Berlin kids! Hot party at @studio1111berlin on Thurs, June 18th starting 9pm! Performances by the amazing Bleach and the Bumholes and by the wondrous PG Tina @pgpgtinapg. Plus a video exhibition of my work by @studio1111berlin. Oh I will be DJing too along with @bleach.babychino2

Hey Leuter in Berlin! We’re quickly pulling together a cool party at @studio1111berlin on Thursday, June 18th as I will be in Berlin for a week on the wash back Italy. Performances by the extraordinary @bleachxberlin & by the wondrous PG Tina. Plus a video exhibition of my work by @studio1111berlin

RIP supergay artist David Hockney who has died at the age of 88. On 15 November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in NYC for $90 million, becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction

HBD famous gay Canuck Scott Thompson who was BOTD in 1959, turning 66 2day. The "Kids in the Hall" star shares a birthday w/ another famous Canadian, Jordan Peterson, who turns 63 today & who may or may not also be a comedian. A very unfunny one, mind you. It's not rocket surgery

Martha Dimitratou, who is based in Brussels, is the founder & executive director of Repro Uncensored, a global nonprofit that fights censorship imposed by digital media conglomerates. She helped get Butt’s & LaBruce’s accounts reinstated @ReproUncensored www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/s...

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Chantal Akerman, Belgian filmmaker, film theorist & lesbian feminist iconographer of women, who directed 40 plus films & TV projects, was BOTD in 1950 & took her own life in 2015 at 65. She is best known for her groundbreaking experimental feminist film "Jeanne Dielman" (1975)

Two legendary bisexual directors were BOTD: the great French auteur Jacques Demy in 1931 and the great English auteur Tony Richardson in 1928. Both men died from complications from AIDS, Demy in 1990 at the age of 59, Richardson in 1991 at the age of 63. Both had messy marriages!

Tribute to Bruce LaBruce Cinema Massimo - From June 8th to 15th, 2026 I will be in Turin to introduce No Skin Off My Ass & The Raspberry Reich Organized in collaboration with the Sicilia Queer FilmFest of Palermo, Lovers Film Festival and Europride Torino 2027 www.museocinema.it/it/news/omag...

I'll be presenting my movie "The Visitor" tomorrow night at 9:30pm at the Cinema Troisi in Rome! From A/political Tickets: cinematroisi.it/ospite/Bruce... www.liveticket.it/evento.aspx?...

German bisexual superstar auteur filmmaker, actor, playwright, theatre director, composer, editor & Rainer Werner Fassbinder was BOTD in 1945 & died from a lethal cocktail of cocaine & barbiturates in 1982 at 37 w/ over 40 films & 2 TV series under his straining, low-slung belt

HBD film director Ryan Coogler, who, with "Sinners" (2025), is currently one of the hottest helmers in Hollywood, BOTD in 1986, turning 40 today. He has worked five times with hunky actor Michael B. Jordan, who started out as a child actor on "The Wire"

HBD Steven Patrick Morrissey, known mononymously as Morrissey, an English singer and songwriter, who was BOTD in 1959, turning 67 today. She came to prominence as the singer and lyricist of rock band the Smiths, alongside co-writer of their songs, and her major crush, Johnny Marr

Discreetly gay USA actor Paul Winfield was BOTD in 1939 & died in 2004 at 64. A lifetime member of The Actor's Studio, he was known for playing a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Depression in Ritt's "Sounder" (1972), earning him an Oscar nod

Got Milk? The great gay activist and the first openly gay elected official in California Harvey Milk was BOTD in 1930 and was assassinated in 1978 at the age of 48. On November 27, 1978

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Chunky, husky gay Canuck Hollywood actor & noted philanthropist Raymond Burr was BOTD in 1917 & died in 1993 at 76. Burr's homosexuality was widely known in the industry, particularly when he became longtime lovers w/ actor Robert Benevides who later became one of his producers

HBD Omar Apolonio Velasco (born May 20, 1997), known professionally as Omar Apollo, BOTD in 1997, turning 29 today. I interviewed and photographed Mr. Apollo for Butt Magazine last year: buttmagazine.com/interviews/o...

