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(Cover image: Nan Goldin).
(Cover image: Nan Goldin).
American composer, conductor, music critic and bitchy queen Virgil Thomson was BOTD in 1896. #virgilthomson #supergays #bornonthisday
Virgil Thomson
American composer, conductor and music critic Virgil Thomson was BOTD in 1896. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he studied music at Harvard University before moving to Paris to study composition with…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
American composer, conductor, music critic and bitchy queen Virgil Thomson was BOTD in 1896. #virgilthomson #supergays #bornonthisday
American actor and playwright Cole Escola, best known as the writer and star of hit Broadway play “Oh, Mary!”, was BOTD in 1986, turning 39 today. #coleescola #supergays #bornonthisday #ohmary
Cole Escola
American actor and playwright Cole Escola was BOTD in 1986. Born and raised in Clatskanie, Oregon, they had a turbulent childhood, relocating to government housing with their family to escape their…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
American actor and playwright Cole Escola, best known as the writer and star of hit Broadway play “Oh, Mary!”, was BOTD in 1986, turning 39 today. #coleescola #supergays #bornonthisday #ohmary
English theatre director and Hot Bear Greg Doran, stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and long-term partner of actor #AntonySher, was BOTD in 1958, turning 67 today. #gregdoran #supergays #bornonthisday
Greg Doran
English director Gregory (Greg) Doran was BOTD in 1958. Born in Huddersfield, he was raised in Preston in Lancashire. He studied drama at Bristol University, before training as an actor at the Bris…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
English theatre director and Hot Bear Greg Doran, stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and long-term partner of actor #AntonySher, was BOTD in 1958, turning 67 today. #gregdoran #supergays #bornonthisday
American actress, Warhol Superstar and trans icon Candy Darling was BOTD in 1944, dying tragically young of cancer aged 29. #candydarling #bornonthisday #trans #transicon #warholsuperstars
Candy Darling
American actress and trans icon Candy Darling was BOTD in 1944. Born in New York City, she had a turbulent childhood, dropping out of high school after a group of boys tried to lynch her. She train…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
American actress, Warhol Superstar and trans icon Candy Darling was BOTD in 1944, dying tragically young of cancer aged 29. #candydarling #bornonthisday #trans #transicon #warholsuperstars
English chef, writer and broadcaster Allegra McEvedy, creator of slow food chain Leon, was BOTD in 1970, turning 55 today. #allegramcevedy #supergays #bornonthisday #leonfood
Allegra McEvedy
English chef, writer and broadcaster Allegra McEvedy was BOTD in 1970. Born in London to a middle-class family, she was educated at private schools, forgoing university to study cookery at the Cord…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
English chef, writer and broadcaster Allegra McEvedy, creator of slow food chain Leon, was BOTD in 1970, turning 55 today. #allegramcevedy #supergays #bornonthisday #leonfood
Fruity Russian artist and designer Romain Petrovich de Tirtoff, better known as Erté, was BOTD in 1892. #erte #supergays #bornonthisday
Erté
Russian artist and designer Romain Petrovich de Tirtoff, better known by his pseudonym Erté, was BOTD in 1892. Born in St Petersburg to an aristocratic family, he moved to Paris in 1912 to pursue a…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Fruity Russian artist and designer Romain Petrovich de Tirtoff, better known as Erté, was BOTD in 1892. #erte #supergays #bornonthisday
Bisexual American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus was BOTD in 1992, turning 33 today. #mileycyrus #bornonthisday #supergays
Miley Cyrus
American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus was BOTD in 1992. Born in Franklin, Tennessee, the daughter of country music star Billy Ray Cyrus, her godmother was family friend Dolly Parton. She was raise…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Bisexual American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus was BOTD in 1992, turning 33 today. #mileycyrus #bornonthisday #supergays
Spanish composer and Maybe Gay Manuel de Falla was BOTD in 1876. #manueldefalla #maybegays #bornonthisday
Manuel de Falla
Spanish composer Manuel de Falla was BOTD in 1876. Born Manuel María de los Dolores Falla y Matheu in Cádiz to a prosperous middle-class family, he showed an early talent for music. In 1900, his fa…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Spanish composer and Maybe Gay Manuel de Falla was BOTD in 1876. #manueldefalla #maybegays #bornonthisday
American Lesbionic tennis player and activist Billie Jean King was BOTD in 1943, turning 82 today. #billiejeanking #bornonthisday #supergays
Billie Jean King
American tennis player and activist Billie Jean King was BOTD in 1943. Born Billie Jean Moffitt in Long Beach California, she was a star athlete as a child, switching from baseball to tennis at 11 …
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November 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
American Lesbionic tennis player and activist Billie Jean King was BOTD in 1943, turning 82 today. #billiejeanking #bornonthisday #supergays
