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.
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.