Happy August Birthdays!
Born This Way On This Day
August isn’t just about end-of-the-summer vacations—it’s also a time to celebrate the birthdays of some LGBTQ historical heroes and Queer Pioneers:
08-01 = Jimmie Daniels (1908-1984) = American actorand nightclub owner
08-01 = Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) = French fashion designer
08-02 = James Baldwin (1924-1987) = American novelist
08-04 = John August (1970- ) = American screenwriter and filmmaker
08-04 = Marcus Urban (1971- ) = German footballer and diversity adviser
08-04 = Rudi van Dantzig (1933-2012) = Dutch choreographer and dancer
08-04 = Sapphire (1950- ) = American writer
08-04 = Walter Pater (1839-1894) = English essayist and art critic
08-05 = Christopher Makos (1948- ) = American photographer
08-05 = George Tooker (1920-2011) = American painter
08-05 = Heward Grafftey (1928-2008) = Canadian politician and businessman
08-06 = Andy Warhol (1928-1987) = American artist and media mogul
08-06 = Carole Pope (1950- ) = Canadian rock singer-songwriter
08-06 = Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) = British artist
08-06 = Jess Collins (1923-2004) = American artist
08-06 = Jim McGreevey (1957- ) = American seminarian and politician
08-06 = Steve Endean (1948-1993) = American activist (HRC founder)
08-08 = Michael Urie (1980- ) = American actor, television producer, and director
08-08 = Ralf König (1960- ) = German comic artist
08-08 = Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985) = Austrian-American fashion designer
08-08 = Vivian Forbes (1891-1937) = English soldier, painter and poet
08-09 = Amanda Bearse (1958- ) = American actor, comedian and director
08-09 = Michael Kors (1959- ) = American fashion designer
08-09 = Tove Jansson (1914-2001) = Finnish artist and author
08-10 = Andrew Sullivan (1963- ) = English author and political commentator
08-11 = Angus Wilson (1913-1991) = English novelist and short story writer
08-11 = Quinn (1995- ) = Canadian professional soccer player
08-12 = Cara Delevingne (1992- ) = English model and actor
08-12 = George Bellows (1882-1925) = American artist
08-12 = Gladys Bentley (1907-1960) = American blues singer
08-12 = Merikukka Forsius (1972- ) = Finnish politician
08-12 = Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) = English writer and poet
08-13 = Andrea Gibson (1975- ) = American spoken word poet
08-13 = Domenico Dolce (1958- ) = Italian fashion designer (Dolce & Gabbana)
08-13 = Gluck (1895-1978) = English painter
08-13 = Herb Ritts (1952-2002) = American photographer
08-13 = Jennifer Pritzker (1950- ) = American investor and philanthropist
08-13 = Karine Jean-Pierre (1974- ) = French-American political advisor
08-13 = Sam Champion (1961- ) = American tv personality and weather anchor
08-14 = Guglielmo Plüschow (1852-1930) = German photographer
08-14 = Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) = German-American photographer
08-14 = Jill Bennett (1975- ) = American actor
08-14 = Mark Pocan (1964- ) = American politican
08-16 = Rina Sawayama (1990- ) = Japanese singer, actor, and model
08-16 = Wolfgang Tillmans (1968- ) = German photographer
08-17 = Larry Rivers (1923-2002) = American artist, musician, and filmmaker
08-18 = Harold Jackman (1901-1961) = British-American teacher and model
08-18 = Marcel Carné (1906-1996) = French film director
08-19 = Coco Chanel (1883-1971) = French fashion designer
08-19 = Jeanna Bauck (1840-1926) = Swedish-German painter
08-19 = Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) = American magazine publisher
08-19 = Renée Richards (1934- ) = American ophthalmologist and tennis player
08-20 = Maria Louise Pool (1841-1898) = American writer
08-21 = Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) = English illustrator and author
08-21 = Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo (1936-2008) = Spanish aristocrat
08-21 = Miguel Vale de Almeida (1960- ) = Portuguese anthropologist and activist
08-22 = Diana Nyad (1949- ) = American author, journalist, and swimmer
08-22 = Willem Arondeus (1894-1943) = Dutch artist and writer
08-23 = Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) = British artist
08-24 = Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) American activist
08-24 = Stephen Fry (1957- ) = English actor, comedian, and tv presenter
08-25 = Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) = American conductor and composer
08-25 = Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) = King of Bavaria
08-26 = Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) = English novelist
08-26 = Chuck Renslow (1929-2017) = American entrepreneur and photographer
08-27 = Maud Allan (1873-1956) = Canadian dancer and actor
08-27 = Tom Ford (1961- ) = American fashion designer and film director
08-28 = Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1885) = German lawyer, writer, and activist
08-28 = Nancy Kulp (1921-1991) = American actor
08-29 = Candis Cayne (1971- ) = American actor and performance artist
08-29 = Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) = British socialist poet and early activist
08-29 = Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) = American painter and poet
08-29 = Jeanette Winterson (1957- ) = English writer, broadcaster and activist
08-29 = Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) = French poet, novelist, and dandy
08-29 = Joel Schumacher (1939-2020) = American filmmaker
08-29 = Meshell Ndegeocello (1968- ) = American singer-songwriter
08-29 = Thom Gunn (1929-2004) = English poet
08-30 = Leonor Fini (1907-1996) = Argentine-Italian artist
08-31 = Alex Blackwell (1983- ) = Australian cricketer
08-31 = André Baudry (1922-2018) = French activist and Arcadie founder