HBD pansexual, nonbinary singer/songwriter, rapper & actor Janelle Monáe, BOTD in 1985, turning 40 today. Monáe took 2 SM 2 denounce the homophobic remarks of a gospel singer, solidifying her status as a queer icon. I saw her perform in Berlin on her Tightrope tour, it was tight

HBD soulful-eyed, supersexy British-Pakistani movie star, rapper & actor Riz Ahmed, who sure has the rizz, BOTD in 1982, turning 43 2day. He's great in films such as Dan Gilroy's "Nightcrawler" (2014) & Darius Marder's "Sound of Metal" (2019) & TV shows like "The Night Of" (2016)

The GOAT, Richard Pryor was BOTD in 1940 & died in 2005 at 65. He was married 7x to 5 different women. In 2018, Quincy Jones & Pryor's widow claimed that Pryor had had a sexual relationship w/ Brando (move over, James Baldwin!) & that he was open about his bisexuality w/ friends

Dream Baby Press asked the filmmaker Bruce LaBruce for a list of 20 things he loves and 20 things he hates. Topping his love list, corpse pose! Topping his hate list, the phrase "It's giving..." dreambabypress.substack.com/p/bruce-labr... Photo by George Nebieridze

HBD Hollywood director Terrence Malik, BOTD in 1943, turning 82 today. He's only directed 9 feature films, including two early masterpieces, but there have been more than a few custom-made duds along the way, especially lately...

HBD Hollywood director Ridley Scott, BOTD in 1937, turning 88. He's directed 29 features, including several masterpieces, but there have been more than a few custom-made duds along the way, especially lately...

Hope Lange was BOTD in 1933 & died in 2003 at 70. The blonde beauty was known for roles in "Peyton Place" (1957) and "The Best of Everything" (1959), but my favourites are her TV movies like Walter Grauman's "Crowhaven Farm" (1970) & Lamont Johnson's "That Certain Summer" (1972)

Trippy hippy dippy British mystical poet & painter William Blake was BOTD in 1757 & died in 1827 at the age of 69. This is Blake's frontispiece to The Song of Los, showing Urizen presiding over the decline of morality. From a young age, William Blake claimed to have seen visions

Glamorous & gorgeous Gloria Grahame was BOTD in 1923 & died of cancer in 1981 at 57. She starred in many great Hollywood films, including Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), Fritz Lang's "The Big Heat" (1953), and Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952)

Sat. December 6, 2025, 7 pm The Visitor (2025) w/ an introduction by director Bruce LaBruce Regina Public Library, Film Theatre. 2311 12th Ave. Lower level Content Notice: nudity, graphic/explicit sexual content; intense strobe effects Free Admission Presented by Queer City Cinema

Join us 2 celebrate Bruce LaBruce, internationally acclaimed filmmaker, writer, artist & laureate of the 2025 Governor General Awards in Visual & Media Arts Sunday, Dec 7, 2025, 6 pm Masterclass w/ Bruce LaBruce Shumiatcher Theatre, MacKenzie Art Gallery 3475 Albert St, Regina Pic: George Nebieridze

Perfect Xmas and anti-Xmas gifts from my jewelry line collaboration with Jonathan Johnson Jewelry!!! @johnsonjewelry brucelabrucejewelry.com

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RIP Scottish fashion legend Pam Hogg, dead at 66. I had the pleasure of being on the jury with her in 2021 for Diane Pernet's A Shaded View of Fashion Film Festival, and she couldn't have been more charming and gracious

Underrated director Jonathan Kaplan was BOTD in 1947 & died in 2025 at 77. He came of age with another USA director named Jonathan who started out making B-movies, Jonathan Demme, who also died in his seventies, dying in 2017 at 73. Both started with AIP and producer Roger Corman

HBD gay German filmmaker/activist Rosa Von Praunheim, BOTD in 1942, turning 83 2day. His film "It Is Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives" (1971) triggered the Gay Lib Movement in Germany & inspired my porn film "It Is Not the Pornographer That Is Perverse"

My interview with and photographs of the marvelous @omarapollo.bsky.social for @buttmagazine.bsky.social are now online! He's a total sweetheart!!

