SuperGays Born On This Day

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez American actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez was BOTD in 1991. Born in Newark, New Jersey to an African-American mother and a Puerto-Rican father, she was assigned male at birth, identifying as female f…

American actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, best known for her role in TV drama series "Pose", was BOTD [7 January] in 1991, turning 35 today. #michaelajaerodriguez #pose #transhero #trans #bornonthisday #supergay

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret French artist Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret was BOTD in 1852. Born in Paris to a mercantile family, he was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. In 1869, he was acce…

Bisexual French painter and sculptor Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret was BOTD [7 January] in 1852. #pascaldagnanbouveret #bornonthisday #badbisexuals

Stephen Beresford English playwright and screenwriter Stephen Beresford was BOTD in 1972. Born in London, he was raised in Dartmouth in rural Devon. He showed an early interest in drama, moving to London to study at…

English playwright and screenwriter Stephen Beresford, best known for his screenplay for the 2014 film "Pride", was BOTD [7 January] in 1972, turning 54 today. #stephenberesford #pridefilm #supergays #bornonthisday

Taylor Mead American poet and actor Taylor Mead was BOTD in 1924. Born in Detroit, Michigan to a wealthy family, he abandoned his middle-class existence to become a Bohemian, moving to San Francisco in the 195…

American poet, actor and cult figure Taylor Mead, best known as the scrawny-buttocked star of #AndyWarhol's film "Taylor Mead's Ass", was BOTD [31 December] in 1924. #taylormead #taylormeadsass #supergays #bornonthisday

Joey Stefano American porn actor Joey Stefano was BOTD in 1968. Born Nicholas Iacona Jr in Chester, Pennsylvania to a working-class family, his father died when he was a teenager, leading to problems with drug …

American porn actor Joey Stefano, known as the gay porn industry's hungriest power bottom, was BOTD [1 January] in 1968, dying of a drug overdose in 1994 aged just 26. #joeystefano #powerbottom #gayporn #supergays #sadgays #bornonthisday

Gayle Rubin American writer, academic and activist Gayle Rubin was BOTD in 1949. Born in South Carolina to a middle-class Jewish family, she was educated in racially-segregated public schools, before moving to…

American writer, academic and activist Gayle Rubin, best known for her influential sex-positive essay "Thinking Sex", was BOTD [1 January] in 1949, turning 77 today. #gaylerubin #thinkingsex #supergays ´#radicalesbians #bornonthisday

Jacob Israël de Haan Dutch lawyer, writer and activist Jacob Israël de Haan was BOTD in 1881. Born in Smilde to an Orthodox Jewish family, he was one of eighteen children, and grew up in poverty, moving frequently as h…

Dutch lawyer, writer and activist Jacob Israël de Haan was BOTD in 1881. #jacobisraeldehaan #supergays #bornonthisday

Orry-Kelly Australian costume designer Orry George Kelly, known professionally as Orry-Kelly, was BOTD in 1897. Born in Kiama, New South Wales to an English-born father and an Australian mother, he attended h…

Australian costume designer Orry George Kelly, better known as Orry-Kelly, was BOTD in 1897. A one-time bum chum of #CaryGrant, he became one of Hollywood’s top designers, dressing #BetteDavis, #KatharineHepburn and #MarilynMonroe, before drinking himself to death. #orrykelly #bornonthisday #sadgays

Donna Summer American singer-songwriter Donna Summer was BOTD in 1948. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston, Massachusetts to a working-class family, she began singing in church, dropping out of high school to …

American singer-songwriter, gay icon Donna Summer, whose disco tracks “Love To Love You Baby” and “I Feel Love” became the soundtrack of the 1970s, was BOTD in 1948. #donnasummer #gayicon #ifeellove #bornonthisday

Hunter Schafer American actress, model and activist Hunter Schafer was BOTD in 1998. Born in Trenton, New Jersey to a conservative Christian family, she was assigned male at birth, and raised in Raleigh, North Ca…

