Thursday 6 October 2011

6th October

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LGBT People Born 6th October:


1847 – Adolf von Hildebrand – German[?] Sculptor / Architect – Died 18th January 1921


1866 – John Gambril Nicholson – UK Poet / Teacher / Photographer – Died 1st July 1931


1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin – Russian Poet / Musician [or 18th October 1872] – Died 1st March 1936


1898 – Mitchell Leisen – US Director / Costume Designer – Died 28th October 1972


1902 – Bruno Balz – German Songwriter – Died 14th March 1988


1927 – Antony Grey – UK Activist – Died 30th April 2010


1955 – Richard Berkowitz – US Author / Activist


1955 – Peter McGehee – US / Canadian Author – Died 13th September 1991


1961 – Ben Summerskill – UK Journalist / Activist


1965 – Kate Fleming – US Actress / Producer – Died 14th December 2006


1970/1 – Peter Raeg – Australian Porn


1976 – Carlo Masi – Italian Porn


1979 – Owen Hawk – US Porn



And Those Who Died:


1923 – Oscar Browning – UK Author / Historian – Born 17th January 1837


1973 – Dennis Price – UK Actor – Born 23rd June 1915


1979 – Elizabeth Bishop – US Poet – Born 8th February 1911


1992 – Denholm Elliott – UK Actor – Born 31st May 1922


2008 – Kim Ji-hoo – South Korean Actor / Model – Born 5th April 1985


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Wednesday 5 October 2011

5th October

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LGBT People Born 5th October:


1840 – John Addington Symonds – UK Poet / Literary Critic – Died 19th April 1893


1928 – Louise Fitzhugh – US Author / Illustrator – Died 19th November 1974


1939 – Marie-Claire Blais – Canadian Author / Playwright


1945 – Carlos Castro – Portuguese Presenter / Journalist / Murder Victim – Died 7th January 2011


1949 – Peter Ackroyd – UK Author


1952 – Clive Barker – UK Author / Director


1952 – Hermes Phettberg – Austrian Artist / Comedian / Actor / Author / Presenter


1956 – Ron Nyswaner – US Screenwriter / Director


1972 – Thomas Roberts – US Presenter


1973 – Titof – French Porn


1977 – Szymon Niemiec – Polish Journalist / Activist / Politician


1982 – Francisco Bosch – Spanish Actor / Dancer



And Those Who Died:


1918 – Robbie Ross – Canadian Journalist / Art Critic – Born 25th May 1869


1962 – Sylvia Beach – US Author – Born 14th March 1887


2000 – Ruth Ellis – US Activist – Born 23rd July 1899


2009 - Kevin McGee – UK Producer – Born 1977



Events in LGBT History:


2002 – Azedine Berkane attempted to assassinate Bertrand Delanoe in Paris, France


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Tuesday 4 October 2011

4th October

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LGBT People Born 4th October:


1890 – Alan L Hart – US Physician / Author – Died 4th July 1962


1907 – Alain Danielou – French Historian / Author – Died 27th January 1994


1919 – CA Tripp – US Psychologist / Author / Activist – Died 17th May 2003


1972 – Van Darkholme – US Porn / Actor / Director / Photographer [or 24th October]


???? – Cort Stevens – US Porn [or 20th January 1981]



And Those Who Died:


1902 – Lionel Pigot Johnson – UK Poet / Author / Journalist – Born 15th March 1867


1970 – Janis Joplin – US Singer – Born 19th January 1943


1989 – Graham Chapman – UK Actor / Screenwriter – Born 8th January 1941


1996 – Alma Routsong [Isabel Miller] – US Author – Born 26th November 1924



Events in LGBT History:


2007 – Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Florida, USA [ran until 14th October 2007]


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Monday 3 October 2011

3rd October

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LGBT People Born 3rd October:


1858 – Eleonora Duse – Italian Actress – Died 21st April 1924


1877 – Virginia Gildersleeve – US College Dean – Died 7th July 1965


1882 – Karol Szymanowski – Polish Composer / Pianist – Died 28th March 1937


1897 – Louis Aragon – French Author / Poet – Died 24th December 1982


1908 – David Herbert – UK Author / Socialite / Interior Designer – Died 3rd April 1995


1915 – Anthony Forwood – UK Actor / Actor’s Manager – Died 18th May 1988


1922 – John Craxton – UK Painter – Died 17th November 2009


1925 – Gore Vidal – US Author / Playwright


1928 – Erik Bruhn – Danish Ballet / Choreographer / Actor / Director / Author – Died 1st April 1986


1930 – Nicholas Eden – UK Politician – Died 17th August 1985


1944 – Roy Horn – German Magician


1950 – Christine Kehoe – US Politician


1951 – Bernard Cooper – US Author


1952 – Oyvind Rauset – Norwegian Artist / Musician / Composer


1956 – Peter Frechette – US Actor


1958 – Glenn Steers – US / UK Porn – Died 17th September 1994


1967 – David “Sinders” Morley – UK Pub Landlord / Admiral Duncan bombing survivor / Murder Victim – Born 30th October 2004


