July

16 Sunday

U.S. Congressman A. L. Miller of Nebraska, a notoriously homophobic physician, reports the latest in scientific misinformation: "The cycle of homosexual desires follows the cycle closely patterned to the menstrual period of women," 1951.

17 Monday

English author and engineer Ernest Rhys, who was the confidant of John Addington Symonds while he was writing

his pioneering homosexual study A Problem in Modern Ethics (1891), born in London, 1859.

18 Tuesday

Horatio Alger, who in 1866 fled the town of Brewster, Massachusetts, after being accused of "unnatural familiarity with boys," dies at Natick, Massachusetts, 1899.

19 Wednesday

After slashing the throat of her lover Freda Ward (whom she called "Fred") with a straight razor, Alice Mitchell is adjudged insane in a Memphis, Tennessee, court, 1892.

20 Thursday

This date is assigned to the Greek poet Theocritus, whose birthdate has been lost to history and whose Idylls 12, 29, and 30 are among the most beautiful homosexual poems ever written.

21 Friday

Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey, the statesman who developed the resources of Morocco for the French and who, according to novelist Roger Peyrefitte, took full advantage of all its native delights, dies at Thorey (Meurthe-etMoselle), 1934.

22 Saturday

Frederick Baron Corvo (né Frederic Rolfe), whose incredible Hadrian the Seventh has eclipsed the even stranger In His Own Image, making the latter virtually unknown today, born in London, 1860.

Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey:

Take me to the Casbah....