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Today in LGBT History – July 5
1842 – Andrew George Scott (July 5, 1842 – January 20, 1880), also known as Captain Moonlite, is born. He was an Irish-born Australian bushranger and folk figure. He gathered a band of thieves together and became especially close to one James Nesbit. Nesbit was to die in a shoot-out after which Scott was imprisoned. While there he wrote letters that declared his undying love for Nesbit in terms that were extravagant and uncompromising.
1853 – Cecil Rhodes (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 190) is born in Hertfordshire, England. He was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. The owner of the Kimberley Diamond Mines, he was a multi-millionaire whose De Beers diamond company, formed in 1888, retains its prominence into the 21st century. Rhodes never married saying that he would not be a dutiful husband. Some writers and academicshave suggested that Rhodes may have been homosexualand had relationships with Sir Leander Starr Jameson(9 February 1853 – 26 November 1917)and Henry Latham Curry(1863 – 1945). Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is named for him. He also created the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford. While Rhodes is considered a hero, the true story is that he was a blatant racist who built his empire on “land grabs” and murders of thousands in Zimbabwe.
1889, France – Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) is born in Maisons-Lafitte, France. A giant in the arts, Cocteau was a poet, a novelist, a playwright, and a filmmaker. He is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). His affairs with the handsome young men of Paris is as legendary as his art. Cocteau’s longest-lasting relationships were with the French actors Jean Marais(11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998) and Édouard Dermit, whom Cocteau formally adopted. Cocteau cast Marais in The Eternal Return (1943), Beauty and the Beast (1946), Ruy Blas (1947), and Orpheus (1949).
1978, Canada – In Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, an hour-long “Gay News and Views” begins on a local station. It is the first regularly scheduled gay radio program in Canada.
1978, Canada – The Quebec Human Rights Commission decides that Montreal Catholic School Commission’s refusal to rent facilities to a gay group is discriminatory. It is the first such finding by the commission since the inclusion of “sexual orientation” in the provincial Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
1980, Canada – The national convention of the Liberal Party of Canada adopts a resolution to include sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Right Act.
1987 – James H. Donovan (November 12, 1923 – August 31, 1990) was a New York state senator. On this day, he suggests that giving teens rosary beads would prevent the spread of AIDS more effectively than the distribution of condoms.
2011, Serbia – The Serbian parliament approves a law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Today in LGBT History – July 5
1842 – Andrew George Scott (July 5, 1842 – January 20, 1880), also known as Captain Moonlite, is born. He was an Irish-born Australian bushranger and folk figure. He gathered a band of thieves together and became especially close to one James Nesbit. Nesbit was to die in a shoot-out after which Scott was imprisoned. While there he wrote letters that declared his undying love for Nesbit in terms that were extravagant and uncompromising.
1853 – Cecil Rhodes (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 190) is born in Hertfordshire, England. He was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. The owner of the Kimberley Diamond Mines, he was a multi-millionaire whose De Beers diamond company, formed in 1888, retains its prominence into the 21st century. Rhodes never married saying that he would not be a dutiful husband. Some writers and academicshave suggested that Rhodes may have been homosexualand had relationships with Sir Leander Starr Jameson(9 February 1853 – 26 November 1917)and Henry Latham Curry(1863 – 1945). Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is named for him. He also created the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford. While Rhodes is considered a hero, the true story is that he was a blatant racist who built his empire on “land grabs” and murders of thousands in Zimbabwe.
1889, France – Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) is born in Maisons-Lafitte, France. A giant in the arts, Cocteau was a poet, a novelist, a playwright, and a filmmaker. He is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). His affairs with the handsome young men of Paris is as legendary as his art. Cocteau’s longest-lasting relationships were with the French actors Jean Marais(11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998) and Édouard Dermit, whom Cocteau formally adopted. Cocteau cast Marais in The Eternal Return (1943), Beauty and the Beast (1946), Ruy Blas (1947), and Orpheus (1949).
1978, Canada – In Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, an hour-long “Gay News and Views” begins on a local station. It is the first regularly scheduled gay radio program in Canada.
1978, Canada – The Quebec Human Rights Commission decides that Montreal Catholic School Commission’s refusal to rent facilities to a gay group is discriminatory. It is the first such finding by the commission since the inclusion of “sexual orientation” in the provincial Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
1980, Canada – The national convention of the Liberal Party of Canada adopts a resolution to include sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Right Act.
1987 – James H. Donovan (November 12, 1923 – August 31, 1990) was a New York state senator. On this day, he suggests that giving teens rosary beads would prevent the spread of AIDS more effectively than the distribution of condoms.
2011, Serbia – The Serbian parliament approves a law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
