January

1 Sunday

New Year's Day

Western poet Charles "Badger" Clark, whose verses suggest that South Dakota cowboys slept with more than their horses, born in Albia, lowa, 1883.

2 Monday

Cary Thomas, pioneering feminist and president of Bryn Mawr College, whose lesbianism has long been a matter of public record, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1857.

3 Tuesday

American patriot William North, adopted by Baron Friedrich von Steuben, gay Revolutionary War hero, dies in New York City, 1836.

4 Wednesday

François, Duke of Luxembourg, heroic French general known for his valor, his hunchback, his sharp wit, and his taste in boys, dies at Versailles, 1695.

5 Thursday

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, whose homosexuality "Xavier Mayne" (Edward I. Stevenson) documents in The Intersexes, killed in battle at Nancy, 1477.

6 Friday

Stark Young, American writer and educator victimized by poet Robert Frost's vicious homophobia at Amherst College in 1915, dies, 1963.

7 Saturday

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Amadeus VIII of Savoy, whose reign as Pope Felix V was noted for its extravagant gay orgies, dies in Geneva,

1451.

Major General Baron von Steuben: Daddy to two boys not his own.