Atticus Campbell

10/28/2009 President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Shepard, 21, was tortured and killed in Laramie, Wyo., because he was gay. Byrd a 49-year-old African American man, was chained to the back of a truck and dragged to death in Jasper, Texas.

10/28/1990 U.S. Congressman Jesse Helms refers to gays and lesbians as “disgusting people marching in the streets demanding all sorts of things, including the right to marry each other.” 1990 Placido Domingo and Andre Watts raise $1.5 million at a fundraiser for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

10/28/1903, Germany “I am of the firm conviction,” Sigmund Freud famously wrote in 1905 “that homosexuals must not be treated as sick people.” Freud was an Austrian psychoanalysit, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

10/28/1824, France Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine is beaten and left for dead after propositioning a male soldier in Saint-Denis. He lived with his partner Edward St. Barbe. Custine maintains a successful social life in Paris and writer who is best known for his travel writing.

Simon Le Bon celebrated 68 trips around the sun on 10/27/2026

Ted Wass became 74 years young on 10/27/2026

John Cleese turned 87 on 10/27/2026

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Happy Hump Day

Vacation - Reading & Drinking and of course being gay

Vacation - Reading & Drinking

Taco Tuesday

Fall is showing off in Atlanta