24 Sunday

September

Manuel I, bisexual Byzantine emperor, dies at Constantinople, 1180.

25 Monday

Christina de Meyrac, who in the seventeenth century achieved notoriety as St. Aubin, "the Woman Musketeer,"

and whose dates of birth and death have been forgotten by history, is here commemorated.

26 Tuesday

English writer Katherine Harris Bradley, who, with her niece Edith Emma Cooper took the joint pseudonym "Michael Field" and spent a lifetime together writing now-forgotten plays but still-remembered poetry, dies at sixty-five, 1914.

27 Wednesday

American imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), whose lover was the novelist Bryher (Winifred Ellerman) and whose husband was poet Richard Aldington, who himself wrote the Sapphic volume The Love of Myrrhine and Konallis, dies at seventy-five, 1961.

28 Thursday

Robert II of Normandy, eldest (and gay) son of William the Conquerer, whose feuds with his homosexual brother William II Rufus and their straight brother Henry I influenced the course of English history, is captured in battle and imprisoned for the rest of his life, 1106.

29 Friday

The Captive, a play about lesbianism, opens on Broadway, is later raided, and ultimately precipitates a New York State law banning "immoral plays," 1926.

30 Saturday

Italian poet and humanist Politian (Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano), whose lyrical drama Orfeo has Orpheus mourning the loss of Euridice by declaring the superior lovemaking of men ("This love, I swear, is sweetest, softest, best''), dies in Florence, 1484.)

Aubrey Beardsley:

The artist bound to Priapus.