Reinaldo Arenas, Romaine Brooks
Died: Reinaldo Arenas (1990), Romaine Brooks (1970)
Died on this day
07DecDied 199036th anniversary of death
Reinaldo Arenas
Persecuted in Cuba as a gay man and dissident, he escaped in 1980 and wrote his memoir “Before Night Falls” while dying of AIDS.
07DecDied 197056th anniversary of deathRomaine Brooks
Her grey-toned portraits of women in top hats and tailored coats are icons of 1920s lesbian Paris – where she loved Natalie Barney for fifty years.