Today in Gay History - 11/17/11

[WillParkinson]

November 17

November 17, 1889 - The New York Times published a report on the "Cleveland Street Scandal," a case involving a house of male prostitutes and members of British nobility.

November 17, 1925 - Rock Hudson, actor is born

November 17, 1928 - The New York Times reported that a London judge found the lesbian novel "The Well of Loneliness" obscene and ordered all seized copies of it destroyed.

November 17, 1971 - A group of sex researchers looking for physical differences between homosexual and heterosexual men announced erroneous findings that heterosexuals have 40% more testosterone in their blood than homosexuals do.

November 17, 1979 - Vancouver Sun reverses course and accepts ad from Gay Tide after a five-year court battle. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Sun had "reasonable cause" to refuse advertising. The first ad was submitted to Sun October 23, 1974.

November 17, 1991- OutRage, a London direct-action group, staged a zap against the Living Waters ex-gay movement at St Michael's Church in Belgravia.

November 17, 1995 - James Woods III, co-author of "The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America," died of complications from AIDS at age 32.

November 17, 1997 - The National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum issued a press release applauding singer Janet Jackson for her use of sexual orientation themes in her album "The Velvet Rope."

November 17, 1999 - Methodist minister Jimmy Creech was stripped of his clerical status for presiding over a same-sex holy union.

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3. November 17, 2010

Several gay men, a drag queen and a trans-woman's lives collided in Milwaukee Wisconsin at Woody's Sport Bar....there they drank 2 for 1 cocktails and talked about sex and laughed a lot. Angel who was out of drag, spontaneously broke into a lip synch routine during an Anita Baker ballad. The bartender removed his pants and served the patrons in only a small pair of blue and white trimmed briefs. Cheers erupted and another round of shots was consumed.