Dag Hammarskjöld:

10 Sunday

December

The Society for Human Rights, probably the first "gay lib" organization in the United States, granted a charter by the State of Illinois, 1924.

11 Monday

Maria Leopoldina, daughter of Francis I of Austria, and the Empress of Brazil, who, in her wretched life with Pedro

I, turned to the affections of bluestocking Maria Graham, dies in Rio de Janeiro, 1826.

12 Tuesday

James Miranda Barry, the first British woman doctor, who lived her life as a man and, according to contemporary reports, "flirted openly with the best-looking women in the room at balls," is appointed Inspector-General of Hospitals, 1858.

13 Wednesday

Edith Emma Cooper, one-half of the English writing team known as 'Michael Field," who called her partner, Katherine Harris Bradley, "Michael" and was in turn called "Henry," dies at fifty, 1913.

14 Thursday

George Washington, who, according to one of the famous Little Blue Books published during the 1930s (Homosexuality in the Lives of the Great), had more to hide than his wooden false teeth, dies at Mt. Vernon, 1799.

15 Friday

Vida Dutton Scudder, a professor at Wellesley College who was the lover of novelist Florence Converse, born in Madura, India, 1861.

16 Saturday

In Markings he showed that "the longest journey is the journey inwards."

At the age of seventeen, John XII is crowned pope and thence turns the Holy City into the scene of homosexual orgies the likes of which exceed even the epicene days of the emperor Elegabalus, 955.