Thursday 30 September 2010

30th September

LGBT people born 30th September:

1924 – Truman Capote – US Actor / Author – Died 25th August 1984

1935 – Johnny Mathis – US Singer

1960 – Nicola Griffith – UK Author / Editor

1971 – Miguel Leon – Venezuelan Porn

1971 – Jeff Whitty – US Playwright / Librettist

1977 – Maia Brewton – US Actress

1986 – James Barnett – US Activist / Entrepreneur

And those who died:

1955 – James Dean – US Actor – Born 8th February 1931

1987 – Geoffrey Burridge – UK Actor – Born 1949

1989 – Virgil Thomson – US Composer – Born 25th November 1896

1990 – Patrick White – Australian Author – Born 28th May 1912

1997 – Ernst van Heerden – South African Poet – Born 20th March 1916

Events in LGBT history:

2008 – Civil Unions legalised in Ecuador

Wednesday 29 September 2010

29th September

LGBT people born 29th September:

1955 – Ann Bancroft – US Polar Explorer / Author / Teacher

1956 – Carol Blazejowski – US Basketball

1958 – Jahna Steele – US Entertainer – Died 24th January 2008

1961 – Stephanie Miller – US Presenter / Comedian

1964 – Trojan Rock – UK Porn / Producer

1965 – Boris Izaguirre – Venezuelan / Spanish Screenwriter / Author / Journalist

1967 – Brett Anderson – UK Singer / Songwriter / Musician

1969 – Kelly Robbins – US Golf

???? – Kalman Faludi – Hungarian Porn

And those who died:

1967 – Carson McCullers – US Author / Playwright – Born 19th February 1917

1973 – WH Auden – UK / USA Poet – Born 21st February 1907

1987 – Elizabeth Eden – US Transsexual – Born 19th August 1946

2006 – Jan Werner Danielsen – Norwegian Singer – Born 10th April 1976

Tuesday 28 September 2010

28th September

LGBT people born 28th September:

1952 – Kurt van Eegham – Belgian Singer / Presenter

1953 – Keith McDermott – US Actor / Author

1969 – John Perez – US Politician

1970/7 – Chad Adams – US? Porn

And those who died:

1986 – Sir Robert Helpmann – Australian Dancer / Choreographer / Actor - Born 9th April 1909

2004 – FannyAnn Eddy – Sierra Leone Activist / Hate Crime Victim – Born 14th June 1974

Monday 27 September 2010

27th September

LGBT people born 27th September:

1937 – Robert Patrick – US Playwright / Poet / Author / Songwriter

1939 – Nicholas Haslam – UK Interior Designer / Hairdresser

1940 – Rudolph Moshammer – German Fashion Designer / Murder Victim – Died 14th January 2005

1965 – Rhona Cameron – UK Comedian / Presenter

1974 – Carrie Brownstein – US Musician / Actress / Blogger

1975 – Tim Campbell – Australian Actor

And those who died:

1961 – Hilda Doolittle – US Poet / Author – Born 10th September 1886

1992 – Keith Prentice – US Actor – Born 21st February 1940

2001 – Dafydd Jenkins – UK Club Manager / Editor – Born 20th December 1946

2002 – Charles Henri Ford – US Author / Poet / Director / Photographer / Artist / Editor – Born 10th February 1913

Sunday 26 September 2010

26th September

LGBT people born 26th September:

1907 – Anthony Blunt – UK Spy / Historian / Professor – Died 26th March 1983

1937 – Joop Admiraal – Dutch Actor – Died 25th March 2006

1942 – Gloria E Anzaldua – US Author / Poet / Activist – Died 15th May 2004

1946 – Andrea Dworkin – US Author / Activist – Died 9th April 2005

1947 – Arnie Zane – US Photographer / Dancer / Choreographer – Died 30th March 1988

1953 – David Clarenbach – US Politician

1958 – Darby Crash – US Singer / Musician – Died 7th December 1980

1962 – Patrick Bristow – US Actor

1966 – Scott Heim – US Author

1967 – Rich Merritt – US Marine / Lawyer / Blogger / Activist

1976 – Orville Lloyd Douglas – Canadian Poet / Author

1976 – Olivia O’Lovely – US Porn

And those who died:

