 Eva
Dahlgren (June 9, 1960)
Swedish
singer, born in Umeĺ as Eva Charlotte Dahlgren. In 1978 she represented
Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Om jag skriver en
sĺng'. On January 25, 1996 she "married" Efva Attling.CD's: Finns
det nan som bryr sig om (1978), Jag ger mig into (1980), For Vantan
(1981), Tvillingskal (1982), Ett fonster mot gatan (1985), Ung och stolt
(1987), Fria varlden 1989 (1989), En blekt blondins hjarta (1991), For
minnenas skuld (1992), Jag vill se min alskade komma fran det vilda
(1995), Lai Lai (1999) Website:
http://www.dahlgren-attling.f2s.com/
 Stephen
Daldry (may 2, 1961)
British theatre and
film director. Daldry used to be director of the Royal Court Theatre.
Films: Eight (1998), Billy Elliot (2000)
 Ien
Dales (October 18, 1931 - January 10, 1994)
Dutch politician. Often rumored to be lesbian, but finally outed after her
death by the Dutch prime-minister Ruud Lubbers.
 Joe
Dallesandro (December 31, 1948)
American
bisexual actor. Films: Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), Andy Warhol's
Frankenstein (1973), Blood for Dracula (1974)
 Johannes van Dam (October 9,
1946)
Dutch journalist and cookery and food contributor for a Dutch
newspaper, born in Amsterdam. Books: De
tafel van tien, Eten is een ambacht, Eet op! (2002)
 Felice Damiano (1954)
Belgian Radio- and TV-host, whose real name is Dré Steemans.
TV: 1000 seconden, Boobytrap (Veronica), Het Swingpaleis, Als God in
Frankrijk, Incredible, Felice's Feestcomité Book: Decamerone
 Rudi van Dantzig (August 4, 1933)
Dutch choreographer, leader of ballet company 'Het
Nationaal Ballet' (1971-1991), stage director and writer. In 2001 was
discovered van Dantzig has lymph node cancer.
Ballets: Nachteiland (1955), Ombros (1961), Monument voor een
gestorven jongen (1965), Antwoord gevend (1980), Voorbij gegaan, Vier
letzte Lieder, Ogenblikken, Lommer (2002) Directing Toen gij
naakt en bloot waart (Toneelgroep de Appel, 1998) Books: Voor
een verloren soldaat (1986), Het spoor van een komeet (1993), Afgrond.
 Dave (may 4, 1944)
French singer and TV-host, born in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, as Wouter Otto Levenbach. He started his musical career in
pop group Dave Rich & the Millionaires.
Musical: Godspell (1971) Hits: Nathalie (1969), Dansez
maintenant(1975), Du coté de chez Swann(1976) CD's: Soit dit en
passant (2001)
 Ron Davies (August 6, 1946)
British (now ex-)Minister.
 Libby Davies (February 27, 1953)
Canadian member of Parliament from Vancouver, born
in Aldershot, England. In 1968 she moved to Canada. She had a relationship
with councilor Bruce Eriksen until he died of cancer in 1997. She has a
son : Lief Eriksen. Website:
http://www.libbydavies.ca/
 James Dean
(February
8, 1931 - September 30, 1955)
American bisexual actor, born in Marion,
Indiana, as James Byron Dean. Dean died in a car crash. James Dean's
premature death in a car crash, after having made only three movies,
transformed the enigmatic young actor into a legend, the subject of books,
films, and plays. Over the years, one of the most enduring questions about
Dean, whose androgynous, almost delicate, looks were alluring to both men
and women, concerns his sexuality - was he straight or gay, or did he fall
somewhere between the two ends of the Kinsey scale?One way to address
Dean's sexuality is to examine the company he kept. An early mentor in his
hometown of Fairmount, Indiana, was the Rev. James DeWeerd, minister of
the local Wesleyan Methodist church. When he knew Dean, DeWeerd was in his
30s and unmarried, liked poetry and classical music, and was partial to
the company of boys. The teenage Dean - whose mother died when he was
eight and whose father abandoned him to be raised by an aunt - spent a
great deal of time alone with DeWeerd, which is suggestive of a sexual
relationship or molestation. But no evidence of either has come to light.
At Dean's funeral, however, DeWeerd eulogized him as "a boy … who knew how
to seek counsel from men older and wiser than himself."
 In fact, Dean's
success in Hollywood, where he relocated in 1949 at age 18, did stem in
large part from the contacts he made with influential gay men. One of his
few documented homosexual relationships was with Rogers Brackett, the
sophisticated, 35-year-old radio director of a prestigious advertising
agency, whom Dean met in the summer of 1951 while working as a parking
attendant at CBS. At a time when many radio programs were created,
written, and cast at ad agencies, Brackett was a particularly good person
for a struggling actor to know.
