

5/30       Today is Colm Toibin’s birthday (1955).  Ah the gifts of the Irish!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_T%C3%B3ib%C3%ADn

5/30       Today is the birthday of Countee Cullen (1903), a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. [He published a poem titled “The Black Christ” in 1929. It is in the book of his collected poetry.]

5/31       Walt Whitman was born today, in 1819. [Whitman’s masterpiece is “Leaves of Grass.”  It includes his “Calamus” poems, which celebrate “the manly love of comrades.” This collection focuses on his gayest poetry: Walt Whitman’s Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: “Live Oak, with Moss” and “Calamus”.]

5/31       Today is the birthday (1990) of Romas Zabarauskas, activist, film director, screen writer, and producer, with innovative ways to educate the public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romas_Zabarauskas

6/1        On 6/1/1974 — four months before I announced a new organization called Integrity, and  four months after Ernest and I married — *The Churchman* (long-time humanist publication historically connected The Episcopal Church: ), published ‘One Fold and One Shepherd’ — its first article about lgbtq issues by an out lgbtq writer. Because *The Churchman* was listed in Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, it appeared on the shelves of hundreds of public libraries. It was an Episcopal humanist periodical, ordered together with conservative *Christianity Today* by many librarians seeking to give the public access to both perspectives.

6/1         Today is the birthday (1936)  of mystery writer Sandra Scoppettone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Scoppettone

6/1         Norma Jean Baker was born today, 1926

6/1         On 6/1/1974 *Churchman* published ‘One Fold and One Shepherd’ — its first article about lgbtq issues by an out lgbtq writer. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubd/onefold.html

6/2         Today is the birthday (1972) of actor and producer Wentworth Miller.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth_Miller

6/2         The Marquis de Sade was born on this day in 1740.

6/2         Today is the birthday (1907) of gay poet John Lehmann. GWood 24, 54, 56, 58, 67, 125-139, 198, 216 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lehmann

6/2         Today is the birthday (1966) of Candace Gingrich-Jones, lgbt activist and half sister to Newt.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Gingrich-Jones6/3    Howl, howl!  Today is also Allen Ginsberg’s birthday

6/3         Today is the birthday of Josephine Baker (1906), dancer, singer and actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker

6/3         Birthday of Paul Mariah (born Paul Jones) in 1937.  He was one of the leaders of the gay poetry movement his San Francisco in the 1960s. Early in his life he served a prison sentence for consensual sex with a man in Texas   GWood 35-36, 114

6/3         Birthday of gay newscaster Anderson Cooper (1967)”

6/4         Today is the birthday (1978) of Naomi Gonzalez, and out lesbian member of the Texas House of Representatives!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Gonzalez

6/4         Today is the birthday of Angelina Jolie (1975), actress and film director. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie

6/5         Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was born today, 1898. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon? http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/deisenbe/Lorca/Lorca_and_censorship__The_Gay_Artist_Made_Heterosexual.htm

6/5         Today is the birthday (1963) of Scott Long, Senior Fellow in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Long_(human_rights_activist)

6/6         Today is the birthday (1939) of gay poet Lee Harwood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harwood

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6/6         Today is the birthday of Christian de la Huerta, author of ‘Coming Out Spiritually.’  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_de_la_Huerta

6/6         This is the birthday of Harvey Fierstein (1954) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Fierstein

6/6         Today is the birthday of Holly Near (1949), musician, and composer of the LGBTQ national anthem  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=johabhyURIw”

6/7         Dandies of the world, unite!  Beau Brummel was born today Don’t catch a cold from a damp stranger, the way he did http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Brummel

6/7         Today is Edward Field’s birthday (1924).  Stand up, Friend, with Me  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Field_(poet)

6/8         Are you still running with me, Malcolm Boyd? (born on this date in 1923.

6/8         On this date in 1976, Alice Murray, Constitution Religion Writer, reported that Crew would seek an attorney before he meets with Bp Bennett Sims, who has summoned him for discipline http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/GayActivistWontFace.pdf

6/8         Today is Marguerite Yourcenar’s birthday (Brussels, 1903).  Remember Hadrian.  Echo Antinous!

6/9         Today is the birthday of Patricia Cornwell (1956), creator of the heroine medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. She lives with Staci Ann Gruber, Harvard instructor of psychiatry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Cornwell#Personal_life

6/9         Even YOU and I can do it.  Let’s!   Cole Porter was born today in Peru (1892:  Indiana, that is).  Jacky Onassis’s father did it with him.  Let’s

6/10       Today is the birthday of English dramatist Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Rattigan6/10    Birthday of The Rev. Susan Russell, past president of Integrity and activist extraordinaire.

6/11       Birthday of David Norgard, past president of Integrity

6/11       Today is Lawrence D. Mass’s birthday (1946) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_D._Mass

6/11       Today is Marjorie Garber’s birthday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Garber

6/12       This is the birthday of William R Johnson, johnsonw@chhsm.org, (1946), the first openly gay person ordained in the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the first such person ordained in the Christian Church in modern times. http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.asp

6/12       Actor Jim Nabors was born in Sylacauga, Alabama on this day in 1930.

6/12       Djuna Barnes (1892), how ever did YOUR papers end up in Austin, sugar!  Oh, oh what the millionnaires will buy! Happy birthday

6/13       Motorcyclists have discovered leather chiffon, dear Paul Lynde, born today in Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1926.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lynde

6/13       Today is the birthday (1865) of gay poet WB Yeats. GWood 18, 30, 104-5, 214 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats

6/13       Today is the birthday (1971) of Saskia Webber, sometime member of the US women’s national soccer team.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Webber

6/14       Boy George was born this day in 1961

6/14       Today is the birthday (1974) of Sutan Amrull, make-up artist and drag performer.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutan_Amrull

6/15       Today is the birthday (1971) of Chuck Palumbo, out wrestler in World Championship Wrestling.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palumbo

6/15       Actor Neil Patrick Harris was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on this day in 1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patrick_Harris

6/16       Today is the birthday (1980) of Benjamin Michael Ben Rattray, the founder and CEO of the online petition website Change.org.  He changed career paths to focus on ‘the pursuit of effective collective action’ after comments his gay brother’ experiences.

6/16       Today is the birthday of Thomas Loren ‘Tom’ Lenk (1976), an American stage and television actor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lenk

6/16       Today is the birthday of Rich Madaleno, the first person to be elected to Maryland’s General Assembly as an openly gay candidate and the first openly gay Maryland state senator

6/16       Today is the birthday (1912) of gay poet Enoch Powell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell

6/16       John ;Jack; Shelby Spong was born on this date in June 16, 1931.  He’s been an indefatigable advocate for lgbtq inclusion

6/16       Today is the birthday of Jenny Shimizu, voted in 2005 the ‘sexiest woman” in a poll by gay publication The Pink Paper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Shimizu6/17 Today is the birthday of Frank Mugisha (1979), winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his lgbtq activism in Uganda.

6/17       Your widow burned all the evidence, dear Carl Van Vechten, confidante extraordinaire for the Harlem Renaissance, born today in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1880.  Well, not all went up in smore:  http://www.participations.org/volume%201/issue%203/1_03_staiger_arti

6/17       King Charles XII born in Stockholm, 1682.  He loved Prince Maximilian and several generals

6/18       Today is the birthday (1983) of transgender Thai politician Yollada Suanyot.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yollada_Suanyot

6/18       Viscount Castlereagh, gay suicide, we remember today your unslit throat at nativity (1769). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh

6/19       Penelope, Penelope, you needed no Ulysses! You wove a different herstory, Julia Penelope, born this day in 1941.  She died on January 19, 2013.  R.I.P.  http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/rem/02/01/in-remembrance-julia-penelope-lesbian-theorist/

6/19       This the birthday of Steven Greenberg (1956), the first openly gay Orthodox Jewish rabbi

6/20       Errol Flynn, born today in 1909, tell, tell your secret

6/20       Today is the birthday (1951) of gay poet Paul Muldoon. GWood 66, 75-6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Muldoon

6/20       Today is the birthday of E. Lynn Harris (1955), black gay novelist with 10 consecutive books to make the NY TIMES Best Seller List.

6/21       This is the birthday of Mel Boozer (1945), the first African American to serve as a president of Gay Activists Alliance and the first African American to be nominated for Vice-President of the US (by the Socialist Party USA. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-

6/21       This is the birthday of Ann Allen Shockley, librarian at Fisk University, author of ‘Afro-American Women Writers 1746-1933’ and numerous novels.  My favorite is her potboiler about a lesbian evangelist who leads a march on Music City (Nashville).  She has

6/21       Today is the birthday of Faisal Alam, justice worker.  (FB)

6/21       Douglas Peter ‘Doug’ Savant, born on this date in 1964, was one of the first mainstream openly gay characters on television.

6/22       Today is the birthday (1979) of Jai Rodriguez, actor and musician best known as the culture guide on <i>Queer Eye for the Straight Guy</i>.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Rodriguez

6/22       Peter, Peter, Peter Pears.  What did you sing to Benjamin when you two alone celebrated this your birthday (1910)

6/23       Today is the birthday of novelist David Leavitt (1961).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Leavitt

6/23       Birthday (1912) of Alan Turing, highly influential in the development of computer science, later convicted of loving another man.  He committed suicide when chemically castrated as alternative to 18 months in prison;  died in 1954.

6/23       Birthday of Alfred Kinsey (1894). http://fyne.co.uk/10/alfred-kinsey

6/23       On 6/23/08, The London Times reported with mug shots that eight of us were banned from the Gafcon Conference.  Thanks to Ruth Gledhill for reporting this and to Susan Russell for rescuing a wadded poster6/24       On this day in 2011, New York State passed the Marriage Equity Act, becoming the largest state thus far to legalize gay marriage.

