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Angus McBean born 8 June 1904 (d. 1990)Angus McBean was a Welsh photographer, associated with surrealism.McBean was born in Newbridge, Monmouthshire, the son of a coal mine surveyor. He bought his first camera and tripod as World War I was ending. Fascinated by the apparently magical properties of photography, he wanted to be able to take pictures of people and sold a gold watch left to him by

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James Ivory born 7 June 1928James Francis Ivory is an award-winning American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards.Ivory was born in Berkeley, California. He was educated at the University of Oregon,

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Mark Ravenhill born 7 June 1966Mark Ravenhill is one of England's leading contemporary playwrights. His most famous plays include Shopping and Fucking (first performed in 1996), Some Explicit Polaroids (1999) and Mother Clap's Molly House (2001). He made his acting debut in his monologue Product, at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005. He often writes for the The Guardian arts section.Mark Ravenhill

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Harvey Fierstein born 6 June 1952Harvey Fierstein is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.Born Harvey Forbes Fierstein in Brooklyn, New York, the gravelly-voiced actor perhaps is known best for the play and film Torch Song Trilogy, which he wrote and in which he starred. The 1982 Broadway production won him two Tony Awards, for Best Play and

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Hugh Laing born 6 June 1911 (d. 1988)Hugh Laing was a British ballet dancer and actor, and lifelong partner of choreographer Antony Tudor.Hugh Laing, whose original name was Hugh Skinner, was born in Barbados in the then British West Indies. He moved to London in 1931 to study art, but soon became interested in ballet. After taking ballet classes with Marie Rambert, Margaret Craske and Olga

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Thomas Mann born 6 June 1875 (d. 1955)Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used

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John Maynard Keynes born 5 June 1883 (d. 1946)John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes CB was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse

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Sam Harris born 4 June 1961Sam Harris is an Oklahoma-born singer, actor, songwriter and theatre director. 'Discovered' in the first season of US TV talent show Star Search at the age of 22, he has gone on to forge a successful career touring, on record and especially as a Broadway musical performer.Harris is a Tony nominated actor in musical theatre, starring in Broadway productions of Grease,

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Patrick Cargill born 3 June 1918 (d. 1996)Patrick Cargill was a British actor.Patrick Cargill was one of the West End's most distinguished actors and a brilliant farceur. His sense of timing was excellent, an essential part of comedy acting. Although it was television that brought him fame.He made his first West End appearance in 1953 in Ian Carmichael's revue, High Spirits at the London

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Maurice Evans born 3 June 1901 (d. 1989)Maurice Herbert Evans was an English actor who became a US citizen in 1941.Maurice Evans was born in Dorchester, Dorset. He first appeared on the stage in 1926 and joined the Old Vic Company in 1934, playing Hamlet, Richard II and Iago. His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest

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Allen Ginsberg born 3 June 1926 (d. 1997)Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American Beat poet. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation and what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in United States at the time.Ginsberg was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey. His father Louis Ginsberg was

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George Quaintance born 3 June 1902 (d. 1957)George Quaintance was a man of many of talents - dancer; designer of stage sets, interiors and New York department store windows; he also designed women's make-up and hairstyles for Hollywood stars and New York socialites, and was a sought-after portrait artist. But George Quaintance's main contribution to gay life and culture and the key to his true

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Crawford Barton born 2 June 1943 (d. 1993)Crawford Barton was a notable gay photographer. His work is known for documenting the blooming of the openly gay culture in San Francisco, in the 1960s and 1970s.Born and raised in a fundamentalist community in rural Georgia, Barton was a shy, introspective boy — a 'sissy'. His artistic interests and fear of sports alienated him from his father, a

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Christopher Bernau born 2 June 1940 (d. 1989)Christopher Bernau (born Herbert Augustine Bernau) was an American actor.Bernau trained in the drama department at the University of California before getting his big break, appearing in the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of Antony and Cleopatra in 1962. He continued in that role until 1964, when he toured nationally in the production of

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John Lehmann born 2 June 1907 (d. 1987)John Frederick Lehmann (born Bourne End, Buckinghamshire) was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine.The son of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of actress Beatrix Lehmann and novelist Rosamond Lehmann, he was educated at Eton

