Velvet-Club Connecting Lesbians & Bi-women around the World
London's award-winning LGBTQ+ literary salon. Hosted by Paul Burston with Adam Macqueen and Sarah Schulman. About this event - Tonight were deeply honoured to be joined live from New York by the legendary, multi award-winning Sarah Schulman - AIDS activist, filmmaker, historian, playwright and author of many books including Girls, Visions and Everything, After Dolores, People In Trouble, Rat Bohemia, The Child, The Cosmopolitans and Maggie Terry. Sarah will be discussing her new book about the history of ACT-UP, Let The Record Show. Also tonight we have author and Private Eye journalist Adam Macqueen, whose political thriller Beneath the Streets is the first in a series featuring rent-boy turned private detective Tommy Wildeblood and has been longlisted for The Polari Prize 2021. The second in the series, The Enemy Within, will follow in February 2022.
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- 03 Oct – Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian actress
- 04 Oct – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942–), Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland, world's first openly gay head of government
- 08 Oct – Kristanna Loken (1979–), American model & actress
- 11 Oct – Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), former First Lady of the USA & human rights activist
- 15 Oct – Jenna Talackova, Canadian beauty pageant contestant, model & TV personality
- 17 Oct – Laura Nyro (1947–1997), American songwriter, singer & pianist
- 18 Oct – Brittney Griner (1990–), American basketball player
- 18 Oct – Martina Navratilova (1956–), American tennis player
- 22 Oct – Saffron Burrows (1972–), English actress
- 23 Oct – Jean Acker (1893–1978), American actress
- 23 Oct – Ireland Baldwin (1995–), American model
- 23 Oct – Lilyan Tashman (1896–1934), American actress
- 25 Oct – Chely Wright (1970–), American country singer-songwriter
- 25 Oct – Claude Cahun (1894–1954), French artist, photographer & writer
- 26 Oct – Liliane Maestrini (1987–), Brazilian beach volleyball player
- 27 Oct – Katherine Bradley (1846–1914), English poet
- 28 Oct – Caitlyn Jenner (1949–), American TV personality & Olympic Gold Medalist in Decathlon (1976)
- 29 Oct – Michelle Brooke-Marciniak (1973–), American business executive, former WNBA basketball player
- 29 Oct – Ann-Marie MacDonald (1958–), Canadian playwright, novelist, actress & broadcast journalist
- 31 Oct – Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), American playwright, poet and novelist
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