Axel Axgil, Anne Lister, Stanisława Walasiewicz
Born: Axel Axgil (1915), Anne Lister (1791), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911)
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03AprBorn 1915111th birthday
Axel Axgil
With his partner Eigil he founded Denmark’s first gay organisation – and in 1989 the two became the first same-sex couple in the world to be legally recognised.
03AprBorn 1791235th birthdayAnne Lister
Her coded diaries preserve an unusually detailed account of love between women in nineteenth-century England.
03AprBorn 1911115th birthdayStanisława Walasiewicz
An Olympic sprint champion whose intersex body became a tabloid sensation after she was killed in a robbery.