Jack Saul
Irish sex worker Jack Saul was BOTD in 1857. Born Johannes Saul in Dublin, he grew up in poverty, and little is known of his early life. When he was 17, Saul met and had an affair with Martin Kirwaβ¦
Irish rent boy Jack Saul, the centre of the Cleveland Street sex scandal in Victorian London, whose colourful life inspired the erotic novel βThe Sins of the Cities of the Plainβ, was BOTD in 1857. #jacksaul #rentboys #clevelandstreet #supergays #bornonthisday
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Elsa Lanchester
English actress Elsa Lanchester was BOTD in 1902. Born Elsa Sullivan in London to unmarried Socialist parents, she studied dance in Paris as a child with Isadora Duncan. After World War One, she beβ¦
English actress Elsa Lanchester, best known as the beehived lady-monster of βBride of Frankensteinβ and wife of closeted gay actor #CharlesLaughton, was BOTD in 1902. #elsalanchester #maybegays #brideoffrankenstein #bornonthisday
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Edith Head
American costume designer Edith Head was BOTD in 1897. Born in San Bernadino, California, she studied at the University of California and Stanford University, and worked as a language teacher beforβ¦
American costume designer and honking great dyke Edith Head, the multi-Oscar winning couturier of classic Hollywood film, was BOTD in 1897. #edithhead #bornonthisday #supergays
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Anne Perry
English writer and murderer Juliet Hulme, latterly known as Anne Perry, was BOTD in 1938. Born in London, she suffered from tuberculosis as a child and was sent to South Africa to improve her healtβ¦
English teen murderess Juliet Hulme, latterly known as the crime novelist Anne Perry, was BOTD in 1938. #juliethulme #bornonthisday #maybegays #heavenlycreatures
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Evelyn Waugh
English writer Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, better known as Evelyn Waugh, was BOTD in 1903. Born in London to a middle-class family, he was educated at Oxford University, where he had affairs withβ¦
English writer and part-time homosexual Evelyn Waugh, better best known for his novel βBrideshead Revisitedβ, was BOTD in 1903. #evelynwaugh #bornonthisday #parttimegay #bridesheadrevisited
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Adam Mars-Jones
English writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones was BOTD in 1954. Born in London to a middle-class family, he studied at Cambridge University. His first collection of stories, Lantern Lecture, was publisβ¦
English writer, critic and old school leatherman Adam Mars-Jones was BOTD in 1954, turning 71 today. Best known for his novella βBox Hillβ, the basis of sexy new BDSM rom-com #Pillion starring #AlexanderSkarsgard. #adammarsjones #supergays #boxhill #pillion #bornonthisday
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Ben Brantley
American theatre critic Ben Brantley was BOTD in 1954. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he studied at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, beginning his journalistic career at The Village Voice. He wβ¦
Bitchy gay American theatre critic Ben Brantley was BOTD in 1954, turning 71 today. She ruled over the New York Times with a velvet fist until her resignation in 2020, following criticism over her unwoke comments about trans performers. #benbrantley #bornonthisday #supergays
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Christos Tsioklas
Australian writer Christos Tsioklas was BOTD in 1965. Born in Melbourne to Greek immigrant parents, he was the first of his family to attend university, where he edited the influential student newsβ¦
Australian writer Christos Tsioklas, best known for his books βLoadedβ and βThe Slapβ, was BOTD in 1965, turning 60 today. #christostsioklas #bornonthisday #supergays
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David Furnish
Canadian celebrity consort, philanthropist and filmmaker David Furnish was BOTD in 1962. Born in Toronto to a wealthy middle-class family, he studied business at the University of Western Ontario, β¦
Canadian filmmaker and philanthropist David Furnish, best known as the celebity consort of singer #EltonJohn, was BOTD in 1962, turning 63 today. #davidfurnish #bornonthisday #supergays
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Katy Perry
American singer-songwriter Katy Perry was BOTD in 1984. Born in Santa Barbara, California to a Christian Pentecostal family, she began singing as a child, performing in her parentsβ church miβ¦
Bisexual American singer-songwriter Katy Perry, best known for her hit singles βI Kissed a Girlβ and βFireworkβ, was BOTD in 1984, turning 41 today. #katyperry #bornonthisday #supergays
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Anohni
English singer-songwriter and visual artist Anohni was BOTD in 1971. Born Antony Hegarty in Chichester, West Sussex, she was assigned male at birth, identifying as transgender from early childhood.β¦
English singer-songwriter and visual artist Anohni, who rose to fame as the lead singer of Antony & the Johnsons, was BOTD in 1971, turning 54 today. #anohni #antonyandthejohnsons #trans #supergays #bornonthisday
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Ronnie Kray
English gangster and murderer Ronald (Ronnie) Kray was BOTD in 1933. Born in Londonβs East End, he and his identical twin Reggie became amateur boxers in their teens. Called up for National Serviceβ¦
English gangster and murderer Ronnie Kray, who with his twin brother Reggie dominated Londonβs post-WWII gangland, becoming cult heroes by the 1960s, was BOTD in 1933. #ronniekray #badgays #bornonthisday
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Moss Hart
American composer, lyricist and director Moss Hart was BOTD in 1904. Born in New York City, he was introduced to theatre by his aunt Kate, working as an assistant for theatrical producer Augustus Pβ¦
American composer, lyricist, director and closeted homo Moss Hart, best known for directing the original Broadway production of βMy Fair Ladyβ, was BOTD in 1904. #mosshart #bornonthisday #sadgays
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Sybil Thorndike
English actress Sybil Thorndike was BOTD in 1882. Born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the daughter of an Anglican vicar, she showed an early interest in music, training as a classical pianist at thβ¦
Discreetly bisexual English actress Sybil Thorndike, best known for originating the lead role in #GeorgeBernardShawβs play βSaint Joanβ, was BOTD in 1882. #sybilthorndike #maybegays #bornonthisday
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Maggi Hambling
English artist Maggi Hambling was BOTD in 1945. Born in Suffolk, she studied art in her teens, graduating from the Slade School of Art in 1969. While predominantly a painter, she turned to sculpturβ¦
Lesbionic English painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling, best known for her public sculptures of #OscarWilde and #MaryWollstonecraft, was BOTD in 1945, turning 80 today. #maggihambling #supergays #lesbionic #bornonthisday
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Sarah Bernhardt
French actress and producer Sarah Bernhardt was BOTD in 1844. Born in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of a Dutch courtesan, she received a convent education, and was sponsored to attend the Conserβ¦
Bisexual French actress and producer Sarah Bernhardt, hailed as the greatest classical actress of the Belle Γpoque, was BOTD in 1844. #sarahbernhardt #thedivinesarah #supergays #bornonthisday
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Jean Acker
American actress Jean Acker was BOTD in 1892. Born Harriet Ackers in Trenton, New Jersey, her parents divorced when she was a child, and she was raised by her father and stepmother on a farm in Lewβ¦
Messily bisexual American actress Jean Acker, best known for her brief marriage to Hollywood heartthrob and MaybeGay #RudolphValentino, was BOTD in 1892. #jeanacker #bornonthisday
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