 Just two wee
ks after they met, Dean
began living with Brackett in his Hollywood flat. Brackett used his social
and professional connections to find Dean work on radio shows like
Hallmark Playhouse. By Labor Day, Dean was also getting bit parts in
movies.
Most biographies of Dean, including a recent TV biopic,
acknowledge the sexual component of this relationship, but also claim that
Dean had sex with Brackett purely out of expediency - he needed acting
jobs, and the well-connected Brackett could get them for him. Brackett,
however, remembered their relationship differently - although he later
said that, because of Dean's talent, "my primary interest in Jimmy was as
an actor," he added that "I loved him, and he loved me." Later that
year, Dean moved with Brackett to New York, where most radio programs were
produced. There Dean began getting television work and eventually theater
parts, including a pivotal role as a gay Arab houseboy in Andre Gide's The
Immoralist, opposite Louis Jourdan. That, in turn, garnered the young
actor the lead role as Cal Trask in the Elia Kazan film East of Eden.
 While in New York, Dean began dating a singer-dancer named Elizabeth
"Dizzy" Sheridan, who seems to have been his only serious girlfriend; he
even asked her to marry him. Dean confided in Sheridan about the
relationship with Brackett and also said that he planned to end it. "He
did not want to be gay," Sheridan recalled years later - a telling
statement that, coupled with the fact that he continued seeing Brackett,
hints at a possible practical side to Dean's romantic involvement with
Sheridan. Being openly (or even too suggestively) gay would have quickly
ended his career at that time, when gay actors like Rock Hudson were being
forced into sham marriages to protect their image.
 It's not surprising,
then, that when Dean's movie career began to take off, he started
appearing at Hollywood events with pretty starlets on his arm. The press -
and his studio, Warner Brothers - made much of his supposedly passionate
love affair with the lovely Italian-born Pier Angeli, one of the stars of
The Silver Chalice. But though Dean's colleagues and friends maintained
that he was heartbroken when Angeli decided to marry singer Vic Damone,
Dean's relationship with Angeli was, she herself later said, "all so
innocent." Kazan once told an interviewer that he "did not think Jimmy was
a very effective lover with women." Another of Dean's documented gay
relationships was with Jack Simmons, a young actor who, by all accounts,
was devoted to him. Because the attachment was kept quietly in the
background - Dean virtually lived with Simmons while filming Rebel Without
a Cause but had his own apartment - studio officials did not seem to mind.
That may have also been because the Warner publicity machine was busily
getting articles like "The Dean I've Dated," by Lori Nelson, into fan
magazines. Dean took the secret of his sexuality to his untimely death,
which occurred soon after he finished filming Giant. (His next scheduled
role, in Somebody Up There Likes Me, went to Paul Newman.) Although Dean
can hardly be called straight, it remains unclear if he identified as gay
or bisexual, or if he was questioning. Since he was only 24, his sexual
identity may, in fact, have been still in formation.
Films: Fixed bayonets (1951), Sailor beware
(1952), Has anybody seen my gal (1952), East of Eden (1955), Rebel without
a cause (1955), Giant (1956)
Website:
http://www.jamesdean.com/
 Ellen Degeneres (January 26, 1958)
American actress and comic, born in New Orleans,
Louisiana. Ellen started her career as an emcee at a local comedy club in
New Orleans. She played the (leading) part of Ellen in the series 'Ellen'.
When she came out in 1997 as a lesbian both in the series as well in real
life the popularity of the series diminished. Chrysler withdrew its
commercials! The 'Puppy episode' in which Ellen had her coming-out
received an Emmy-award. Ellen had a relationship with actress
Anne Heche. TV: Open House, Laurie Hill,
Ellen (1994-1998, as Ellen Morgan), The Ellen show (2001-2002, as
Ellen Richmond)
Film: Coneheads (1993), Wisecracks (1993), Mr.
Wrong (1996), Dr. Dolittle (1998, voice), EDtv (1999), Goodbye lover
(1999), The Love letter (1999), Finding Nemo (2003, voice of Dury)
Theatre: Ellen DeGeneres in Concert (2002) Books: My
point...and I do have one, Love, Ellen: A mother/daughter journey (by her
mother Betty Degeneres) CD: Taste this Video: The
beginning (2000)
 Bertrand Delanoë (may 30,
1950)
French politician for the socialist party, who was born in
Tunis. He became mayor of Paris in march 2001. On October 5th, 2002,
Delanoë was stabbed by a Muslim, who declared he hates politicians and
homosexuals.