6/24       Today is the birthday of Harry Partch.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Partch

6/25       Birthday of Rictor Norton, outstanding gay scholar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rictor_Norton

6/25       Jan Creol was convicted as a black sodomite in Dutch Manhattan and burned this day in 1646. Rise up, rise up, for justice’s sake

6/25       Today is the birthday (1963) musician and actor George Michael. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Michael

6/25       Birthday of Candace Chellew-Hodge, founder/editor of Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT Christians and currently pastor of Jubilee! Circle in Columbia, S.C. She is also the author of Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Ch

6/26       On this day in 2003, in Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sodomy laws in the U.S. are unconstitutional.

6/26       On this day in 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal laws must recognize lgbtq couples married in states that allow them to marry.

6/27       Charles IX of France was born today, 1550, a mama’s boy who proved that not all mama’s boys grow up to be nice.   Hush, hush, Catherine de Medici.  Let there be no more massacres

6/27       Today is the birthday (1956) of televangelist Ted Haggard.  Bless his heart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard.  As a licensed Baptist minister, I might have followed a similar trajectory had nThe Episcopal Church:  rescued me to love God with my

6/27       Today is the birthday (1944) of Marsha P. Johnson, transgender rights activist

6/27       Today is the birthday (1977) of Singaporean poet and novelist Cyril Wong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Wong

6/28       Remember Stonewall!  Remember Stonewall!  Remember Stonewall!  No just in one Village, but in every nook and cranny of the world

6/28       Today is the birthday (1942) David Kopay, one of the earliest professional football players to come out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kopay

6/29       Today is the birthday of Pierre de Vos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Vos

6/29       We bring a shamrock for you, Sir Roger Casement, sentenced this day for treason, 1916.  They were the traitors, for reading your diaries!  A shamrock, sweet Roger

6/29       Montezuma, Montezuma, you were not supposed to eat them literally!  We remember your death, 1520, and rejoice for the boys who escaped with so great a salvation. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/montezumas-revenge-cannibalism-in-the-age-of

6/29       Remember the ‘Five beastly Sodomitical boyes,’ immigrants to New England, returned to England today, 1629, for punishment.   Remember others who watched, afraid http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/the-age-of-sodomitical-sin/1620s/legal-case-boys-massachus

6/30       Today is the birthday (1956) of Paris Barclay, President of the Directors Guild of America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Barclay

6/30       Today is the birthday (1957) of Ilene Chaiken, executive producer of <i>The L Word</i>. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilene_Chaiken7/1         Charles Laughton was born this day in Scarborough, England, in 1899.  Happy birthday, sugar

7/1         George Sand, happy birthday to you!

7/1         This is the birthday of Olympian featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz (1981) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Cruz

7/1         Today is the birthday (1915) of gay poet Alun Lewis. GWood 57 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun_Lewis

7/2         This is the birthday of John Garvin ‘Johnny’ Weir-Voronov, 3-time champion U.S. figure skater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Weir

7/2         Today is the birthday of Lindsay Lohan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Lohan

7/2         Today is the birthday of Richard Bruce Nugent (1906), writer and painter in the Harlem Renaissance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bruce_Nugent

7/2         Aviatrix Amelia Earhart disappeared on this day, to Lesbos

7/2         Today is the birthday (1968) of journalist Jonathan Capehart

7/2         Today is the birthday of Aaron Henry, American civil rights leader and head of the Mississippi branch of the NAACP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Henry.  He was frequently arrested for asking the wrong person for a date.

7/3         Barriers against the hiring of gay and lesbian people, as employees of the United States government, were ended on this day in 1975, by order of the U.S. Civil Service Commission.

7/3         Franz Kafka was born this day in 1883. http://tinyurl.com/k32frnm

7/3         Mel Soriano considers today as his birthday because Integrity started on July 3rd in Indianapolis in 2012.  He is Secretary and Director of Communications for Integrity.

7/4         Today, as we celebrate the birthday of the United States, I celebrate also Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, the first known gay couple in history.  We don’t have birth and death dates, but they give ‘until death do us part’ a chilling variation.  http://en.wik

7/4         On this day in 1965 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, picketers began staging the first Reminder Day to call public attention to the lack of civil rights for LGBT people. The gatherings continued annually for five years.

7/5         Today is the birthday of Megan Rapinoe (1985), professional soccer player and Olympian.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Rapinoe

7/5         Today is the birthday of Wayne Besen (1970), founder and Executive Director of Truth Wins Out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Besen

7/5         This is the birthday of Amélie Mauresmo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelie_Mauresmo

7/5         Hear, hear for Cecil Rhodes, born this day in 1853, and for all lesbigay scholars!

7/5         Lesbian harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, Lady bountiful, was born this day in Warsaw, 18797/6          This is Harold Norse’s birthday

7/7         Today is the birthday (1935) of lesbian Kitty Genovese, murdered at age 28. The NY TIMES reported, ’37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese

7/7         Today is Gustav Mahler’s birthday, born in Kalischt, Bohemia, 1860.  Did Thomas Mann read his beads correctly in ‘Death in Venice’?

7/7         This is the birthday of poet Donna Kate Rushin. http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/1566193.html

7/8         Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil rights bill on this day in 1979.

7/8         Percy Granger was born today, down under, in 1882.  Drool Grieg, drool

7/8         Today is the birthday (1933) of gay poet Peter Orlovsky. GWood 39, 56-7, 121, 197-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Orlovsky

7/9         Birthday of artist David Hockney (1937)

7/9         Composer David Daimond was born today  He loved the husband of Carson McCullers

7/10       Today is the birthday of rapper Angel Haze (1991), listed as lgbt in Wikipedia.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Haze  Hear her ‘Werkin Girls’ as a sample http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szj7efHG-00

7/10       Marcel Proust was born today

7/11       Today is the birthday of John Robert Stillman (a.k.a. Jack Wrangler) in 1946

7/11       Today is the birthday of Esera Tuaolo, who in 2003 became the third former NFL player to ‘come out’ (after David Kopay in 1975 and Roy Simmons in 1992) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esera_Tuaolo

7/11       Today is Leisha Hailey’s birthday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisha_Hailey

7/11       Today is Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai’s birthday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pai_Hsien-yung

7/11       Happy Birthday to the ‘boy nextdoor’, Arthur Andrew Kelm (1931).   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Hunter

7/11       Today is Daphne Marlatt’s birthday.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Marlatt

7/12       Today is the birthday (1978) of actress Michelle Rodriguez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Rodriguez

7/12       Julius Caesar was born to radishes this day, 100 BC.  Do it, girl!

7/12       Today is the birthday of journalist and crime writer James R. Dubro.7/12    Doris Grumbach was born this day, in 1918.  Chamber music indeed!

7/12       Today is Susan Blu’s birthday (1948) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Blu

7/13       Amelda Sperry was born today in 1879, later to write to Emma Goldman, ‘My dear one, my cherry blossom, my  moonbeam, my mountain, my drop of dew’

7/13       Titus Oates, who like his modern clergy descendent, was dismissed from his cure, for sodomy, died today, in London, 1705

7/13       Today is the birthday of Canadian wrtier Scott Symons (1933). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Symons

7/14       This is the birthday of Balian Buschbaum (1980), second among all German pole-vaulters, and transgendered.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balian_Buschbaum

7/14       Birthday of actor, comedian, and singer Jane Lynch (1960)

7/15       Today is Zacharia ‘Zack’ Wahls’ birthday, son of two lesbians and an activist on behalf of LGBT equality.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q

7/15       Today is the birthday (1947) of Michael Lassell, writer and editor.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lassell

7/16       Marine General Carl Epting Mundy, Jr., born this day in 1935), wrote President Obama and Members of Congress urging them not to allow out lgbtqs to serve in the U.S. miliary.

7/16       Today is Tony Kushner’s birthday, living proof that there are angels in America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kushner

7/16       ***LGBTToday is Barbara Lee’s birthday. We need her back in Congress. She was a member of the LGBT Equality Caucus and was the only member not to vote to go to war after 9/11.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee

7/16       Birthday of The Rev. Jane Garrett — deputy from Vermont in 1997 1994 1991 and the first clergyperson to come out on the floor of General Convention (1991). She is also a major editor (e.g., she edited Pope J2P2’s book and Andrew Sullivan’s). For years, s

7/17       James Purdy was born today  Read him aloud.  Watch for feathers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purdy

7/18       Today is the birthday of Lillian Faderman (1940), a scholar who has written many books on lesbian relationships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Faderman

7/18       Today is Jeanne Cordova’s birthday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Cordova

7/18       On this date in 1992, Charles P. Thobae, sometime editor of the newspaper of the Diocese of Texas, in the Houston Post accused Bishop Ben Benitez of sodomizing Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning.

7/18       Horatio Alger, expert on American boyhood and boys, died in Natick on this day in 1899

7/19       On July 19, 2010, July 19, President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, signed into law a bill which civil union for same sex couples.