1937 – Bessie Smith – US Singer / Actress – Born 15th April 1894

Saturday 25 September 2010

25th September

LGBT people born 25th September:

1914 – Robert Wright – US Librettist – Died 27th July 2005

1937 – Ronald Robertson – US Figure Skater – Died 4th February 2000

1952 – Cherrie Moraga – US Author / Playwright / Poet / Activist

1962 – David Bedella – US Actor

1968 – Mark Slade – US Porn

1974 – Sebastian Cole – Australian Porn

1977 – Oras Tynkkynen – Finnish Politician

1981 – Danny Hunter – US Porn

And those who died:

1626 – Theophile de Viau – French Poet / Playwright – Born 1590

1967 – Lota de Macedo Soares – Brazilian Aesthete – Born 1910

1968 – Cornell Woolrich – US Author – Born 4th December 1903

1987 – Gerald Chapman – UK Director – Born 8th November 1949

1987 – Emlyn Williams – UK Actor / Playwright – Born 26th November 1905

1989 – Jack Smith – US Actor / Playwright / Director / Photographer – Born 14th November 1932

Friday 24 September 2010

24th September

LGBT people born 24th September:

1899 – Sir William Dobell – Australian Sculptor / Painter – Died 13th May 1970

1923 – Louis Edmonds – US Actor – Died 3rd March 2001

1940 – Yves Navarre – French Author – Died 24th January 1994

1949 – Pedro Almodovar – Spanish Director / Producer / Screenwriter [or 25th September 1949]

1951 – Mark Leno – US Politician

1954 – Eric Stryker – US Porn – Died 19th February 1988

1961 – John Logan – US Screenwriter / Playwright

1969 – Chad Beguelin – US Playwright

1976 – Michelle Ferris – Australian Cyclist

1979 – Casey Johnson – US Socialite / Actress / Model / Author – Died 4th January 2010

1979 – Ross Matthews – US Presenter

???? – Jake Gianelli – US Porn / Bodybuilder

And those who died:

1494 – Poliziano – Italian Poet – Born 14th July 1454

1963 – Una Vincenzo – UK Sculptor / Translator – Born 8th March 1887

1981 – Patsy Kelly – US Actress / Singer / Comedian – Born 12th January 1910

1996 – Zeki Muren – Turkish Poet / Singer / Composer / Actor – Born 6th December 1931

2006 – Patrick Quinn – US Actor – Born 12th February 1950

2009 – Emile Norman – US Artist – Born 22nd April 1918

Thursday 23 September 2010

23rd September

LGBT people born 23rd September:

1923 – Anita Cornwell – US Author

1954 – George C Wolfe – US Playwright / Director

1965 – Manvendra Singh Gohil – Indian Prince / Reality TV [Undercover Princes]

1967 – Michael Soldier – US Porn / Actor / Drag Queen / Musician / Singer

1968 – Adam Price – UK Politician / Columnist

1970 – Ani DiFranco – US Singer / Songwriter / Musician

1972 – Sarah Bettens – Belgian Singer / Musician

And those who died:

2004 – Margaret Sloan-Hunter – US Activist / Poet / Journalist – Born 1947

Events in LGBT history:

1999 – First Celebrate Bisexuality Day in the USA (annually thereafter)

Wednesday 22 September 2010

22nd September

LGBT people born 22nd September:

1900 – William Spratling – US Artist – Died 7th August 1967

1910 – Gyorgy Faludy – Hungarian Poet / Author / Translator – Died 1st September 2006