HBD Cher, BOTD in 1946, turning 80 today. Her performance as lesbian nuclear plant worker Dolly Pelliker in Mike Nichols’ “Silkwood” (1983) remains my favourite, partly because I worked as a lesbian nuclear plant worker a few years before the movie came out. Well, gay. But still

HBD Constance Towers, BOTD in 1933, turning 93 today! Aside from her long stint as evil Helena Cassadine on "General Hospital," she is best known for her two lurid thrillers by Samuel Fuller, "Shock Corridor" (1963) & "The Naked Kiss" (1964). She was married to actor John Gavin

James "Jimmy" Stewart was BOTD in 1908 & died in 1997 at 89. Contrary to his squeaky-clean image, he had many torrid affairs before the age of 40 w/ Eleanor Powell, Margaret Sullavan, Loretta Young, Ginger Rogers, Norma Shearer, Dinah Shore & Marlene Dietrich & possibly Kim Novak

HBD Jamaican-USA model, singer, songwriter, record producer & actor Grace Jones, BOTD in 1948, turning 78 today. I caught her at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC in 2009. Genius! The covers of her albums "Island Life" & "Nightclubbing" (1981) were by her then-lover Jean-Paul Goude

HBD cute Brit actor James Fox, of the thespian Fox clan, BOTD in 1939, turning 87 today! Starting out as a child actor, he appeared in a number of notably kinky films in the 60's like Losey's "The Servant" (1963), Forbes' "King Rat" (1965) & Cammell & Roeg's "Performance" (1970)

Muslim Minister & Civil Rights Activist Malcolm X was BOTD in 1925 & assassinated in 1965 at 39. He had a sustained sexual relationship w/ a transvestite named Willie Mae & also had sex w/ gay men for $ when younger, boasting he serviced "queers." In other words, a hustler! Hot!

HBD gay USA portrait artist Don Bachardy, BOTD in 1934, turning 91 today. On Valentine's Day 1953, at the age of 48, author Christopher Isherwood met the teenage Bachardy among a group of friends on the beach at Santa Monica. Bachardy later said, "At the time I was probably 16."

Writer/director Richard Brooks was BOTD in 1912 & died in 1992 at 79. The tall, macho helmer made "Elmer Gantry" (1960), "The Professionals" (1966) & "In Cold Blood" (1967) but "Looking For Mr. Goodbar"(1977) is his best. I wrote about it @talkhouse.bsky.social here: talkhouse.com/12795/

Writer/director Richard Brooks was BOTD in 1912 & died in 1992 at 79. The tall, macho helmer made "Elmer Gantry" (1960), "The Professionals" (1966) & "In Cold Blood" (1967) but "Looking For Mr. Goodbar"(1977) is his best. I wrote about it @Talkhouse here: talkhouse.com/12795/

The one and only Frank Capra, populist classical Hollywood director and unapologetic purveyor of "Capra-corn," was BOTD in 1897 & died in 1991 at 94. His sleeper hit "It Happened One Night" (1934) swept the Oscars, winning best film, actress, actor, director & adapted screenplay

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USA iconoclastic actor/director Dennis Hopper was BOTD in 1936 & died in 2010 at 74. He was married 5x & was said 2 B one of Hollywood's most notorious drug addicts. He was cute as a fucking button in his first feature, Curtis Harrington's brilliant cult film "Night Tide" (1961)

Flamboyantly closeted (how's that for an oxymoron) superhomosexual & conservative Republican Liberace was BOTD in 1919 & died of AIDS in 1987 at 67. Soderbergh's "Behind the Candelabra" (2013), starring Michael Douglas as Liberace & Matt Damon as Scott Thorson, is fab and moving

RIP ethereal chanteuse & actress Claudine Longet, dead at 84. Her most famous role was opposite Peter Sellers in Edward's "The Party" (1968). Her most famous other role was when she was arrested & charged with fatally shooting her boyfriend Olympic skier "Spider" Sabich in 1976

HBD music legend Brian Eno who was BOTD in 1948, turning 78 today. Brian Eno is not gay. Ceci n'est pas une pipe!

