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Italian-American actor Anthony Franciosa was BOTD in 1928 & died in 2006 at 77. A Method actor from NY's Little Italy, he received an Oscar nom 4 Zinnemann's "A Hatful of Rain" (1957) & appeared in Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" (1957). Married 4x incl volatilely 2 Shelley Winters

The twincesty and sexy gay Kray Twins, Ronnie & Reggie, English gangsters prominent from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968, were BOTD in 1933. The former died in 1995 at 61, the latter in 2000 at the age of 66. Their gang, known as the Firm, was based in Bethnal Green

Playwright, screenwriter, director, & bitchy queen Moss Hart was BOTD in 1904 & died in 1961 at 57. Known for his collabs w/ George S. Kaufman, he wrote Cukor's "A Star Is Born" (1954) & directed "My Fair Lady" (1956) & "Camelot" (1960) on B'way. Can't get much gayer than that!

HBD USA director Philip Kaufman, BOTD in 1936, turning 90 today! He made the masterpieces "The White Dawn" (1974) & "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978). "Henry & June" (1990), with lesbian sex scenes between Uma Thurman & Maria de Medeiros, became the first NC-17 rated film

Promiscuous gay USA contemporary & classical music composer & writer Ned Rorem was BOTD in 1923 & died in 2022 at 99. Dedicated diarist Rorem wrote candidly about his sexuality, estimating his total romantic & sexual relationships at 3K, including the likes of Tennessee Williams

Fab lesbian Hollywood actress & platinum blond fashion plate Lilyan Tashman was BOTD in 1896 & died in 1934 at 37. A former Ziegfeld Follies girl, husky-voiced Tashman played bitchy other women, vamps & wisecracking sophisticates pre-Code & famously had a 4 yr. affair with Garbo

HBD French ice queen Catherine Deneuve, BOTD in 1943, turning 83 today. She had a taste for the perverse, playing a sexually repressed housewife who secretly works in a brothel in Buñuel's "Belle de Jour" (1967). She was devastated by the death of her sister Françoise Dorléac

HBD Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, Chicago 8 member, BOTD in 1936, turning 90 today. He founded the Panthers with Huey P. Newton in 1966. He publicly endorsed gay lib in 1970, urging revolutionaries to overcome their homophobia & embrace it as part of the struggle

Gay painting legend & Kennedy collage queen Robert Rauschenberg was BOTD in 1925 & died in 2008 at the age of 82. After a brief straight marriage, he was famously in gay love relationships with gay painting legends Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns, with whom he twinned in that gay way

Amazing lyricist, singer-songwriter & poet Dory Previn was BOTD in 1925 & died in 2012 at 86. Her brill lyrics grace films like "Two for the Seesaw," "Goodbye Charlie," "Inside Daisy Clover," "Valley of the Dolls" & "The Sterile Cuckoo." Her ex-friend Mia stole her husband Andre

This season of Slow Horses was a total bloodbath. If they'd killed off any more characters, they would have had to call the next season Slow Horse!

HBD hot Irish gay actor Andrew Scott, BOTD in 1976, turning 50 today. Although he'd been around for a while, he broke through as the amorous priest/love interest of Phoebe Waller-Bridge in her show "Fleabag" in 2019 & as the gay ghost in Andrew Haig's "All of Us Strangers" (2023)

Luscious Lux Interior was BOTD in 1946 & died too soon in 2009 at 62. Although I guess that's pretty old for a punk/rock'n'roll legend. Lux reportedly took his name from an automobile advertisement. His wife & band partner, Poison Ivy, took her name from poison ivy, presumably

HBD great & sexy actor Viggo Mortensen, BOTD in 1958, turning 68 today! He certainly fulfilled his full-frontal promise in Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" (2007) in a spectacularly naked bathhouse knife fight & generously shared his feet in Sean Penn's "The Indian Runner" (1991)

HBD Dolores Hart, the Hollywood starlet who gave up Elvis Presley for Jesus, becoming a nun, BOTD in 1938, turning 88 today. The beautiful blonde actress made her screen debut opposite Elvis in Hal Kanter's "Loving You" (1957), becoming the first actress to kiss him on screen

Great dwarf actor Michael Dunn was BOTD in 1934 & died in 1973 at 38. He had a number of impressive big-screen roles such as Stanley Kramer's "Ship of Fools" (1965), nominated for a Supporting Actor Oscar, & Joseph Losey's "Boom!" (1968), as LIz Taylor's fascistic bodyguard Rudi.

Arthur Rimbaud, French poet known for his transgressive themes & profound influence on modern literature, prefiguring surrealism, was BOTD in 1854 & died in 1891 at 37. He's generally considered a gay primarily due to his passionate & violent affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine

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