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Tom Robinson born 1 June 1950Although he was never really a proper 'punk', the Tom Robinson Band emerged on the back of the punk movement and enjoyed some success. Notably his ground breaking 1978 anthem Sing If You`re Glad To Be Gay, which was a Top 20 hit in the UK. His other notable hits were 2-4-6-8 Motorway (1977) and War Baby (1983)Tom enjoyed some solo success and then Britain's first

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder born 31 May 1945 (d. 1982)Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. A premier representative of the New German Cinema. Famous for his frenetic pace in film-making, in a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years Fassbinder completed 35 feature length films; two television series shot on film; three short films; four video

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Walt Whitman born 31 May 1819 (d. 1892)Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.Born on Long Island, Whitman

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Countee Cullen born 30 May 1903 (d. 1946)Countee Cullen was an American Romantic poet. Cullen was one of the leading African American poets of his time, associated with the generation of black poets of the Harlem Renaissance.Cullen was born with the name Countee LeRoy Porter and was abandoned by his parents at birth. He was raised by his grandmother, Mrs Porter, but because he was very secretive

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Colm Tóibín born 30 May 1955Acclaimed Irish novelist and journalist Colm Tóibín is the author of a number of non-fiction books and five novels. His writings are infused with keen political insights and shrewd analyses. While same-sex desire is not overtly addressed in his early work, his most recent novels are astutely observed, unsentimental explorations of gay men trying to fit into an

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Helmut Berger born 29 May 1944Helmut Berger is an Austrian actor.Berger (whose real name is Helmut Steinberger) was born in Bad Ischl, Austria, into a family of hoteliers and although he had no interest in gastronomy or the hospitality industry, he initially trained and worked in this area. At the age of 18, he moved to London, where he did odd-jobs whilst simultaneously taking acting classes.

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Rupert Everett born 29 May 1959Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He is perhaps the first Hollywood movie star to have a long, mainstream, and successful acting career while being openly gay, and blasé about it.Rupert Everett was born in Norfolk, England. From the age of 7 he was educated at Farleigh House preparatory school and later was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth

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T H White born 29 May 1906 (d. 1964)Terence Hanbury White was an English writer born in Bombay (Mumbai), India. After graduating from Cambridge with a first-class degree in English, he taught for a few years at Stowe School before becoming a full-time writer.He is most famous for writing The Once and Future King, a sequence of novels based on Sir Thomas Malory's 15th-Century romance Le Morte

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Mark Feehily born 28 May 1980Mark Feehily is one of the two lead singers - along with Shane Filan - of Irish boyband Westlife who have enjoyed a record-breaking succession of number 1 singles and hit albums.In August 2005, Mark announced in an interview with The Sun that he was gay:'I want people to know the truth. I am gay and I'm very proud of who I am.'I'm not asking for sympathy, or to be a

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Henry Kendall born 28 May 1897 (d. 1962)Henry Kendall was an English stage and film actor, theatre director and an immaculately stylish revue artiste.Kendall was educated at the City of London School, and made his first appearance on the stage in September 1914 at the Lyceum Theatre. He had a distinguished war career, serving as a Captain in the Royal Air Force from 1916 to 1919, and on

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Patrick White born 28 May 1912 (d. 1990)Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short story collections and eight plays. His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was

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John Cheever born 27 May 1912 (d. 1982)John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes known as the 'Checkhov of the suburbs'. His The Stories of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1979.He was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and was considered one of the purest examples of 'the New Yorker writer'.Cheever's main theme was the spiritual and emotional

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Reg Bundy aka HIH Regina Fong born 26 May 1945 (d. 2003)Reginald Sutherland Bundy was a British dancer, actor and television presenter best-known for his drag as HIH (Her Imperial Highness) Regina Fong.Reginald Bundy was originally trained as a dancer. He worked on numerous West End shows as a dresser and eventually in the 1970s became a dancer in a variety of stage musicals. He also appeared in

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John Dall born 26 May 1918 (d. 1971)John Dall was an American actor born in New York City.He is best remembered today for the part of the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, but first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn is Green, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He made a number of other films

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Alan Hollinghurst born 26 May 1954Alan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.He was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of a bank manager.He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry.In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at

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Alec McCowen born 26 May 1925Alec McCowen is an English actor, best known for classical roles including Shakespeare.He was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the son of Mary and Duncan McCowen. He was educated at the Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.McCowen made his film debut in 1953 in a British film, The Cruel Sea, but achieved his greatest

