Gilbert Baker, Alla Nazimova, Vita Sackville-West, Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Born: Gilbert Baker (1951), Alla Nazimova (1879)
Died: Vita Sackville-West (1962), Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1970)
Born on this day
02JunBorn 195175th birthday
Gilbert Baker
He dyed and sewed the first rainbow flags by hand – and refused to trademark them, because the flag belonged to everyone.
02JunBorn 1879147th birthdayAlla Nazimova
A Broadway star who became a Hollywood producer, she took artistic risks and helped shape its queer social circles.
Died on this day
02JunDied 196264th anniversary of death
Vita Sackville-West
An aristocrat who loved women, eloped with Violet Trefusis dressed as a man – and inspired Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando”.
02JunDied 197056th anniversary of deathLucía Sánchez Saornil
An avant-garde poet who wrote love poems to women under a male name – and co-founded the anarchist women’s movement Mujeres Libres.