Showing posts with label arts and entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arts and entertainment. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975), playwright. and novelist

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b. April 17, 1897 d. December 7, 1975 American playwright and dramatist,who is the only writer to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both lite...
Monday, 15 April 2013

Bessie Smith, (1892/4 - 1937)

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Singer b. Unknown: July 1892 or April 15, 1894 d. September 26, 1937 It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end ...

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist/Inventor/Scientist

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Artist/Inventor/Scientist b. April 15, 1452 d. May 2, 1519 Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence Leonardo Da Vinci...
Monday, 31 December 2012

Samuel Steward / Phil Andros (1909 - 1993), Tattooist, archivist and porn writer

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b. July 23, 1909 d. December 31, 1993 Samuel Steward was a professor of English, who wrote high quality gay erotica, kept meticulous not...
Thursday, 13 December 2012

Donatello (1386 -1466 ), Italian Sculptor

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b.   c. 1386 d.  December 13, 1466 Italian artist and sculptor from Florence, and the most inventive, prolific sculptor of the early R...

Mary Renault (1905 - 1983 ) UK / South African /English

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Writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. However, her early novels had a contemporary setting,and dealt with l...
Thursday, 8 November 2012

George Quaintance (1902/3 - 1957 ) US. Artist / Photographer

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b. 3rd June 1902 d. 8th November 1957 Quaintance was a gay American artist, famous for his "idealized, strongly homoerotic"  d...
Monday, 27 February 2012

"Eminent Outlaws: The GayWriters Who Changed America"

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Book Review, at the Star Tribune: NONFICTION: "Eminent Outlaws: The GayWriters Who Changed America," by Christopher Bram  Once ...
Sunday, 16 October 2011

Oscar Wilde, (1854 - 1900): Playwright and gay icon

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b. October 16, 1854 d. November 30, 1900 " Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world, there are only individuals...