On this day
16
July

Reinaldo Arenas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Stephen Spender

Born: Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (1970)
Died: Stephen Spender (1995)

Born on this day

16JulBorn 194383rd birthday

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.

16JulBorn 197056th birthday

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

His films bring queer desire, memory and spirits into a cinema that moves between everyday life and dreams.

Died on this day

16JulDied 199531st anniversary of death

Stephen Spender

A poet of the “Auden generation” who loved men and women and wrote frankly about it in his autobiography.