Friday, 3 June 2011

3rd June

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LGBT people born 3rd June:


1879 – [or 22nd May 1879] Alla Nazimova – Russian Actress / Producer – Died 13th July 1945


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 / Director – Born 12th February 1929


2010 – Pasikali Kashusbe – Ugandan Activist / Hate Crime Victim – Born ????



Events in LGBT History:


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 [ran until 6th June 2010]


2011 – Oxford Pride, UK [runs until 12th June]


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