F. W. Murnau:

A legendary death.

5 Sunday

March

Dr. Louise Pearce, a distinguished American researcher and professor of medicine, who lived together with Dr. S. Josephine Baker and novelist I. A. R. Wylie, born in Winchester, Massachusetts, 1885.

6 Monday

Prince Georgi Evgenievich Lvov, who according to Nijinsky's wife introduced the famous dancer to gay life and to Diaghilev, dies in Paris, 1925.

7 Tuesday

Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, the homosexual model not only of Proust's Baron de Charlus, but of Huysmans's hero in À Rebours as well, born in Paris, 1855.

8 Wednesday

After a long court battle in Seattle, Washington, the state patrol's chief personnel officer says that homosexuality will no longer be considered a bar in hiring patrolmen, 1976.

9 Thursday

The Veterans Benevolent Association (1945-1954), the first postwar American homosexual organization, receives a certificate of incorporation from the State of New York, 1948.

10 Friday

Lieutenant Frederick Gotthold Enslin is drummed out of the Continental Army for "attempting to commit sodomy with John Monhort, a soldier," 1778.

11 Saturday

Film director F. W. Murnau is killed in Hollywood automobile crash while fellating his chauffeur, 1931.