On this day
11
May

Mychal Judge, Kenneth Anger, Sakia Gunn

Born: Mychal Judge (1933)
Died: Kenneth Anger (2023), Sakia Gunn (2003)

Born on this day

11MayBorn 193393rd birthday

Mychal Judge

The chaplain of the New York Fire Department was the first recorded victim of 11 September 2001 – a gay priest who cared for people with AIDS.

Died on this day

11MayDied 20233rd anniversary of death

Kenneth Anger

An avant-garde filmmaker who made openly homoerotic films in the 1940s – and wrote the scandalous “Hollywood Babylon”.

11MayDied 200323rd anniversary of death

Sakia Gunn

At 15 she told a man at a bus stop that she was a lesbian – and was stabbed to death. Her murder changed Newark.