7/19       Today is the birthday (1875) of poet and activist Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Dunbar_Nelson7/20        The orthodox today celebrate St. Marina/Marinos of Sicily, famous for her holy cross-dressing.  See http://www.otkenyer.hu/halsall/lgbh-gaysts.html#tv

7/20       Today is White House Fellow Anthony Woods birthday (1980), victim of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Woods

7/20       Today is the birthday of Roberta Actenberg (1950). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Achtenberg

7/21       Hart Crane was born this day in 1899, in Ohio. Read what Gregory Woods has to say about ‘a burnt match skating in a urinal’ http://tinyurl.com/p6vcfu

7/21       Today is the birthday (1963) of Dorce Gamalama, Indonesian transsexual pop singer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorce_Gamalama

7/21       Today is the birthday of the Rev. Robert Williams (1955), founder of the Oasis, the lgbtq ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(gay_priest)

7/22       Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) was born this day, in 1860

7/22       Gay Pakistani American poet Ifti Nasim died on this date in 2011.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifti_Nasim

7/22       Rufus Wainwright was born this day, in 1973

7/22       Today is Dianne Houston’s (1954) birthday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Houston

7/22       Today is the birthday (1955) of Ulysses Grant Dietz, past president of the Oasis in the Diocese of Newark, curator extraordinaire, great grandson of President Grant, and husband of Gary Berger.

7/23       Today is the birthday of Ruth Ellis (1899), known widely as the oldest surviving open lesbian activist when she turned 100. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis_(activist)

7/23       Today is the birthday (1909) of Samuel Steward. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Steward

7/23       Phil Andros (a.k.a. Samuel Steward) was born in Woodsfield, OH on this date, in 1909

7/23       Birthday of Charlotte Cushman in 1816, actress, sometime lover of Rosalee Sully, Matilda Hays, Harriet Hosmer, and Emma Stebbins

7/23       Today is theologian Norman Pittenger’s birthday (1905).  He was the main speaker at Integrity’s first convention (St. James Cathedral, Chicago, 1975). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pittenger

7/24       Today is poet Robert Graves’ birthday (1895). Breathe a delighted sigh for Siegrfried Sassoon.   GWood multiple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves

7/24       Today is the birthday of Bella Abzug (1920), an early and major supporter of lgbt rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Abzug

7/24       Today is the birthday of Vern Leroy Bullough (1928), sexologist and early lgbt rights advocate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Bullough

7/25       Death date in 1986 of Vincente Minnelli (Liza’s father and Judy’s X).  He lived as openly gay in New York but Hollywood pushed him back in the closet.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincente_Minnelli#Personal_life7/25   This is the birthday of Gareth Thomas (1974), Welsh rugby player http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Thomas_(rugby)

7/26       Today is the birthday of Mary Anne Mohanraj. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_Mohanraj

7/26       Today is the birthday of The Rev. Mel White. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_white

7/27       Troy Perry was born today, in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Perry

7/27       Today is Torie Osborn’s birthday (1950). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torie_Osborn

7/28       Where is your word horde now when we really need it, Gerard Manley Hopkins, born today (1844)?  Sing to us a new song!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins#Oxford_and_the_priesthood

7/28       Birthday of Bruce Garner, past president of Integrity

7/28       Birthday of poet Judy Grahn (1940). http://www.judygrahn.org/”

7/28       John Ashbery was born this day, in 1927

7/28       Today is the birthday of Wade Davis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Davis_(American_football)

7/29       Today is the birthday of musician Annea Lockwood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annea_Lockwood

7/29       Today is the birthday of the 61st Governor of Mississippi, who once opposed lgbtq persons and now supports our marriages.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Musgrove#LGBT_rights

7/29       This is the birthday (1973) of Patrik-Ian Polk, film director and actor.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik-Ian_Polk

7/29       Dag Hammarskjold was born in Jonkoping, Sweden on this day, in 1905

7/29       This is the birthday of Patrik-Ian Polk (1973), film director, producer, screenwriter, singer, and actor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik-Ian_Polk

7/30       Domestic partnerships became legal in Maine on July 30, 2004.

7/30       Today is the birthday (1966) of Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, member of Congress from New York and co-chair of the congressional Lgbt Equality Caucus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Patrick_Maloney

7/31       This is the birthday of Barbara Gittings (1931).  She was a major activist, starting in the Daughters of Bilitis and working for decades within the American Library Association.

7/31       Today is the birthday of Richard Rodriquez (1944), one of the most lucid writers alive.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rodriguez

8/1         On this day in 1976, *The Living Church* published its first article on lgbtq persons from an lgbtq point of view.  Has it ever done so again?  http://rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubd/jointhei.html8/1         Today is Herman Melville’s birthday

8/1         On 8/1/1976 *Living Church* published ‘Homosexuality:  An Integrity Leader’s View’ — its first article about lgbtq issues by an out lgbtq writer. http://rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubd/jointhei.html

8/1         Today is the birthday of Toni G. Atkins (1962), majority leader of the California State Assembly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Atkins

8/2         Today is James Baldwin’s birthday (1924)

8/2         Today is the birthday of James Dale (1970), best known for his role in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_(activist)

8/2         Today is the birthday of actress Nadia Bjorlin (1980) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Bjorlin

8/3         Today is the birthday of Gordon Merrick (1916) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Merrick

8/3         Celebrate Rupert Brooke’s birthday today  Read, read

8/4         Walter Pater, mentor to Oscar Wilde, was born this day in London, in 1839.  Of course art is for sissies!

8/4         Today is the birthday of JD Samson (1978) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Samson

8/4         Today is the birthday (1950) of the poet Saphhire, aka ‘Ramona Lofton’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_(author)

8/5         Today is the birthday of George Tooker (1920) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker

8/5         Today is the birthday of film director Tanya Wexler (1970) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Wexler

8/6         Andy Warhol was born this day in Cleveland, in 1927

8/6         Birthday Jim McGreevey (1957) 52nd Governor of New Jersey. He was the first openly gay governor in the history of the United States.

8/6         Martin Duberman was born today (1930) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Duberman

8/7         Alice James, sister to Henry & William, was born this day in NYC, 1848.   She  loved Katharine Loring

8/7         Today is the birthday of Francesca Gregorini, film director and writer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gregorini

8/8         Today is the birthday (1871) of Olga, the Baroness de Meyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_de_Meyer

8/8         Today is the birthday (1943) of beloved Rowan Smith, a courageous and articulate gay priest in South Africa. Before retirement he served as Dean of St. George’s Cathedral in Capetown.8/8     *On August 8-10, 1975, the Chicago chapter hosted Integrity’s first national convention at the Cathedral Church of St. James.  Theologian Norman Pittenger was the keynoter.  In just nine months the organization had 330 members, with 8 chapters. See Forum

8/8         Today is the birthday of Sister Jeannine Gramick, one of the most fearless persons alive.  She works at the National Coalition of American Nuns and has been a major leader in ministry for lgbt folk.  Praise her!  Cherish her! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

8/8         Sara Teasdale was born on this date in St. Louis, in 1884.  Celebrate it by enjoying this marvelous performance of her poem “I Am Not Yours”

8/9         Dolores Klaich was born this day in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1936.  She wrote Lesbians’ Home Journal

8/9         Today is the birthday of Donna Nesselbush, lawyer and judge (1962) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Nesselbush

8/9         *On this date in 1975, Louie Crew gave the founder’s address at the first national convention of Integrity at the Cathedral Church of St James in Chicago, ‘Inherit the Earth’ http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/inherit.html

8/10       Today is the birthday of Andrew Sullivan (1963) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan

8/10       Today is the birthday of Mark Doty (1953), poet and memorist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Doty

8/11       Today is the birthday (1892) of gay poet Hugh MacDiarmid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_MacDiarmid

8/11       Today is the birthday of Angus Wilson (1913) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Wilson  (Centenial)

8/11       Female impersonator Ray Bourdon claimed August 11th as his birthday in 1902, but FBI sources said he admitted he was born in 1892.  His rather wild career is quite a commentary on one person’s response to being lgbt 121 years ago.  http://en.wikipedia.org

8/12       Radclyffe Hall was born on this day in 1880, in Hampshire. No more is the well lonely. Has her pioneering book been kicked out of the lgbtq canon?  Would anyone be qualified to teach lgbtq literature without having read it?

8/12       Today is the birthday (1907) of Gladys Bentley, blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bentley

8/12       Birthday of Jane A. Spahr (1942)

8/12       Today is the birthday of James Sears, pioneering scholar regarding lgbtq pedagogy

8/13       Today is the birthday of Jin Xing, one of the first transgender women officially recognized by the Chinese government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Xing

8/13       Today is the birthday of musician Rachel Carns (1969).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carns

8/13       Today is the birthday of producer David Crane (1957). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crane_(producer)

8/13       `Dearest little cowboy’ Lucy Stone, abolitionist, was born on this day in 1818, in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, in 1818

8/14       Today is the birthday of actress Jill Bennett (1975). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Bennett_(American_actress)8/14    I spent much of my undergraduate life in the stacks at Baylor’s library poring through musty medical tomes with the false expectation that I would learn who I was.  I still have difficulty respecting the brilliance of pioneer Neuropsychiatrist Baron Richa

8/14       This is the birthday of poet Alfred Corn (1943).  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46334

8/15       Napoleon Bonaparte was born today in Cosica, in 1769.   At his death the Brits described the ‘progressive feminization’ of ALL his parts

8/15       The Homosexual Liberation Front was formed in Mexico.on August 15, 1971, the first organization of its kind in the country.

8/15       Today is the birthday (1985) of Vivian Taylor, Executive Director of Integrity.

8/16       Dennis Altman was born down under on this day in 1943. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Altman

8/16       Today is Madonna’s birthday.  Do it

8/17       Today is LIsa Coleman’s birthday (1960). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Coleman_(musician)

8/17       Today is the birthday (1930) of gay poet Ted Hughes. GWood 69 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes

8/17       May West was born today, in 1893

8/18       Today is the birthday of Dallas Denny (1949), a writer in the transgender rights movement.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Denny

8/18       Today is the birthday of Guglielmo Plüschow (1852) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Pl%C3%BCschow

8/18       New Jersey Governor James McGreevey came out on August 18, 2004.