The great Udo Kier, whom I once interviewed on stage at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto as we both got drunk on Chardonnay & a bottle of Jagermeister as he mercilessly teased me, has died at the age of 81. I dug up the poster for the event & two photos me hanging with him in Toronto

The groundbreaking transgender Warhol superstar Candy Darling was BOTD in 1944 & died in 1974 at 29. "Women in Revolt" remains my fave Warhol/Morrissey film, in which a reporter played by Jonathan Kramer tells her, "You're not a blond on a bum trip! You're a bum on a blond trip!"

The great Udo Kier, whom I once interviewed on stage in Toronto, both getting drunk on Chardonnay & Jagermeister, as he mercilessly teased me, has died at 81. Udo, one of the hardest working men in show biz, worked w/ everyone from Paul Morrissey to Fassbinder to Lars Von Trier

The wonderful Susan Anspach, so great in such movies as Bob Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces" (1970), Herbert Ross' "Play It Again, Sam" (1972, as Woody Allen's ex-wife), and Dusan Makavejev's "Montenegro" (1981), was BOTD in 1942 and died in 2018 at the age of 75

Legendary Hollywood scriptwriter Robert Towne was BOTD in 1934 & died in 2024 at 89. He wrote & directed the hot lesbian fetish movie "Personal Best" (1982) & allegedly had affairs with both its co-stars, Mariel Hemingway & Patrice Donnelly, ending his marriage. That would do it!

HBD model/actress Mariel Hemingway, BOTD in 1961, turning 64 today. 7 members of her family took their own lives, including her grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, who shot himself in the head in 1961 at 61 & her older sister, model/actress Margaux Hemingway, who died in 1996 at 42

The great Geraldine Page was BOTD in 1924 & died too soon in 1987 at 62. She was married to actor Rip Torn, 6 years her junior, for 27 yrs. My fave performances of hers are as Alma Winemiller in P. Glenville's "Summer and Smoke" (1961) & as Eve in Woody Allen's "Interiors" (1978)

The wonderful character actress Lee Patrick, who appeared in everything from "Stage Door" to "The Maltese Falcon" to "Now, Voyager" to "Mildred Pierce" to "The Snake Pit" to "Vertigo" to "Auntie Mame" to "The 7 Faces of Dr Lao," was BOTD in 1901 and died in 1982

Gay French author Andre Gide was BOTD in 1869 & died in 1951 at 81. Known for his fiction & autobiographical works, he expressed the conflict & eventual reconciliation of the 2 sides of his personality, a Protestant austerity & a transgressive sexual adventurousness, respectively

There are still a few copies left from the second printing of my hot coffee table book "The Revolution Is My Boyfriend" from Baron Books! Order now! Makes the perfect anti-Xmas present!! www.baronbooks.co.uk/product-page...

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HBD the great Goldie Hawn, BOTD in 1945, turning 80 today. I particularly love her in Hal Ashby's "Shampoo" (1975), a sensitive and underrated performance that proved her acting chops early on. This poster hung on my bedroom wall as a teen

HBD superlesbian Christine Vachon, the prolific independent film producer known for her work w/ directors like Todd Haynes and Larry Clark, BOTD in 1962, turning 63 today. Her extensive filmography includes acclaimed films like Kids, Boys Don't Cry, Far from Heaven, and Carol

This was such a great event at NYU the other week! It was so liberating to be discussing and celebrating a famous Marxist filmmaker, Pasolini, a few days after socialist Zohran Mandani was elected the mayor of NYC! lol www.casaitaliananyu.org/digital-libr...