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Julian Clary born 25 May 1959Julian Clary (born as Paul Ross McNamara) is an English comedian who is known for his camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre.Clary was born in Teddington, Middlesex and went to St Benedict's School, a Catholic school in Ealing, London. He studied English and Drama at Goldsmith's College, part of the University of London.Clary's comedy career

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Donald Maclean born 25 May 1913 (d. 1983)Donald Duart Maclean was a career British diplomat turned Soviet intelligence agent. Maclean was one of the Cambridge Five, members of MI5, MI6 or the diplomatic service who acted as spies for the Soviet Union during WWII and in the early-Cold War era. His actions are widely thought to have contributed to the 1948 Soviet blockade of Berlin and the onset

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Robert 'Robbie' Ross born 25 May 1869 (d. 1918)Robert Baldwin Ross was a journalist and art critic. He is best known, however, as the executor of Oscar Wilde's estate. He was also responsible for bringing together several great literary figures and acting as their mentor.Ross was born in Tours, France but came to Britain at an early age. His father originally came from Northern Ireland and his

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Greg Berlanti born 24 May 1972Greg Berlanti is an American television writer and producer.Born in New York, Berlanti studied writing at Northwestern University. He was a writer and producer on Dawson's Creek and its short-lived spin-off Young Americans. He became known as the creator, show runner and executive producer of Everwood. He also co-created the short-lived series Jack & Bobby.Berlanti

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Gabriel Atkin born 1897* (d. 1937)Gabriel Atkin was a British artist.Born William Park Atkin, Gabriel Atkin was born in South Shields, Durham, the son of a builder. Before the First World War he showed promise as a water-colourist and he studied briefly at Armstrong College in Newcastle with tutor Richard George Hatton.With the start of the war he enlisted and was based mostly on the south coast.

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Mark Bingham born 22 May 1970 (d. 11 September 2001)Mark Kendall Bingham was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. He died at age 31 in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on board United Airlines Flight 93.Bingham is believed to have been among the passengers who attempted to storm the cockpit to try to prevent the hijackers from using the

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Tom Driberg born 22 May 1905 (d. 1976)Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell was a British journalist and politician who was an influential member on the left of the Labour Party from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was revealed as a spy for the Soviet Union by Vasili Mitrokhin.Tom Driberg was born at Crowborough, Sussex. Having studied Classics at Christ Church, Oxford (1924-1927) without taking

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Morrissey born 22 May 1959"I don't recognise such terms as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and I think it's important that there's someone in pop music who's like that. These words do great damage, they confuse people and they make people feel unhappy, so I want to do away with them.""Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.""I lost myself to music at a very

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Paul Winfield born 22 May 1939 (d. 2004)Paul Edward Winfield was an Academy Award-nominated American television and film actor. Winfield was openly gay in his private life, but remained discreet about it in the public eye.Winfield was born in Los Angeles, California. He first became well-known to audiences when he appeared for several years opposite Diahann Carroll on the US television series

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Fred Barnes born 21 May 1885 (d. 1938)Fred Barnes was an English music hall artist.He experienced extremes of success and failure, and as a young gay man escaped to London from his father and his father's lifestyle.Barnes was born in a bedroom above his father's butcher's shop at number 219 Great Lister Street, Saltley, Birmingham, England.Aged ten, after seeing Vesta Tilley, first visiting her

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Raymond Burr born 21 May 1917 (d. 1993)American actor Raymond Burr will probably be forever associated with two successful TV roles - Perry Mason (1957-66 & 1985-93) and Ironside (1967-1975). Although he notably appeared in A Place In the Sun (1951) and as the murderer in Hitchcock`s Rear Window (1954).An intensely private man, it would appear that Burr created a smokescreen to conceal his

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Ted Allen born 20 May 1965Ted Allen was the food and wine connoisseur on the American Bravo network's discontinued, Emmy-winning television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.Allen was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in Carmel, Indiana. His Southern-born mother instilled in him a love of food and cooking from a young age.After completing his studies he moved to Chicago, where he started