HBD gay painting legend Jasper Johns who was BOTD in 1930, making him 96 years old today! He's the last survivor of the generation of gay white male art stars that included Cage, Cunningham, Kelly, Rauschenberg, Twombly & Warhol. Johns & Rauschenberg were twinnie lovers for 6 yrs

Joseph Cotten was BOTD in 1905 & died in 1994 at 88. He played one of my all-time fave coded gay characters in Hitchcock's masterpiece "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) & co-starred w/ Jennifer Jones in 4 films incl. William Dieterle's "Love Letters" (1945) & "Portrait of Jennie" (1948)

HBD the gorgeous & talented Mexican-born actress & filmmaker Nava Mau, BOTD in 1992, turning 34 today. A trans woman who has played a transgender character in most productions she has worked on, she's best known for the Netflix British dark drama series Baby Reindeer (2024)

HBD devil-may-care Season Hubley, BOTD in 1951, turning 75 today. She was married to Kurt Russell from 1979 to 1983, having met him while filming "Elvis". Starting as a model, Hubley's best role was as Niki the porn star/hooker in Schrader's flawed, fascinating "Hardcore" (1979)

Hungarian DP László Kovács was BOTD in 1933 & died in 2007 at 74. He shot brilliant movies: Altman's "That Cold Day in the Park" (1969), Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) & "The King of Marvin Gardens" (1972), Ashby's "Shampoo" (1975), Scorsese's "New York, New York" (1977)

Gay actor Richard Deacon, who often played pompous, prissy, and/or imperious characters, was BOTD in 1922 & died in 1984 at 62. He was best known for playing supporting roles in TV shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave It to Beaver, and The Jack Benny Program

German physician & sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld was BOTD in 1868 & died in 1935 at 67. He was the first doctor to openly research & advocate for gender non-conformists. On a trip to Asia he met a gay Chinese sexologist named Tao Li. They stayed together as lovers until his death

HBD sexy, eccentric cerebral hunk Harvey Keitel who was BOTD in 1939, turning 87 today. I love him in Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" (1976), Tavernier's "Death Watch" (1980), Faenza's "Copkiller" (1983) w/ Johnny Lydon, Roeg's "Bad Timing" (1980), Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant" (1992)

HBD the wonderful actress Zohra Lampert who was BOTD in 1937, turning 89 today! She is probably best known for her roles in Kazan's "Splendor in the Grass" (1961), John D. Hancock's cult classic "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" (1971), and Cassavetes' "Opening Night" (1977

Journeyman Hollywood auteur Herbert Ross was BOTD in 1927 & died in 2001 at 74. I luv his off-beat "T.R. Baskin" (1971) w/ Candice Bergen & "The Last of Sheila" (1973), as well as one of Streisand's best "The Owl and the Pussycat" (1970) & ballet soaper "The Turning Point" (1977)

Supergay USA Southerner film critic, journalist, actor & dandy Rex Reed, aka Sexy Rexy, has died at 87. A long-time film critic for The New York Observer (he was "layed off" in 2017), he was known for his scathing reviews and for appearing in the 1970 megaflop "Myra Breckinridge"

Fluxus founder, conceptual artist, sculptor & theorist Joseph Beuys was BOTD in 1921 & died in 1986 at 64. He & Warhol appeared for publicity at the Lucio Amelio Gallery in 1980 which was directly adjacent to the apt that I stayed at when I spent five weeks in Naples last summer

Legendary alleged lesbian Hollywood star Katherine Hepburn was BOTD in 1907 & died in 2003 at 96. Allegedly she & her frequent co-star & gay companion Spencer Tracy formed a mutual beard society. Various biographers & 1930s-era associates suggest Hepburn was bisexual or lesbian

Gay-adjacent surrealist master Salvador Dali was BOTD in 1904 and died in 1989 at the age of 84. Dali had numerous queer muses in his storied life, from the gay poet Federico Garcia Lorca to allegedly trans singer/performer Amanda Lear to gay USA surrealist artist Steven Arnold

Modern dance pioneer diva Martha Graham was BOTD in 1894 & died in 1991 at 96. I studied Graham technique when I majored in film & minored in dance at Uni. It was punk rock, all angles & angst. Warhol did a bunch of Grahams. Her quasi-pornographic Phaedra caused a scandal in 1962