8/19       Renee Richards was born today, in 1934

8/19       Today is Cheryl Rainfield’s birthday (1942). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Rainfield

8/19       Today is the birthday (1953) of Jennifer Leitham, a multi-talented transgender musician. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Leitham

8/20       Today is the birthday of Elisabeth Jacobs, current treasurer of Integrity.  She’s indefatigable in pursing skilled and organized ministries of kindness.

8/20       This is the birthday of Alex Newell (1992), actor and singer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Newell

8/20       In this day in 1881, Dr. E.C. Spitzka of New York presented the case of Lord Cornbury, the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the early 1700’s, in a Chicago medical journal. Cornbury frequently appeared in public wearing female clothing. Spit

8/20       Today is Tammy Bruce’s birthday.  (1962). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Bruce8/21           Edith Simcox was born today in 1844.  She was George Eliot’s (i.e., Marion Evan’s) lover

8/21       How much poorer would our eyes be without the gifts of Aubrey Beardsley, born on this day in 1872

8/21       Today is the birthday (1863) of Baroness Hélène van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar or Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt de Haar, née de Rothschild https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_van_Zuylen

8/21       Today is the birthday (1935) of Mart Crowley, playwright, author of the pioneering film <i>Boys in the Band</i>

8/21       Today is the birthday (1936) of ‘The Red Duchess,’ Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo y Maura, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, Grandee of Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Isabel_%C3%81lvarez_de_Toledo,_21st_Duchess_of_Medina_Sidonia

8/22       Claude Debussy was born this day in 1862.  My oh my, we sissies make a joyful noise

8/22       Today is Diana Nyad’s birthday (1949).  Take a deep breath and dive!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Nyad

8/23       Today is the birthday (1936) of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rudy Lewis.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hycmrEg5Xv0.  See a bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Lewis

8/23       Today is the birthday of Wayne R. Dynes (1934), professor, historian, encyclopedist, and gay activist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_R._Dynes

8/23       Pink Powder Puff Rudy Valentino died today, in 1926.  Wear a flower

8/24       Today is Deborah Temkin’s birthday (1985).  Bullies beware!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Temkin

8/24       Today is the birthday of Stephen Fry (1957).  The INDEPENDENT listed him as the second most influential gay person in Britain.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry

8/25       Birthday of Leonard Bernstein in 1918 — ‘a gay man who got married. He wasn’t conflicted about it at all. He was just gay’ (his collaborator on ‘The Westside Story,’ Arthur Laurents)

8/25       Today is the natal day of Ludwig II, 1845, in Bavaria.   Wagner, get ready, sugar See pictures\\\\friends\\\\RobertPetersAsMadLudwig.jpg

8/26       Birthday of Ron Wesner, past president of Integrity

8/26       Christopher Isherwood was born in Chesire on this day in 1904.

8/27       Today is the birthday of Leanna Creel.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leanna_Creel

8/27       Today is the birthday of Tom Ford (1961)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ford

8/27       Today we remember Denice Dee Denton, born August 27, 1959, died June 24, 2006..  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denice_Denton

8/27       Today is the birthday (1873) of controversial Maud Allan.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Allan8/28 Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was born this day in 1825.   Activists, take note! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinrich_Ulrichs

8/28       Today is Valerie Miner’s birthday (1947).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Miner

8/28       Today is the birthday (1906) of gay poet John Betjeman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman

8/29       On this date in 2013  the US Department of Treasury ruled that legally married same-sex couples will be treated as married for federal tax status.

8/29       Today is the birthday of Victoria Kolakowski (1961), the first openly transgender person to serve as a trial judge in the United States  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Kolakowski

8/29       Today is the birthday (1968) of Meshell Ndegeocello, musician. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshell_Ndegeocello

8/29       Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, England, on this day in 1929. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Gunn

8/29       Today is the birthday (1844) of Edward Carpenter, involved in the founding of the Fabian Society and the British Labor Party, and an early advocate for sexual freedoms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carpenter

8/30       Correggio, idol-painter of males, was born Antonio Allegri at Coreggio on this day in 1494.  Feast, feast your eyes

8/30       Today is Cameron Diaz’ birthday (1972).  http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/cameron-diaz-sex-woman-doesn-lesbian-new-playboy-issue-article-1.184276

8/31       Today is the birthday (1986) of Anye Elite, singer, song writer, and lgbtq activist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anye_Elite

8/31       Caligula was born on this day in Anzio, 12 AD.  Now that’s one worth being phobic about, I admit

8/31       This is the birthday of screenwriter and producer Savannah Dooley (1985). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_Dooley

8/31       Today is the birthday (1977) of William Brandon Lacy Campos, LGBT poet and activist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brandon_Lacy_Campos

9/1         Lily Tomlin was born today.  So was Emma Stebbins, in New York City in 1815.  She lived with actress Charlotte Cushman for 19 years

9/1         On 9/1/1976 *Metanoia:  An Independent Journal of Radical Lutheranism* published ‘New Leaven in the Loaf’ — its first article about lgbtq issues by an out lgbtq writer. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubd/newleaven.html

9/1         Sir Roger Casement was born this day in 1864.  What a patriot!

9/2         Birthday of Edgar Kim Byham, past president of Integrity.

9/2         Winifred Ellerman, lover of the poet H.D., was born today at Margate in England in 1894

9/2         Today is the birthday of John McNeill (1925), one of the best minds of the past century, expelled by the Jesuits  for being too brilliant and too courageous, author of the documentary ‘Take a Chance on God’.  What a treasure!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki9/3    Today is the birthday of U.S. Congress member Michael Huffington. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Huffington

9/4         Today is the birthday (1938) of the late Leonard Frey, who played Harold, host of the birthday party in <i>Boys in the Band</i>

9/4         Today is the birthday of Cam Lyman, a transgender person whose death is shrouded in mystery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_Lyman

9/4         Today is the birthday of Craig Claiborne (1920), journalist and restaurant critic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Claiborne

9/4         On this day in 1957, Parliament passed the Wolfenden Report which became law in 1967, legalizing homosexual behavior between consenting adults.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/4/newsid_3007000/3007686.stm

9/4         Mary Renault, who called herself `an honorary boy,’ was born today in London in 1905

9/5         John Cage (1912)

9/5         Today is the birthday of Michael Akers, director, producer, and screenwriter (1970) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Akers

9/6         Jane Addams’ birthday in 1860, listed in Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History.

9/6         Julian Green was born in Paris of American parents on this day in 1900.  He joined Cocteau’s gay circle and was a favorite of Gertrude and Alice

9/6         Today is the birthday (1893) of gay poet Robert Nichols. GWood 58-9, 69 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nichols_(poet)

9/7         Michael Feinstein (1956)

9/7         On this date in 2001 PrideVision, the world’s first LGBT-specific television channel, was launched.

9/8         Richard I, Coeur de Lion, was born today, in 1157

9/8         Today is the birthday of Siefried Sassoon (1886), English poet, writer and soldier.   GWood  58, 70 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon

9/9         Educator and poet Paul Goodman was born today in NYC in 1911,  called the Pipe-Smoking Socrates of the Bars and the Docks  GWood multiple

9/9         Today is Molly McKay’s birthday (1970).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_McKay

9/10       Cyril Connolly was born today in 1903

9/10       Hilda Doolittle (a.k.a. H.D.) was born today in 1886.  She was the lover of Winifred Ellerman and sometime patient of Sigmund Freud.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.D.

9/11       Today is the birthday (1885) of gay poet D.H. Lawrence. GWood 32, 34, 34, 56, 58, 67, 125-139, 198, 216 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence9/11    Today is the birthday of playwright Jewel Gomez http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewelle_Gomez

9/11       Marc-André Raffalovich, in 1864.  He was French poet and writer on homosexuality, best known today for his patronage of the arts and for his lifelong relationship with the poet John Gray.

9/12       Today is the birthday of Nan Goldin, photographer (1953) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin

9/12       Today is the birthday of NY TIMES correspondent Kim Severson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Severson

9/12       Today is the birthday (1943) of gay poet Michael Ondaatje. GWood 78-9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje

9/12       Today is the birthday (1907) of gay poet Louis MacNeice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_MacNeice

9/13       Today is the birthday (1885) of writer and educator Alain LeRoy Locke, one of the most influential African Americans ever.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_LeRoy_Locke

9/13       Today is the birthday (1912) of gay poet F.T. Prince http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.T._Prince

9/13       Today is the birthday of Bettina aptheker (1944) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettina_Aptheker

9/13       Ann Richards, 45th Governor of Texas, died on this date in 2006 (aged 73).  Popular culture credits George W. Bush for defeating her in a gubernatoral race by his whlsper campaign that she was a lesbian.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Richards#In_p

9/13       This is the birthday of Nell Carter (1946), singer and actress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Carter

9/14       Today is Eric Bentley’s birthday, in 1916, in Bolton, Lancastershire

9/14       Today is Kate Millett’s birthday (St. Paul, MN, 1934)

9/15       Today is the birthday of Cathy Connolly (1956), s member of the Wyoming House of Representatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Connolly

9/15       Today is the birthday of Claude McKay (1889), writer in the Harlem Renaissance.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_McKay

9/15       James Fenimore Cooper was born today in Burlington, NJ, in 1789.  Hmm!

