24 Sunday

December

Minor English poet Eliza Cook, whose love lyrics to actress Charlotte Cushman remain unpublished, dies at Wimbledon, 1889.

25 Monday

Christmas Chanukah

French novelist Paul Bourget, who was a friend of Henry James and whose gay novel Un Crime d'amour (1886), although translated into English as early as 1910, was little read in America, dies at eighty-three, 1935.

26 Tuesday

Liane de Pougy, much-admired French beauty of the gay nineties and author of the novel Idylle saphique (1901), dies in Paris, 1950.

27 Wednesday

Actress Marlene Dietrich, described as an ardent admirer of Mercedes de Acosta in Here Lies the Heart, born in Berlin, 1904.

28 Thursday

Christina G. Rosetti Leances Rossettic

The birth of Greek democracy is sparked when male lovers Harmodius and Aristogeiton rebel against the jealous

gay tyrant Hipparchus and his attempt to break up their love affair, 514 B.C.

29 Friday

Christina Rossetti:

"For there is no friend like a sister/In calm or stormy weather."

English poet Christina Rossetti, whose works have been viewed as Sapphic by most women critics from Willa Cather to Jeannette H. Foster, dies in London, 1894.

30 Saturday

Composer-author Paul Bowles born in New York City, 1910.