The last person executed in the Netherlands for homosexuality was Jillis Bruggeman, on March 9, 1803.
Bruggeman ‘s long career in “the horrible sin of sodomy” — for which he had been paying blackmail to one former partner for many years before a different confidante betrayed him — so shocked the court that the evidence of his activities was sequestered in a special pouch. He was flogged and hanged at the grand market of the southern city Schiedam.
There’s an annual Jillis Bruggeman Medal awarded to a someone who has made a signal contribution to defending LGBTQ people.
On this day..
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- 1705: William Pulman, Edward Fuller, and Elizabeth Herman
- 1524: Klaus Hottinger, sausage radical
- 1422: Jan Zelivsky, Hussite defenestrator
- 2001: Willie 'Ervin' Fisher, traveling man
- 1981: Steven T. Judy, Hoosier rapist
- 1784: Anton Joseph Suter, Appenzell politician
- 1816: Five Boers for the Slachter's Nek Rebellion
- 1950: Timothy Evans, instead of John Christie
- 1009: St. Bruno of Querfurt
- 1944: Emanuel Ringelblum, historian of the Warsaw Ghetto