Dispatch from The QuOD: Bewitching Greetings

Tom Waddell

Known as: American athlete.

Known for:
- Founder of the international sporting event the Gay Games.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Glenn Shadix

Known as: American actor.

Known for:
- His performances in the Tim Burton movies Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Planet of the Apes.

Know more:
- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page

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Rumi

Known as: Persian writer, theologian and philosopher; née Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī; a.k.a. Mowlānā.

Known for:
- Founder of the Order of the Whirling Dervishes; Spiritual Couplets, referred to as the greatest work of mystical poetry.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

John Pérez

Known as: American politician.

Known for:
- The first openly gay Speaker of the California State Assembly.

Know more:
- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Official Facebook page

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Anil Pacheco

Known as: American reality TV personality.

Known for:
- His appearances on the Logo series The Arrangement.

Know more:
- Official site
- Wikipedia page for The Arrangement
- Movie Dearest interview
- Official Facebook page
- Official Twitter page

Sunil Babu Pant

Known as: Nepalese politician.

Known for:
- The first openly gay politician in Nepal.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- Official Facebook page

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

John J. O'Connor

Known as: American journalist and critic.

Known for:
- Television critic for The New York Times.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page

Jamie Nabozny

Known as: American activist.

Known for:
- The first student to successfully sue a school district for its failure to protect a student from anti-gay harassment.

Know more:
- GLBT History Month bio
- Official Facebook page

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Robert Michael Morris

Known as: American actor.

Known for:
- His TV performances, including The Comeback, How I Met Your Mother and Running Wilde.

Know more:
- Official site
- Internet Movie Database page

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Patsy Lynch

Known as: American photojournalist.

Known for:
- Her trailblazing work documenting several decades of the GLBT civil rights struggle.

Know more:
- Official site

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Sharon Lubinski

Known as: American law enforcement officer.

Known for:
- The first openly gay United States Marshal.

Know more:
- GLBT History Month bio

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Mara Keisling

Known as: American activist.

Known for:
- Founding executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Official Facebook page
- Official Twitter page

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Kiyoshi Kuromiya

Known as: American activist.

Known for:
- Founder of the Critical Path Project, an early AIDS advocacy program.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Keith Johnson

Known as: American reality TV personality.

Known for:
- Host of the Sundance Channel program Man Shops Globe.

Know more:
- Internet Movie Database page

David Huebner

Known as: American lawyer and ambassador.

Known for:
- United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Official Twitter page

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Luke Grooms

Known as: American singer and actor.

Known for:
- Leading opera tenor; his performances in Jerry Springer: The Opera and the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera.

Know more:
- Official site
- Movie Dearest interview
- Official Facebook page
- Official Twitter page
- Official YouTube channel

Sharon Farmer

Known as: American photographer.

Known for:
- White House photographer during both terms of the Clinton presidency.

Know more:
- GLBT History Month bio

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Leslie Feinberg

Known as: American writer and activist.

Known for:
- Author of the acclaimed novel Stone Butch Blues; pioneer of transgender activism and culture.

Know more:
- Official site
- Official blog
- Wikipedia page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry
- Official Facebook page
- Official MySpace page
- Official Twitter page
- Official YouTube channel

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Robert Duncan

Known as: American writer.

Known for:
- His poems that deal directly with the love of men for other men; the landmark essay The Homosexual in Society.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Dispatch from The QuOD: Year Two

Happy 2nd Anniversary to The QuOD - The Queer Online Database!

Joe Cade

Known as: American pornographic actor.

Known for:
- His performances in movies for various adult studios.

Know more:
- Internet Movie Database page
- Gay Porn Star profiles (NSFW)

Shop for Joe Cade movies and more at TLA.

El Hedi ben Salem

Known as: Moroccan actor.

Known for:
- His performances in the films of his lover Rainer Werner Fassbinder, most notably Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page

Brad Anderson

Known as: American actor.

Known for:
- His stage performances, including Fosse, The Boy from Oz and A Chorus Line.

Know more:
- Internet Movie Database page
- Internet Broadway Database page
- Movie Dearest interview

Eric Alva

Known as: American Marine and activist.

Known for:
- The first US military service member injured in the Iraq Occupation.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- Official Facebook page
- Official Twitter page

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

Matthew Williamson

Known as: English fashion designer.

Known for:
- Founder of the luxury fashion house Matthew Williamson; collections include womens' wear and perfume.

Know more:
- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Official Facebook page

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Ric Weiland

Known as: American businessman, computer programmer and philanthropist.

Known for:
- Computer software pioneer with the Microsoft Corporation.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Known as: Austrian philosopher.

Known for:
- One of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century; his valuable contributions within the field of Linguistic Philosophy.

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Billy Strayhorn

Known as: American composer and musician.

Known for:
- His collaboration with bandleader Duke Ellington; his compositions "Take the 'A' Train" and "Lush Life".

Know more:
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Internet Broadway Database page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2010

October is GLBT History Month!

Celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, GLBT History Month highlights annually the achievements of 31 gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender icons — one each day — throughout the month of October.

2010's honorees are:

1. Eric Alva
2. George Washington Carver
3. George Eastman*
4. Sharon Farmer
5. Leslie Feinberg
6. Tom Ford
7. E. Lynn Harris
8. David Huebner
9. Kevin Jennings
10. Mara Keisling
11. Kiyoshi Kuromiya
12. Sharon Lubinski
13. Jane Lynch
14. Patsy Lynch
15. Matthew Mitcham
16. Jamie Nabozny
17. Cynthia Nixon
18. Catherine Opie
19. Sunil Babu Pant
20. Annise Parker
21. John Pérez
22. Eleanor Roosevelt
23. Rumi
24. David Sedaris
25. Maurice Sendak
26. Matthew Shepard
27. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
28. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
29. Rufus Wainwright
30. Mel White
31. Emanuel Xavier

* = "Matter of Dispute"

Know more:
- Equality Forum official site
- Wikipedia page
- Official Facebook page
- Official MySpace page
- Official Twitter page
- Official YouTube channel

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2009
- Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2011

Spotlight On: is an occasional feature here on The QuOD that highlights various pop culture touchstones involving a number of GLBT people of note.