1st February

LGBT people born today:

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

1906 – Hildegarde – US Singer – Died 29^th 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 16^th February 1973/75]

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

And those who died:

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

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

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

2007 – Gian Carlo Menotti – Italian / US Composer / Librettist – Born 7^th 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 4^th 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