Rosa von Praunheim, Yukio Mishima, Pierre Seel

Born: Rosa von Praunheim (1942)
Died: Yukio Mishima (1970), Pierre Seel (2005)

Born on this day

25NovBorn 194284th birthday

Rosa von Praunheim

With a 1971 film whose title said it all – “It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives” – he sparked the gay movement in West Germany.

Died on this day

25NovDied 197056th anniversary of death

Yukio Mishima

One of Japan’s greatest writers described homosexual desire in “Confessions of a Mask” – and ended his life in a spectacular political act.

25NovDied 200521st anniversary of death

Pierre Seel

The only French survivor to testify publicly about his deportation as a gay man – after forty years of silence.