1981 - Justin Fashanu becomes the first black footballer to be a million pound transfer in UK soccer.
2009 - The first season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” airs on US television.
2014 - Uganda celebrates the 50th anniversary of the canonisation of 22 boys and men murdered by the paedophile King of Buganda because they refused to have sex with him.
1982 - Paul Winfield, on of those actors whose face you recognised but can never remember the name, co-stars in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”.
2013 - Legendary singer-songwriter Frank Ocean comes out as bisexual.
1970 - Chris Dickerson is the first black American bodybuilder to win the Mr America title.
1978 - Sylvester tops the dance charts with “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”.
1877 - Edmonia Lewis is commissioned by former US President Ulysses S. Grant to sculpt his bust.
2006 - The UK holds its first Black Pride festival.
2008 - US Army Major Alan Rogers becomes the first known lgbt victim of the conflict in Iraq.
1792 - Benjamin Banneker – farmer, astronomer and surveyor – produces the first astronomical almanac to be published by a black American.
1988 - Sir Ian McKellen comes out on a BBC radio discussion programme.
1312 - King Edward II’s lover, Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, is murdered.
117 - Hadrian becomes Emperor of Rome.
1997 - Ellen DeGeneres comes out on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”.
1998 - Dana International becomes the first transgender winner of the Eurovision Song Contest.
2011 - The US military policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed.
1951 - Gilbert Baker, designer of the first Rainbow Pride flag in 1978, is born.
1973 - Sir Elton John writes the song “Candle in the Wind” which he later performs at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997.
1984 - US equestrian Robert Dover competes in the first of his record-breaking 6 appearances by an lgbt athlete at the Olympic Games.
No comments:
Post a Comment