- Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong Facing testicular cancer and not yet knowing his own fate, in 1997 champion cyclist Lance Armstrong established the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a non-profit organization that inspires and empowers people affected by cancer. This marked the beginning of Lance's role as an advocate for cancer survivors and a world representative for the cancer community. - Sam Harris
Sam Harris (born Samuel Kent Harris, 4 June 1961, Cushing, Oklahoma) is an American pop and musical theatre recording artist as well as a television, stage and film actor. Harris was the winner of the first "Star Search" competition in 1984, and no contestant surpassed his winning streak of fourteen weeks in a row in the entire history of the show. - Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders "is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide. She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and also BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent." - Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and litigant in the United States Supreme Court case, "Hansberry v. Lee". Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hansberry was the youngest of four children of Carl Augustus Hansberry (a prominent real estate broker) and Nannie Perry Hansberry. She grew up on the south side of Chicago in the Woodlawn neighborhood. When she was eight, the family moved into an all white neighborhood, … - Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile is a senior political strategist and former campaign manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000-the first African American to lead a major presidential campaign. She is currently chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Cooking with Grease is an intimate account of Donna's thirty years in politics. - Mike White
Michael Christopher White (born June 28, 1970) is an American writer, actor, director, and producer for television and film. - Miranda July
Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portland, Oregon. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character in a short story by a high-school friend. She was born in Barre, Vermont, the daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger. - Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 - September 12, 1992) was an Academy Award-nominated American stage and screen actor known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". - Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13 1931 - May 25 2007) was a Tony Award-winning American actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show "Match Game". - Wayne Besen
Wayne Besen is a gay rights advocate in the United States. He is a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. Besen, a gay man, was never personally involved in the ex-gay movement, but says he has interviewed hundreds of former and current ex-gays. In 2000, he photographed ex-gay activist John Paulk in a Washington D.C. gay bar. Paulk claimed he was simply there to use the washroom, … - John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas) is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus". - Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956, in Miami, Florida, and grew up in Montreat, North Carolina. Following graduation from Davidson College in 1979, she began working at the Charlotte Observer , rapidly advancing from listing television programs to writing feature articles to covering the police beat. She won an investigative reporting award from the North Carolina Press Association for a series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte. - Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas (b. December 21, 1944), aka MTT, is an American conductor, pianist and composer who directs the San Francisco Symphony. - Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors and was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He has called himself a moralist, although he has often been pegged as a nihilist. His characters are young, generally vacuous people, who are aware of their depravity but choose to enjoy it. - Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them, "The Consul" (1950) and "The Saint of Bleecker Street" (1955). He founded the noted "Festival dei due mondi" (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, … - Tristan Taormino
Tristan Taormino (born May 9, 1971) is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, pornographic film director (and occasional actress) and self-styled "anal sexpert". She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993. Tristan Taormino is the niece of author Thomas Pynchon. - Kevin Williamson
Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14 1965) is an American screenwriter best known for his screen works of "Scream" and "Dawson's Creek". - Julie Maurine Foudy
Julie Maurine Foudy (born January 23 , 1971 in San Diego, California ) was a midfielder for the United States women's national soccer team from 1987 through 2004 . She served as the team's captain from 2000 through her retirement in 2004. Foudy also held the captain's position for her WUSA team, the San Diego Spirit . The WUSA suspended operations in September of 2003. - Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an award-winning American actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Born Thomas James Tune in Wichita Falls, Texas, he attended Lamar High School in Houston. In 1965, Tune made his Broadway debut as a performer in the musical "Baker Street". His first Broadway directing and choreography credits were for the original production of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" in 1978. - Gg Allin
GG Allin (29 August 1956 - 28 June 1993) was a punk singer and bandleader who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. He is best remembered for his notorious live performances that typically featured wildly transgressive acts such as Allin defecating and urinating onstage, rolling in excrement, committing self-injury, performing naked, taunting people to perform fellatio on him, and violent actions toward the audience. - Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director. - Adam Shankman
Adam M. Shankman (born November 27, 1964) is an American film director, dancer, actor, and choreographer. He directed "A Walk to Remember", "Bringing Down the House", "The Pacifier", and "Cheaper by the Dozen 2". He also danced in videos for Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson. Shankman was born in Los Angeles, California to an upper middle class family. He had a "traditional Jewish upbringing" in Brentwood, … - Bevan Dufty
