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9th September
Captain (William) Bligh, whom we are told had a crush on Fletcher Christian, born in 1754.
11th September
Novelist D.H. Lawrence, bom in Nottinghamshire, England, 1885.
12th September
The Soup Kitchen at the Hirschfeld Centre, Dublin, closes - to be replaced by a franchised coffee bar, 1983.
James Whale
14th September
Writer and lesbian feminist, Kate Millet, bom 1934.
18th September
The 1st Magnus Hirschfeld Award for outstanding contribution to Irish gay liberation is presented to Dr. Noel Browne, former Minister for Health, at the NGF AGM in Liberty Hall, Dublin, 1982.
19th September
Henry III, King of Poland and France, who was so effeminate that he wore full drag and makeup and frequently hid shrieking in cellars during thunderstorms, bom in Fontainbleau, 1551.
21st September
The Daughters of Bilitis, first lesbian organisation in the US, founded in San Francisco, by Phyllis Lyons and Del Martin, 1956.
23rd September
Emperor Augustus, born in Rome, 63 B.C.
25th September
Swiss philanthropist Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross (his memoirs were mutilated and falsified by his family) bom in Geneva, 1828.
26th September
Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin bom in New Jersey, USA, 1946. Also the birthday of poet/critic T.S. Eliot (1888).
28th September
William II Rufus, one of William the Conqueror's two gay sons, bom 1056; and the painter Caravaggio, bom in the town from which he took his name, 1573.
29th September
The first lesbian organisation in Ireland -Liberation for Irish Lesbians - founded at the Resources Centre, Rathgar Road, Dublin, 1978.
30th September
Truman Capote, who once confided "I was a beautiful little boy... everyone had me - men, women, dogs and fire hydrants. I did it with everybody", born 1924.
3rd October
Gore Vidal, author, born in New York, 1925.
9th October
James Whale, director of Frankenstein and some of Hollywood's best horror films of the 1930's and who made no secret of his love affair with producer David Lewis - for which he never worked in Hollywood again - is commemorated today.