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Peter Wildeblood born 19 May 1923 (d. 1999)Peter Wildeblood was a British-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright, and gay rights campaigner.Peter Wildeblood's father was an engineer in the Indian Public Works Department. His mother was the daughter of a sheep-rancher in the Argentine. The family moved to London in 1926 when Peter was three. He was brought up in a small Elizabethan cottage on

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Don Bachardy born 18 May 1934Don Jess Bachardy is a noted portrait artist.Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood, whom he met on Valentine's Day 1953 when he was eighteen and Isherwood was forty-nine, until Isherwood's death in 1986. A number of paperback editions of Isherwood's novels feature Bachardy's pencil portraits of the

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Pierre Balmain born 18 May 1914 (d. 1982)Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, he said that 'dressmaking is the architecture of movement'.Balmain's father, who died when the future designer was 7 years old, was the owner of a wholesale drapery business. His mother and her sisters operated a fashion boutique. After first studying

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Robin Blaser born 18 May 1925 (d. 2009)Robin Francis Blaser was a noted author and poet in both the United States and Canada.Born in Denver, Colorado, Blaser grew up in Idaho, and came to Berkeley, California in 1944. There he met Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, becoming a key figure in the so-called San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and early 1960s. He moved to Canada in 1966, joining the

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Charles Robert Ashbee born 17 May 1863 (d. 1942)Charles Robert Ashbee was a designer and entrepreneur who was a prime mover of the English Arts and Crafts movement that took its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and its co-operative structure from the socialism of William Morris.He was the son of businessman and erotic bibliophile Henry Spencer Ashbee. He received his education at

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Howard Ashman born 17 May 1950 (d. 1991)Howard Ashman was an American playwright and lyricist.Howard Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the scores.Ashman,

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Thom Filicia born 17 May 1969Thom Filicia was the interior design expert on the American television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. He is also a co-author of a book based on the show.Raised in Syracuse, New York, Filicia attended Syracuse University's Art and Design school in the college of Visual and Performing Arts, gaining a BA in interior design.His design firm, Thom Filicia Inc., has

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Robin Maugham born 17 May 1916 (d. 1981)Robin Maugham was an author of short stories, novels, non-fiction, plays, and screenplays; an officer in World War II; a barrister-at-law; and 2nd Viscount Maugham of Hartfield. His success was not without struggle. In the preface to his first autobiography Escape from the Shadows Maugham describes the three shadows of his life: his uncle William Somerset

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Erik Satie born 17 May 1866 (d. 1925)French composer and pianist Erik Satie, was a pioneer of classical music whose ideas were to have a tremendous influence on 20th century modernism.A contemporary of Ravel and Debussy, he would later go on to work with Jean Cocteau to create the ballet Parade (1917) for the Ballet Russes, with set designs by Pablo Picasso and choreography by Leonide Massine. He

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Liberace born 16 May 1919 (d. 1987)Wladziu Valentino Liberace, or Lee to his friends, was a classically trained musician who found a rich vein of record, concert and television success when he left the 'boring parts out'. His blend of campy, extravagant theatricals, flamboyant dress, witty self-deprecation and feather-light classical music made him adored by generations of women who were either

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Javier de Frutos born 15 May 1963Javier de Frutos is a multi award-winning director and choreographer who has directed a dynamic range of theatre productions as well as movement for TV and film. In 2007 he received an Olivier Award for his choreography in Cabaret.  Javier De Frutos was born in Venezuela in 1963 where he began his dance training in 1980, continuing at the London School of

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Jasper Johns born 15 May 1930Jasper Johns is a contemporary American artist best known for painting and printmaking and associated with the Pop Art and Neo-Dada movements.Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns grew up in Allendale, South Carolina. Johns studied at the University of South Carolina from 1947 to 1948. He then moved to New York City and studied briefly at Parsons School of Design in

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Julian Eltinge born 14 May 1881 (d. 1941)In the 1910s and 1920s, Julian Eltinge was one of the biggest stars of the day, the toast of Broadway and vaudeville, and an enormously popular and wealthy star of silent film. With music composed by Jerome Kern and other leading composers of the day, and lyrics often written by Eltinge himself, his theatrical farces were phenomenal critical and financial

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Magnus Hirschfeld born 14 May 1868 (d. 1935)Magnus Hirschfeld was a prominent German-Jewish physician, sexologist, and gay rights pioneer.Hirschfeld developed the theory of a third, 'intermediate sex' between men and women. He was interested in the study of a wide variety of sexual and erotic urges, at a time when the early notions of sexual identity was still being formed. His scientific work