9/15       Today is the birthday of Perry Brass, author of ‘The Manly Art of Seduction,’ ‘King of Angels,’…

9/16       Today is the birthday of Wilhelm von Gloeden, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Gloeden

9/16       Today is the birthday of Patrick Waddell pat.waddell@smythwad.best.vwh.net, a deputy from El Camino Real in  2006 2003 1991 and first lay deputy to come out on the floor of General Convention (1991)

9/17       Today is the birthday of Kevin Clash (1960), winner of 26 day-time Emmys and one prime-time Emmy for his work as a puppeteer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Clash9/18 Today is the birthday of Richard Grenell (1966), the first openly gay spokesperson for a Republican presidential candidate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grenell

9/18       Greta was born today in Stockholm in 1905.  She told Tennessee that she `regretted that she was not able to play Dorian Gray’

9/18       Today is the birthday (1950) of actress Red Jordan Arobateau. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Deavere_Smith

9/19       Henry III, King of France and Poland, was born today, in Fontainebleau, in 1551.  He loved full drag for cellars in thunderstorms

9/19       Today is the birthday of Cheryl B, performance artist and poet. (1972). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_B

9/20       Today is the birthday (1918) of actor Gordon Heath.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Heath

9/20       Today is the birthday (1930) of Richard Montague, prominent mathematician and philosopher murdered at the age of 40 for being gay.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Montague

9/20       Today is the birthday of Chuck Panozzo (1948).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Panozzo

9/20       Today is the birthday (1886) of gay poet Charles Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_(British_writer)

9/21       Today is the birthday (1934) of gay poet Leonard Cohen. GWood 37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen

9/21       Today is the birthday of Fannie Flagg (1944), a.k.a. Patricia Neal), actress and author.  My favorite of her books is FRIED GREEN TOMATOES. At one time she was the partner of Rita Mae Brown.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Flagg

9/21       This is the birthday of John D’Emilio (1948), Professor of history and of women’s and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago

9/21       The Daughters of Bilitis was founded this day in San Francisco, 1955, by Phyllis Lyons and Del Martin

9/21       Philippe I, Duc d’Orléans, born this day in 1640, younger brother of Louis XIV.  Their mother dressed him as a girl and encouraged behavior that would mek him less competitive with Louis

9/22       Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers freshman, committed suicide on this day in 1991 when his roommate shared videos he had secretly made of Tyler having sex with another man.

9/22       Today is the birthday of Richard Fairbrass (1953) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fairbrass

9/23       Today is the birthday of lesbian pioneer author Anita Cornwell  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Cornwell

9/23       `See how that queen’s finger governs the world,’ the actor innocently said; and the audience applauded Emperor Augustus, born this day in Rome, 63 BC

9/24       Today is the birthday (1980) of author and playwright Cheril N. Clarker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheril_N._Clarke

9/24       Horace Walpole, father of the gothic novel, was born today in London, in 17179/25          Peter Almodovar was born today, in 1951

9/25       Today is the birthday of Cherríe Moraga (1952) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherr%C3%ADe_Moraga

9/25       Birthday of Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator of  Proust in your data base?  (9/25/1889)

9/26       Ms. Bessie Smith died today in 1937 in Mississippi.  Lady sings the blues

9/26       T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis today in 1888.  If his boyfriend had not died, he would have sung a different tune

9/27       Playwright Robert Patrick was born today in 1937

9/27       Today is the birthday of Deborah ‘Debbie’ Wasserman Schultz (1966), Chair of the Democratic National Committee and vice-chair of Congress’ LGBT Equality Caucus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz

9/28       This is the birthday of Darlene Garner (1948), co-founder of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlene_Garner.

9/28       Today is Asi Levi’s birthday (1969).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asi_Levi

9/28       And weap for Herman Melville, Hawthorne’s unrequited lover, who died in NYC this day in 1891

9/29       On this date in 2006 Mark Foley resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives acting on a request by the Republican Leadership after allegations surfaced that he had sent suggestive emails and sexually explicit instant messages to underage males who had

9/29       Today is the birthday of Ann Bancroft (1955), the first woman to trek to the North Pole. As an out lesbian she has campaigned openly to block legislation to prevent recognitoin of lgbtq marriages.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Bancroft

9/30       Today is the birthday (1949) Liz Malia, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Malia

9/30       Today is the birthday (1957) of lgbt rights activist Fran Drescher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Drescher

9/30       Today is the birthday of Johnny Mathis. (1935). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mathis

9/30       Today is the birthday of Truman Streckfus Persons (a.k.a. Truman Capote) in 1924. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote See my photo of Capote in mypictures\\\\misc\\\\

10/1       Today is the birthday (1985) Isis King, the first trans woman to compete on the reality show ‘America’s Next Top Model’.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_King

10/1       William Beckford built the most sensational building of the English gothic revival but fled to Switzerland when caught in bed with William (`Kitty’) Courenay.  William was born today in 1770 http://rictornorton.co.uk/beckfor1.htm

10/1       Today is the birthday of Albert M. Chan, Canadian actor, director, and film maler.   Try to see his award-winning ‘The Commitment’.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_M._Chan

10/1       Today is the birthday of Porcelain Black 9(1985), industrial pop singer-songwriter, and sometimes called a ‘gay icon.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcelain_Black10/2 Today is the birthday (1901) of gay poet Roy Campbell. GWood 41, 43, 65 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Campbell_(poet)

10/2       Today is the birthday of Annie Leibovitz, portrait photographer (1949).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz

10/2       Loey Powell powelll@ucc.org active in UCC

10/3       Today is the birthday (1897) of French poet Louis Aragon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Aragon

10/3       Today is the birthday of Salah Bachir, gay Canadian philanthropist (1955). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah_Bachir

10/3       ***LGBT:On this date in 1998 a Rutgers student whom I did not know (never in one of my classes) sent me email threatening to murder me.  Administrators chose to expel him rather than to educate him.  See notes\\\\murderthreat1998Oct3.txt

10/4       In 1942, birthday of Johanna Sigurðardottir, who has served as Iceland’s prime minister and was the world’s first lesbian head of a national government.

10/4       Today is the birthday (1702) of Honoré Armand de Villars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Armand_de_Villars

10/4       Today is the birthday of Gore Vidal (1925)

10/4       Today is the birthday of Russell Wendell Simmons, fashion business magnate, and an activist for lgbt rights (1957)

10/5       John Addington Symonds was born in Bristol, in 1840.   Inversion, yes, let’s invert http://rictornorton.co.uk/symonds/index.htm

10/5       Today is the birthday of Robyin Ochs (1958), lgbt rights activist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Ochs

10/5       Today is the birthday (1986) of Treechada Petcharat, transgender Thai actress and model.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treechada_Petcharat

10/6       Today is the birthday (1921) of major civil rights leader Joseph Lowery, who forcefully advocates for lgbt civil rights.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery

10/6       On this date in 1968 12 people in Los Angeles gathered for the first service of Metropolitan Community Church. Rev Troy Perry founded the church with a primary outreach to the GLBT community.

10/7       Imamu Amiri Baraka was born today in 1934 and once wrote about gay sex, only never to know James Baldwin’s name when he spoke at James’s funeral.  He became supportive of lgbtqs when his lesbian daughter was murdered

10/7       Today is the birthday (1940) of Althea Garrison, the first transgender person to be elected to a state legislature in the United States (Mass., 1993-95).

10/7       Today is the birthday of Sabrina Shizue McKenna (1957), an out Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_McKenna

10/8       *On October 8, 1974, the membership request for Integrity arrived from theolgian Albert Mollegen, Professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, ‘to be informed.’  His son Ted and I later  served together on Executive Council.

10/8       This is the birthday of Urvashi Vaid, lgbt rights activist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urvashi_Vaid

10/8        Today is the birthday of Pinar Selek, Turkish advocate for lgbt rights, sentenced to life for ‘terrorism’ and now living in France.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%B1nar_Selek

10/8       On this date in 1904, in Germany, lesbian feminist Anna Ruhling spoke at an annual meeting of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, one of the earliest gay organizations. She criticized the women’s movement for not taking an active role in ending the oppression of lesbians.

10/9       Today is the birthday of Camille Saint-Saens (1835) See Rictor Norton’s commentary:   http://gayfortoday.blogspot.com/2007/10/camille-saint-sans.html

10/9       On this date in 1990 Cecile Stolbof, a Rutgers dean excoriated me for reporting to her that I had received an harassment call I received from her office.  She said I was lying until I played the tape her secretary’s message saying, “Are you sick!?” The secretary did not know that I had one of the first caller IDs in NJ.

10/9       Today the orthodox celebrate St. Athanasia/Athanasios of Antioch, whom Paul Halsal identifes as a ‘transvestite saint’ http://www.otkenyer.hu/halsall/lgbh-gaysts.html#tv

10/9       This is the birthday of Jeffrey Escoffier (1942), queer theorist and historian

10/9       Birthday of Nona Hendryx (1944), vocalist who was one-third of the trio Labelle, and is an LGBT activist. She composed Lady Marmalade. Ernest and I, like 2-3 thousand others, had to wear something silver satin to her them sing it in Atlanta in the mid-1970s.

10/10     Today is the birthday (1916) of gay poet David Gascoyne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gascoyne

10/10     Today is the birthday (1962) of Jennifer Veiga, former member of the Colorado legislature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Veiga

10/10     Today is the birthday of Joseph Alsop, an American journalist prominent from the 1930s throuigh  the 1970s.  Gore Vidol wrote the novel ‘Washington, DC’ about a gay journalist loosely based on Alsop.

10/10     Today is the birthday (1947) of The Rev. Barry Stopfel.  Barry’s ordination as deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Newark on 09/30/1990 brought on a huge church storm. Bp Walter Cameron Righter was charged with heresy but almost 6 years later, on 5/15/1996, Righter was acquitted. The court, by a decision of 6-1, declared that the Episcopal Church “has no doctrine prohibiting the ordination of homosexuals’ and that Bishop Righter did not contradict the ‘core doctrine’ of the church.

