Chelsea Manning, Rosa von Praunheim, Marguerite Yourcenar
Born: Chelsea Manning (1987)
Died: Rosa von Praunheim (2025), Marguerite Yourcenar (1987)
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Rosa von Praunheim
With a 1971 film whose title said it all – “It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives” – he sparked the gay movement in West Germany.
17DecDied 198739th anniversary of deathMarguerite Yourcenar
The author of “Memoirs of Hadrian” was the first woman elected to the Académie française – and lived for forty years with Grace Frick.