Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Walt Whitman, Hannah Höch
Born: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Walt Whitman (1819)
Died: Hannah Höch (1978)
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31MayBorn 194581st birthday
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder examined love as a struggle over power, bringing queer desire and postwar German society into the same frame.
31MayBorn 1819207th birthdayWalt Whitman
Walt Whitman made the body and intimate affection part of an expansive poetic vision, giving later gay readers a language of comradeship that reached across generations.