MOTHER CLAP, British bathhouse madam, born; We don’t really know the date of Mother Clap’s birth. We don’t even know her real name. But she did, in fact, exist. In 1726 she was indicted for keeping a “disorderly house” where some fifty men were found making love, “kissing in a lewd manner and using hands indecently.”

To these charges she offered this defense: “I am a woman, and therefore it cannot be considered that I would ever be concerned in such practices.” Damned right.

BABE DIDRIKISON ZAHARIAS, American athlete (d. 1956); An athlete considered to be perhaps the greatest all-around female athlete of all time. She achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field.

In 2007, Lesbian playwright Carolyn Gage started working on a full-chorus, full-orchestra musical about Zaharias (who is thought to have been a Lesbian) called Babe. In 2009, Little, Brown published a major biography of Babe by author and New York Times journalist Don Van Natta, Jr. entitled, "Wonder Girl."

STEPHEN McCAULEY was born; McCauley is an American author. He has written six novels, including Insignificant Others. His best known novel is The Object of My Affection, which was made into a film starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. McCauley is an alumnus of the Ragsdale Foundation.

Today, McCauley serves as the Co-Director of the Creative Writing program at Brandeis University. He is a Professor of the Practice of English Fiction. His latest book is My Ex-Life, released in June 2018.

SEAN HAYES, American Actor, born; An Emmy award-winning actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known for his role as Jack McFarland in the sitcom Will & Grace. Hayes has played both Gay and straight characters during his time as an actor but, until recently, like most closet cases, refused to discuss his sexual orientation in public. He has stated, "When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character. After Will & Grace is over, when I play a straight character, I want you to believe that, too."

Oh. Ok. I sympathize, Sean…we both went to the same high school in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. More recently, however, he came out as Gay in an interview for The Advocate magazine in March 2010. Answering the charge he had skirted the issue of his sexuality for too long, Hayes was reported as saying "I feel like I’ve contributed monumentally to the success of the Gay movement in America, and if anyone wants to argue that, I’m open to it. You’re welcome, Advocate."

Hayes made his Broadway debut alongside Kristin Chenoweth in the April 2010 Broadway revival of the musical Promises, Promises. He has received a nomination for the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance. He was nominated for a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.

Hayes was host of the 64th Annual Tony Awards in June 2010 on CBS. At the Tonys he and costar Chenoweth enjoyed a sloppy, tongue-filled make-out, followed by Hayes giving his costar a gentle smack on her butt, in response to Newsweek critic, Ramin Setoodeh saying he wasn't “believable” playing a straight romantic lead and was "wooden." Watching her walk offstage, Hayes said, "I know what you're thinking - she's too short for me." 

In November 2014 Hayes announced that he had married his partner of eight years, Scott Icenogle.

And that part about "when Will & Grace is over"....when exactly is that going to be? 

Gay activist, feminist, educator, and author and editor ERIC ROFES died of a heart attack in Provincetown, MA. In 1998, while doing his PhD at U.C. Berkeley, Rofes wrote Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures, in which he argued that the AIDS crisis had passed and Gay men needed to free themselves from the sense of emergency and victimhood.

A review in The Nation described Dry Bones Breathe as "perhaps the most important book about Gay male culture and community of the past decade." However, the book has also been castigated for only limning the experiences of 'middle-class, urban, white, Gay men' instead of being more societally inclusive. Rofes was a professor of Education at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA and served on the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and White Crane Institute.

Rofes was in Provincetown, Mass., working on his 13th book when he suffered a massive heart attack. Humboldt State has established The Eric Rofes Center as a new program in his honor to continue his  work in Gay activism.

One of the last projects Rofes worked on was the creation, with Chris Bartlett and White Crane Institute, of a series of "Gay Men's Health Leadership Academies" to combat what he saw as a "pathology-focused understanding of Gay men" in safe-sex education,. These workshops have continued as part of his living legacy. Losing Eric was huge.

It is the Feast Day of SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL, martyred lovers According to their Acts, which are of a legendary character and without recorded historical foundation, the martyrs were eunuchs (Galli) of Constantina daughter of Constantine the Great, and became acquainted with a certain Gallicanus, who built a church in Ostia. At the command of Julian the Apostate, they were beheaded secretly by Terentianus in their house on the Cælian, where their church was subsequently erected, and where they themselves were buried. Galli (singular Gallus) was the Roman name for castrated followers of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, which were regarded as a third gender by contemporary Roman scholars, and are in some ways like transgendered people in the modern world. The chief of these priests was referred to as a battakes, and later as the archigallus.

A group of New York drag queens organize a memorial for the next night for Judy Garland who died several days earlier. Little did they know the wake would turn into the Stonewall Riots and give birth to the Gay Liberation movement.

The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down sodomy laws and rules Gay people have a right to equal protection under the law with landmark Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas. 

But wait! There’s MORE! Read the Wikipedia article here.

The Supreme Court of the United States, in a landmark 5-4 decision, Obergefell v Hodges, rule that the Constitution of the United States assures the right to MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR LGBT PEOPLE and that every state in the union must recognize and respect same-sex marriages. Heterosexual marriages begin crumbling…oh wait…that didn’t happen. Nevermind.