2 Sunday

April

Democratic presidential aspirant Senator Henry Jackson is heckled at a rally in Flushing, New York, after he calls homosexuality "wrong" and "bad," 1976.

3 Monday

Mary Elizabeth Garrett, who with her lover Carey Thomas persuaded Johns Hopkins University to open its medical department to women in 1893, dies of leukemia, 1914.

4 Tuesday

New York City police officers, answering ads for "models" in The Advocate, arrest five men on charges of prostitution after making dates with them at a West Side hotel, 1976.

5 Wednesday

The Theban general Pelopidas, whose birth and death dates are lost in ancient history and who is noted for having organized the Sacred Band, an elite military corps composed entirely of gay lovers, is here commemorated.

6 Thursday

The painter Raphael, who lived together with his two favorite pupils, Gianfrancesco Penni and Giulio Romano, dies in Rome on his thirty-seventh birthday, 1520.

7 Friday

Henry Hay, a pioneering leader of the American gay liberation movement and a founder of the Mattachine Society, born at Worthing, Sussex, England, 1912. Rose O'Neill, American poet and creator of the Kewpie doll, dies at seventy, 1944.

8 Saturday

The Emperor Caracalla:

Builder of the most lavish baths on earth.

The emperor Caracalla, whose exploits are recounted in C. J. Bulliet's bizarre book about female impersonators, Venus Castina (1933), murdered at twenty-nine in Mesopotamia, 217 A.D.