October 20th. 1958: Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s is published in the November issue of Esquire Magazine. Gay men everywhere begin to name their cat “Cat”. 1969: The National Institutes of Mental Health released a...
October 18th. 1977: Citizens United to Protect Our Children, an organization in Portland OR, announced they had failed to get enough signatures to get a recall election of Mayor Neil Goldschmidt after...
October 17th. 1920: Actor Montgomery Clift is born in Omaha Nebraska. Clift often played outsiders and “victim-heroes” examples include the social climber in George Stevens’s A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock’s I Confess, the doomed regular soldier...
October 16th. 1856: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, Oscar Wilde became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is...
October 15th. 70 BC: Virgil an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period is born. Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome’s greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the...
Gay men have always had a great influence in early and modern horror. The silent film classic Nosferatu (1922) is F.W. Murnau’s chilling and eerie adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a silent masterpiece...
Today marks one of the most iconic moments in Gay and LGBT history! At an October 14, 1977, at press conference in Des Moines, Iowa, while reporters are questioning Anita Bryant about...
Via Playbill: A new musical about the events leading up to the 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn, and the resulting acts of civil resistance that helped launch the modern gay rights...
