Bruce LaBruce

Gay Hollywood character actor Victor Buono was BOTD in 1938 & died in 1982 at 43. He's best known for his role as Edwin Flagg in Robert Aldrich's "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962, garnering him a supporting actor Oscar nom) and as King Tut in the Batman TV series (1966-68)

Any relation to Kenneth? Legendary, hugely influential, unsinkable, unthinkable, beyond the valley of queer sexperimental filmmaker & author Kenneth Anger was BOTD in 1927 & died in 2023 at 96. The gay Thelemite once put a curse on me but I sprayed myself w/ Hex-Off & it was fine

Asexual French philosopher, mystic, and political activist Simone Weil was BOTD in 1909 and died in 1943 at the age of 34. She was a precocious student, proficient in Ancient Greek by age 12. She later learned Sanskrit so that she could read the Bhagavad Gita in the original

Possibly gay Danish screenwriter/director Carl Theodor Dreyer was BOTD in 1889 & died in 1968 at 79. His vampire film "Vampyr" (1932) is superlative. Although he married & had children, he may have been a repressed gay. His silent film "Michael" (1924) is a landmark in gay cinema

Superlesbian novelist/poet & art collector Gertrude Stein was BOTD in 1874 & died in 1946 at 72. In 1933 she published an accessible quasi-memoir of her Paris yrs, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her moustachioed lesbian life partner

HBD the irrepressible celubutante Julia Fox who was BOTD in 1990, turning 36 today!
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Fabulous Farrah was BOTD in 1947 and died in 2009 at the age of 62

Pioneering gay black actor Duane Jones was BOTD in 1937 & died in 1988 at 51, the first African-American actor to be cast as the star of a horror film, George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). Also memorable in Bill Gunn's cult black horror film "Ganja & Hess" (1973)

Elaine Stritch was BOTD in 1925 & died in 2014 at 89. Love her in Woody Allen's "September" (1987), which he re-wrote, re-cast & re-shot! She's notably cray in Lipton's "Kiss Her Goodbye" (1959, Sharon Farrell's screen debut) & Cates' "Who Killed Teddy Bear?" (1965) w/ Sal Mineo

Ayn "Rhymes with Frankenstein" Rand was BOTD in 1905 & died in 1982 at 77. When Rand found out her much younger lover Nathaniel Branden was having an affair, she violently severed their relationship & booted him from the Objectivist movement, of which he'd been a chief disciple

HBD one of the great child actors of all time, Billy Mumy, BOTD in 1954, turning 72 today. My life was heavily influenced by "Lost in Space," particularly by Will Robinson (I was a lookalike), Dr. Smith (my spirit animal), and the relationship between Will Robinson and Dr. Smith

Superbly twisted Brit author Dame Muriel Spark was BOTD in 1918 & died in 2006 at 88. I love her novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" & its cinematic adaptation by Ronald Neame made in 1969 & her novella "The Driver's Seat" & Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's 1974 film adaption of it

HBD to "The King," Clark Gable, BOTD in 1901, died in 1960 at 59. He never got over the death of his wife Carole Lombard, who died in a plane crash in 1942 at the age of 33. 20 years later he made a movie w/ Marilyn Monroe, another intelligent blond who thawed him out a little

One of the great classic Hollywood directors of all time, John Ford, was BOTD in 1894 & died in 1973 at 79. "The Searchers" (1956) is widely considered his masterpiece, referenced in the films of many filmmakers including Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, John Milius & Paul Schrader

Derek Jarman, the great queer filmmaker, art director, designer, author & gardener, was BOTD in 1942 & died of AIDS in 1994 at 52. Several years ago I wrote a short essay on Jarman's "Edward II" (1991) for Film Movement's Blu-ray release of the film:
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Suzanne Pleshette was BOTD in 1937 & died in 2008 at 70. Her most vivid role (outside The Bob Newhart show) was as Annie Hayworth in Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963) playing unsuccessful romantic interest of the male lead like Barbara Bel Geddes' character Midge in "Vertigo" (1958)

British movie star Jean Simmons was born in 1929 & died in 2010 at 80. She appeared in many impressive films from a young age, including Lean's "Great Expectations" (1946) & the Archers' "Black Narcissus" (1947) & continued as an adult

