Curated category
21st-century American LGBTQ people
- Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She would grow up to sell an estimated 124…
- Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando Jr. was born on the 3rd of April 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, and by the time he died on the 1st of July 2004, he had remade what it means to act…
- Little RichardIn October 1947, a fourteen-year-old boy was singing Sister Rosetta Tharpe's songs to himself before her performance at the Macon City Auditorium.
- Queen LatifahQueen Latifah chose her name at age eight, pulling it from a book of Arabic names. The word latifah means "delicate" and "very kind", but Dana Elaine Owens…
- Jeremy CrawfordJeremy Crawford has spent much of his career shaping the rules of Dungeons & Dragons. In 2018, The Mary Sue pointed to one consequence of that work.
- Megan Thee StallionMegan Jovon Ruth Pete was born on the 15th of February 1995, in San Antonio, Texas, and by her mid-twenties she had topped the Billboard Hot 100 three times…
- ND StevensonND Stevenson was born on the 31st of December 1991, in Columbia, South Carolina, into a family he would later describe as "very religious." That upbringing…
- KeshaKesha Rose Sebert was born on the 1st of March 1987, in Los Angeles, and by the time she was 22 years old her debut single had broken the record for the…
- Jennifer HigdonJennifer Higdon picked up a flute her mother had bought and began teaching herself to play from an old flute method book.
- Sam AltmanSam Altman got his first computer at age eight: an Apple Macintosh. Within a few years he was disassembling it to examine the hardware inside.
- Bruce VilanchBruce Vilanch is the man behind the jokes you heard at the Oscars for a quarter century. His name never appeared on the screen during those telecast moments…
- Leslye HeadlandLeslye Headland described her 2015 film Sleeping with Other People as "Like When Harry Met Sally for assholes." That pitch, delivered at the Sundance Film…
- Billy PrestonBilly Preston was the only artist to receive a co-performer credit on a Beatles recording after the band began recording as independent artists.