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Web Watch: Dr. Ronni Sanlo’s ‘Today in LGBT History’ Blog

From the ‘best of the old LGBTSr’ category: Web Watch is a regular feature highlighting websites of note. This one is a fascinating and fabulous look at LGBT history each day from the indefatigable Dr. Ronni Sanlo, Ed. D.

An excerpt:

Today in LGBT History – March 14

1860, Estonia – Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock 14 March 1860 –14 April] 1895)  is born in Estonia. He was a Baltic Swedish poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction. Virtually forgotten today, he was the aesthete who could out-aesthete the great Oscar Wilde. A writer of opium-induced poems and stories, he once hosted Wilde who dared light a cigarette in front of a bust of Shelly. The sacrilege was so horrible the count fainted.

Continue at Dr. Sanlo’s blog.