10/11     Eleanor was born today in NYC in 1884. `Hick darling… Oh, I want to put my arms around you….  I ache to hold you close.’  Sorry, Franklin

10/11     The first National Coming Out Day was held in celebration of the second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on October 11, 1987.

10/11     Today is the birthday of Elana Dykewomon (1949), Jewish lesbian activist and author.

10/11     Today is the birthday of John Glines, playwright, producer and gay activist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glines

10/12     Today is the birthday of Ann Hilde Willy Wauters (1980), ‘lesbian sports woman’  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Wauters

10/12     Matthew Shepard, 21, died on this day in 1998, beaten and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming.

10/13     Lord Hervey (Lord Fanny, according to Alexander Pope) was born today in 1696 http://rictornorton.co.uk/hervey.htm

10/13     Richard Howard was born today, in 1929 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard

10/13     Today is the birthday of Charlotte Bunch (1944) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bunch

10/14            Katherine Mansfield was born today in 1888

10/14     Today is the birthday of James Bond (a.k.a. Ben Whishaw, born in 1980).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Whishaw

10/15     Today is the birthday of Michel Foucault (1926).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

10/15     Today is the birthday of Siiri Nordin, Finnish rock singer (1980) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siiri_Nordin

10/16     Today is the birthday (1928) of the late Mary Daly — radical lesbian feminist theologian.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Daly

10/16     Today is the birthday of Laud Humphrey (1930).  He was an Episcopal priest and very early sexual reformer, best known for his controversial study <I>Tearoom Trade</i>.  http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=243

10/16     Today is Oscar Wilde‘s birthday, in Dublin, in 1854.

10/16     Today is the birthday of author, poet, and activist Paul Monette http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Monette

10/17     Today is the birthday of Tarell Alvin McCraney (1980), playwright and actor.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarell_Alvin_McCraney

10/17     Montgomery Clift was born today in Omaha, in 1920

10/18     This it the birthday of Brittney Griner (1990). ‘In 2012, the three-time All-American was named the AP Player of the Year and the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.’ She and I are both lbgt and both Baylor graduates.

10/18     Martina Navratilova was born today in 1956

10/18     On this day in 1990 former Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell declared that he believed he made a mistake by voting to uphold Georgia’s sodomy laws in the 1986 Bowers v Hardwick case.

10/19     Divine was born today in 1945

10/19     Today is the birthday (1963) of Tanzanian writer Mark Behr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Behr

10/19     Today is the birthday of Andy Humm, Co-Host and Co-Producer of Gay USA

10/20     Arthur Rimbaud was born today in 1854

10/20     Birthday of poet Robert Peters (1924).   GWood 78-79 Enjoy a sample of his work at http://capa.conncoll.edu/peters.breughel.html See RobertPetersAsMadLudwig.jpg

10/20     Today is the birthday (1932) of gay poet Michael McClure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure

10/21     Birthday of Kittredge Cherry (1957), a priest in MCC and heavily committed to lgbtq ecumenism

10/21   Ted Shawn, pioneer of modern dancing.  In 1891, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Shawn

10/21     Today is the birthday (1884) Claire Waldoff, cabaret singer from Schöneberg, outside Berlin.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Waldoff

10/22     Lord Alfred Douglas was born today, in 1870

10/22     Today is the birthday (1975) of actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Tyler_Ferguson

10/22     Today is the birthday (1977) of Jasmyne Cannick, African-American civil rights activist.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmyne_Cannick

10/23     Today is the birthday (1942) of gay poet Douglas Dunn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Dunn

10/23     Today is the birthday (1973) of Takako Shimura, manga artist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takako_Shimura

10/23     Today is Ned Rorem’s birthday, in Richmond, Indiana, in 1923

10/23     Today is the birthday (1989) of Kye Allums, the first openly transgender athlete to play in NCAA basketball. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kye_Allums

10/24     Today is the birthday (1939) of native American poet and lesbian activist Paula Gunn Allen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Gunn_Allen

10/24     Today is the birthday (1960) of Bradley Darryl ‘BD’ Wong, better known as Dr. George Huang on <i>Law and Order</i>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD_Wong

10/25     Titus Flavius Domitianus was born in Rome on this day in 51 AD. He is the first recorded case of a married man ditching his wife for his boyfriend.

10/25     Today is the birthday (1882) of pianist, singer, and composer Tony Jackson.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Jackson_(pianist)

10/25     Today is the birthday (1914) of gay poet John Berryman. GWood 65 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berryman

10/25     Today is the birthday (1970) of Chely Wright, country music artist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chely_Wright

10/26     On this day in 1990, a U.S. Army colonel was discharged and sentenced to 90 days in Leavenworth for appearing in drag at an AIDS benefit and kissing another man.

10/26     Today is Holly Woodlawn’s birthday (1946), transgender actress and Warhol superstar.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Woodlawn

10/27     In 1990 on this date the US Congress repealed a law barring homosexuals from being admitted to the United States on grounds of mental illness.

10/27     This is the birthday of Julius Eastman, musician, composer of ‘Gay Guerilla.’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdeckwHGoog

10/27     Today is the birthday (1914) of gay poet Dylan Thomas. GWood 34, 68 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas

10/28      Evelyn Waugh was born in London on this date in 1903.  Revisit Brideshead.

10/28     Today is the birthday of The Fabulous Wonder Twins (1967) in San Salvador.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_Wonder_Twins

10/28     Today is the birthday (1987) of rapper and songwriter Frank Ocean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ocean

10/29     Today is the birthday of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (1970), Puerto Rican novelist, short story writer and essayist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda_Arroyo_Pizarro

10/29     On this day in 1995 in Iran, a 31year old man was convicted of ‘ugly and improper conduct’ and sentenced to twenty lashes for crossdressing.

10/30     The Lesbian and Gay Studies Center at Yale University was inaugurated on this date in 1987

10/30     Today is the birthday (1885) of gay poet Ezra Pound. GWood 80, 93-94 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound

10/30     Today is the birthday of one of my favorite documentary film maker, Arthur Dong (1953).  See his <i>Licensed to Kill</i>, chilling reports on males on death row for having murdered gay men.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensed_to_Kill_(1997_film)

10/31     On this day in 1968 silent film star Ramon Novarro was found murdered. A bathroom mirror had the words ‘US GIRLS ARE BETTER THAN FAGGITS’ smeared with blood. The Ferguson brothers, hustlers, were convicted.

10/31     Today is the birthday (1951) of Diarmaid MacCulloch.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarmaid_MacCulloch

10/31     Today is the birthday of critic, writer and poet Bruce Bower (1956).  He lives abroad where he feels hs can ‘live better as a gay man in a more liberal society.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bawer

11/1       In this month in 1974 Rictor Norton and I edited COLLEGE ENGLISH for a special issue on ‘The Homosexual Imagination’

11/1       Today is the birthday of gay novelist Nikos Diaman (1936) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._A._Diaman

11/1       Today is the birthday (1896) of gay poet Edmund Blunden. GWood 64, 66 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Blunden

11/1       Stephen Crane was born today, in Newark, NJ, 1871.  Why can’t we find the manuscript of his FLOWERS OF ASPHALT?  That novel was about male prostitution

11/1       Today is the birthday (1895) of gay poet David Jones. GWood 65, 70 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet)

11/2       Today is the birthday of Chris Ambidge, one of the founders of Integrity/Canada and a leading advocate within the Anglican Church of Canada.

11/2       *The first issue of Integrity:  Gay Episcopal Forum appeared in November 1974.  The lead article was my editorial ‘Gay Are Joint Heirs with Jesus Christ’   The issue included kind greetings from Presiding Bishop John Allin, both U.S. senators from Georgia (Herman Talmadge and Sam Nun), the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of MCC,  form Paul Dietrich, National President of DIGNITY, et al.

11/2       Tchaikovsky’s bed mate Vassily Sapeinkov was born today, in Odessa, in 1868.  Buy flowers for him, Peter Ilyich, lovely flowers, de Remini!

11/2           This is the anniversary of the consecration (2003) of Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, the first openly gay ordinary in the Anglican Communion.

11/2       k.d. lang was born today, in 1961

11/2       Today is the birthday (1946) of Jamaican-American lesbian writer Michelle Cliff.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Telephone_to_Heaven

11/3       Bellini was born this day in Sicily, in 1801.  Beware of bel-canto hysteria in the third act!

11/3       Today is the birthday (1895) of Jeannette Howard Foster, librarian and pioneer researcher into lesbian literature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Howard_Foster

11/3       Today is the birthday of gay playwright Terrence McNally (1938) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_McNally

11/3       Today is the birthday of the ‘Queen of African Pop’, Brenda Fassie.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Fassie

11/4       Today is the birthday of Patrick Cheng, theologian extraordinaire.  (Patrick Cheng is the author of the classic “Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology.”)

11/4       Birthday of Barbara Grier (1933), founder of Naiad Press and editor of The Ladder (under the pseudonym Gene Damon)

11/4       J. R. Ackerley was born this day in Herne Hill, London, in 1896, as hundreds of uniformed males of the working class could attest.  Robert Mapplethorpe, born today in 1946, knew about that

11/5       Today is the birthday (1948) of drag queen extraordinaire Pepper LaBeija.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8kIo9Zqu_k.  See a biography at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_LaBeija

11/5       Birthday of politcal scientist Ken Sherrill, emeritus professor at Hunter College, CUNY

11/5       James Flecker, Rupert Brooke’s lesser known gay contemporary, was born today in London, in 1884

11/6       On this day in 1990 Deborah Glick became the first open lesbian elected to the New York state legislature.

