31st May

LGBT people born today:

1819 – Walt Whitman – US Poet / Author / Journalist – Died 26^th March 1892

1922 – Denholm Elliott – UK Actor – Died 6^th October 1992

1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder – German Director / Playwright / Composer / Actor – Died 10^th June 1982

1953 – Louise Frevert – Danish Politician

1954 – Lissy Groner – German Politician

1965 – Todd McKenney – Australian Entertainer

And those who died:

1963 – Edith Hamilton – German / US Author – Born 12^th August 1867

1967 – Billy Strayhorn – US Composer / Pianist / Arranger – Born 29^th November 1915

1978 – Hannah Hoch – German Artist – Born 1^st November 1889

1991 – Sir Angus Wilson – UK Author / Journalist / Playwright – Born 11^th August 1913

1993 – Anji Xtravaganza – US Entertainer – Born 1966

2009 – Danny LaRue – Irish Female Impersonator / Singer – Born 26^th July 1927

Events in LGBT history:

2003 – National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco, California, USA [ran until 29^th June 2003]

2007 – Newfest – NY LGBT Film Festival, USA [ran until 10^th June 2007]

2009 – National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco, California, USA [ran until 11^th July 2009]

This is the last lot of birthdays I will be posting on this blog. I intend to keep posting the information every day, but it will be on a separate blog "On This Gay Day." So, if you are one of the few who reads these updates then please head on over there from tomorrow (1st June 2010). This blog will now just be about my whines and moans and the (very) occasional triumph. Hopefully.