1938 – Hilton Brown – US Artist / Activist

1946 – Maurice Richard – Canadian Politician

1953 – Richard Fairbrass – UK Singer / Presenter / Activist

1955 – Lilo Wanders – German Actor

1958 – Tim Miller – US Performance Artist / Author

1965 – Dan Bucatinsky – US Actor / Screenwriter / Producer

1969 – Sue Perkins – UK Comedian / Presenter / Actress / Scriptwriter

1972 – Matthew Rush – US Porn / Personal Trainer / Actor

1979 – Ron Link – Dutch Actor / Singer

1984 – Ole Henrik Gronn – Norwegian Politician

???? [or April 1983] – Sebastian Rivers – US Porn

Tuesday 21 September 2010

21st September

LGBT people born 21st September:

1898 – Pavel Tchelitchew – Russian / US Painter – Died 31st July 1957

1902 – Luis Cernuda – Spanish Poet / Literary Critic – Died 5th November 1963

1926 – Don Dunstan – Australian Politician – Died 6th February 1999

1944 – Fannie Flagg – US Actress / Author

1945 – Kay Ryan – US Poet / Teacher

1967 – Christopher Price – UK Presenter – Died 22nd April 2002

1967 – Alan G Rogers – US Soldier / Activist – Died 27th January 2008

1968 – Jinx Titanic [John Patrick Kamys] – US Composer / Singer / Songwriter / Author / Actor / Comedian / Presenter

1970 – Melissa Ferrick – US Singer

1977 – Johnny Hazzard – US Porn / Singer

1983 – Scott Evans – US Actor

1984 – Jonny Makeup – US Musician / Presenter / Columnist

And those who died:

1327 – Edward II – English Monarch – Born 25th April 1284

1996 – Henri Nouwen – Dutch / Canadian Priest / Author / Theologian – Born 24th January 1932

Monday 20 September 2010

20th September

LGBT people born 20th September:

1869 – Emma Willits – US Physician – Died 9th April 1965

1918 – Gordon Heath – US Singer / Actor / Director – Died 27th August 1991

1918 – George Mosse – German / US Historian / Author – Died 22nd January 1999

1924 – William John Christopher Vassall – UK RAF / Spy – Died 18th November 1996

1925 – James Bernard – UK Composer – Died 12th July 2001

1930 – Richard Montague – US Mathematician – Died 7th March 1971

1948 – Chuck Panozzo – US Musician

1952 – Molly Cutpurse – UK Author

1955 – Jamie Lee Hamilton – Canadian Politician / Activist / Author / Entertainer / Lecturer

1958 – Mike Roberts – US Porn

1961 – Bo Dixon – US Porn

1976 – Lesley Brehm – Dutch Presenter

1976/7 – Lane Fuller – US Porn

And those who died:

2005 – Tobias Schneebaum – US Artist / Activist – Born 25th March 1922

Sunday 19 September 2010

19th September

LGBT people born 19th September:

1876 – Ethel Mars – US Artist – Died 1956

1910 – Margaret Lindsay – US Actress – Died 9th May 1981

1934 – Brian Epstein – UK Artists’ Manager – Died 27th August 1967

1947 – Nimrod Ping – UK Architect / Politician – Died 3rd July 2006

1962 – Gottfried von Bismarck – German Aristocrat – Died 30th June 2007

1963 – Inge Diepman – Dutch Presenter

1969 – LeRoy Whitfield – US Journalist / Activist – Died 9th October 2005

1974 – Sam Jensen Page – US Journalist / Personal Trainer

1978 – Michael Bihary – Slovakian / Dutch Singer

1980 – Tegan & Sara Quinn – Canadian Singers / Songwriters / Musicians

And those who died:

1990 – Stephen F Kolzak – US Director – Born 19th February 1953

1992 – Frederick Combs – US Actor – Born 11th October 1935

Events in LGBT history:

1993 – Hamilton Square Baptist Church protests in San Francisco, California, USA

Saturday 18 September 2010

18th September

LGBT people born 18th September:

53 – Trajan – Roman Emperor – Died 8th August 117

1856 – Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden – German Photographer – Died 16th February 1931

1883 – Baron Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson) – UK Composer / Author / Painter – Died 19th April 1950

1905 – Greta Garbo – Swedish / US Actress – Died 15th April 1990

1925 – Pia Beck – Dutch Pianist – Died 26th November 2009

1928 – Jack Robinson – US Photographer – Died 15th December 1997

And those who died:

