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Quinceañera (English: "Fifteen-year-old") is a 2006 American independent drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. Set in Echo Park, Los Angeles, the film follows the lives of two young Mexican American cousins who become estranged from their families—Magdalena (played by Emily Rios) because of her unwed teenage pregnancy and Carlos (Jesse Garcia) because of his homosexuality—and are taken in by their elderly great-uncle Tomas (Chalo González).

The film was inspired by Glatzer and Westmoreland's experience as a white gay couple moving into the gentrifying neighborhood of Echo Park, a predominantly Hispanic working-class community. They wrote, cast and filmed Quinceañera over four months in 2005 after securing a US$400,000 budget from investors. It was filmed in Echo Park with the assistance of Glatzer and Westmoreland's neighbors and a cast of largely nonprofessional actors. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2006, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. It was released in the United States on August 2, 2006, to mostly positive reviews and earned $2.5 million at the box office. (Full article...)

Stenberg at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con

Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress and musician. She began her career as a child actor and received recognition for playing Rue in the action film The Hunger Games (2012). As she grew older, she appeared in the supernatural series Sleepy Hollow (2013–2014) and the romance film Everything, Everything (2017). She received praise for her performance as a teenager witnessing a police shooting in the drama film The Hate U Give (2018). She has since starred in the comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and the Star Wars series The Acolyte (2024) in a dual role.

Outside of acting, Stenberg made her musical debut in 2015, performing as part of the folk rock duo Honeywater. Two years later, she performed the song "Let My Baby Stay" for Everything, Everything. She is also noted for her activism towards LGBTQ youth, and was included on Time's lists of most influential teens in 2015 and 2016. (Full article...)

• ... that the Heian period Japanese story Torikaebaya Monogatari is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives?
• ... that in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement?
• ... that the 2009 book Unfriendly Fire argues that bans on gays in the military were based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data?
• ... that sexual activism group Sex Panic! criticized the efficacy of 1990s US anti-HIV campaigns that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture?

• 1 – Gus Kenworthy (1991–) British-American freestyle skier
• 1 – Adam Ellis (1986–) American artist
• 1 – Klaus Wowereit (1953–), German politician and former Governing Mayor of Berlin
• 2 – Annie Leibovitz (1949–), American portrait photographer
• 3 – Noah Schnapp (2004–), American actor
• 3 – Erik Bruhn (1928–1986), Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author
• 3 – Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian actress
• 3 – Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American author, essayist, and political activist
• 4 – Alan L. Hart (1890–1962), American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, and novelist
• 4 – Terri L. Jewell (1954–1995), American author, poet and Black lesbian activist
• 4 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942–), Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland, world's first openly gay head of government
• 5 – Chevalier d'Éon (1728-1810), French diplomat, spy, and soldier
• 5 – John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), English poet and literary critic
• 6 – Bruno Balz (1902–1988), German songwriter
• 6 – Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937), Polish composer and pianist
• 7 – Dan Savage (1964–), American sex advice columnist
• 8 – Kristanna Loken (1979–), American model and actress
• 10 – Wade MacLauchlan (1954–), Canadian politician, Premier of Prince Edward Island
• 11 – Jerome Robbins (1918–1998), American theater producer, director, and choreographer
• 11 – Matt Bomer (1977–), American actor
• 11 – Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), former First Lady of the United States and human rights activist
• 12 – Xulhaz Mannan (1976–2016), Bangladeshi magazine editor and LGBT activist
• 12 – Brian J Smith (1981–), American film, stage, and television actor
• 13 – Ian Thorpe (1982–), Australian freestyle swimmer, five-time Olympic Gold Medalist (2000 & 2004)
• 14 – Isaac Mizrahi (1961–), American fashion designer & TV presenter
• 14 – Ben Whishaw (1980–), English actor
• 15 – Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher
• 15 – Jenna Talackova, Canadian beauty pageant contestant, model and TV personality
• 16 – Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer, poet, and aesthete
• 16 – Matt Bernstein (1998–), American activist and make-up artist
• 16 – Lawrence Chaney (1996–), Scottish drag performer
• 16 – Cressida Dick (1960–), British police commissioner
• 17 – Montgomery Clift (1920–1966), American actor
• 17 – Mark Gatiss (1966–), English actor, screenwriter and novelist
• 17 – Ryan McGinley (1977–), American photographer
• 17 – Laura Nyro (1947–1997), American songwriter, singer, and pianist
• 18 – Uzi Even (1940–), Israeli professor, former politician and first openly gay member of Israeli parliament
• 18 – Brittney Griner (1990–), American basketball player
• 18 – Martina Navratilova (1956–), American tennis player
• 19 – George Nader (1921–2002), American actor
• 19 – Robert Reed (1932–1992), American actor
• 20 – Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet
• 21 – William Dale Jennings (1917–2000), American LGBT rights activist, playwright, and author
• 21 – Peter Mandelson (1953–), British Labour politician and former European Commissioner for Trade
• 21 – Megan Smith (1964–), American technology corporate executive, and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2014-2017)
• 21 – Andrew Scott (1976–), Irish actor
• 21 – Matt Dallas (1982–), American actor 
• 22 – Bruno Alcantara (1988–), Brazilian model
• 22 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson (1975–), American actor
• 22 – Todd Oldham (1961–), American fashion designee
• 22 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater, 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist
• 22 – Saffron Burrows (1972–), English actress
• 22 – Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), British poet and translator
• 22 – Marc Shaiman (1959–), American film/TV/theatre composer, lyricist & arranger
• 23 – Jean Acker (1893–1978), American actress
• 23 – Ireland Baldwin (1995–), American model
• 23 – Lilyan Tashman (1896–1934), American actress
• 24 – Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), French aristocrat & Monegasque royalty
• 24 – August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796–1835), German poet
• 24 – Zac Posen (1980–), American fashion designer
• 25 – David Furnish (1962–), Canadian CEO, filmmaker, artist and manager, husband of Elton John
• 25 – Claude Cahun (1894–1954), French artist, photographer, and writer
• 25 – Chely Wright (1970–), American country singer-songwriter
• 26 – Liliane Maestrini (1987–), Brazilian beach volleyball player
• 26 – Glen Murray (1957–), Canadian politician, world's first openly gay mayor of a major city (Winnipeg, MB)
• 27 – Katherine Bradley (1846–1914), English poet
• 28 – Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Irish painter
• 28 – Caitlyn Jenner (1949–), American TV personality & Olympic Gold Medalist in Decathlon (1976)
• 28 – Frank Ocean (1987–), American singer-songwriter
• 29 – Michelle Brooke-Marciniak (1973–), American business executive and former WNBA basketball player
• 29 – Ann-Marie MacDonald (1958–), Canadian playwright, novelist, actress & broadcast journalist
• 30 – Timothy Findley (1930–2002), Canadian novelist & playwright
• 31 – David Ogden Stiers (1942–2018), American actor and conductor
• 31 – Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), American playwright, poet and novelist
• 31 – Brandon Black (1988–), American actor

• Timeline of LGBTQ history
• List of LGBTQ events
• List of LGBTQ rights activists
• List of years in LGBTQ rights
• List of LGBTQ bookstores
• Lists of LGBTQ people
• List of African-American LGBTQ people
• List of LGBTQ writers
• List of LGBTQ artists
• List of drag queens