May 30th

May 30 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 205 days remaining until the end of time.

1848 William G. Young patents ice cream freezer

1889 Brassiere is invented and relentlessly improved upon over time

1933 Patent is granted on invisible glass installation

1959 World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) is tested at Cowes, England

1989 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue made out of butter is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators who have a wild party needing lots of lube planned for later that evening.

1996 John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight" (Admit it, you only watched that show because you thought/hoped he was gay)

1912 Hugh Griffith, maybe gay Welsh actor 

1918 Bob Evans, US Sausage King/restauranteur  THE SAUSAGE KING, FCS!

1926 Christine Jorgensen, née George Jorgensen, acclaimed US transgendered woman/photographer

1927 Clint Walker, US actor <Be. Still. My. Heart.> 

1936 Keir Dullea, US actor 

1943 Gale Sayers, US football player/writer/Brian's Song (ultimate bromance movie that makes grown men cry no matter how may times you see it)  

1953 Colm Meaney, Irish actor 

1958 Ted McGinley, US actor/model/former student of mine 

1961 Ralph Carter, maybe gay US actor/Michael on Good Times 

1964 Tom Morello, maybe gay US guitarist (Rage Against the Machine)

1975 Liberto Rabal, Italian actor 

1977 Marco Da Silva, gay German dancer/choreographer 

1980 Daniel Saullo, Brazilian model/actor/Big Brother Brazil 6 contestant 

1981 Gregory Michael, US actor 

1982 Jonathan Tucker, maybe gay US actor 

1984 John Antorino, maybe gay US model/actor 

542 According to tradition, le morte d’Arthur

1431 Joan of Arc, transvestite French soldier/martyr, is smoking more, but enjoying it less at Rouen at 19

1593 Christopher Marlowe, gay English dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), pays with his soul to the devil

1912 Wilbur Wright, maybe gay US aviation pioneer, slips the surly bonds of earth

1986 Perry Ellis, fashion designer, succumbs to AIDS at 46

2007 Jean-Claude Brialy, gay French actor/author (400 Blows), travels the deadly circuit.

2010 Peter Orlovsky, gay US poet/Allen Ginsberg’s partner, has his grave shaped of heart so like a flower be free aired & handsome felt.

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1770 Captain James Cook finds Botany Gay

1865 Robert E. Lee and 26,765 rebel troops surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse.

1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada

1872 Delaying wiping up after a particularly good round of sex, Samuel R. Percy gets an idea and patents dried milk

1928 Mae West's New York City debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"

1939 Marian Anderson sings before 750,000 at the Lincoln Memorial as a fuck-you to the Daughters of the American Revolution

1966 Sophia Loren marries already married Carlo Ponti in Paris even though they aren't Mormons

1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles even though it's John Lennon's band

1992 Manuel Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges.  All things considered, he gets a much better deal that Saddam Hussein!

2005 Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are married in a civil ceremony

1980 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer/motion picture pioneer 

1898 Paul Robeson, US actor/athlete/basso concert singer/civil rights activitist 

1909 Sir Robert Helpmann, gay Australian dancer/actor/director/choreographer 

1926 Hugh Hefner, serial heterosexual US editor/Playboy CEO 

1928 Tom Lehrer, maybe gay US mathematician/singer/songwriter/satirist 

1933 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor 

1954 Dennis Quaid, US actor 

1963 Marc Jacobs, gay US fashion designer 

1966 Cynthia Nixon, gay US actress/Miranda Hobbs 

1966 Chris Austad, gay US model 

1966 Paul Lekakis, gay US singer/actor/Boom Boom Boom, Let's Go Back to My Room!! 

1968 Jay Chandrasekhar, US actor/director/comedian/Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe 

1970 Massimo Poggio, Italian actor 

1970 Spencer Rice, Canadian comedian/Kenny & Spenny 

1979 Mark Ruiz, US (Puerto Rican) diver 

1981 Arlen Escarpeta, Belizean actor 

1982 Borgy Manotoc, model/grandson of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos 

1985 Antonio Nocerino, Italian soccer player 

1987 Romulo Arantes Neto, Brazilian model/actor 

1990 Marston Hefner, born exactly 64 years after dear old dad, Hugh.  This one doesn't know how to treat women though.

1553 François Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), goes out big

1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, is martyred by the Nazis

1962 Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, must answer to St. PETA

 

1988 Brook Benton, maybe gay US singer (Just a Matter of Time), rushes in where angels don’t fear to tread

2010 Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), veers off the Yellow Brick Road.