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But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 American satirical teen romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit in her feature directorial debut and written by Brian Wayne Peterson. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, a high school cheerleader whose parents send her to a residential in-patient conversion therapy camp to "cure" her lesbianism. At camp, Megan realizes that she is indeed a lesbian and, despite the "therapy", comes to embrace her sexuality. The supporting cast includes Clea DuVall, RuPaul, and Cathy Moriarty.

Babbit was inspired by an article about conversion therapy and her childhood familiarity with rehabilitation programs. She used the story of a young woman finding her sexual identity to explore the social construction of gender roles and heteronormativity. The costume and set design of the film highlighted these themes using artificial textures in intense blues and pinks. (Full article...)

Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972) was an American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris that brought together French and international writers. She influenced other authors through her salon and also with her poetry, plays, and epigrams, often thematically tied to her lesbianism and feminism.

Barney was born into a wealthy family. She was partly educated in France, and expressed a desire from a young age to live openly as a lesbian. She moved to France with her first romantic partner, Eva Palmer. Inspired by the work of Sappho, Barney began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900. Writing in both French and English, she supported feminism and pacifism. She opposed monogamy and had many overlapping long and short-term relationships, including on-and-off romances with poet Renée Vivien and courtesan Liane de Pougy and longer relationships with writer Élisabeth de Gramont and painter Romaine Brooks. (Full article...)

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I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

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• October 5: Supreme court of Mauritius rules the colonial era law criminalizing homosexuality unconstitutional
• August 5: DaBaby Levitating remix losing US radio audiences after the rapper's comments on HIV/AIDS
• May 19: Taiwan's legislature first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage
• February 1: Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to eight murders
• October 30: 22nd annual ILGA-Europe conference meets in Brussels: in pictures
• October 30: In pictures: thousands attend 16th annual Taiwan Pride

Elagabalus

• ... that when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office?
• ... that Dan Savage indulged in the seven deadly sins during research for his book Skipping Towards Gomorrah?
• ... that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian"?
• ... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
• ... that ABC moved the Roseanne episode "December Bride", which featured a same-sex wedding, from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"?

• 1 – Klaus Wowereit (1953–), German politician and former Governing Mayor of Berlin
• 2 – Annie Leibovitz (1949–), American portrait photographer
• 3 – Erik Bruhn (1928–1986), Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author
• 3 – Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian actress
• 3 – Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American author, essayist, and political activist
• 4 – Alan L. Hart (1890-1962), American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, and novelist
• 4 – Terri L. Jewell (1954-1995), American author, poet and Black lesbian activist
• 4 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942–), Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland, world's first openly gay head of government
• 5 – Chevalier d'Éon (1728-1810), French diplomat, spy, and soldier
• 5 – John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), English poet and literary critic
• 6 – Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937), Polish composer and pianist
• 7 – Dan Savage (1964–), American sex advice columnist
• 8 – Kristanna Loken (1979–), American model and actress
• 10 – Wade MacLauchlan (1954–), Canadian politician, Premier of Prince Edward Island
• 11 – Jerome Robbins (1918–1998), American theater producer, director, and choreographer
• 11 – Matt Bomer (1977–), American actor
• 11 – Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), former First Lady of the United States and human rights activist
• 12 – Xulhaz Mannan (1976–2016), Bangladeshi magazine editor and LGBT activist
• 13 – Ian Thorpe (1982–), Australian freestyle swimmer, five-time Olympic Gold Medalist (2000 & 2004)
• 14 – Isaac Mizrahi (1961–), American fashion designer & TV presenter
• 14 – Ben Whishaw (1980–), English actor
• 15 – Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher
• 15 – Jenna Talackova, Canadian beauty pageant contestant, model and TV personality
• 16 – Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer, poet, and aesthete
• 16 – Cressida Dick (1960–), British police commissioner
• 17 – Montgomery Clift (1920–1966), American actor
• 17 – Mark Gatiss (1966–), English actor, screenwriter and novelist
• 17 – Ryan McGinley (1977–), American photographer
• 17 – Laura Nyro (1947–1997), American songwriter, singer, and pianist
• 18 – Uzi Even (1940–), Israeli professor, former politician and first openly gay member of Israeli parliament
• 18 – Brittney Griner (1990–), American basketball player
• 18 – Martina Navratilova (1956–), American tennis player
• 19 – George Nader (1921–2002), American actor
• 19 – Robert Reed (1932–1992), American actor
• 20 – Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet
• 21 – William Dale Jennings (1917–2000), American LGBT rights activist, playwright, and author
• 21 – Peter Mandelson (1953–), British Labour politician and former European Commissioner for Trade
• 21 – Megan Smith (1964–), American technology corporate executive, and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2014-2017)
• 21 – Andrew Scott (1976–), Irish actor
• 22 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater, 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist
• 22 – Saffron Burrows (1972–), English actress
• 22 – Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), British poet and translator
• 22 – Marc Shaiman (1959–), American film/TV/theatre composer, lyricist & arranger
• 23 – Jean Acker (1893–1978), American actress
• 23 – Ireland Baldwin (1995–), American model
• 23 – Lilyan Tashman (1896–1934), American actress
• 24 – Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), French aristocrat & Monegasque royalty
• 24 – August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796–1835), German poet
• 25 – Claude Cahun (1894–1954), French artist, photographer, and writer
• 25 – Chely Wright (1970–), American country singer-songwriter
• 26 – Liliane Maestrini (1987–), Brazilian beach volleyball player
• 26 – Glen Murray (1957–), Canadian politician, world's first openly gay mayor of a major city (Winnipeg, MB)
• 27 – Katherine Bradley (1846–1914), English poet
• 28 – Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Irish painter
• 28 – Caitlyn Jenner (1949–), American TV personality & Olympic Gold Medalist in Decathlon (1976)
• 28 – Frank Ocean (1987–), American singer-songwriter
• 29 – Michelle Brooke-Marciniak (1973–), American business executive and former WNBA basketball player
• 29 – Ann-Marie MacDonald (1958–), Canadian playwright, novelist, actress & broadcast journalist
• 30 – Timothy Findley (1930–2002), Canadian novelist & playwright
• 31 – Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), American playwright, poet and novelist

• Timeline of LGBT history
• List of LGBT events
• List of LGBT rights activists
• List of years in LGBT rights
• List of LGBT bookstores
• List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people
• Lists of bisexual people
• List of LGBT African Americans
• List of LGBT writers
• List of LGBT artists
• List of pansexual people
• List of drag queens