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Jacob de Haan
Today’s LGBT Birthdays…
1946: Serge Henri Valcke, Belgian actor, born in Ieper. Became popular in the Netherlands in a TV-comedy about two gay owners of a restaurant.
Today in LGBT History…
1924: Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch writer and journalist, assassinated at age 42 for his contacts with Arab leaders. His killer claims never to have known about Haan’s homosexuality, and said further, “I neither heard nor knew about this,” adding "why is it someone's business what he does at his home?"
1973: The first lesbian conference in Canada is held at Toronto's YWCA.
1974: 43,000 attended the 5th Annual Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, more than double the number from the previous year.
1975: Canada's National Gay Rights Conference sees formation of National Gay Rights Coalition which is renamed the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition / Coalition Canadienne pour les droits des lesbiennes et des gais (CLGRC / CCDLG) in 1978. It folds two years later.
1979: In London, England, 8,000 join the Gay Pride march from the Embankment to Hyde Park to hear Tom Robinson sing.
1979: A group of 40 people in Cincinnati Ohio who had reserved a city park pool for a gay pride party were outnumbered and attacked by local residents who threw rocks and bottles at them. Police arrived, watched for a while and then drove away. One man had to be rescued by a television news crew. Police refused to return, even after several calls reporting a riot.
1981: Moncton, New Brunswick, city council passes a last-minute law to prevent a gay picnic from taking place in Centennial Park to celebrate Canada Day. Group of gay people hold picnic anyway.
1981: Governor Bob Graham of Florida signed the Trask Amendment into law which denied state funding to any university or college which allowed gay/lesbian/bisexual student organizations. It would later be struck down by the Florida Supreme Court as unconstitutional.
1984: The Unitarian Church in the U.S. voted to approve ceremonies uniting same-sex couples.
1986: The U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, a case challenging the constitutionality of the Georgia sodomy law. The court voted 5-4 to uphold the law.
1986: Dr. William Haseltine responds to a U.S. justice department memo which claimed that he said that HIV could be casually transmitted. He said his statements had been distorted and that casual contact posed no significant threat. Assistant Attorney General Charles Cooper later apologized to him.
1987: After spending three years in jail for treason, South African AIDS activist Simon Nkoli was released on bail.
1989: Activists protest outside the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC because of the cancellation of an exhibit of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
1990: Gays in London, England, lay a wreath at the Cenotaph in memory of gays killed in Germany during the Holocaust.
1995: British publication Capital Gay puts out its last issue.
1998: Lawmakers in Catalonia Spain passed a bill which gives same sex couples the same inheritance and alimony rights as married couples, but stopped short of allowing the adoption of children. Catholic groups condemned the bill, saying it institutionalized immoral behavior.
2000: David Copeland, 24, is convicted murder for planting a bomb in a London gay bar a year earlier.
2001: Dozens are injured in Belgrade as roving bands of young thugs attack participants the first gay-rights march in Yugoslavia's capital.
2005: Spain becomes the fourth country in the world (after Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada) to legalize gay marriage as the Spanish parliament gives final approval to a bill authorizing same-sex weddings. To no one's surprise the Catholic Church howled in protest, but the law passed anyway.
2009: After a strenuous court battle, the Minnesota Supreme Court race was finally decided by a state Supreme Court ruling in favor of Al Franken. Franken is considered a great ally to have in the Senate, as he has spoken numerous times on his intent to vote in favor of expanding rights for gays, and because his vote makes a “filibuster proof” majority. http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/five_reasons_why_senator_al_franken_is_a_good_thing_for_lgbt_rights
"If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution."
--Emma Goldman
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