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This Day in Gay History

April 18

Born
Philip of Macedon
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PHILIP II of MACEDON, king and military genius, born (d: 336 BCE); ancient Greek king (basileus: "sovereign" or "king".) of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336. He was the father of Alexander the Great, Philip III and possibly Ptolemy I, the founder of the Ptolomaic dynasty in Egypt. 

When not in stud-king mode, Philip was the ancient military genius who defeated the combined Athenian and Theban army and conquered all of Greece, setting in motion the grandiose ambitions of his son Alexander. 

After a long, hard day at battle, Philip liked to slip into something -- or someone -- comfortable, and, women being an inconvenience in the combat zone, avail himself of some 800 young eunuchs brought along for his and his friends’ pleasure. In the end Philip was murdered by his beautiful teen-aged page, Pausanias, who sought revenge after Philip sodomized him in full view of the other guests at a banquet.


Jessie Street
1889 -

JESSIE STREET, Australian suffragette, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 1970); While not a Lesbian, this woman-identified woman was a key figure in Australian political life for over fifty years, from the women's suffrage struggle in England to the removal of Australia’s constitutional discrimination against Aboriginal people in 1967. 

She is recognized both in Australia and internationally for her activism in women's rights, social justice and peace. inspired by the British Anti-Slavery Society when visiting England in the 1950s, Jessie Street was the initiator of the 1967 “Aboriginal” amendment of the Australian Constitution with fellow activist Faith Bandler. She "masterminded the formation of the Aboriginal Rights Organization, which led to the successful "Australian referendum, 1967" and even drafted petitions calling for the Referendum.

Jessie Street campaigned for equality of status for women, equal pay, appointment of women to public office and their election to parliament. In 1911 she attended a conference of the International Council for Women in Rome. She was also co-founder (1928) and President of United Associations of Women. Jessie was the only Australian woman delegate at the founding of the United Nations in 1945 and established (co-founder of) the UN Commission of the Status of Women and Charter of women's rights.


Gavin Creel
1976 -

GAVIN CREEL is an American actor, singer and songwriter. Creel is best known for his work in musical theatre, for which he has received two Tony nominations — for originating the role of Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie and for his performance as Claude in Hair — and an Laurence Olivier Award for originating the West End version of Elder Price in The Book of Mormon at Prince of Wales Theatre. He also played the role of Elder Price in US National Tour and on Broadway. He played Steven Kodaly in Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of She Loves Me, which premiered in spring 2016.

Born in Finlay, Ohio, Creel received his B.A. in Fine Arts in musical theatre at the Univeristy of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance in 1998. Creel, who is out, is a regular on the LGBT RFamilyVacations cruise with Rosie O’Donnell. He is also one of the founders, with Rory O’Malley and Jenny Kanelos, of Broadway Impact, an LGBT activist group. He is an alumnus of Findlay First Edition Show Choir.


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