Dispatch from The QuOD: A Nightmare on QuOD Street

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Neil Rogers

Known as: American radio host.

Known for:
- Host of his own popular Miami-based talk radio show.

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- Official site
- Wikipedia page

Martine Rothblatt

Known as: American lawyer and entrepreneur.

Known for:
- Responsible for launching several communications satellite companies, including Geostar and Sirius Satellite Radio.

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- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Official Facebook page
- Official Twitter page

Paul Rudolph

Known as: American architect.

Known for:
- His most famous work, the Yale Art and Architecture Building (A&A Building), a spatially complex Brutalist concrete structure.

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- Wikipedia page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Tony Richardson

Known as: English director, writer and producer.

Known for:
- His work for stage (Look Back in Anger) and screen (Oscar for Tom Jones); ex-husband of actress Vanessa Redgrave, father of actresses Natasha and Joely Richardson.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Internet Broadway Database page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Raymond Radiguet

Known as: French writer.

Known for:
- Author whose novels (including The Devil in the Flesh) were noted for their explicit themes, writing style and tone.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page

Jeffrey Richman

Known as: American producer and writer.

Known for:
- Emmy Award-winner for Frasier and Modern Family.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Internet Broadway Database page

Related posts on The QuOD:
- Spotlight On: Frasier
- Spotlight On: Emmy Awards 2011

Adrianne Pieczonka

Known as: Canadian singer.

Known for:
- Renowned opera soprano who specializes in Wagnerian roles, notably Sieglinde in the Ring Cycle.

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- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Official Twitter page

Richard Pillard

Known as: American psychiatrist.

Known for:
- The first openly gay psychiatrist in the US; professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine.

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- Wikipedia page
- Official Facebook page

Rod Phillips

Known as: American pornographic actor.

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

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- Internet Movie Database page
- Gay Porn Stars profile (NSFW)

Shop for Rod Phillips movies and more at TLAgay.com.

Sergei Parajanov

Known as: Armenian director and writer.

Known for:
- His controversial cinematic style, lifestyle and behaviour, which led Soviet cinema authorities to repeatedly persecute and imprison him and suppress his films.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Rosa von Praunheim

Known as: German director, writer, producer and activist.

Known for:
- His controversial documentaries featuring gay themes, including It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives and The Einstein of Sex.

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- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry
- Official Facebook page

Cathal Ó Searcaigh

Known as: Irish writer.

Known for:
- His award-winning poetry, which is written in the Irish language (specifically the Ulster dialect).

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page

J. Paul Oetken

Known as: American judge.

Known for:
- District Judge on the US District Court for the Southern District of New York; the first openly gay man to serve on the federal bench.

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- Wikipedia page

Robert Opel

Known as: American photographer.

Known for:
- Notoriously streaked at the 46th Annual Academy Awards in 1974.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page

Anna Nolan

Known as: Irish reality TV personality, TV host and producer.

Known for:
- Runner up on the first series of the British reality show Big Brother.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page

Jene Newsome

Known as: American military officer.

Known for:
- US Air Force sergeant who was honorably discharged after 9 years of service under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

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- Wikipedia page

Stephanie Miller

Known as: American comedian and radio and TV host.

Known for:
- Host of the talk radio program The Stephanie Miller Show.

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- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Official Facebook page
- Official Twitter page

Jackie Malton

Known as: English police officer and consultant.

Known for:
- The inspiration for the character of Detective Jane Tennison in the Prime Suspect TV dramas.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page

Sean Maher

Known as: American actor.

Known for:
- His role as Simon Tam in the cult sci-fi series Firefly and its follow-up movie Serenity.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Official Twitter page

Dispatch from The QuOD: Year Three

Happy 3rd Anniversary to The QuOD - The Queer Online Database!

Meredith Monk

Known as: American singer, composer, director and choreographer.

Known for:
- Since the 1960s, has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre and dance.

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- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Official Facebook page
- Official MySpace page

Daphne du Maurier

Known as: English writer.

Known for:
- Her novels, plays and short stories, including Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, The Birds and Don't Look Now.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Internet Broadway Database page

Brock Masters

Known as: American pornographic actor.

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

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- Internet Movie Database page
- Gay Porn Stars profile (NSFW)

Shop for Brock Masters movies and more at TLAgay.com.

Vincente Minnelli

Known as: American director.

Known for:
- Oscar winning filmmaker (Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, Tea and Sympathy, Gigi); ex-husband of actress Judy Garland, father of actress Liza Minnelli.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- Internet Broadway Database page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Vladimir Luxuria

Known as: Italian politician and activist.

Known for:
- Former member of the Italian parliament; the first openly transgender member of Parliament in Europe.

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- Official site
- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page

Karl Lange

Known as: German Holocaust survivor.

Known for:
- Imprisoned by the Nazis for the then crime of homosexuality under the criminal code's Paragraph 175.

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- Wikipedia page

Earl Lind

Known as: American writer.

Known for:
- One of the earliest intersex individuals to publish their own autobiography in the United States.

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- Wikipedia page

Mitchell Leisen

Known as: American director, producer, art director and costume designer.

Known for:
- His films Death Takes a Holiday, Hold Back the Dawn, Easy Living and To Each His Own.

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- Wikipedia page
- Internet Movie Database page
- GLBTQ Encyclopedia entry

Spotlight On: GLBT History Month 2011

October is GLBT History Month!

Celebrating its sixth 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.

2011's honorees are:

1. Kye Allums
2. John Ashbery
3. Alison Bechdel
4. John Berry
5. Dustin Lance Black
6. Keith Boykin
7. Rita Mae Brown
8. Daniel Choi
9. Aaron Copland
10. Alan Cumming
11. Denise Eger
12. Lady Gaga
13. Michael Guest
14. Neil Patrick Harris
15. Daniel Hernandez Jr.
16. Langston Hughes
17. Frida Kahlo
18. David Kato
19. Michael Kirby
20. Victoria Kolakowski
21. David Kopay
22. Ricky Martin
23. Amélie Mauresmo
24. Constance McMillen
25. Ryan Murphy
26. Dan Savage
27. Amanda Simpson
28. Wanda Sykes
29. Lilli Vincenz
30. Virginia Woolf
31. Pedro Zamora

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 2010

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