 Lea DeLaria (may 23, 1958)
American comedian, actress, singer and writer, born in
Belleville, Illinois. TV: Out there
(1993),
Further tales of the city (2001) Films: The First Wives Club
(1996), Plum fiction (1997),
Edge of seventeen (1998), Homo Heights (1998)
Theatre: Rocky
Horror Show (2000) Books: Lea's book of rules (2000) CD's:
Bulldyke in a China shop (1994), Box Lunch (1997), Plat it cool (2001)
Website:
leadelaria.homestead.com
 Robert Dessaix (1944)
Australian writer and journalist, born in Sydney. He has
studied Russian and has been married. Books: A mother's disgrace (1994/2001),
Night letters/Brieven uit de nacht (1996/2000),
Schande-herinneringen (2001)
 Sergei Diaghilev (march 31, 1872 - August 19, 1929)
Russian composer, painter and
impresario. In 1909 he created the Ballet Russes.
David Diamond (July 9, 1915)
American composer, born in Rochester, New York.
 Inge Diepman (August 19, 1963)
Dutch talk show host and radio presenter, born in
Zutphen. She and her partner have a daughter, Dagmar. In 2001, after being
pregnant for 26 weeks, Inge's son David was born but he only lived for
five weeks. TV: Buitengewoon gezelschap,
Middageditie, Herexamen, Het zwarte schaap, B&W (2002) Radio: De
karavaan, 1 op 1
 Adriaan van Dis (December 16,
1946)
Bisexual Dutch writer, playwright and TV-host, born in Bergen. Books: Nathan Sid (1983), Casablanca
(1986), De rat van Arras (1986), Zoen (1987), Zilver of het verlies van de
onschuld (1988), Het beloofde land (1990), In Afrika (1991), Indische
Duinen (1994), Palmwijn (boekenweekgeschenk 1996), Dubbelliefde -
Geschiedenis van een jongeman (1999), Op oorlogspad door Japan (2000),
Familieziek (2002) TV: Hier is....Adriaan van Dis (1983-1993),
Zomergasten (1999)
Plays: Tropenjaren (1986), Komedie om geld
(1988) CD: Familieziek (2002, read by the writer)
 Thomas M. Disch (February 2, 1940)
American writer of SF and children's books, poet
and critic, born in Des Moines, Iowa, as Thomas Michael Disch. He also
worked under the pseudonymes Tom Disch, Tom Demijohn and Dobbin Thorpe.
Books: The genocides (1965), Mankind under the leash (1966), Echo
around the bones (1967), Black Alice (1968), Camp concentration (1968),
The prisoner (1969), 334 (1972), Getting into death (1973), Clara Reeve
(1975), The brave little toaster (1978), Neighboring lives (1981), The
business man (1984), The brave little toaster goes to Mars (1988), The
M.D. (1991), The priest (1994), The castle of Indolence (1995), A child's
garden of grammar (1997), The dreams our stuff is made of (1998), The sub
(1999
 Boris Dittrich (July 21, 1955)
Dutch politician for D'66, born as Boris Ottokar
Dittrich in Utrecht. Book: Een blauwe
stoel in Paars (2001)
  Divine (October 19, 1945 - march 7, 1988)
American singer and actor in drag,
who had a couple of disco hits in the 80's. His real name was Harris Glenn
Milstead. Hits: Born to be cheap (1979), The name game
(1979), Native Love (1981), Shoot your shot (1982), Jungle Jezebel (1982),
Shake it up (1983), You think you're a man (1984), I'm so beautiful
(1985), Walk like a man/Twistin' the night away/Hard magic(1985), Little
baby (1986), Hey, you (1986) LP's/CD's: Jungle Jezebel (1982),
T-shirts and tight blue jeans (1984), So Far (1984), Maid in England
(1988) DVD: Divine- Shoot your shot/Live at the hacienda (2000)
Films: Female Trouble (1974), Pink Flamingo, Polyester (1981), Lust in
the dust (1985), Hairspray (1988) Biography: My son Divine (by
Frances Milstead, with Kevin Hefferman and Steve Yeager)
Milan Djuric
Jugoslavian
activist for gay rights.