American actress, model and trans activist Hunter Schafer, best known for her roles in TV drama series “Euphoria” and horror flick “Cuckoo”, was BOTD in 1998, turning 27 today. #hunterschafer #euphoria #cuckoo #trans #transicon #bornonthisday

Joe Dallesandro American model and actor Joe Dallesandro was BOTD in 1948. Born in Pensacola, Florida, he had a turbulent childhood, living in a series of orphanages and foster homes, and becoming a criminal by hi…

American hustler, model, actor and Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro, was BOTD in 1948, turning 77 today. #joedallesandro #littlejoe #supergays #bornonthisday

Joseph Beam American writer, editor and activist Joseph Beam was BOTD in 1954. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a working-class family, he studied at Franklin College in Indiana, where he became active in…

American writer, editor and activist Joseph Beam, best known as the editor of Black gay anthology “In the Life”, was BOTD in 1954, dying of an AIDS-related illness in 1988, aged 33. #josephbeam #supergays #bornonthisday #inthelife

Douglas Coupland Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland was BOTD in 1961. Born in West Germany where his father was a medical officer for the Royal Canadian Air Force, he was raised in Vancouver. He studied ph…

Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland, best known for his story collection “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, was BOTD in 1961, turning 64 today. #douglascoupland #generationx #bornonthisday

Paul Bowles American writer and composer Paul Bowles was BOTD in 1910. Born in New York City to wealthy middle-class parents, he composed poetry and music from an early age, publishing his first poem at 17. Wh…

Bisexual American writer and composer Paul Bowles, best known for his novel “The Sheltering Sky”, was BOTD in 1910. #paulbowles #bornonthisday #supergays #theshelteringsky

Tima die Göttliche German performer and costume designer Timo Lewandovsky, better known as Tima die Göttliche (Tima the Divine) was BOTD in 1965. Born in Munich, he moved to West Berlin in 1983, completing an interns…

German performer and costume designer Timo Lewandovsky, better known as Tima die Göttliche (Tima the Divine) was BOTD in 1965, turning 60 today. #timadiegottliche #timathedivine #bornonthisday #supergays

L. P. Hartley English writer Leslie Poles (L. P.) Hartley was BOTD in 1895. Born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire to a middle-class family, he studied at Harrow School and Oxford University, where he befriended gay…

Closeted gay English writer Leslie Poles (L. P.) Hartley, best known for his beloved novel “The Go-Between”, was BOTD in 1895. #lphartley #thegobetween #bornonthisday

Henry, Viscount Gage English aristocrat Henry Rainald Gage, 6th Viscount Gage, was BOTD in 1895. Born in London, the son of Henry Charles Gage, the 5th Viscount Gage of Firle Place, he inherited the viscountcy in 1912,…

Fruity bisexual English aristocrat Henry Rainald Gage, 6th Viscount Gage, was BOTD in 1895. #viscountgage #bornonthisday

Paul Rudnick American playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick was BOTD in 1957. Born in Piscataway, New Jersey, he studied at Yale University before moving to New York City, where he worked as a magazine colum…

American playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick, best known for his play “Jeffrey” and screenplays for “The Addams Family”, “The First Wives Club and “Sister Act”, was BOTD in 1957, turning 68 today. #paulrudnick #supergays #bornonthisday

Billy Tipton American jazz musician Billy Tipton was BOTD in 1914. Born Dorothy Tipton in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was assigned female at birth. He grew up in Kansas City, showing an early talent for music and …

Trans American jazz musician Billy Tipton was BOTD in 1914. #billytipton #trans #transicon #bornonthisday

Gilbert Adair Scottish writer and journalist Gilbert Adair was BOTD in 1944. Born in Edinburgh, he studied French at the University of Glasgow. After graduating, he moved to Paris, where he witnessed the student…

Scottish writer and journalist Gilbert Adair, best known for his screenplays for the films “The Dreamers” and “Love and Death on Long Island”, was BOTD in 1944. #gilbertadair #bornonthisday #supergays

