M. Gessen, Anna Vock, Edmund White
Born: M. Gessen (1967), Anna Vock (1885), Edmund White (1940)
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13JanBorn 196759th birthday
M. Gessen
A Russian-American journalist who fought Putin’s anti-gay laws in Moscow, had to flee, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2026.
13JanBorn 1885141st birthdayAnna Vock
Known as “Mammina”, she helped sustain the Swiss organising and publishing networks from which “Der Kreis” emerged.
13JanBorn 194086th birthdayEdmund White
His fiction, memoirs and biographies traced gay experience from secrecy and liberation to the losses of the AIDS years.