Tuesday 1 February 2011

1st February

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LGBT people born 1st February:

1902 – Langston Hughes – US Author / Poet / Playwright / Columnist / Screenwriter – Died 22nd May 1967

1906 – Hildegarde – US Singer – Died 29th July 2005

1944 – Ton Jansen – Dutch Politician

1957 – Lucy Jane Bledsoe – US Author

1971 – Jim Sangster – UK Author / Script writer / Actor

1973/75 – Aaron Tanner – US Porn [or 16th February 1973/75]

1974 – Adam Faust – US Porn / Store Owner [or 6th February 1974]

And those who died:

1922 – William Desmond Taylor – US Director / Murder Victim – Born 26th April 1872

1975 – Howard Junior Brown – US Activist – Born 15th April 1924

1975 – Richard Wattis – UK Actor – Born 25th February 1912

1979 – June Miller – US Wife of Henry Miller – Born 12th January 1902

2007 – Gian Carlo Menotti – Italian / US Composer / Librettist – Born 7th July 1911

Events in LGBT History:

2004 – Cape Verde & Marshall Islands legalise homosexuality

2004 – Same-sex marriage licences issued in San Francisco, California (later annulled)

2005 – Civil Marriage Act introduced in Canada sanctioning same-sex marriage (the 4th country to do so)

2005 – LGBT History Month launched in the UK

2008 – HOD (LGBT organisation for Orthodox Jews) founded in Israel

2009 – Johanna Sigurdardottir elected Prime Minister of Iceland

2009 – NoH8 campaign created by Jeff Parshley in the USA

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