In 1897, German doctor and writer Magnus Hirschfeld formed the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee to campaign publicly against the notorious law " Paragraph 175 ", which made sex between men illegal.

* probable-Jacques Chausson, French writer involved in a notorious criminal case ( died 1661 )

George Puttenham ( 1529 – 1590 ) was a 16th-century English writer, literary critic, and notorious rake.

A writer who suffers a nervous breakdown after a divorce / abortion, becoming a notorious " witch lady " in Maggie's hometown.

The noted sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison once referred to him as " Glen Larceny " for the notorious similarities between Larson's shows and cinema blockbusters, for example, Alias Smith and Jones was taken from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ; McCloud from Coogan's Bluff ; Battlestar Galactica from Star Wars ; BJ & The Bear from Every Which Way But Loose ; Automan from Tron ; The Fall Guy from Hooper ; and Buck Rogers was simply a remake of the original comic book and film serial character.

Since getting divorced, Baroness Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, previously Baroness Dudevant, the successful and notorious writer of sensational romance novels now living under the pseudonym George Sand, in Paris, has been in the habit of dressing like a man.

Henry Spencer Ashbee ( 21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900 ) was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer, notorious for his massive, clandestine three volume bibliography of erotic literature written under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi.

Others merely made themselves notorious for their dissipation, like Ange-Laurent's brother, the estranged husband of the writer and saloniste Louise d ' Épinay.

A notorious unsigned 1992 Globus article ( Slaven Letica, a known sociologist, former advisor to President Franjo Tudjman and writer, subsequently admitted to being its author ) accused five Croatian female writers, Drakulić included, of being " witches " and of " raping " Croatia.

The only way Vicky Hiller, Barbara's editor, can find to promote the book is for Barbara to meet Catcher Block – a successful writer for the magazine Know and a notorious " ladies ' man, man's man, man about town " – but he avoids her repeatedly by postponing their dates until she gets fed up, insults him, and walks out.

A CNN reviewer felt, upon reading the book, that " Bret Easton Ellis is a gifted writer "; he praised his " unflinching eye " in capturing the details of " the ensemble worn by a notorious clothes horse, or the grisly aftermath of a hotel bombing, or the graphic details of a menage a trois.

Current regular columns include the staff-written Media Farm, covering mostly the Boston market print media ; The Honest Pint beer column, written by Heather Vandenengel, and the through the interim of the paper's existence, features the notorious and inflammatory writing of Dig's Circulation overlord Craig C. Terlino-http :// digboston. com / think / 2012 / 06 / america-eats-itself-out / ( The Captain ), known for his gonzo-style writing and reporting, and his infamous fax exchange and rendezvous with the late writer Hunter S. Thompson.

His most notorious line, " Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation ," set the tone for a collection of essays published under the title Hatchet Jobs.

Ian Jones ( born 1931 ) is an Australian television writer and director and an author specialising in the history of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang.

Ernest-Aimé Feydeau ( 16 March 1821 – 27 October 1873 ) was a French writer and the father of the notorious comic playwright Georges Feydeau.

His plays gained moderate success in their own time, but none were as notorious as Un Secret, dedicated to Marie, the daughter of writer Charles Nodier.

Strom was a close associate of University of Illinois Classics professor and nationalist writer Revilo P. Oliver, who has been described as " one of America's most notorious fascists " and, according to B ' nai Brith Canada, was " a long time proponent of antisemitism ".

Diverse expeditions at diverse epochs and lands, have tried to find proof of the existence of a subterranean world, from the Col. Fawcett notorious expeditions to Third Reich sponsored attempts and many private expeditions in modern times, some sponsored by cultural foundations and even magazines as the 1978 Roncador Expedition to the Roncador mountains in Matto Grosso, Brazil, sponsored by the magazine Noticias from Uruguay and led by pilot and writer A. de Souza.

Among the most well-known video-game filmmakers is Uwe Boll, a German writer, director, and producer who has become notorious among video-game fans and critics alike for making video games adaptations such as House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Postal and Far Cry, all of which were almost universally panned by audiences for their deviation from the source material and simply bad quality.