Lilly Wachowski American filmmaker Lilly Wachowski was BOTD in 1967. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was assigned male at birth and named Andy. She studied at Emerson College in Boston, dropping out before graduati…

American filmmaker Lilly Wachowski, best known for “The Matrix” film series made with sister #LanaWachowski, was BOTD in 1967, turning 58 today. #lillywachowski #trans #transicon #thematrix #bornonthisday

Jason Gould American singer, actor and filmmaker Jason Gould was BOTD in 1966. Born in New York City, the only child of singer-actress Barbra Streisand and actor Elliott Gould, his parents separated when he wa…

Cute as a button American singer, actor and filmmaker Jason Gould was BOTD in 1966, turning 59 today. #jasongould #supergays #bornonthisday

Peter Berlin German filmmaker, model, artist and porn star Peter Berlin was BOTD in 1942. Born in Łódź in Nazi-occupied Poland, he grew up in Berlin in a wealthy middle-class family. He became a commercial phot…

German-born filmmaker, model, artist and porn star Peter Berlin was BOTD in 1942, turning 83 today. #peterberlin #supergays #bornonthisday

F. W. Murnau German filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm (F. W.) Murnau was BOTD in 1888. Born in the Rhineland, he showed an early interest in theatre, befriending director Max Reinhardt while he was at university. He …

German filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm (F. W.) Murnau, best known for his films “Nosferatu” and “Sunrise”, was BOTD in 1888, dying in a car accident in 1931 aged 42. #fwmurnau #bornonthisday #supergays #nosferatu #sunrise

Manuel Puig Argentinian writer Manuel Puig was BOTD in 1932. Born on a ranch in a small town in Buenos Aires Province, he had an unhappy childhood, bullied at at school for his effeminacy and love of wearing w…

Argentinian writer Manuel Puig, best known for his queer-themed novel “Kiss of the Spiderwoman”, was BOTD in 1932, dying (probably of AIDS) in 1990 aged 57. #manuelpuig #kissofthespiderwoman #supergays #bornonthisday #aids

Lili Elbe Danish painter and trans pioneer Lili Ilse Elvenes, also known as Lili Elbe, was BOTD in 1882. Born in Vehle, she studied painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and began …

Danish painter and trans pioneer Lili Ilse Elvenes (aka Lili Elbe) was BOTD in 1882. Her life was horribly misrepresented by #TomHooper’s film #TheDanishGirl starring cis-gendered actor #EddieRedmayne. #lilielbe #transhero #trans #bornonthisday

Marlene Dietrich German singer and actress Marlene Dietrich was BOTD in 1901. Born in Berlin, she appeared in vaudeville before graduating to theatre and silent films in the hedonistic world of 1920s Weimar Berlin.…

Sensational German singer, actress and rampant bisexual Marlene Dietrich was BOTD in 1901. #marlenedietrich #supergay #bornonthisday

Joe Mantello American actor, director and filmmaker Joe Mantello was BOTD in 1962. Born in Rockford, Illinois to a middle-class family, he studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, moving to New York Ci…

Foxy American actor, director and filmmaker Joe Mantello was BOTD in 1962, turning 63 today. Hello, Daddy! #joemantello #supergays #bornonthisday

Mina Loy English artist, writer and designer Mina Loy was BOTD in 1882. Born in London, to a Hungarian Jewish father and an English mother, she had a difficult childhood due to her parents’ troubled m…

English artist, writer, designer, feminist and Honorary SuperGay Mina Loy was BOTD in 1882. #minaloy #bornonthisday #honorarysupergay

John Minton English artist and designer (Francis) John Minton was BOTD in 1917. Born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire to a middle-class family, he was educated at private schools before moving to London to st…

English painter and illustrator John Minton was BOTD [25 December] in 1917. The one-time lover of #LucianFreud, he committed suicide in 1957, aged 39. #johnminton #bornonthisday #sadgays