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UK LGBT EVENTS - National Portrait Gallery - In Conversation: Queer Perspectives with Tim Redfern/Mathew Todd
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National Portrait Gallery - In Conversation: Queer Perspectives with Tim Redfern/Mathew Todd

Gain a Queer Perspective on our Collection with guest artist Tim Redfern and his special guest Matthew Todd as they discuss portraits which have a personal resonance. Queer Perspectives is a quarterly happening where guests identifying as LGBTQI respond to the Gallerys Collection. Matthew Todd is the out-going editor of the UKs best selling gay magazine, Attitude, for which he has been twice nominated as Mens Magazine Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors. He is the author of the play Blowing Whistles, which has played 2 sell out 5 week runs in Sydney, Australia and in Melbourne, Adelaide, Manchester, Boston, Fire Island, and Fort Lauderdale. It has had 3 month long London runs including at the Leicester Square Theatre in 2008, where it was given 4 star reviews for the Evening Standard, The Spectator, The Stage, The Sunday Express and Time Out, which made it Critics Choice for two weeks running. His first book, Straight Jacket, is published by Bantam Press.

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  • 01 Apr – Phillip Schofield (1962 - ), English TV presenter
  • 02 Apr – Paul Gambiccini (1949- ), American-British radio/TV presenter & author in the UK. Known as the Pop Professor or the Great Gambo
  • 03 Apr – David Hyde Pierce (1959–), American actor
  • 04 Apr – Graham Norton (1963- ), Irish actor, author, comedian, commentator & presenter. Five times Bafta Award Winner with his show The Graham Norton Show
  • 04 Apr – Robert Bauman (1937–), American politician & author, former Republican congressman (Maryland)
  • 04 Apr – Clive Davis (1932–), American record producer & music industry executive
  • 04 Apr – Anthony Perkins (1932–1992), American actor
  • 05 Apr – Nigel Hawthorne (1929–2001), British actor
  • 05 Apr – Thomas Hitzlsperger (1982–), German retired soccer player
  • 07 Apr – Harry Hay (1912–2002), American labour advocate, teacher & LGBT rights activist
  • 07 Apr – Duncan James (1978- ), English singer, actor & TV presenter. Member of boy band Blue
  • 08 Apr – Evan Davies (1962- ), English economist, journalist & presenter for the BBC
  • 09 Apr – Marc Jacobs (1963–), American fashion designer
  • 09 Apr – Harris Wofford (1926–2019), American attorney & politician, U.S. Senator (Pennsylvania) (1991–1995)
  • 10 Apr – Tom Spencer (1948–2023), British politician & former Member of European Parliament
  • 11 Apr – Glenway Wescott (1901–1987), American writer
  • 13 Apr – Ole von Beust (1955–), German politician & former First Mayor of Hamburg
  • 14 Apr – Sir John Gielgud (1904–2000), English actor
  • 14 Apr – José María Mendiluce (1951–2015), Spanish writer & politician
  • 14 Apr – André Boisclair (1966–), Canadian politician & former leader of the Parti Québécois
  • 15 Apr – Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance polymath
  • 15 Apr – Luke Evans (1979–), Welsh actor & singer
  • 15 Apr – George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), American fashion photographer
  • 16 Apr – Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (1911–1963), British diplomat & Soviet agent, member of the Cambridge Five spy ring
  • 16 Apr – Raymond Chan Chi-chuen (1972–), Hong Kongese politician & radio host
  • 17 Apr – Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), American playwright & novelist
  • 19 Apr – Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834–1901), French aristocrat & composer
  • 19 Apr – Dick Sargent (1930–1994), American actor
  • 20 Apr – Henry de Montherlant (1895–1972), French essayist & novelist
  • 20 Apr – Toller Cranston (1949–2015), Canadian figure skater & artist, 1976 Olympic Bronze Medalist
  • 22 Apr – John Waters (1946–), American director, writer, visual artist & media personality
  • 23 Apr – Halston (1932–1990), American fashion designer
  • 24 Apr – Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952–), French fashion designer
  • 24 Apr – Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick (1958–), British politician & retired police officer, sitting in the House of Lords as a life peer
  • 25 Apr – Edward II (1267–1327), King of England
  • 26 Apr – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian philosopher
  • 27 Apr – Russell T Davies (1963–), British television producer & screenwriter
  • 27 Apr – Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976), Yugoslavian (Serbian) royalty
  • 30 Apr – Onir (1969–), Bengali Indian film director, editor, writer & producer

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