December = Queer Pioneer Birthdays
Born This Way On This Day
12-01 = Matthew Shepard (1976-1998) = American student
12-01 = Takeda Shingen (1521-1573) = Japanese daimyō and Buddhist monk
12-02 = Gianni Versace (1946-1997) = Italian fashion designer
12-02 = Jason Collins (1978- ) = American basketball player
12-03 = Del Shores (1957- ) = American writer and filmmaker (Sordid Lives)
12-03 = Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) = British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor
12-03 = Michael Musto (1955- ) = American writer and culture critic
12-04 = Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968) = American crime writer
12-05 = Margaret Cho (1968- ) = American comedian, actor, and author
12-06 = Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) = American actor
12-06 = Tom Hulce (1953- ) = American actor and theater producer
12-06 = William II of the Netherlands (1792-1849) = Dutch monarch
12-07 = Hurd Hatfield (1917-1998) = American actor
12-07 = Jane Castor (1960- ) = American politician and former police chief, Mayor of Tampa, Florida
12-07 = Willa Cather (1873-1947) = American writer
12-08 = Brendan Burke (1988-2010) = Canadian hockey player
12-08 = Norman Douglas (1868-1952) = British writer
12-09 = Edith Craig (1869-1947) = British theatre director, producer, costume designer and women's suffragist
12-09 = Elvira Kurt (1961- ) = Canadian comedian
12-09 = Gilles Blanchard (Pierre Et Gilles) (1953- ) = French artistic duo known for their homoerotic and pop-art photography
12-10 = Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) = American poet
12-10 = Mark Takano (1960- ) = American Democratic congressman (California)
12-10 = Raven-Symoné (1985- ) = American actor and singer
12-10 = Tommy Kirk (1941- ) = American actor and businessman
12-11 = Alvin Baltrop (1948-2004) = American photographer, known for documenting NYC piers
12-11 = Jean Marais (1913-1998) = French actor
12-12 = Brandon Teena (1972-1993) = American trans man, subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry
12-12 = Edvard Munch (1863-1944) = Norwegian painter (The Scream)
12-12 = José Sarria (1922-2013) = American drag queen and activist
12-13 = Anton Hysén (1990- ) = Swedish soccer player
12-13 = Jim Fall (1962- ) = American film and tv director-producer
12-14 = Amini Fonua (1989- ) = Tongan swimmer
12-14 = Herbert Tobias (1924-1982) = German photographer, known for homoerotic imagery
12-14 = James Grauerholz (1953- ) = American editor, writer, and executor of William S Burroughs' estate
12-14 = Jobriath (1946-1983) = American rock musician and actor
12-15 = Clementina Anstruther–Thomson (1857-1921) = Scottish author, art theorist, and partner of Vernon Lee
12-15 = Jack Halberstam (1961- ) = American scholar, writer, and activist
12-15 = Nero (37-68) = Roman emperor, 54-68 AD
12-16 = Charley Parkhurst (1812-1879) = American stagecoach driver
12-16 = Kanako Otsuji (1974- ) = Japanese LGBT rights activist, and politician
12-16 = Noël Coward (1899-1973) = English playwright, composer, actor, and singer
12-17 = Deborah Sampson (1760-1827) = American soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War disguised as a man
12-17 = Gregg Araki (1959- ) = American filmmaker (The Living End)
12-17 = Jacqueline Wilson (1945- ) = English children's literature novelist
12-17 = Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) = American painter
12-17 = Sarah Paulson (1975- ) = American actor
12-18 = Brian Orser (1961- ) = Canadian figure skater and coach, 1987 World Champion
12-18 = Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689) = Swedish monarch
12-19 = Jean Genet (1910-1986) = French novelist, playwright, and political activist
12-20 = Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950) = American actor, interior decorator, and author
12-20 = Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942) = British royalty
12-21 = Michael Tilson Thomas (1944- ) = American conductor, pianist, and composer
12-22 = Jean–Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) = American artist, known for his graffiti-inspired works
12-22 = Marc Allégret (1900-1973) = French screenwriter and film director
12-23 = Mary Rozet Smith (1868-1934) = American philanthropist, suffragist, and partner of Jane Addams
12-24 = Brenda Howard (1946-2005) = American LGBT activist
12-24 = Galba (3 BC-69 AD) = Roman emperor, first in the Year of Four Emperors
12-24 = Lee Daniels (1959- ) = American film and tv director-producer (Precious + Empire)
12-25 = Albert Cashier (1843-1915) = Irish-American trans Union Army soldier
12-25 = Ismail Merchant (1936-2005) = Indian-born film producer and director
12-25 = Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) = English writer, raconteur, and gay icon
12-26 = David Sedaris (1956- ) = American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor
12-27 = Desiree Akhavan (1984- ) = American filmmaker, writer and actress
12-27 = Guido Westerwelle (1961-2016) = German politician and former Vice Chancellor of Germany
12-27 = Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) = German actor and singer
12-28 = Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) = Swiss-French painter and printmaker, known for his bold, emotive work
12-28 = Lili Elbe (1882-1931) = Danish artist, subject of The Danish Girl novel/film
12-29 = Billy Tipton (1914-1989) = American jazz musician, bandleader, and talent broker
12-29 = Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986) = Canadian-American poet, writer of first openly lesbian love poetry published in North America
12-29 = Katherine Moennig (1977- ) = American actor
12-29 = Lilly Wachowski (1967- ) = American film director, screenwriter & producer
12-30 = Beauford Delaney (1901-1979) = American modernist painter, remembered for his portraits of prominent figures and abstract works
12-30 = Paul Bowles (1910-1999) = American expatriate composer, author, and translator
12-30 = Titus (39-81) = Roman emperor, 79-81 AD.
12-31 = Diana Sacayán (1975-2015) = Argentinian transgender activist
12-31 = Jennifer Higdon (1962- ) = American composer
12-31 = Orry-Kelly (1897-1964) = Australian costume designer