1935 – Alice Dunbar Nelson – US Poet / Journalist / Activist – Born 19th July 1875

1983 – Jose Perez Ocana – Spanish Painter / Drag Queen – Born 24th March 1947

2002 – Andreas Burnier – Dutch Author – Born 3rd July 1931

2008 – Tony Randolph Hunter – US Hate Crime Victim – Born 1970 / 71 or 1980 / 81

Friday 17 September 2010

17th September

LGBT people born 17th September:

1884 – Charles Griffes – US Composer / Pianist – Died 8th April 1920

1904 – Sir Frederick Ashton – Ecuadorian Dancer / Choreographer – Died 18th October 1988

1928 – Roddy McDowell – UK Actor – Died 3rd October 1998

1943 – Gilbert Proesch – Italian Artist

1958 – Chris Burns – US Porn – Died 26th February 1995

1962 – Michael French – UK Actor

1963 – Tim van Zandt – US Politician / Nurse / Accountant

1965 – Bryan Singer – US Director / Producer

1971 – Nate Berkus – US Interior Designer / Presenter

1974 – Mirah – US Singer / Songwriter / Musician

1975 – Jade Esteban Estrada – US Singer / Comedian / Actor / Dancer / Choreographer / Author

And those who died:

1921 – Philip, Prince of Eulenburg – German Politician – Born 12th February 1847

1948 – Ruth Benedict – US Anthropologist / Author – Born 5th June 1887

1994 – Glenn Steers – US / UK Porn – Born 3rd October 1958

???? – Lisa D – US Murder Victim – Born ????

Thursday 16 September 2010

16th September

LGBT people born 16th September:

1882 – Freda du Faur – Australian Mountain Climber – Died 11th September 1935

1922 – David Noyes Jackson – US Author / Artist – Died 13th July 2001

1934 – George Chakiris – US Actor / Dancer

1954 – Michael Nava – US Lawyer / Author

1970 – Sandi Simcha DuBowski – US Director / Producer

1974 – Monique Brumby – Australian Musician / Singer / Songwriter / Music Producer

1977 – Justin Deabler – US Reality TV [Real World: Hawaii]

And those who died:

1994 – Richard A Heyman – US Politician – Born 1935

Wednesday 15 September 2010

15th September

LGBT people born 15th September:

1889 – Claude McKay – Jamaican / US Author / Poet – Died 22nd May 1948

1932 – Ann Bannon – US Author / Professor

1937 – Jacques D’Ancona – Dutch Journalist

1956 – Cathy Connolly – US Professor / Politician

1967 – Jerry Dixon – US Actor / Songwriter / Musician

And those who died:

1983 – Beverley Nichols – UK Author / Playwright / Actor / Composer – Born 9th September 1898

2007 – Osvan Inacio dos Santos – Brazilian Hate Crime Victim – Born 1987 / 1988

Tuesday 14 September 2010

14th September

LGBT people born 14th September:

1769 – Alexander von Humboldt – German Explorer – Died 6th May 1859

1908 – Peter Watson – UK Art Collector – Died 3rd May 1956

1916 – Eric Bentley – UK Actor / Singer / Playwright / Critic / Translator / Editor

1930 – Allan Bloom – US Author / Philosopher – Died 7th October 1992

1934 – Kate Millett – US Sculptor / Author

1935 – Amanda Barrie – UK Actress

1954 – Michael Patrick King – US Director / Producer / Screenwriter

1954 – David Wojnarowicz – US Painter / Photographer / Author / Director / Activist – Died 22nd July 1992

1955 – Pier Vittorio Tondelli – Italian Author – Died 16th December 1991

1958 – Robert McCall – Canadian Figure Skater – Died 15th November 1991

1967 – Jacob Anderson-Minshall – US Author / Journalist / Presenter

1969 – Ashlyn Gere – US Porn / Actress

1976/80 – Rhett O’Hara – US Porn

1977 – Ruthie Alcaide – US Reality TV [Real World: Hawaii]

And those who died:

1927 – Isadora Duncan – US Dancer – Born 26th May 1877

2008 – John Burnside – US Inventor – Born 2nd November 1916

Events in LGBT history:

2009 – Same-sex marriage legalised in Maine, USA from this date, overturned in November by People’s Veto

Monday 13 September 2010

13th September

LGBT people born 13th September:

1928 – Robert Indiana – US Artist

1944 – Bettina Aptheker – US Author / Activist

1948 – Nell Carter – US Actress – Died 23rd January 2003

1952 – Randy Jones – US Singer [or 23rd July ????]

