Thursday 3 June 2010

3rd June

LGBT people born on 3rd June:

1901 – Maurice Evans – UK Actor – Died 12th March 1989

1902 /03 – George Quaintance – US Artist / Photographer – Died 8th November 1957

1906 – Josephine Baker – US / French Dancer / Singer / Actress – Died 12th April 1975

1918 – Patrick Cargill – UK Actor – Died 23rd May 1996

1926 – Allen Ginsberg – US Poet – Died 5th April 1997

1927 – George Hislop – Canadian Politician / Activist – Died 8th October 2005

1949 – Ian Gelder – UK Actor

1960 – Ivan Bussens – UK Water Polo / Activist / Founder of Out For Sport – Died 27th August 2007

1967 – Anderson Cooper – US Presenter / Author / Journalist

1971 – Christine Bakke – US Ex-ex-gay movement

And those who died:

1986 – Robert la Tourneaux – US Actor – Born 1945

1991 – Eva Le Gallienne – UK Actress / Producer / Director – Born 11th January 1899

1991 – Andy Milligan – US Playwright / Screenwriter / Direct – Born 31st January 1929

Events in LGBT history this day:

1966 – Howard Junior Brown becomes first head of the NY City Health Services Administration

2004 – National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco, California, USA [ran 3rd – 27th June 2004]

2009 – Alberta becomes the last province in Canada to include “sexual orientation” in the Human Rights Act

2009 – New Hampshire, USA legalise same-sex marriage (effective 1st January 2010)

2010 – Zurich Pride [runs until 6th June 2010]

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