11/6       Today is the birthday of writer and performer Frank DeCaro (1962). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_DeCaro

11/7       In 1998 on this date British Member of Parliament Nick Brown came out after he learned that a previous lover had offered to sell his story.

11/7       Today is the birthday (1962) of radio talk show host and journalist Karel Bouley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Karel_Bouley

11/8       Today is the birthday of The Rev. Canon Clinton Jones, pioneering sex counselor and trans advocate out of the Christ Cathedral in Hartford for over 3 decades, in 1916.  What a dear friend he was to so many of us!   He was in touch by the next post the moment that he read my initial announcement for Integrity in *The Episcopalian* and *The Advocate*; and I met with Bishop John Walker (then suffragan) and Clinton in Washington early in November 1974 carrying in my hand copies of the first issue of *Integrity: Gay Episcopal Forum* hot off the local copy machine the day before.  (Two print shops refused us before Ernest found one run by friendly Lebanese in Warner Robins, Georgia)…. With quiet, almost straight-laced precision, he pioneered in trans advocacy long before most of us knew what he was writing about.  I sorely miss him.  I wish we could call and natter for many more hours.  He belongs on the calendar of saints, quiet, unassuming, with steadfast good sense.  (He wrote three books: “What About Homosexuality” (Thomas Nelson & Co., 1972), “Homosexuality and Counseling” (Fortress Press, 1974) and “Understanding Gay Relatives and Friends” (Seabury Press, 1978.)

11/8       Today is the birthday (1960) of actress Megan Cavanagh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Cavanagh

11/8       This is the birthday of Roy Simmons (1956).  He’s a former NFL player who came out as gay on the Phil Donahue Show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Simmons

11/9      Today is the birthday (1905) of Erika Mann, ‘wife of convenience’ to poet W. H. Auden, and daughter of writer Thomas Mann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Mann

11/10     Catherine the Great died today in 1796.  Beware of horses that slip from their sling

11/10     Phyllis Lyon, partner of Del Martin, was born this day in 1924. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Martin_and_Phyllis_Lyon

11/10     Today is the birthday (1913) of gay poet Karl Shapiro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Shapiro

11/10     Today is the birthday (1964) of Jamaican gay writer Thomas Glave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Glave

11/11     Senator David Walsh, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and a regular at the baths near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was born today in Leimaster, Massachusetts, in 1872

11/11     Today is the birthday (1946) of Cristina Perincioli, co-founder of the Lesbian Movement in Berlin.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Perincioli

11/11     Today is the birthday of editor and talk show host Jane Pratt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Pratt

11/12     Today is the birthday of philosopher Roland Gérard Barthes (1915) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes

11/12     Today is the birthday (1930) of Bob Crewe, creative song writer.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Crewe

11/13     Today is the birthday of lgbt rights activist Whoopi Goldberg.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg

11/13     Today is the birthday of professional golfer Rosie Jones.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Jones

11/13     St. Augustine, who confessed  `my longing eyes sought him everywhere,’ was born in 354 A.D., in northern Africa

11/13     Robert Louis Stevenson was born in cold Edinburgh on today in 1850, a far distance from the sun-bronzed bodies of Samoa which he admired in his last years, before he died at 44

11/14     Today is the birthday (1968) of Russian rock musician Svetlana Surganova. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Surganova

11/14     Play the Appalachian Spring Suite for Brother Aaron Copland’s birthday today (1900), and write your member of congress about lesbigay rights, to redeem the violence of Joe McCarthy, also born today (1908)

11/15     Dr. Josephine Baker was born in Poughkeepsie today, in 1873.  She wore male attire to help capture Typhoid Mary (Mary Mullen), and later loved I. A. R. Wylie

11/15     This is the birthday (1919) of Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., closeted bisexual who on 1/17/77 ordained the first out lesbian priest, Ellen Marie Barrett (now Sr. Helena Barrett, OSB.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht58x8Mu00g

11/15     Today is the birthday (1954) of poet, performer, playwright and professor Rane Arroyo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rane_Arroyo

11/16     Emperor Tiberius was born today in Rome, 42 B.C.   Beware, all little ones who nibble.  Beware

11/16            Today is the birthday (1951) of Paula Vogel, Pulitzer-winning playwright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vogel

11/17     Il Bronzino was born today in Monticelli, in 1503.  Observe closely his PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN.  Thank you

11/17     Rock was born today, in 1925.  Rest in peace, dear brother.  Rest, rest. (Rock Hudson)

11/17     Today is the birthday of drag performer RuPaul (1960) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul

11/18     Artist Greer Lankton dies on this day in 1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greer_Lankton

11/18     On this day in 2003 the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that the state cannot bar same-sex couples from marrying and gave the legislature until June to rewrite the laws.

11/19     Today is the birthday of the person  (1919) with his name on more men’s underwear than anyone else in history.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Klein_(fashion_designer)

11/19     Clifton Webb was born today in 1889, not in England, but in Indianapolis, with the `English’ disEase

11/19     Today is the birthday (1962) of actor Jodie Foster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster

11/20     Actress and comedian Kay-Ballard was born today, in (1926)

11/20     Today is the birthday (1942) of composer and performer Meredith Jane Monk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Monk

11/21     Harold Nicolson, diplomat and writer, was born today in 1886, in Tehran

11/21     Today is the birthday (1955) transgender Mary Ann Horton, internet pioneer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton

11/21     Today is the birthday (1956) of actress Cherry Jones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Jones

11/22     Today is the birthday of H. Alexander Satorie-Robinson., Director of Operations at the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

11/22     One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.’ — André Gide’  He was born this day, in Paris, in 1869

11/22     Billy Jean King was born today, in 1943

11/22     James D. Anderson, long-time leader in More Light, Presbyterians who support lgbtq persons

11/23   Today is Snooki’s birthday (1987). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooki

11/23     Today is the birthday (1948) of comedy writer and actor Bruce Vilanch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch

11/24     Today is the birthday (1930) of costume designer Albert Wolsky. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wolsky

11/24     Today is the birthday (1977) of danah boyd, ‘one of the most influential women in technology’ and a self-proclaimed ‘Queer Woman’  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_boyd

11/24     Brother Spinoza was born this day in 1632.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinoza

11/25     Today is the birthday (1969) of Israeli actress Orna Banai. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orna_Banai

11/25     Today is the birthday (1890) of gay poet Isaac Rosenberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Rosenberg

11/25     Virgil Thomson was born this day in 1896

11/26     Today is the birthday of John Amaechi (1970), OBE, a retired English basketball player and ‘one of the world’s most high-profile gay athletes.’ Enjoy his memoir *Man in the Middle* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amaechi

11/26     Today is the birthday of Paul Halsall, cataloguer of lgbt saints (FB) http://www.otkenyer.hu/halsall/lgbh-gaysts.html

11/26     Today is the birthday of Simon Tseko Nkoli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_nkoli

11/26     Today is the birthday (1948) of Olympian swimmer Marion Lay.  She was coordinator for the Pride House at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Lay

11/26     Father Grant Gallup, Integrity’s first chaplain, died on this date in 2009.  It was Thanksgiving.

11/26     Richard Hall (1926), Arnie Kantrowitz (1940), and Emlyn Williams (1905) all share this day for their nativity

11/27     Fanny Kemble was born this day in 1809, in London.  She introduced Charlotte Cushman to Rosalie Sully too

11/27     In Knoxville on this day in 1909 was born Father Fly’s most articulate student, James Agee

11/27     Today is the birthday of Marilyn Hacker (1942), poet, translater, professor.  For a long time she and Samuel R. Delany had a ‘marriage of convenience.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Hacker

11/28     Happy Birthday, Rita Mae Brown!  (1944, Hanover, PA)

11/28     Today is the birthday (1970) of artist Julie Mehretu.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Mehretu

11/28     Today is the birthday (1954) of gay poet Gavin Dillard. GWood 32, 52 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_dillard

11/28        Today is the birthday (1940) of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Newton

11/29     Today is the birthday (1962) of Martha Beck, author of ‘Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith’ and a columnist for ‘O, The Oprah Magazine’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Beck

11/29     Today is the birthday of Billy Strayhorn, an lgbt musician and  collaborator with Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-O6wC6svs8

11/29     Rod La Rocque, lovely man of the silent films was born this day in 1898

11/30     Today is the birthday of Ana Hernandez, one of the major musicians in my life.  When I am down, I listen to her music.  When I am up, I listen to her music.  I have not only heard her, I have actually hugged her, and I have seen God in the twinkle of her irises.

11/30     Today is the birthday (1965) of screenwriter Ryan Murphy.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Murphy_(writer)

11/30     Today is the birthday (1978) of discographer Clay Aiken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Aiken

11/30     What an exciting day in Penshurst, Kent, England, in 1554, the first cries of Sir Philip Sidney.   Ahhhhh

12/1       In December 1985, *Fellowship*, the magazine of the interfaith peace group Fellowship of Reconciliation* published its first ever openly gay material.

12/1       Rex Stout, mystery writer, was born this day in 1886

12/1       Today is the birthday (1970) of comedian and lgbt rights activist Sarah Silverman.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman

12/2       Actor Warren William was born today in 1895

12/2       Today is the birthday of Jason Collins (1978) — first out NBA player.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Collins

12/2       Birthday of Max Niedzwiecki max@daylightconsulting.net

12/3       Today is the birthday of English painter Baron Leighton of Stretton, in Scarborough, 1830

12/3       On this day in 1981 The Chronicle of Higher Education summarized in detail ‘Homophobia in the Academy,’ a report that Karen Keener and I wrote for College English 43.7 (1981): 682-68

12/3       Today is the birthday (1957) of Del Shores.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Shores

12/3       Today is the birthday (1944) of gay poet Craig Raine. GWood 112 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Raine

12/3       On this date in 2007 The New York Times took note of  *Not That Kind of Christian*, an 80-minute documentary about lgbt struggles The Episcopal Church: a film that aired in several film festivals around the world.