1973 – Mousbah Baalbaki – Lebanese Belly dancer

And those who died:

1959 – Adrian – US Costume Designer – Born 3rd March 1903

1940 – John Brooks Wheelwright – US Poet – Born 1897

1991 – Peter McGehee – US / Canadian Author – Born 6th October 1955

2007 – Danny Roddick – US Porn – Born 11th June 1976/78

2007 – Gordon Sloan – Australian Architect / Reality TV [Big Brother] – Born 31st October 1972

Sunday 12 September 2010

12th September

LGBT people born 12th September:

1946 – Minnie Bruce Pratt – US Author / Poet / Teacher / Activist

1954 – Robert Gober – US Artist

1956 – Leslie Cheung – Hong Kong Actor / Singer / Producer / Musician – Died 1st April 2003

1957 – Tony de Vit – UK DJ – Died 2nd July 1998

1963 – Paul Bellini – US Presenter / Journalist

1964 – Chip Kidd – US Author / Editor / Graphic Designer

1970 – Jens Hammer – German Porn

And those who died:

1992 – Anthony Perkins – US Actor – Born 4th April 1932

1993 – Raymond Burr – US Actor – Born 21st May 1917

1995 – Jeremy Brett – UK Actor – Born 3rd November 1933

Saturday 11 September 2010

Brandhorst-Gamboa Family

Daniel Brandhorst / Ronald Gamboa / David Gamboa-Brandhorst

On this horrid anniversary the story of the Brandhorst-Gamboa family is both a heart-rending one. Daniel and Ronald met about 13 years prior to 9/11 while living on the US east coast. When Daniel got transferred to a Pricewaterhouse/Cooper office in Los Angeles, the couple moved to facilitate this and with Ronald eventually settling as a manager of The Gap store in Santa Monica.
The couple adopted a son, David, through a surrogate mother, looking after her during the pregnancy, birth and afterwards. Initially needing some help as all new parents so, they quickly settled in to become natural parents, Daniel becoming "Papa" and Ronald "Daddy" to the beautiful, bright, energetic and very caring young boy. Daniel was variously described as happy, inspirational, a good friend and generous, but was also the "serious one" in the relationship. Ronald was the joker who could apparently "make a rainy day look happy." Both parents have inspired their co-workers to greater things and are remembered fondly by many of them, some of whom have had their lives changed dramatically by the advice given by the two men. The one thing that can be taken from this terrible day is that in the end the loving family were together.

I would have been honoured to meet the trio who, even though they are gone, stand as examples to show the bigots still out there that a family is what individuals make it and does not need to be formulaic or standardised. Some of the best families are those which are chosen, not moulded. The Brandhorst-Gamboas are fine examples of all that a family can and should be and should be used as role models for gay marriage, gay adoption, happiness and good parenting.


To read an incredibly touching tribute to David Gamboa-Brandhorst please visit here.
Please also visit 2996 Project to read about all the other victims of this terrible day. Every one has a story.

11th September

LGBT people born 11th September:

1864 – Marc-Andre Raffalovich – French Poet / Author – Died 1934

1911 – Bola de Nieve – Cuban Musician / Singer – Died 2nd October 1971

1948 – Jewelle Gomez – US Author / Poet / Playwright / Critic / Activist

1957 – John Moss – UK Musician

1965 – Axel Schock – German Journalist / Author

1967/9 – Arpad Miklos – Hungarian Porn

1969 – Gidget Gein – US Musician – Died 8th October 2008

1978 – Shawn Legend – US Porn

And those who died:

1292 – John de Wettre – Belgian Knife-maker executed for homosexuality – Born 1263

1935 – Freda du Faur – Australian Mountain Climber – Born 16th September 1882

1971 – Bella Darvi – French Actress – Born 23rd October 1928

1988 – Forrest Henderson – US Singer / Murder Victim – Born ????

