A few events worth celebrating and/or remembering…
AUGUST 23, 1912
Artist Keith Vaughan is born in Selsey, Sussex.
AUGUST 23, 1954
Charles Busch is born in New York, New York. An American actor, screenwriter, playwright, and female impersonator, he’s known for his camp-style plays and film and television roles. He wrote and starred in his early plays off-off-Broadway beginning in 1978, generally in drag roles, and also acted in the works of other playwrights. He wrote for television and began to act in films and on television in the late 1990s. His best-known play is The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (2000), which was a success on Broadway.
AUGUST 23, 1971
Newsweek magazine publishes “The Militant Homosexual.”
AUGUST 23, 1994
The federal government acts to overturn Tasmania’s anti-sodomy law. Tasmania is the last Australian state to penalize same-sex relations.
AUGUST 23, 1995
Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt dies in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, aged 96.