On this day
31
July

Barbara Gittings, David Norris, Gore Vidal

Born: Barbara Gittings (1932), David Norris (1944)
Died: Gore Vidal (2012)

Born on this day

31JulBorn 193294th birthday

Barbara Gittings

She helped bring gay rights into public protest, psychiatry and the nation’s libraries.

31JulBorn 194482nd birthday

David Norris

A Joyce scholar took his own country to court – and in 1988 brought down the law under which Oscar Wilde had once been convicted.

Died on this day

31JulDied 201214th anniversary of death

Gore Vidal

A novelist and essayist whose arguments about sex and power unsettled American public life.