2001 – 9/11 victims –

Graham Berkeley – UK – Flight 175 - Born ?

Mark Bingham – US PR Executive / Rugby / Hero – Flight 93 - Born 22nd May 1970

Pamela J Boyce – US AVP of Accounting – WTC – Born ?

Dan Brandhorst – US – Flight 175 – Born ?

David Charlebois – US Pilot – Flight 77 – Born 29th August 1962

Eugene Clark – US – WTC – Born ?

Jeffrey Collman – US Flight Attendant – Flight 11 – Born ?

Luke A Dudek – US Catering Manager – WTC – Born ?

Eddie – US Firefighter – WTC – Born ?

James Joe Ferguson – US – Flight 77 – Born ?

Carol Flyzik – US Nurse – Flight 11 – Born

Ronald Gamboa – US – Flight 175 – Born ?

Sheila Hein – US Army Staff – Pentagon – Born ?

Mychal F Judge – US Priest / Hero / Firefighter – WTC – Born 11th May 1933

Tony Karnes – US – WTC – Born ?

John Keohane – US – WTC – Born ?

Michael Lepore – US – WTC – Born 1962

Waleska Martinez – US – Flight 93 – Born ?

Patricia McAneney – US – WTC – Born ?

Wesley Mercer – US Army / VP of Corporate Security – WTC – Born ?

Seamus O’Neal – US Army / Actor / Dancer – WTC – Born ?

Philip Paul Ognibene – US Bond Trader / Softball – WTC – Born ?

Catherine Smith – US – WTC – Born ?

2008 – Nils Johan Ringdal – Norwegian Author / Historian / Bodybuilder – Born 6th March 1952

Friday 10 September 2010

10th September

LGBT people born 10th September:

1487 – Julius III – Italian Pope – Died 23rd March 1555

1886 – Hilda Doolittle [H.D.] – US Poet / Author – Died 27th September 1961

1935 – Mary Oliver – US Poet

1951 – Kris Kovick – US Author / Cartoonist – Died 26th October 2001

1960 – Alison Bechdel – US Cartoonist

1970 – Jeff Marx – US Composer / Librettist

1979 – Amanda Moore – US Model

And those who died:

1948 – Ferdinand I – Bulgarian Monarch / Author / Botanist / Entomologist / Philatelist – Born 26th February 1861

Thursday 9 September 2010

9th September

LGBT people born 9th September:

1876 – Ernst Burchard – German Physician / Sexologist / Author / Activist – Died 5th February 1920

1898 – Beverley Nichols – UK Author / Playwright / Actor / Composer – Died 15th September 1983

1911 – Paul Goodman – US Author / Poet / Sociologist / Activist – Died 2nd August 1972

1943 – Bryan Derbyshire – UK Journalist / Editor / Entrepreneur – Died 1st May 2001

1949 – John Curry – UK Figure Skater – Died 15th April 1994

1955 – Edward Hibbert – US Actor / Literary Agent

1956 – Arjan Ederveen – Dutch Comedian

1965 – Jesus Vazquez Martinez – Spanish Presenter / Model / Singer / Actor

1967 – John Paulus – US Porn

1968 – Jamie Pedersen – US Politician / Lawyer

1970 – Molly McKay – US Lawyer / Activist

1974 – Ana Carolina – Brazilian Singer / Musician

1977 – Mark Ferrandino – US Politician / Fiscal Analyst

And those who died:

1999 – Steen Fenrich – US Hate Crime Victim – Born 1981

2009 – John Terry – UK Diplomat / Murder Victim – Born ????

Events in LGBT history:

1970 – Gay Liberation Front disrupt a “morality campaign” and rally at Methodist Central Hall, London, UK