Curated category
21st-century English LGBTQ people
- David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
- Ian McKellenIan Murray McKellen was born on the 25th of May 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire. His family moved to Wigan when he was four months old, just before the Second…
- George MichaelGeorgios Kyriacos Panayiotou arrived in East Finchley, Middlesex on the 25th of June 1963. He was the youngest child and only son of a Greek Cypriot…
- Alexander McQueenLee Alexander McQueen was born on the 17th of March 1969 at University Hospital Lewisham in Lewisham, London. He grew up as the youngest of six children to…
- M. J. BassettMichael J. Bassett grew up in Newport, Shropshire, within the West Midlands region of England. She described this upbringing as a safe and unremarkable…
- David StarkeyDavid Robert Starkey arrived in the world on the 3rd of January 1945 within the quiet town of Kendal, Westmorland. He was the only child born to Quaker…
- Simon CallowOn the 15th of June 1949, a boy named Simon Phillip Hugh Callow entered the world in Streatham, South London. His father was Neil Francis Callow, a…