1st May

LGBT people born today:

1874 – Romaine Brooks – US Artist – Died 7^th December 1970

1881 – Mary MacLane – Canadian Author / Screenwriter / Actress – Died 6^th / 7^th August 1929

1922 – Tad Mosel – US Playwright / Screenwriter – Died 24^th August 2008

1935 – Julian Mitchell – UK Screenwriter / Author

1943 – Ian Campbell Dunn – UK Activist – Died 10^th March 1998

1960 – Iain Smith – UK Politician

1967 – Scott Coffey – US Actor / Director

1980 – Jacek Dehnel – Polish Poet / Author / Painter

And those who died:

1960 – Dorothy Bussy – UK Author / Translator – Born 24^th July 1865

1968 – Harold Nicolson – UK Author / Diplomat / Politician – Born 21^st November 1886

1978 – Sylvia Townsend Warner – UK Author / Poet – Born 6^th December 1893

2001 – Bryan Derbyshire – UK Journalist / Editor / Entrepreneur – Born 9^th September 1943

2002 – John Nathan-Turner – UK Producer – Born 12^th August 1947

2003 – Paul Moore – US Bishop / Marine – Born 15^th November 1919

2005 – Edward von Kloberg, III – US Lobbyist – Born 9^th January 1942

2008 – Bernard Archard – UK Actor – Born 20^th August 1916

Events in LGBT history:

2009 – Same-sex marriage legalised in Sweden from this date