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Bruce Chatwin born 13 May 1940 (d. 1989)Bruce Charles Chatwin was a British novelist and travel writer.After leaving Marlborough College in 1958, Chatwin reluctantly moved to London to work as a porter in the Works of Art department at the auction house Sotheby's. Thanks to his sharp visual acuity, he quickly became Sotheby's expert on Impressionist art. He later became a director of the

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Armistead Maupin born 13 May in 1944Armistead Maupin is an American writer best known for his Tales of the City series of novels based in San Francisco.Maupin, a descendent of American Revolutionary War general Gabriel Maupin, was born to a conservative, Christian family in Washington, D.C., but moved early on to North Carolina where he was raised. He says he has had storytelling instincts since

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Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky born 13 May 1850 (d. 1916)Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator.Modest Ilyich was the younger brother of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence with a degree in law. Like many graduates of this school (including his brother) he was homosexual and lived relatively openly with the

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Alan Ball born 13 May 1957Alan Ball - born in Atlanta, Georgia - is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and occasional actor, who is best known for writing the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film American Beauty (1999), and for creating the HBO original drama series Six Feet Under. His most recent creation is the acclaimed TV vampire drama True Blood.Alan Ball was an

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Edward Lear born 12 May 1812 (d. 1888)Although a talented illustrator and painter, Edward Lear is best known for his nonsense verse. His poetry demonstrates a defining love of eccentricity, verbal invention and poetic delight in the sound of words. His best known poem is The Owl & The Pussycat.He enjoyed poor health most of his life, suffering from epilepsy, asthma, bronchitis, and in later life,

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John William Sterling born 12 May 1844 (d. 1918)John William Sterling was a philanthropist, corporate attorney, and major benefactor to Yale University.John William Sterling was born in Stratford, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in 1864 and was admitted to the bar three years later. He obtained an MA degree in 1874 and an LL.D. from Columbia Law School in 1893. He became

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Billy Bean born 11 May 1964William Daro 'Billy' Bean (born in Santa Ana, California) is a former Major League Baseball player who made news in 1999 when he made his homosexuality public.Bean was a high-scoring outfielder in a career that lasted from 1987 through 1995: Detroit Tigers 1987-89, Los Angeles Dodgers 1989, San Diego Padres 1993-95. Bean joined the Detroit Tigers in 1987 tying an MLB

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Léon Bakst born 10 May 1866 (d. 1924)Léon Nikolayevich Bakst was a Russian painter and scene- and costume-designer who revolutionised the arts he worked in.Léon Bakst was born as Lev (Leib) Rosenberg in Grodno (currently Belarus) in a middle-class Jewish family. After graduating from gymnasium (school), he studied at St Petersburg Academy of Arts as a non-credit student, working part-time as a

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Alan Bennett born 9 May 1934Alan Bennett is an English author and actor noted for his work, his boyish appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent.Alan Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, Yorkshire. The son of a butcher, Bennett attended Leeds Modern School (a former state grammar school), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, and gained a

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Darren Hayes born 8 May 1972Darren Hayes is an Australian singer-songwriter.Hayes was born in Brisbane, Australia, the youngest of three children. He started performing for his mother at home from an early age. At Mabel Park High School, Hayes appeared in school musicals and school concerts before graduating in 1989.Hayes declined an opportunity to attend a performance academy in favour of

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Tom of Finland born 8 May 1920 (d. 1991)Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen in Kaarina, Finland) was a fetish artist notable for his stylised homoerotic art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture.Over the course of four decades he produced some 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated primary and secondary sex traits: heavily muscled torsos, limbs, buttocks and

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Ian Watkins born 8 May 1976Ian Watkins (born in Llwynypia, Rhondda, Wales), better known as H from Steps, is a Welsh Pop singer, one of the five members of the now defunct pop group Steps. He has said that 'H' stands for 'hyperactive', describing his character - it later emerged that it may have meant something else entirely. Before joining Steps, he worked as a redcoat for Butlins holiday

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Sir Nicholas Hytner born 7 May 1956Sir Nicholas Hytner is an award-winning English producer and director.Hytner was born in Manchester to a Jewish family, attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He worked as an Associate Director at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre between 1985 and 1989, and at the National Theatre in London between 1989 and 1997. His