English composer and conductor Benjamin Britten, whose operas “Peter Grimes”, “Billy Budd” and “Death in Venice” gave voice to his own anguished desires for young boys, was BOTD in 1913. #benjaminbritten #bornonthisday #badgays
Benjamin Britten
English composer and conductor Benjamin Britten was BOTD in 1913. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, he showed an early talent for music, studying performance and composition with composer Frank Bridges b…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
English composer and conductor Benjamin Britten, whose operas “Peter Grimes”, “Billy Budd” and “Death in Venice” gave voice to his own anguished desires for young boys, was BOTD in 1913. #benjaminbritten #bornonthisday #badgays
New Zealand journalist and writer Douglas Lloyd Jenkins was BOTD in 1963, turning 62 today. #douglaslloydjenkins #newzealand #bornonthisday
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
New Zealand writer Douglas Lloyd Jenkins was BOTD in 1963. Born in Auckland, he studied at the University of Auckland before studying furniture design at Carrington Polytechnic. After graduating, h…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
New Zealand journalist and writer Douglas Lloyd Jenkins was BOTD in 1963, turning 62 today. #douglaslloydjenkins #newzealand #bornonthisday
French writer, literary lion and self-described pederast André Gide was BOTD in 1869. #andregide #badgays #bornonthisday
André Gide
French writer André Gide was BOTD in 1869. Born in Paris to a bourgeois family, he was raised in Normandy. He published his first novel Les cahiers d’André Walter (The Notebooks of André Walt…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
French writer, literary lion and self-described pederast André Gide was BOTD in 1869. #andregide #badgays #bornonthisday
Fruity American writer Andrew Sean Greer, best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Less”, was BOTD in 1970, turning 55 today. #andrewseangreer #less #bornonthisday #supergays
Andrew Sean Greer
American writer Andrew Sean Greer was BOTD in 1970. Born in Washington, D.C. to a middle-class family, he grew up in Rockville, Maryland. He studied at Brown University, where he was mentored by wr…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Fruity American writer Andrew Sean Greer, best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Less”, was BOTD in 1970, turning 55 today. #andrewseangreer #less #bornonthisday #supergays
American actress, model and writer Hari Nef, best known for her roles in “Transparent” and “Barbie”, was BOTD in 1992, turning 33 today. #harinef #trans #bornonthisday
Hari Nef
American actress, model and writer Hari Nef was BOTD in 1992. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a middle-class Jewish family, she was assigned male at birth. After her parents’ divorce, s…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
American actress, model and writer Hari Nef, best known for her roles in “Transparent” and “Barbie”, was BOTD in 1992, turning 33 today. #harinef #trans #bornonthisday
Fruity English actor Nickolas Grace, best known as the stammering pansy Anthony Blanche in 1981’s “Brideshead Revisited”, was BOTD in 1947, turning 78 today. #nickolasgrace #anthonyblanche #bridesheadrevisited #supergays #bornonthisday
Nickolas Grace
English actor Nickolas Grace was BOTD in 1947. Born in West Kirby, Wirral, he was educated at private schools, moving to London to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After working in …
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November 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Fruity English actor Nickolas Grace, best known as the stammering pansy Anthony Blanche in 1981’s “Brideshead Revisited”, was BOTD in 1947, turning 78 today. #nickolasgrace #anthonyblanche #bridesheadrevisited #supergays #bornonthisday
French writer, philosopher and Maybe Gay François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pseudonym Voltaire, was BOTD in 1694. #Voltaire #maybegay #bornonthisday
Voltaire
French writer and philosopher François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pseudonym Voltaire, was BOTD in 1694. Born in Paris to the minor nobility, he was educated at the Jesuit college of Louis-le…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
French writer, philosopher and Maybe Gay François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pseudonym Voltaire, was BOTD in 1694. #Voltaire #maybegay #bornonthisday
Tony Award winning American actress and honking great dyke Cherry Jones, best known for her roles in “24”, “Transparent” and “Succession”, was BOTD in 1956, turning 69 today. #cherryjones #bornonthisday #supergays
Cherry Jones
American actress Cherry Jones was BOTD in 1956. Born in Paris, Tennessee, she studied drama at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh. After graduating, she co-founded the American Repertory…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Tony Award winning American actress and honking great dyke Cherry Jones, best known for her roles in “24”, “Transparent” and “Succession”, was BOTD in 1956, turning 69 today. #cherryjones #bornonthisday #supergays
American filmmaker Ira Sachs, best known for his gay-themed films “Keep the Lights On”, “Love is Strange”, “Passages” and “Peter Hujar’s Day”, was BOTD in 1965, turning 60 today. #irasachs #supergays #bornonthisday
