23 Sunday

July

Edward I. Stevenson, who as “Xavier Mayne" wrote several pioneering works in defense of homosexuality, including The Intersexes (1908), dies in New York at seventy-four, 1942.

24 Monday

Famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, whom, controversy notwithstanding, many lesbians claim as their own-and who bore an uncanny resemblance to Charles Lindbergh-born in Atchison, Kansas, 1898.

25 Tuesday

A Philadelphia magazine features the story of Mary East, an Englishwoman who, assuming the name “James How," married and lived with another woman in domestic felicity for thirty-four years, 1863.

26 Wednesday

Rock star Mick Jagger, whose look-alike wife Bianca claims that he married her because "he wanted to achieve the ultimate by making love to himself," born at Dartford, Kent, England, 1944.

27 Thursday

Gertrude Stein, whose early novel Fernhurst deals with the true-life affair between Bryn Mawr's president Carey Thomas and one of her teachers, Mary Gwinn, dies in Paris, 1946.

28 Friday

Henry B. Fuller, whose poetic drama At St. Judas (1896) is one of the earliest American plays with a homosexual theme, dies at seventy-two, 1929.

29 Saturday

Amelia Earhart:

A stunning resemblance to young Lindbergh.

This day is given to Epaminondas, Theban general and statesman whose birthday is unrecorded in history and who rests eternally in his tomb together with his favorite lovers, Asopichus and Cephisodorus.