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky born 7 May 1840 (d. 1893)Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic era.Peter (or Pyotr) Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a composer whose music has made an indelible impression on the world, yet many things seemed to be stacked against him. His mother died from Cholera when Tchaikovsky was only 14 years old and this great loss affected the boy deeply. As a boy

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Man Parrish born 6 May 1958Man Parrish is considered to be a pioneering electronic music producer and performer. He became an underground music scene icon in the 1980s and 1990s and is considered to be one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music, according to The New York Times.Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown and disappeared into

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Rudolph Valentino born 6 May 1895 (d. 1926)Born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antoguolla in Italy, he arrived in the US in 1913 and eventually became a taxi dancer and instructor, and eventually, an exhibition dancer. He made his way across the country to California, where he played a number of small parts in silent movies. He was impressive enough to be cast

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James Beard born 5 May 1903 (d. 1985)James Beard was an American chef and food writer. Although little known outside the US, James Beard is recognised by many as the father of American gastronomy.James Beard was born in Portland, Oregon.He trained initially as a singer and actor, and moved to New York City in 1937. Not having much luck in the theatre, he and his friend, Bill Rhodes, capitalised

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Kyan Douglas born 5 May 1970Kyan Douglas, born as Hugh Edward Douglas, was the grooming expert on the American television programme Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.Douglas was born in Miami, Florida but was raised in Tampa and Tallahassee. After high school he moved first to Dallas, where he studied philosophy at Brookhaven College and first became interested in religion and the healing arts. He

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Keith Haring born 5 May 1958 (d. 1990)Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and studied graphic art in Pittsburg. After coming out, he moved to New York where he became influenced by graffiti art and studied at the School of Visual Arts.With his distinctive style - strong graphic outlines, simple but effective stick figures and bold primary colours - he quickly moved from the streets to

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Lance Bass born 4 May 1979James Lance Bass is an American pop singer, actor, film and television producer, and author.Bass grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band N Sync. N Sync's success led Bass to experiment with film and television, primarily as an actor and a producer. Bass' acting career is most noted for his starring role in the 2001 film On

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Antony Hamilton born 4 May 1952 (d. 1995)Born in Liverpool, England, but adopted and raised in Australia, Antony Hamilton studied ballet and toured with the Australian Ballet Company before moving into modelling.His handsome looks and dance training made the move into acting inevitable and after several TV specials, Hamilton was offered the role of male model/undercover agent in hit TV show

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Lincoln Kirstein born 4 May 1907 (d. 1996)Lincoln Edward Kirstein was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and cultural figure in New York City, famous less for his own artistic achievement than for his social influence.Born in Rochester, New York, to a very wealthy Bostonian family, he was educated at Harvard, from which he graduated in 1930.His interest in ballet and George

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Mark Leduc born 4 May 1964 (d. 2009)Mark Leduc was a former boxer from Toronto, Canada, who won a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.Mark Leduc was not a hero, at least not until 1992, when he won a silver medal for Canada at the Olympics in Barcelona. Before that singular accomplishment, he was only a tough kid. To his close friends, he was a hard man who happened to be gay. By

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Lindsay Kemp born 3 May 1938Lindsay Kemp is a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist and choreographer.Born in South Shields, Kemp was raised in Yorkshire and attended Bradford Art College before studying dance with Hilde Holger and mime with Marcel Marceau.Kemp formed his own dance company in the early sixties and first attracted attention with an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in

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Lorenz Hart born 2 May 1895 (d. 1943)Lyricist Lorenz Hart is, with his musical partner Richard Rodgers, one of the greatest American songwriters of all-time.His best-loved lyrics include Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered, Blue Moon, My Funny Valentine and Where Or When.Hart was born in Harlem to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Columbia University, where a friend introduced him to Rodgers [

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Julian Mitchell born 1 May 1935Julian Mitchell is an English screenwriter and occasional novelist.Mitchell is best known as a playwright and screenwriter for TV, producing many original plays and series episodes, including at least ten for Inspector Morse. He has written nine produced plays, including Another Country, which won the SWET (now Oliviers) award for best play of the year (1981). He

