"LaBruce leaves no taboo unshattered in his outrageously subversive, unabashedly kinky film provocations" My @Criterion closet picks: MOUCHETTE SORCERER SIMON OF THE DESERT 3 WOMEN A TASTE OF HONEY DON'T LOOK NOW criterionchannel.com/collect… 3 of my films now on @criterionchannl

Mike Kelley was BOTD in 1954 & died by suicide in 2012 at 57. One of the most influential USA artists of his generation, known for his installations w/ stuffed animals, found objects & detritus of pop culture, he was also a member of the legendary punk band Destroy All Monsters

Carrie Snodgress was BOTD in 1945 & died in 2004 at 58. After a Best Actress Oscar nom & two Golden Globes for her great performance in Frank Perry's "Diary of a Mad Housewife" (1970), she had a long term relationship w/ Neil Young who fell in love with her after seeing the film

Genius poet Sylvia Plath was BOTD in 1932 & took her own life in 1963 at 30 by putting her head inside a gas oven. In university, I knew her morbid poems by heart. She was married to English poet Ted Hughes & they had 2 children, Frieda and Nicholas, who killed himself in 2009

Anti-bombshell Teresa Wright is one of my all-time fave Hollywood actresses. She was BOTD in 1918 & died in 2005 at 86. She received Oscar noms for her first 3 films, won one & went on 2 star in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) & Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)

A thrill to be invited back to Chicago to present a 10-film retrospective of my movies at the illustrious @facetschicago. With curator Raphael Martinez and Jennifer Murray, director of FACETS, & legendary Chicago director Joe Swanberg, who kindly conducted one of my lively Q&A's

A thrill to be invited back to Chicago to present a 10-film retrospective of my movies at the illustrious @facetschicago including a screening at the great @musicboxtheatre. Curated by Raphael Martinez, the event was thoughtfully curated, creatively promoted & very well attended!

A thrill to be invited back to Chicago to present a 10-film retrospective of my movies at the illustrious @facetschicago including a screening at the great @musicboxtheatre. Curated by Raphael Martinez, the event was thoughtfully curated, creatively promoted & very well attended!

Warhol trans-superstar Holly Woodlawn was BOTD in 1946 & died in 2015 at 69. I had the pleasure of meeting her 2x, once when I visited her at her WeHo apt on a visit to L.A. & once when I interviewed her onstage at the legendary event "Camp/Anti-Camp" at the HAU Theater in Berlin

Warhol trans-superstar Holly Woodlawn was BOTD in 1946 & died in 2015 at 69. George Cukor said she should've been nominated for an Oscar 4 her turn in Warhol/Morrissey's "Trash" (1970). She also starred w/ Jackie Curtis & Candy Darling in my fave W/M film "Women in Revolt" (1971)

Italian-American actor Anthony Franciosa was BOTD in 1928 & died in 2006 at 77. A Method actor from NY's Little Italy, he received an Oscar nom 4 Zinnemann's "A Hatful of Rain" (1957) & appeared in Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" (1957). Married 4x incl volatilely 2 Shelley Winters

The twincesty and sexy gay Kray Twins, Ronnie & Reggie, English gangsters prominent from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968, were BOTD in 1933. The former died in 1995 at 61, the latter in 2000 at the age of 66. Their gang, known as the Firm, was based in Bethnal Green

Playwright, screenwriter, director, & bitchy queen Moss Hart was BOTD in 1904 & died in 1961 at 57. Known for his collabs w/ George S. Kaufman, he wrote Cukor's "A Star Is Born" (1954) & directed "My Fair Lady" (1956) & "Camelot" (1960) on B'way. Can't get much gayer than that!

HBD USA director Philip Kaufman, BOTD in 1936, turning 90 today! He made the masterpieces "The White Dawn" (1974) & "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978). "Henry & June" (1990), with lesbian sex scenes between Uma Thurman & Maria de Medeiros, became the first NC-17 rated film

Promiscuous gay USA contemporary & classical music composer & writer Ned Rorem was BOTD in 1923 & died in 2022 at 99. Dedicated diarist Rorem wrote candidly about his sexuality, estimating his total romantic & sexual relationships at 3K, including the likes of Tennessee Williams

Fab lesbian Hollywood actress & platinum blond fashion plate Lilyan Tashman was BOTD in 1896 & died in 1934 at 37. A former Ziegfeld Follies girl, husky-voiced Tashman played bitchy other women, vamps & wisecracking sophisticates pre-Code & famously had a 4 yr. affair with Garbo

HBD French ice queen Catherine Deneuve, BOTD in 1943, turning 83 today. She had a taste for the perverse, playing a sexually repressed housewife who secretly works in a brothel in Buñuel's "Belle de Jour" (1967). She was devastated by the death of her sister Françoise Dorléac

HBD Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, Chicago 8 member, BOTD in 1936, turning 90 today. He founded the Panthers with Huey P. Newton in 1966. He publicly endorsed gay lib in 1970, urging revolutionaries to overcome their homophobia & embrace it as part of the struggle

Gay painting legend & Kennedy collage queen Robert Rauschenberg was BOTD in 1925 & died in 2008 at the age of 82. After a brief straight marriage, he was famously in gay love relationships with gay painting legends Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns, with whom he twinned in that gay way