12/4       Today is the birthday (1893) of gay poet Herbert Read. GWood 68 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Read

12/4         Self-affirmed `ambisexual’ historian A. L. Rowse was born this day in 1903, in St. Austell, Cornwall

12/5       Christina Rossetti was born today in London, in 1830.  She wrote, `She sucked their fruit globes fair or red.’ Episcopalians have a feast day for her on April 5. She was a Pre-Raphaelite and a feminist. She had an enormous influence on several other writers.

12/5       Today is the birthday (1961) of broadcast journalist Laura Flanders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Flanders

12/6       Today is the birthday of Jim Wickliff, first president of Integrity and convener of Integrity’s first chapter

12/6       Today is the birthday of Claude Summers, literature professor and general editor at http://glbtq.com

12/6       Today is the birthday (1971) of Carole Thate, Dutch Olympic hockey player.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Thate

12/6       Today is the birthday (1900) of lesbian icon Agnes Moorehead. http://www.glbtq.com/arts/moorehead_a.html

12/6       Today is the birthday (1893) of Sylvia Townsend Warner, poet and novelist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Townsend_Warner

12/7       Akikio Yosano was born today in Sakai City, in 1878.  Read her TANGLED HAIR! http://www.rowboatmagazine.com/index.php/issues/issue-2/tangled-hair

12/7       Lest we forget….  Today is Ryan White’s birthday (1971) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White

12/7       Today is Willa Cather’s birthday (1873) Treat yourself to one of my favorite short stories, ‘Paul’s Case’ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paul%27s+case&sm=1

12/7       Writer Thornton Wilder died on December 7, 1975. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder

12/8       Jim Morrison was born today, in 1943

12/8       Today is the birthday (1967) of Craig Hickman, writer, farmer, and member of Maine’s House of Representatives.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Hickman

12/9       Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE, British singer, songwriter and guitarist, was born this day in 1950.  She is in a civil partnership with Maggie Butler, and they live in the Shetland Isles.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Armatrading

12/9       Today is the birthday (1961) of Canadian comedian Elvira Kurt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Kurt

12/9       Lucius Beebe, journalist and railroad buff, famous for offering `whiskey and sofa,’ was born today in 1902, in Wakefield, Mass

12/10     Today is the birthday of William Armstong Percy III (1933), professor, Episcopalian atheist, and early gay studies publisher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Armstrong_Percy_III

12/10     Today is the birthday of actress, singer Raven-Symoné https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven-Symon%C3%A9

12/10     Edward VIII, arrested in a gay sex raid, abdicates today (1936) to live with Wally Simpson

12/10    Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson!  (Amherst, 1830)

12/11     Today is the birthday (1954) of musician Vicki Randle.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Randle

12/11     Today is the birthday of John Preston, founder of an early Episcopal gay caucus, one-time editor of the ADVOCATE, popular gay novelist and information buff

12/12     This is the birthday (1951) of Mark Bowman, co-founder and long-time leader of the Reconciling Congregation Program in the United Methodist Church.

12/12     Today is the birthday of Patti O’Kane, @OKbirder55, long-time leader in Integrity/NYC, active in the AIDS memorial at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and widow of Brooke Bushong, a member of the Church Army.

12/12     This is the birthday of Brandon Teena (1972), a transgender person murdered at 21.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Teena

12/12     Dr. James Miranda Barry, Britain’s first female physician, became Inspector-General of Hospitals today, in 1858sak

12/13     Today is the birthday of Richard Isay (1934), psychiatrist and gay activist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Isay

12/13     On this day in 1975 Mae West received the ADVOCATE’s First Annual Outrageous Award, a miniature fire hydrant.  She replied, `It will take more ‘n a nine-inch hydrant to put a damper on my fire.’

12/14     Gerald Haxton was acquitted today in London in 1915, of gross indecency!  Woopie for Somerset if not the other Maughams

12/14     Today is the birthday (1950) of Anulka Dziubinska, sometime lesbian vampire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anulka_Dziubinska

12/15     Beware of fiddles!  Nero was born this day in Rome, in 37 A.D.  Do I smell fire

12/15     Today is the birthday of Mutsuo Takahashi (1937), poet and essayist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutsuo_Takahashi

12/15     Today is the birthday (1941) of Tom Ammiano, the first public school teacher in San Francisco to come out. http://outhistory.org/items/show/1909

12/16     Noel was born today, of the Cowards, in Teddington, near London, in 1899

12/16     Today is Bertha Harris’s birthday! (1937)  Read CONFESSIONS OF CHERUBINO.  It is also Margaret Mead’s birthday (1901)…. Coming of age indeed

12/16     Today is the birthday of Barbara Smith (1946)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Smith

12/17     Paul Cadmus was born today in New York City, in 1904.  How dare the Navy declare one of his paintings?!  At least they treasure it now.  http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/cadmus/cadmus.htm

12/17     Today is the birthday of Bertha Harris (1937), lesbian novelist

12/17     Today is the birthday (1936) of John Kennedy Toole.  http://www.glbtq.com/literature/toole_jk.html

12/18     aki was born this day in Burma, as Hector Hugh Munro.  Read him again now that you know him as brother.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki

12/18     Today is the birthday (1957) of labor leader Randi Weingarten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randi_Weingarten

12/19     Today is the birthday of Tyler Clementi in 1991.  Committed suicide by jumping to his death from the GW Bridge in 2010 following bullying at Rutgers University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Clementi

12/19     Horace Traubel, Whitman’s Boswell, was born today in Camden, NJ, in 1858.  Jean Genet was born today, 52 years later

12/19     Today is the birthday of Jean Genet (1910). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Genet

12/20     On December 20, 1999 the Supreme Court of Vermont ruled in Baker v. Vermont that same-sex marriage or something similar must be implemented in 100 days. The Vermont state legislators choose civil unions. Civil unions became legal in Vermont on July 1, 2000

12/20     Actor Albert Dekker was born today in Brooklyn, in 1wi905.  He committed suicide in drag and handcuffs in 1968.  Never again, puleaze!

12/21     Today is the birthday (1944) of composer Michael Tilson Thomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tilson_Thomas

12/21     Jimmy McGuire, 33, and James Williams, 27, were found shot to death in their home on this day in 1996. They were among five gay black men murdered in Washington DC in a three month period.

12/22     Today is the birthday (1946) of Black Panther Kuwasi Balagoon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwasi_Balagoon

12/22     Harold Carswell was born today in Irwinton, GA, in 1919.  Nixon wanted him on the Supreme Court, but he got entrapped in a tearoom on the way

12/23     Today is Calder Willinghams’ birthday (1922), whose homoerotic scenes in End As a Man brought obscenity charges upon the publisher and much attention for gay teenagers like me closeted in Alabama in the 1940s.

12/23     Czar Alexander I was born today in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1777.  Napoleon rumor him `the slyest and handsomest of the Greeks.’

12/23     Today is the birthday (1955) of Scottish poet and playwright Carol Ann Duffy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ann_Duffy

12/24     Today is the birthday (1959) of brilliant actor and producer Lee Daniels.  He gave us <i>Monster’s Ball</i>, <i>Precious</i>, and <i>The Butler</i>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Daniels

12/24     Howard Hughes was born today in Houston, in 1905.  How much did Errol Flynn charge you, Howard?

12/25     On this date in 2006, the NY Times reported that Archbishop Peter Akinola, primate of all Nigeria, told them that 1I startled him and that he jumped away when I introduced him to Ernest.   See church\\\\NYTimes_Akinola.txt

12/25     Today is the birthday (1972) of Stacyann Chin, Jamaican poet and performer.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staceyann_Chin

12/25     We all know which of his ancestors was a harlot, but which famous male one experienced the all-surpassing love?

el12/27       Marlene Dietrich was born today

12/27     Today is the birthday (1932) of Fritz Klein, psychiatrist and sex researcher.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Klein_(sex_researcher)

12/27     Today is the birthday (1973) of actor Wilson Cruz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Cruz.

12/28     Today is the birthday of Uriah Bell, editor-in-chief of <i>Truth Magazine</i>, a bimonthy national publication of lgbtq persons of color. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Bell

12/28     Scholar Byrne R. S. Fone (HIDDEN HERITAGE) was born today, 1936, in Elmira, NY

12/29     On this day in 1990, Richard Dunne, director of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis from 1985-1989, died of complications from AIDS at age 46. During his time as director the annual budget increased from $800,000 to $11 million and the staff increased from 17 to 120.

12/29     Today is the birthday (1898) of Elsa Gidlow, poet, journalist, and philosopher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Gidlow

12/29     Today is the birthday (1979) of cartoonist and tv writer Ariel Schrag.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Schrag

12/30     Writer-composer Paul Bowles was born today in 1910, in NYC

12/30     Today is the birthday (1956) of Larry Duplechan, African American gay writer best known for his novelf *Blackbird*

12/30     Today is the birthday (1901) of modernist painter Beauford Delaney, a participant in the Harlem Renaissance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauford_Delaney

12/30     Today is the birthday of Joseph F. Beam, an African-American gay rights activist and author http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_F._Beam

12/31     Today is the birthday of Henry Gerber (1892), same-sex rights activist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gerber

12/31     William Carney, author of THE REAL THING, was born today in Florence in 1992 (Alabama, that is)

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