 Alix
Dobkin (August 16, 1940)
American singer
and songwriter, born in New York City. She graduated in 1958 from
Germantown High School in Philadelphia and in 1962 from Tylerschool of
Fine Arts, Temple University. CD's: Lavender Jane loves women (1973), Living
with lesbians, These women/ Never been better, X Alix (1980), Yahoo
Australia: Live from Sydney, Love & Politics: A 30 year saga (1992), Alix
D./Adventures in women's music. Sir Anton Dolin (1904-1983)
British ballet dancer and choreographer. He started his
dancing career with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Dolin was knighted in
1981.
 Emma Donoghue (October 24, 1969)
Irish writer and playwright, who was born in Dublin
and who lives in Canada. Books: Passions
between women: British lesbian culture 1668-1801 (1993), Stirfry/Geroerd
(1994), Hood/Verlies (1995/1996), Kissing the witch/Een
kus voor de heks (1997), We are Michael Field (1998), Slammerkin/Lichtekooi
(2000/2001) Plays: I know my own heart (1993), Ladies and
gentlemen (1996), Kissing the witch (2000) Website:
http://www.emmadonoghue.com/
 Jurrian van Dongen
Dutch actor, lyricist and stage director. He graduated from the
Kleinkunstacademie (Academy for cabaret) in 1997.
Theatre: Sunday in the park with
Sondheim, Obsession, Diana (directing), Piaf (acting), Kreng, Dochters van
Lear
Radio: Podium, Uitgelicht (2002) Film: De
Leeuwenkoning (voice of Simba)
 Simon Doonan (1952)
British window dresser, who wrote his autobiography in
'Confessions of a window dresser'(1998). He was born in Reading. Perry Dossett
Dutch singer and dancer, born on the island of Curacao. Dossett went to
the Academy for Cabaret in the Netherlands and after that to Steps Dance
Studio in New York. He danced in videoclips like 'I'm your baby tonight'
(Whitney Houston) and 'Gonna make you sweat' van C&C The Music Factory. Theater: West Side Story (as Bernardo), Simone &
Friends, You're the top, A Chorus Line (2001-2002)
 Lord Alfred Douglas (October
22, 1870 - march 20, 1945)
British writer and poet and lover of
Oscar Wilde. Bosie, as he was known to his friends, married Olive
Cunstance in 1902 and they had a son, Raymond, that same year. The 1997
film 'Wilde' tells the
story about his relationship with Oscar Wilde. Douglas died in Lancing,
Sussex. Books: Poems (1896), Oscar Wilde and myself (1914)
Biography: Caspar Wintermans: Alfred Douglas - de boezemvriend van
Oscar Wilde (2000, Dutch) Ronald Douglas (April 25, 1960)
Dutch jazz singer and record producer, born in The
Hague. CD's: Pieces of dreams (1994), This is new (1997),
From Bing to Sting (2001) Website:
http://www.ronalddouglas.com/ Richard
Dreise
Dutch actor, who played in a
soap-series. Became famous in the gay scene in drag as Agnetha Immergeil
(translated: Agnetha Alwayshorny)
 Karla Drenner (September 10, ....)
American politician, born in Charleston, West
Virginia. She was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in
November 2000 and was officially sworn in in January 2001. Drenner has two
children. Book: One: A True Story of Politics, Prayer, and
the Power of One (2002) Website:
http://www.karladrenner.org/
 James Dreyfus (January 1, 1964)
British actor. TV:
The thin blue line, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gormenghast (2000), Bette (USA)
Theatre: Lady in the dark. Film: Boyfriends (1995), Notting
Hill (1999)
 Nancy Drolet (August 2, 1973)
Canadian hockey player, born in Drummondville,
Quebec. She came out publicly in 2002.
 Gert-Jan Dröge
Dutch TV-host. TV:
Glamourland (AVRO), Nationale Soap Acteerwedstrijd 1999, Dröge zoekt een
vrouw (Net 5, 2000), Dröge doet boodschappen, Gaat het weer een beetje,
meneer Dröge (Net 5, 2001-) Film: De Zeemeerman (1996), De
sprookjes van Godfried Bomans (2001)
 Truus Druyts
Belgian actrice and TV- and Radiohost. Radio: On-rust TV: Wittekerke,
Liefde,lijf en lust, Koppels, De muziekkwis, De Makelaar, Spoed, X-treem
 Nacho Duato (1957)
Spanish dancer and director of the Spanish National Ballet
Company: Compania Nacional de Danza. He was born in Valencia and started
his dancing carreer in Sweden with the Cullberg Ballet. A year later
(1981) he joined the Netherlands Dance Treatre. He came out in September
1999 in the Spanish magazine 'Zero'.