The author – known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, Strangers on a Train – became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction.

Her participation in Miss Venezuela also became notorious when she was asked during the traditional " breakfast with press " the day after the pageant, because of her degree, which Venezuelan playwright she liked the most, to which she answered, " Gabriel García Márquez ", a Colombian writer.

James Malcolm Rymer ( 1814 – 1884 ) was a British nineteenth century writer of penny dreadfuls, and is the probable author of Varney the Vampire ( 1847 ) ( often attributed to fellow writer Thomas Peckett Prest ) and co-author ( with Prest ) of The String of Pearls ( 1847 ), in which the notorious villain Sweeney Todd makes his literary debut.

While he became notorious for his " mumbling " diction and exuding a raw animal magnetism, his mercurial performances were nonetheless highly regarded, and he is widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century.

Milgram became very notorious for this tactic, and his experiment was soon classed as highly unethical as it caused stress to the participants in the study.

Clopyralid is notorious for its ability to persist in dead plants and compost, and has accumulated to phytotoxic levels in finished compost in a few highly publicized cases.

Examples range from trivial code snippets to the highly complex expressions for which Perl is notorious.

Typically, the most notorious flops are attempts at creating summer blockbusters, which often incur enormous production costs in a highly competitive market.

Most notorious among these was the storyline about Nailed !, a musical about the crucifixion of Jesus in the vein of Jesus Christ Superstar, but done in a manner which is irreverent and highly offensive ( including a scene where Mary Magdalene does a pole dance on the cross ).

The group released a demo and an EP that were highly influential, and amassed a loyal following through sporadic and notorious live performances, attracting further attention through their ties to the string of Norwegian church burnings and the prominent incidents of violence surrounding them.

Marines were chosen because, at that time, they were particularly notorious: Dutch marines are hardened, highly trained, professional soldiers.

He was notorious for both his highly scientific and harsh disciplinarian approaches to management.

* Simonides: A highly respected poet, he was however notorious for demanding high fees-he'd even go to sea in a sieve if the commission was right ( line 697-8 ).

With " the Black Pearl " as playmaker and notorious goalscorer, GAIS was once again a force to be reckoned with and made it to the qualifying round to Allsvenskan in 1985, only to lose out to Djurgårdens IF after a penalty shoot-out in a highly controversial game.

* The Addiction ( 1995 ) A philosophical variant on the vampire film, that uses vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS and ends with a notorious and highly sexually charged orgy of blood-sucking.

With the road being highly over capacity, it has become notorious for its chronic congestion.

Though in place, the code was not enforced until 1934, spurred on in response to objections voiced by several groups to the content of Hollywood films – provoked at least partly by the notorious 1933 Czech film Ecstasy, which was highly controversial in its time largely because of a nude swimming scene by Hedy Lamarr as well as perhaps the first non-pornographic film to portray sexual intercourse, although never showing more than the actors ' faces.

According to their superstition they worship the god of waterfowls-swans, geese and other birds swimming on water … His throne in the temple is made of different kinds of broadcloth, canvas and hide, built like a nest ; in it sits the monster who is always highly revered, most of all at the times of catching waterfowls in nests … This idol is so notorious that people come from distant villages to perform atrocious sacrifice to it-offering cattle, mainly horses ; and they are certain that it ( the idol ) is the bearer of many goods, mainly ensuring the richness of waterfowls …"

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

The OAS became notorious for stroungas, attacks using plastic explosives ( stroungas comes from the Italian stroncare, to rip down ; many pied-noirs were of southern Italian descent which influenced local French ).

Their most famous performance was heavily influenced by an early similar act by the notorious Barrison Sisters.

Hospital Music was additionally influenced by Good's proximity to Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, just blocks away from his Gastown loft.

" In between his drag performances, his days as a hustler and his convictions of murder, his image as the legendary cabaret performance artist Madame Satã meaning Madam Satan having been influenced by the 1930s film by Cecil B. DeMille about a woman disguising herself as a notorious temptress to win back her errant husband.