1970 – Kobi Israel – Israeli Photographer


1978 – Jake Shears – US Singer


???? – Chris Ward – US[?] Director



And Those Who Died:


1997 – AL Rowse – UK Historian / Poet – Born 4th December 1903


1998 – Roddy McDowell – UK Actor – Born 17th September 1928


2002 – Gwen Araujo – US Hate Crime Victim – Born 24th February 1985


2005 – Guillaume Dustan – French Author / Journalist – Born 29th November 1965



Events in LGBT History:


1973 – Howard Junior Brown came out at a symposium on sexuality at the Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead, New Jersey, USA


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Sunday 2 October 2011

2nd October

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LGBT People Born 2nd October:


1866 – Charles Ricketts – UK Artist / Illustrator / Author / Painter – Died 7th October 1931


1926 – Jan Morris – UK Historian / Author


1936 – Antonio Gala – Spanish Poet / Playwright / Activist


1946 – Jean-Jacques Aillagon – French Politician


1949 – Annie Leibovitz – US Photographer


1959 – Will West – US Porn [or 1st October 1959]


1961 – Sir Simon Milton – UK Politician – Died 11th April 2011


1966 – Chip Arndt – US Reality TV [Amazing Race 4 / Real Gay] / Activist


1973 – Andriy Danylko [aka Verka Serduchka] – Russian Drag Queen / Singer


1979 – Maja Ivarsson – Swedish Singer


1986 / 1987 – Ashton Star – US Porn



And Those Who Died:


1971 – Bola de Nieve – Cuban Musician / Singer – Born 11th September 1911


1985 – Rock Hudson – US Actor – Born 17th November 1925


2004 – Daniel Fetty – US Hate Crime Victim – Born 1966


2007 – George Grizzard – US Actor – Born 1st April 1928


2007 – Herbert Muschamp – US Architectural Critic – Born 28th November 1947



Events in LGBT History:

2009 – Out on Film [Atlanta LGBT Film Festival] ran until 8th October 2009

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Saturday 1 October 2011

1st October

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LGBT People Born 1st October:


1760 – William Thomas Beckford – UK Author / Art Critic / Politician – Died 2nd May 1844


1867 – George Cecil Ives – German / UK Poet / Author / Activist – Died 4th June 1950


1903 – Vladimir Horowitz – Russian Pianist – Died 5th November 1989


1928 – Laurence Harvey – Lithuanian / UK / South African Actor – Died 25th November 1973


1931 – Sylvano Bussotti – Italian Composer


1953 – Klaus Wowereit – German Politician


1969 – Marc LaSalle – US Porn


1970 – Martin Andreasson – Swedish Politician


1985 – Isis King – US Model / Reality TV [America’s Next Top Model]



And Those Who Died:


1972 – Kurt Hiller – German Author / Journalist – Born 17th August 1885


1979 – Dorothy Arzner – US Director – Born 3rd January 1897


2001 – Kenny Greene – US Singer / Songwriter / Record Producer – Born 17th January 1969


2007 – Ned Sherrin – UK Presenter / Author / Director – Born 18th February 1931


2008 – Robert Arthur – US Actor – Born 18th June 1925



Events in LGBT History:


1994 – LGBT History Month launched in the USA


2009 – Nevada, USA legalises domestic partnerships from this date


2010 – Out on Film [Atlanta LGBT Film Festival] begins and runs until 7th October 2010


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October

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LGBT People Born on Unknown Dates in October:


1983 – Suave Rico – US Porn [or 23rd May ????]



And Those Who Died:


1942 – Bernard Natan – Romanian / French Director / Actor / Concentration Camp Victim – Born 14th July 1886


1993 - Tessa Boffin – UK Photographer – Born 1962



Events in LGBT History:


1998 – David Atlanta magazine first published (USA)


2009 – Original Plumbing (magazine by and for transmen) first published (in the US?)

Friday 30 September 2011

30th September

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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 1948/9


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


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Thursday 29 September 2011

29th September

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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


1984 – Jonathan Agassi – Israeli Porn


???? – 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



Events in LGBT History:

2007 – Johannesburg Pride, Gauteng, South Africa

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Wednesday 28 September 2011

28th September

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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


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Tuesday 27 September 2011

27th September

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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 1944


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


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Monday 26 September 2011

26th September

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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



And Those Who Died:


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


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Sunday 25 September 2011

25th September

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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 / Singer


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



Events in LGBT History:


2011 - Sunderland Pride, UK


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Saturday 24 September 2011

24th September

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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


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Friday 23 September 2011

23rd September

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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)


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Thursday 22 September 2011

22nd September

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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

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Wednesday 21 September 2011

21st September

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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 / Pastor – 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


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Tuesday 20 September 2011

20th September

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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



Events in LGBT History:

2011 – “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed in the US military

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Monday 19 September 2011

19th September

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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


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



Events in LGBT History:


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


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