 Olivier Ducastel (February 23, 1962)
French director and screenwriter, born in Lyon. He
works together with his partner
Jacques Martineau. Films: Jeanne et le Garcon Formidable
(1998), Drôle de Félix
(1999)
 André van Duin (February 20, 1947)
Comedian, actor, singer, TV- and radio-host. Van
Duin was born in Rotterdam as Andrianus Marinus Kyvon. His song
'Anders dan Anderen' (Different from the rest) tell the story of his
coming out. Hits: Angelique (1972), Het bananenlied (1972),
De tamme boerenzoon (1974), Sambaballensamba (1975), Doorgaan (1975),
Willempie (1976), Onzichtbare André (1976), Ta ta ta/ Ik wil met jou wel
dansen (1977), Nee nou wordt ie mooi (1977), Tingelingeling (1978), A
woman in love (1978), 'k heb hele grote bloemkole (1979), Nederland die
heeft de bal (1980), Willy Alberti bedankt (1980), Er staat een paard in
de gang/ Flip Fluitketel (1981), Me kammetje (1981), Joep Meloen/ Ik wil
met jou wel 7 weken (1982), Als je huilt/ Bim bam (1982), Gatzdeladigee
(1983), Zandzakken voor de deur (1983), Als de zon schijnt (1983), De
Heidezangers (1983), Wij zijn de vuilnisman (1984), Mijn opoe heeft een
zadel op d'r rug (1985), Een boutje een moertje een schroefje en een
nippeltje (1985), Barbeque (1986), De rol van de behanger (1987), Bingo
(1987), Duudeljo (1987), Mijn naam is Jaap/ De groetjes van Ruud (1989),
Hotdog (1989), 35 koeien (1991), Grote voeten (1992), Totdat ik jou zag
(1992), Het pizzalied (effe wachten...) (1993), Doelpunt! (1994), Het
naaimachinelied (1995), De buurtsuper (1995), Jas aan, jas uit (1996),
Ayohee (1997) LP's: De grootste successen, De grootste sucessen
2 (1974), Dag, dag, heerlijke lach (1975), André van Duin's pretmachine
(1975), Dit was: De Dik Voor Mekaarshow (1975), 10 jaar André van Duin
(1976), André van Duin solo (1976), André van Duin's pretfilm (1976), Lach
om het leven (1979), De lach-of-ik-schiet show (1979), De André van Duin
Show (1981) CD's: And're André 1 (1977), Kerstfeest met André
(1978), And're André 2 (1978), And're André 3 (1978), And're André 4
(1980), And're André (1985), 25 jaar André van Duin (1989), Effe wachte...(1993),
The summertime medleys (1994), De buurtbrothers (1996), Het beste uit de
Dik Voormekaarshow en de Lach-of-ik-schietshow (1999), Recht uit het hart
(1999), Z'n allergrootste hits (2001) Radio: De abominabele Top
2000 (1973, Radio Noordzee), De Dik voor Mekaar Show Theater:
Lach in de ruimte (1970-1972), Blij blijven (1972), Dag Dag Heerlijke Lach
TV: Rudi Carell show (1967-1968), Een avondje TV met André (1969-?),
Het meisje met de blauwe hoed (series, 1972), Hotel de botel, De lach of
ik schiet show, Animal crackers, De Jaap Aap Show, Wie ben ik, Bij van
Duin, Bij Ron of André, Ron en André's Bingo Paleis (2001) Film:
André van Duin's pretfilm (1976), Ik ben Joep Meloen (1981), De
boezemvriend (1982) Commercials: McDonald's, Postgiro
 Alan Duncan (1957)
British Tory politician and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
with responsibility for the Middle East, the Indian Sub-Continent and
America. He came out in July 2002.
 Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 - February 3, 1988)
American poet Robert Edward
Duncan was born as Edward Howard Duncan in Oakland, California. His mother
died at childbirth and he was adopted. Duncan was for a short period
married to Marjorie McKee. Books: Heavenly
city, eartly city (1947), The opening of the field (1960), Roots and
branches (1964), Bending the bow (1968)
 Thomas von der Dunk (July 2, 1961)
Dutch cultural historian and writer, born in Soest. He
studies art history and archeology at the University of Amsterdam. Books: Alleen op de wereld (2001)
 Marianne Dupon
Belgian winner of TV-program 'De Mol' and TV-presenter.
TV: De Mol, De zoete zonde (VRT)
 Jerome (Hieronimus) Duquesnoy
(July 6, 1602 - September 28, 1654)
Flemish sculptor, born in
Brussels. His father, who has the same name, has made the Manneken Pis
Fountain in Brussels. Jerome the younger was arrested after having sex
with two of his male models and was first strangled to death and then
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