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker Ira Sachs was BOTD in 1965. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he grew up in Park City. After studying at Yale University, he applied unsuccessfully to several film schools, eventually …
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November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
American filmmaker Ira Sachs, best known for his gay-themed films “Keep the Lights On”, “Love is Strange”, “Passages” and “Peter Hujar’s Day”, was BOTD in 1965, turning 60 today. #irasachs #supergays #bornonthisday
Bisexual English diplomat, politician, writer and gardener Harold Nicholson, best known for his chaotic open marriage with writer #VitaSackvilleWest, was BOTD in 1886. #haroldnicholson #bornonthisday #sissinghurst #chaoticbisexuals
Harold Nicholson
English diplomat, politician and writer Harold Nicholson was BOTD in 1886. Born in Tehran, Iran, where his father Baron Carnock was posted as a diplomat, he had an itinerant childhood, returning to…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Bisexual English diplomat, politician, writer and gardener Harold Nicholson, best known for his chaotic open marriage with writer #VitaSackvilleWest, was BOTD in 1886. #haroldnicholson #bornonthisday #sissinghurst #chaoticbisexuals
Brilliantly bonkers Icelandic singer-songwriter, actress and queer icon Björk Guðmundsdóttir was BOTD in 1965, turning 60 today. #bjork #iceland #gayicon #queericon #bornonthisday
Björk
Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk Guðmundsdóttir was BOTD in 1965. Born in Reykjavík, she entered a children’s music school aged five and recorded an album of folk music aged 11, co-produced …
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November 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Brilliantly bonkers Icelandic singer-songwriter, actress and queer icon Björk Guðmundsdóttir was BOTD in 1965, turning 60 today. #bjork #iceland #gayicon #queericon #bornonthisday
SuperDyke American film producer Christine Vachon, who nurtured New Queer Cinema filmmakers #ToddHaynes, #TomKalin, #KimberlyPeirce and #JohnCameronMitchell, was BOTD in 1962, turning 63 today. #christinevachon #supergays #bornonthisday #newqueercinema
Christine Vachon
American film producer Christine Vachon was BOTD in 1962. Born in New York City, she studied at Brown University where she befriended director Todd Haynes. In 1987, she co-produced Haynes’ sh…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
SuperDyke American film producer Christine Vachon, who nurtured New Queer Cinema filmmakers #ToddHaynes, #TomKalin, #KimberlyPeirce and #JohnCameronMitchell, was BOTD in 1962, turning 63 today. #christinevachon #supergays #bornonthisday #newqueercinema
Venezuelan director and playwright Moisés Kaufman, best known for his verbatim play “The Laramie Project”, was BOTD in 1963, turning 62 today. #moiseskaufman #bornonthisday #supergays #thelaramieproject
Moises Kaufman
Venezuelan director and playwright Moisés Kaufman was BOTD in 1963. Born and raised in Caracas, he studied theatre before emigrating to the United States, where he graduated from New York Universit…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Venezuelan director and playwright Moisés Kaufman, best known for his verbatim play “The Laramie Project”, was BOTD in 1963, turning 62 today. #moiseskaufman #bornonthisday #supergays #thelaramieproject
English performer and celebrity cross-dresser Frederick Park was BOTD in 1846. Known as “Fanny”, he and #ErnestBoulton (Stella) were tried for attempting to commit sodomy, later moving to New York where Park died of syphilis aged 33. #frederickpark #bornonthisday #supergays #fannyandstella
Frederick Park
English performer Frederick Park was BOTD in 1846. Born in London to an upper-middle-class family, his mother died when he was three, and he was raised and educated by governesses. In 1857, his eld…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
English performer and celebrity cross-dresser Frederick Park was BOTD in 1846. Known as “Fanny”, he and #ErnestBoulton (Stella) were tried for attempting to commit sodomy, later moving to New York where Park died of syphilis aged 33. #frederickpark #bornonthisday #supergays #fannyandstella
Foxy Armenian-Egyptian photographer Van Leo was BOTD in 1921. #vanleo #egypt #bornonthisday #supergays
Van Leo
Armenian-Egyptian photographer Van Leo was BOTD in 1921. Born Levon Boyadjian in Ceyhan, Turkey to Armenian parents, his father worked for the German-owned Berlin Baghdad Railway, ensuring the fami…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Foxy Armenian-Egyptian photographer Van Leo was BOTD in 1921. #vanleo #egypt #bornonthisday #supergays
American activist, writer and cleric Pauli Murray, a camels figure in the American Black civil rights and feminist movements, was BOTD in 1910. #paulimurray #trans #bornonthisday #supergays
Pauli Murray
American activist, writer and cleric Pauli Murray was BOTD in 1910. Born Anna Pauline Murray in Baltimore, Maryland, she was orphaned in early childhood and raised by relatives in North Carolina. S…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
American activist, writer and cleric Pauli Murray, a camels figure in the American Black civil rights and feminist movements, was BOTD in 1910. #paulimurray #trans #bornonthisday #supergays