19 Sunday

November

Novelist-illustrator Mary Hallock Foote, whose love letters to and from a woman identified only as Helena have recently been uncovered, born in Milton, New York, 1847.

20 Monday

Two male homosexuals, previously issued a marriage license in Colorado, are notified by mail that the union cannot

be recognized: "You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots," 1975.

21 Tuesday

Alexander Berkman, whose Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912) is especially notable for its telling scenes of homosexuality behind bars, born in Kovno, Russia, 1870.

22 Wednesday

Composer Benjamin Britten, satirized irreverently (but hilariously) in Beyond the Fringe as "Little Miss Britten," born at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, 1913.

23 Thursday

Thanksgiving

Italian painter II Bronzino (né Agnolo di Cosimo Alleri), whose Portrait of a Young Man, sporting an enormously exaggerated codpiece, stems as much from personal interest as from the latest Renaissance fashion in men's dress, born in Monticelli, 1503.

24 Friday

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Dr. John Johnston, an intimate acquaintance both of John Addington Symonds and of Walt Whitman, dies in London, 1900.

25 Saturday

Composer-critic Virgil Thomson, who collaborated with Gertrude Stein on the opera Four Saints in Three Acts and set the story of Susan B. Anthony to music in The Mother of Us All, born in Kansas City, Missouri, 1896.

Gertrude Stein:

La mère d'une génération perdue.