3 Sunday

September

Walt Whitman records in his diary that he slept with Daniel Spencer, a "somewhat feminine" young man, 1862.

4 Monday

Labor Day

On Labor Day, Daytona Beach, Florida, is renamed "Gaytona," to celebrate its "annual official Mr. Gay America" pageant.

5 Tuesday

Kate Scott Turner, a nineteenth-century American whose dates of birth and death elude detection, is here commemorated because she supposedly spent a night of love with poet Emily Dickinson.

6 Wednesday

This day is given to Addaeus of Macedon (c. 300 B.C.), creator of the epigram "Strike while the iron is hot": "When you meet a boy who pleases you, take action at once. Don't be polite-just grab him by the balls and strike while the iron is hot!"

7 Thursday

René Viviani, early twentieth-century French politician whose homosexuality was in his time a carefully guarded secret, dies at Le Plessis-Robinson, 1925.

8 Friday

Marie Thérèse Louise, the Princesse de Lamballe, who was one of Marie Antoinette's lovers and who was consequently torn to pieces by the French mob, born at Turin, 1749.

9 Saturday

The Princess Lamballe:

The condemnation of Marie Antoinette's faithful lover.

Poet-reformer Paul Goodman, author of Growing Up Absurd, who practiced the sexual libertarianism he preached, born in New York City, 1911.