19 Sunday

Palm Sunday

March

Pope Leo X, whose homosexuality has been chronicled by German sexologists Magnus Hirschfeld and Albert Moll,

is enthroned at Rome and becomes the chief antagonist of Martin Luther, 1513.

20 Monday

In Frank Sinatra's elegant hometown, Hoboken, New Jersey, the Clam Broth House cancels all dinner-theater performances of Boys in the Band on grounds that the restaurant is "a family facility," 1976.

21 Tuesday

James Mill Peirce, the Harvard mathematician who is most likely the anonymous "Professor X" who eloquently defended homosexuality in a letter to John Addington Symonds, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1834.

22 Wednesday

Rock singer Elton John, who disclosed that he is bisexual and joked that when it comes to sex, people "should draw the line at goats," born (appropriately) in Middlesex, England, 1947.

23 Thursday

Purim

Rosa Bonheur, the French painter of animals who in 1857 was issued a permit to dress legally as a man and became famous for her comment: "As for males, I like only the bulls I paint," born at Bordeaux, 1822.

24 Friday

Good Friday

J. C. Leyendecker, magazine illustrator who created the Arrow Collar Man using his handsome lover Charles Beach as his model, born in Montabour, Germany, 1874.

25 Saturday

Rosa Bonheur:

The artist preferred bulls to men.

Dressed as a man and calling herself "Ralph Kerwinieo," Cora Anderson marries Dorothy Klenowski before a Chicago justice of the peace, 1914.