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Mark Morrisroe born 1959 (d. 1989)Mark Morrisroe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1959 and was a photographer.His mother was a drug-addicted prostitute. He left home at the age of 13 and began hustling. One of his disgruntled contacts shot him and he carried a bullet in his chest for the rest of his life.He won a place at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but he was disruptive

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Michael Alig born 29 April 1966Michael Alig (born South Bend, Indiana) was a founding member of the notorious Club Kids, a group of young clubgoers led by Alig in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Alig came to New York and started out at as a busboy at Danceteria in 1983. A natural at throwing parties with little or no resources he soon began to rise in New York's party scene. Alig was mentored by

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Leslie Jordan born 29 April 1955Leslie Allen Jordan is an Emmy Award-winning American actor.Hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee and at a height of just 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m), Jordan has become an instantly recognisable face in film and television. He is most well known for his television work - including guest appearances on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager and

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Rod McKuen born 29 April 1933Rod McKuen is a bestselling American poet, composer and singer, instrumental in the revitalisation of popular poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Born in Oakland, California, he ran away from home at an early age to avoid an alcoholic stepfather and after a series of drifter jobs throught the West and a spell with the army in Korea, began to find an audience with

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John Paul Hudson born 28 April 1929 (d. 2002)John Paul Hudson was a longtime activist and a pioneering gay journalist. He is the author of numerous books including Superstar Murder and The Gay Insider USA.A member of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) who was formerly with the Mattachine Society, Hudson wrote the 1971 book The Gay Insider, a guide to New York's gay scene. The following year he

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Jack Cole born 27 April 1911 (d. 1974)Jack Cole was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as the father of theatrical jazz dance.Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Cole virtually invented the idiom of American Show Dancing known as 'Theatre Dance'. He developed an entirely personal mode of jazz-ethnic-ballet that prevails as the dominant look of and technique for dancing

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Russell T Davies born 27 April 1963Russell T Davies is an award-winning British television producer and writer. He is best known for writing ground-breaking and sometimes controversial drama serials such as Queer as Folk and The Second Coming, and for spearheading the revival of the popular science-fiction television series Doctor Who.Davies is 6' 6" tall. He divides his time between his home in

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Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim born 27 April 1906 (*)Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim, born in Lübeck, Germany was an ordinary German man who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the (then) crime of homosexuality.Von Groszheim was one of 230 men arrested in Lübeck on suspicion of being gay by the SS in January 1937 under paragraph 175, which outlawed homosexuality. He was imprisoned for ten months, during

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Luis Zapata born 27 April 1951Luis Zapata is Mexico's most prominent gay author. He rose to popularity in the 1970s with books about the youth subculture of Mexico City. His novels examine the connection between daily life and the popular culture of radio, television, and film.Born into an upper middle-class family in rural Mexico, Zapata escaped the restrictions of his background by losing

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Charles Shannon born 26 April 1865 (d. 1937)Charles Haslewood Shannon, English artist, was born at Sleaford in Lincolnshire, the son of the Rev Frederic Shannon.He attended the Lambeth school of art, and was subsequently considerably influenced by his friend and partner Charles Ricketts and by the example of the great Venetians. In his early work he was addicted to a heavy low tone, which he

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Ludwig Wittgenstein born 26 April 1889 (d. 1951)Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. His influence has been wide-ranging and he is generally regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers.Before his death at the

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Andy Bell born 25 April 1964Andy Bell was born in Peterborough, England and moved to London at the age of nineteen. He was working in a meat factory and playing in a band 'going nowhere' when he responded to an ad placed by Vince Clarke, a former member of Depeche Mode and Yazoo, seeking a musician to form a new band. Bell, the forty-first singer auditioned, was Clarke's choice, and Erasure were

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Graham Payn born 25 April 1918 (d. 2005)Graham Payn was born in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. He was a British actor and singer, gay and the life partner of the late Sir Noel Coward for thirty years.Payn moved with his family to England when he was eleven years old (circa 1928). He became a boy soprano in concerts and in boy's choirs. He made his first stage appearance at thirteen at the

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Edward II born 25 April 1287 (d. 1327)Edward II of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until deposed in January 1327. His tendency to ignore his nobility in favour of low-born favourites led to constant political unrest and his eventual deposition.Edward lacked the drive and ambition of his overbearing father, who was a notable military leader. His main interest was in entertainment, though

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