HBD wonderful Estelle Parsons, BOTD in 1927, turning 98 today! She won a supporting Oscar 4 Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) & nominated for Paul Newman's "Rachel, Rachel" (1968) playing Calla, a frustrated Evangelical Christian lesbian public school teacher w/ a crush on Rachel

HBD brill lesbian actor Jodie Foster, BOTD in 1962, turning 63 today! As one of the greatest child ever she played tomboy roles before transitioning to often disturbing adult ones, winning Oscars for both Kaplan's "The Accused" (1988) & Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

Quasi-closeted Clifton Webb was BOTD in 1889 & died in 1966 at 76. Stunning Gene Tierney was BOTD in 1920 & died in 1991 at 70. They appeared in 2 great films together, Preminger's "Laura" (1944) & Goulding's "The Razor's Edge" (1946) w/ Webb playing heavily coded gay characters

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HBD mysterious, legendary Amanda Lear, who is allegedly trans or intersex. A singer, songwriter, painter, actress & model, who may have been BOTD in 1939, likely turning 85 today! Some sources insinuate that Dalí sponsored Lear's "sex reassignment" surgery in Casablanca in 1963

Gay Hollywood Megastar Rock Hudson, born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., was BOTD in 1925 & died of AIDS in 1985 at 59. He achieved stardom with his role in Douglas Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession" (1954), followed by Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows" (1955) & George Stevens' "Giant" (1956)

HBD Texan-born actor Steve Railsback, BOTD in 1945, turning 80 today. He big screen debut was in Elia Kazan's movie "The Visitors" (1972). He's best known for playing Manson in "Helter Skelter" in 1976 & for Richard Rush's "The Stunt Man" (1980) & Tobe Hooper's "Lifeforce" (1985)

HBD to gorgeous Joanna Pettet who was BOTD in 1942, turning 83 today. She was brilliant in her big screen debut in Sidney Lumet's 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel "The Group," and memorable the following year as Mata Bond, James Bond's daughter, in "Casino Royale"

Burgess Meredith was BOTD in 1907 & died in 1987 at 89. Love him in Lubitsch's "That Certain Feeling" in which he plays an anarchist concert pianist who tries to steal Merle Oberon from hubbie Melvyn Douglas when he meets her in the waiting room of their psychoanalyst. So urbane!

Burgess Meredith was BOTD in 1907 & died in 1987 at 89. Love him early in Lubitsch's "That Certain Feeling" and late in John Schlesinger's underrated disturbing masterpiece "The Day of the Locust" (1975). I wrote about the film at @talkhouse.bsky.social here: www.talkhouse.com/bruce-labruc...

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Gorgeous & tragic bisexual peekaboo girl Veronica Lake was BOTD in 1922 & died of acute alcoholism in 1973 at 50. She didn't make a lot of movies, but several have become true classics, particularly Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) & Marshall's "The Blue Dahlia" (1946)

Bisexual silent film star Louise Brooks was BOTD in 1906 & died in 1985 at 78, known mostly 4 her work w/ G.W. Pabst. She was open about her numerous affairs w/ both men & women, including a one-night stand w/ Garbo. She was married 2x but maintained she never truly loved anyone

Beautiful & talented Jean Seberg was BOTD in 1938 & died in 1979 at 40. The Parisian police ruled her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, her 2nd husband, called a press conference, blaming the FBI's campaign against Seberg, who supported the Black Panther Party, for her death

Great but tragic Richard Burton was BOTD in 1925 & died in 1984 at 58. Read all about his insanely toxic marriages to Liz Taylor in the books "Furious Love" by Kashner & Schoenberger & "Erotic Vagrancy" by Roger Lewis. Very sobering, so to speak. Tank: brucelabruce.threadless.com

Roy Scheider was BOTD in 1932 & died in 2008 at 75. He had hot supporting roles in Schatzberg's "Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), Friedkin's "The French Connection (1971) & Pakula's "Klute" (1971) before hitting big in Spielberg's "Jaws" (1975) & Fosse's "All That Jazz" (1979)

Tonite at 6:30pm as part of the “Pasolini: Politics & Poetry” series at NYU I will be attending a screening of Pasolini’s “Teorema” (1968) & have a conversation afterwards w/ author Ara H. Merjian about the film & my reimagining of it, "The Visitor." Casa Italiana 24 West 12 St.