police that jokes about his last name had angered him, was sentenced to four life terms for a shooting rampage in a gay bar that killed one man and wounded five other men and a woman. Over the next few years dozens of local GLF chapters would form across the country.ġ999 – Fifteen people were injured when tear gas was thrown into the San Diego Pride parade. He is openly gay and currently lives in Portland, Oregon.ġ969 – The Gay Liberation Front, a radical leftist group addressing not only gay rights but other left-wing causes, is formed in New York City. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, in particular homosexuality as such, Van Sant is considered one of the most prominent auteurs of the Cinema movement. He is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker. She certainly outrageously transgressed the gender expression boundaries of her time when women were not only not pilots, they certainly weren’t explorers, except, like the Shoshone heroine Sacajewea, in the service of – or in partnership with men who got the credit.ġ951 – Birth date of England’s first openly gay and openly HIV MP, British Labour Party politician Christopher Robert “Chris” Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury (July 24, 1951).ġ952 – Openly gay film director Gus Van Sant (July 24, 1952) is born on this date in Louisville, Kentucky. Many lesbian historians claim her as one of their own. A tomboy, preferring riding pants to dresses, and having a marriage that allowed for infidelity, we will never know if she was bisexual. Dong was afterward forced to commit suicide.ġ897 - Aviator Amelia Earhart (J– disappeared July 2, 1937) is born in Atchison, Kansas. Traditional historians characterized the relationship between Emperor Ai and Dong Xian as one between homosexual lovers and referred to their relationship as “the passion of the cut sleeve.” Dong was noted for his relative simplicity contrasted with the highly ornamented court, and was given progressively higher and higher posts as part of the relationship, eventually becoming the supreme commander of the armed forces by the time of Emperor Ai’s death. Emperor Ai was also famous for being the most effusive homosexual emperor of the Han Dynasty. He’s one of ten emperors of the Western Han dynasty who are considered to be homosexual or bisexual by today’s terms. He ascended the throne when he was 20, having been made heir by his uncle Emperor Cheng, who was childless, and he reigned from 7 to 1 BC. Good day for kayaking… Go have fun!ġ BCE, China – Emperor Ai of Han dies. The water in the Strait is like glass and the sun is shining brightly.