Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 21 1372, UK – King Edward II is killed (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327). The King was rumored to have had an affair with Hugh Despenser. Edward also had a close
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Today in LGBT History – September 20
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 20 365 BC – Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia (356 BC—323 BC) is born. He was King of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian Empire. He is considered one of the greatest military geniuses
Today in LGBT History – September 19
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 19 1551, France – Henri III (19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589) is born at Fontainebleu, France. He was the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1573 to 1575 and King of France from 1574 until his
Today in LGBT History – September 18
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 18 1911 – C. E. Frommel, 20, is sentence to prison for sodomy in Washington State. He is from Kittitas County, WA and employed as a steeple jack. 1913 – Edward Sagarin (September
Today in LGBT History – September 17
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 17 1480, Spain – The Spanish Inquisition is established as a court for the detection of heretics, although its true purpose remains somewhat obscure. But 1000-1600 people were charged with the crime
Today in LGBT History – September 16
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 16 1730, Amsterdam – Navy Chief of Detectives Laurens Hospuijn (? – September 16, 1730) is executed for Sodomy in Amsterdam. He is executed by being strangled and thrown into the water
Today in LGBT History – September 15
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 15 1932 –Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy, born September 15, 1932) is born. She is an American author who, from 1957 to 1962, wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. The books’
Today in LGBT History – September 14
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 14 1306, France – Philip IV orders the arrest of two Knights Templar because they exchanged an obscene kiss” that pretty much covered their entire bodies. 1934 – Katherine “Kate” Murray Millett
Today in LGBT History – September 13
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 13 1931 – Lili Elbe (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), possible intersex and the recipient of the first sex-reassignment surgery, dies. She married Gerda Gottlieb in 1904 in Denmark, a
Today in LGBT History – September 12
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 12 1857, UK – The word gay, which appears in a pictured cartoon in Punchmagazine, is used to refer to prostitution. It arrived in English during the 12th century from Old French gai, most