Bevan Dufty is an American politician and a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represents Distict 8, which includes the Castro, Noe Valley, Glen Park, and Diamond Heights neighborhoods.He is the son of writer William Dufty and Maely Bartholomew. Dufty attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a student body co-president. Dufty received a Degree in Political Science and Journalism. - Annie Sprinkle
Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, North America) is a former prostitute, stripper, porn film star, cable television host, porn magazine editor and writer, and sex film producer. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986. Currently, Sprinkle works as a performance artist and sex educator. According to "Curve" magazine, Sprinkle, who is bisexual, … - Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel (August 6,1938 - May 13,2000) was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an American actor, writer and director. Bartel was most known for his 1982 hit black comedy "Eating Raoul", which he wrote, starred in and directed. However, it was his groundbreaking short film, "Secret Cinema", which has been most imitated, notably by the Peter Weir picture, "The Truman Show" as well as having been referenced in several David Lynch films, … - Julian Beck
Julian Beck (May 31, 1925-September 14, 1985) was an American actor, director, poet, and painter. He was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City. and briefly attended Yale University, but dropped out to pursue writing and art. He was an Abstract Expressionist painter in the 1940's, but his career turned upon meeting his future wife. - Peter Paige
Peter Paige (born June 20, 1969 in West Hartford, Connecticut) is an openly gay American actor. Perhaps best known for his role as Emmett Honeycutt on Showtime's hit series "Queer as Folk", Peter's other television credits include recurring and guest star roles on "Will & Grace", "Time of Your Life", "Girlfriends", and "Caroline in the City". - Lynn Breedlove
Lynn Breedlove (also known as Lynnee Breedlove) (born in Oakland, California) is an American musician, writer, and performer. Breedlove was a founding member and lead singer of the San Francisco queercore punk band Tribe 8. One of the band's first singles was released by the queercore record label Outpunk and later releases were on the independent record label Alternative Tentacles. - Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen is an American composer. Co-founder of The Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoît Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships. In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, for the electronic piece "Time's Encomium". He is also the author of "Simple Composition", ISBN 0-938856-06-5, … - Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman (born October 22, 1959) is a composer, lyricist, arranger and performer for films, television and theatre. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", … - Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 - January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and cultural figure in New York City, famous less for his own artistic achievement than for his social influence. - Marlon Riggs
Marlon Riggs (3 February 1957 - 5 April 1994), an African-American poet, educator, filmmaker, and an outspoken gay rights activist. Riggs was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Hall of Fame in 2006. He produced many documentaries for public television, some of which were considered controversial by media watchdog groups, who protested the fact that Riggs' films were produced with money from the National Endowment for the Arts. - Alexis Arquette
Alexis Arquette (born Robert Arquette on July 28, 1969) is an American male-to-female transgender actress, musician, and cabaret drag performer. Arquette was born in Los Angeles, California to a family of actors that includes siblings Patricia, David, Richmond, and Rosanna Arquette, father Lewis Arquette and grandfather Cliff Arquette. At 17, Arquette landed her first significant acting role, playing a transgender character in "Last Exit to Brooklyn". - Colin Higgins
Colin Higgins (July 28, 1941, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France - August 5, 1988, Beverly Hills, California, United States), born to an Australian mother and American father, was an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film "Harold and Maude". After attending Stanford University for one year, Higgins dropped out. He returned to Stanford to complete his bachelor's degree, in English, in 1967. - Amanda Bearse
Amanda Bearse (born on August 9, 1958) is an American actor, director and comedian. She is known for her role as wacky neighbor Marcy D'Arcy (formerly Marcy Rhoades) on "Married... with Children", a popular sitcom that ran in the United States between 1987 and 1997, and for her performance in the 1985 horror film "Fright Night". - J. C. Adams
J. C. Adams (June 6, 1970) is an author, magazine editor and reporter whose work focuses on the adult gay pornographic industry, and a director of gay pornographic films. - Diana L. Eck
Diana Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University where she is chair of the Religion Department. Her academic work has a dual focus-India and America-and in both cases she is interested in the challenges of religious pluralism in a multi-religious society. Her work on India includes studies of popular religion and pilgrimage including Banaras: City of Light, Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, and India: A Sacred Geography (forthcoming). - Peterson Toscano
Peterson Toscano studied Theater and English Literature at City College of NY after which he worked as a teacher and the director of education at CASES , a NYC alternative program for youth offenders. In 1995 he moved to England then Zambia to work in radio production for a Christian mission. - Victor Salva
Victor Salva (born March 29 1958 in Martinez, California) is a U.S. film director, mostly of horror movies. His body of work includes the films "Powder" and "Jeepers Creepers". His work is often overshadowed by his conviction for sexually molesting a twelve-year-old boy. - Ralph Beard
Ralph Milton Beard (born December 2 1927 in Hardinsburg, Kentucky) is an American former college and professional basketball player. He was a member of Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky basketball team. After the 1951 NBA season, Alex Groza and Beard were suspended from the NBA for life by commissioner Maurice Podoloff when the players admitted point shaving during their college careers.
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