Leonardo Da Vinci also almost got prosecuted
for Sodomy
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/artists/leonardo-da-vinci/
"At age 24, da Vinci was formally charged
with sodomy, although nothing ever came of
it. The charge, that is."
http://www.crystalinks.com/davinci.html
"In 1476, he was accused anonymously, along
with three other men, of sodomy with a 17
year-old model, Jacopo Saltarelli, who was a
notorious male prostitute. After two months
in jail, he was acquitted because no
witnesses stepped forward. For some time
afterwards, Leonardo and the others were
kept under observation by Florence's
Officers of the Night - a kind of
Renaissance vice squad, charged with
suppressing the practice of sodomy, which a
majority of male Florentines engaged in, as
shown by surviving legal records of the
Podestá and the Officers of the Night. "