White Passing Hall of Fame winner (tied w/ Mae West, whose paternal grandfather was a light-skinned black man) & camp avatar kooky Carol Channing was BOTD in 1921 & died in 2019 at 97. For over 50 yrs, Channing kept her paternal grandmother's African-American heritage a secret

Ambisextrous camp avatar Tallulah Bankhead was BOTD in 1902. I didn't know that the Hong Kong flu of 1968/69 took out Tallu! Although it was complicated by heavy drinking, emphysema due to cigarette smoking & malnutrition. She died of double pneumonia on December 12, 1968 at 66

Maple-Syrup-Queercore-Punk-Rock: Bruce LaBruce Im Gegensatz zu den USA musste es sich Kanada schon lange in filmischen Nischen bequem machen. Wir haben uns mit dem Kultregisseur Bruce LaBruce über unzensierten Sex im kanadischen Fernsehen, über de...

Im Gegensatz zu den USA musste es sich Kanada
schon lange in filmischen Nischen bequem machen.
Wir haben uns mit dem Kultregisseur Bruce LaBruce
über unzensierten Sex im kanadischen Fernsehen über den Draht zum europäischen Kino & über Pasolini unterhalten
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RIP the great award-winning Canadian actress & beloved comedic goddess Catherine O'Hara, dead at 71. Those of us who grew up in Canada in the 70's will always remember her from her 6 raucous seasons on the brilliant SCTV series and we quote her characters on it madly to this day!

HBD venerable Vanessa Redgrave, BOTD in 1937, turning 89 today. She made a big fashion splash in Antonioni's "Blow-Up" (1966) & she's a scintillating sister in Russell's "The Devils" (1971). She met her current husband, Italian star Franco Nero, on the set of "Camelot" (1967)

The great Hollywood actor Gene Hackman, a key figure in the New Hollywood Cinema movement, was BOTD in 1930 & died under tragic & messy circumstances in 2025 at 95. Considered an everyman kind of a star, he won the best actor Oscar for Friedkin's "The French Connection" (1971)

Catherine O'Hara, 'Schitt’s Creek' Star and Comedy Legend, Dies at 71 Catherine O'Hara has died at the age of 71. O'Hara was known for her appearances in movies including 'Beetlejuice' and 'Home Alone', as well as her Emmy-winning role as Moira Rose on the TV sitcom 'Sc...

Oh no! A Canadian legend has died! RIP the great Catherine O'Hara!
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Meet and Greet with Bruce LaBruce | Queer Events in Toronto | YOHOMO We're excited to welcome writer, director, artist and queer icon @brucelabruce to Vinegar Syndrome Toronto for a Meet & Greet on Sat. Feb. 28 from 6:30-9pm! Bruce will have an assortment of his works ...

@VinegarSyndrome Toronto has invited me for a Meet & Greet on Sat. Feb. 28 from 6:30-9pm! There'll be an assortment of my stuff available to buy & I'll be signing. The've also stocked up on many of my films and books including some harder to find titles
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Charli XCX’s The Moment Review: The Pop Music Satire This Era Deserves The singer gamely plays herself in an A24 reality-dramedy satirizing the enshittification of the modern pop star.

Can't wait!!
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Largely lesbian fashion model Gia Carangi, aka Supermodel Gia, was BOTD in 1960 & died in 1986 at the age of 26. After repeated, failed rehab stints, she was diagnosed w/ AIDS in December 1985. She was one of the first famous women in America to die of AIDS-related complications

HBD ethereal singer/actress Claudine Longet, BOTD in 1942, turning 84 today. Most famous film role: opposite Peter Sellers in Blake Edward's "The Party" (1968). Most famous other role: when she was arrested & charged w/ fatally shooting her boyfriend Olympic skier "Spider" Sabich

HBD the charming, ravishing film actress Katharine Ross who was BOTD in 1940, turning 86 today. She was one of the great Hollywood faces of the late sixties and early seventies. She gives a spirited feminist performance in Bryan Forbes' "The Stepford Wives" (1975)