The Emperor Montezuma II (with Cortez):

A ravenous appetite.

25 Sunday

June/July

On Dutch-ruled Manhattan Island, Jan Creoli, a black convicted of sodomy, is sentenced to be "choked to death and then burnt to ashes," 1646.

26 Monday

Major General Edwin A. Walker, an advocate of extreme right-wing politics, is arrested on a charge of "public lewdness" in a men's room at a Dallas, Texas, park, 1976.

27 Tuesday

Austrian statesman Prince Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, whose hypochondria was so extreme-he held a handkerchief over his mouth whenever he ventured outdoors and allowed no fresh air indoors-that his homosexual liaisons must have been boringly antiseptic at best, dies at eighty-three in Vienna, 1794.

28 Wednesday

Gay Pride Day

Frederick William Faber, British hymn-writer and theologian who was a disciple of gay John Henry Cardinal Newman, born at Calverley, Yorkshire, 1814.'

29 Thursday

Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement, whose meticulous diaries ("Carlos, 17, very fine one, big, long, thick") proved his ultimate undoing, convicted of treason and sentenced to death, 1916.

30 Friday

Montezuma II, emperor of ancient Mexico, who, in a grisly variation of having one's cake and eating it too, was known to have cannibalized the boys he had sodomized, dies at Tenochtitlan, 1520.

1 Saturday

Dominion Day (Canada)

Novelist George Sand, whose lesbianism was so well known that, upon her death, Turgenev wrote to Flaubert: "What a good man she was, and what a kind woman," born in Paris, 1804.