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14TH JUNE

Angelica Georgini, the opera singer who became the lover of Queen Christina after her abdication, is commemorated today.

18TH JUNE

Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau's adolescent poet-lover (otherwise known as "Monsieur Bebe") who died at twenty-four and whose funeral was paid for by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, bom at Saint Maur, France, 1901.

24TH JUNE

On this day in 1980 at Dublin's High Court (Court No. 5 to be precise) David Norris opened his Constitutional Action against the Irish Government, taken on behalf of Irish gay people to repeal sections of the Criminal Law.

25TH JUNE

Irish novelist, Forrest Reid, who correctly surmising Henry James's homosexuality, dedicated his mildly gay novel "The Garden God" (1905) to the American writer, only to have James condemn the book for its "artless portrayal of sinister matters", bom today in Belfast, 1876.

26TH JUNE

The first revolt by gay patrons of the Stonewall Bar against police harassment, Greenwich Village, New York City 1969, and now recognised internationally as the beginning of the modern homosexuality civil rights movement.

28TH JUNE

Former Minister for Health and brilliant Irish Statesman, Dr. Noel Browne, unveiled a plaque outside the 1 year old Hirschfeld Centre, Dublin's first comprehensive gay community centre, in 1980, almost 61 years to the day that Magnus Hirschfeld, established the Institute for Sexual Science (later to be destroyed by Nazi stormtroopers) in Berlin.

30TH JUNE

Today is in memory of Montezuma 1, Emperor of Ancient Mexico, who, in a grisly variation of having one's cake and eating it too, was known to have cannibalized the boys he had sodomized.