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Thursday, May 17, 2012

May 17th

May 17 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 218 days remaining until the end of time.




1536 Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" give head
1794 Hard frost hits southern New England
1805 Muhammad Ali becomes Wa-li of Egypt. He is so pretty, Allahu akbar!
1881 Revised version of New Testament takes out all the gay sex scenes.  Guess it's not so "inerrant" after all.
1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Board of Education of Topeka reversing the 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy v Ferguson decision
1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra II
1971 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell" premieres off-Broadway
2004 Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage



1866 Erik Satie, allegedly asexual French composer
1936 Dennis Hopper, US actor/director 
1946 Peter Hinwood, English model/actor/the true “Rocky” (Rocky Horror, that is) 
1950 Howard Ashman, gay US playwright/film lyricist
1955 Bill Paxton, US actor/director
1962 Craig Ferguson, Scottish-US actor/comedian/late night TV host 
1964 David Eigenberg, US actor 
1965 Trent Reznor, US singer/songwriter/musician/sound designer (Nine Inch Nails, etc.) 
1966 Hill Harper, US actor 
1967 Cameron Bancroft, US actor 
1969 Thom Filicia, gay US interior designer/home decor Queer Eye 
1973 Matthew McGrory, 7'6" US actor
1974 Sendhil Ramamurthy, US actor
1981 Ted Colunga / Fred Fele, gay Hungarian actor 
1982 Tony Parker, French basketball player 
1983 Duda Nagle, Brazilian actor 
1986 Drew Roy, US actor 



1999 James Broughton, bisexual US filmmaker/poet, sets out to radicalize faeries
2004 Tony Randall [Arthur Leonard Rosenberg], US actor (The Odd Couple), gets no flowers sent




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