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

February 26th

February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 299 days remaining until the end of time.

1815 Napoleon and 1,200 guys in tight pants leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France

1891 1st buffalo is purchased for Golden Gate Park and made to feel at home

1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.  The buffalo are nowhere to be found.

1937 Christopher Isherwood (l) and WH Auden's (r) "Ascent of F6" premieres in London.  I suspect they know what each other tastes like

1962 U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation. Of course, Mother Rosa has a car by now. Just take the first available seat, sir.

1980 Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic – and other – relations.

1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks.  Yes, the black man on the cover is Michael Jackson.

1993 2nd tallest building in world, New York City World Trade Center, bombed, 7 die and we don’t go to war with anybody.

1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial. Don’t Mess With Oprah, Texas!

1564 Christopher Marlowe, gay English dramatist/poet 

1829 Levi Strauss, German-US clothing designer/manufacturer 

1846 Buffalo Bill Cody, flamboyant US pioneer/hunter/showman 

1887 William Frawley, US actor/forever Fred Mertz

1920 Tony Randall [Ira Leonard Rosenberg], US actor 

  

1928 Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino, pianist/singer/songwriter

1964 Mark Dacascos, US actor/martial artist/Iron Chef America Chairman 

1967 James Allodi, Canadian actor 

1969 Steve Agee, US actor/plays one of the few gay characters on TV (Sarah Silverman Show) 

1971 Max Martin [Martin Sandberg], Swedish music producer/musician/responsible for Brintey Spears, Backstreet Boys, P!nk, and Kelly Clarkson's biggest hits/sexuality unconfirmed 

1975 Chris Sadrinna, Australian actor

Bonus!

1903 Richard J Gatling, U.S. inventor, gets a very quick 21 gun salute

 

1959 Lou Costello, actor (Abbott and Costello), finds out Who’s on first