9 Sunday

July

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Composer David Diamond, who in 1941 contemplated marrying lesbian novelist Carson McCullers even though he

was sleeping with her husband at the time, born in Brooklyn, New York, 1915.

10 Monday

Marcel Proust, whose long confinement as an invalid kept him more or less faithful to Alfred Agostinelli, his chauffeur-secretary, born at Anteuil, 1871.

11 Tuesday

Nothing of any gay significance occurred on this day, so why not assign it to Agathon, the Greek dramatist and musician, to whom belongs the dubious distinction of being the first documented effeminate homosexual in history (c. 450 B.C.) and for whom history has left no recorded birthdate?

12 Wednesday

English writer Edward Carpenter pens his first letter to Walt Whitman, thanking the poet for daring to treat the love "which passes the love of women," 1874.

13 Thursday

American anarchist Almeda Sperry, who was so passionately in love with Emma Goldman that she addressed letters to her as "my own Dear, my cherry-blossom, my moonbeam, my mountain, my drop of dew," born, 1879.

14 Friday

Emma Goldman:

A 1901 mug shot.

French actress Marguerite Moreno (née Lucie Monceau), who was an integral part of the Parisian circle of lesbians surrounding Colette, dies at Tourac, 1948.

15 Saturday

Helen R. Hull, whose novel The Labyrinth (1923) brings to the surface Sapphic themes hinted at in her earlier stories and is surprisingly good reading in our own day, dies at eighty-three, 1971.