Here are some short articles about prominent LGBT+ people listed by birthday:

Annie Leibovitz

Anna-Lou Leibovitz born 2 October 1949 is an American portrait photographer best known for her portraits, particularly of celebrities, often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. Leibovitz’s Polaroid photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken five hours before Lennon’s murder, is considered one of Rolling Stone magazine’s most famous cover photographs.

The Library of Congress declared her a Living Legend, and she is the first woman to have a feature exhibition at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery.

Leibovitz had a close relationship with writer and essayist Susan Sontag from 1989 until Sontag’s death in 2004. During Sontag’s lifetime, neither woman publicly disclosed whether the relationship was a platonic friendship or romantic. In 2006, Newsweek magazine made reference to Leibovitz’s decade-plus relationship with Sontag, stating, “The two first met in the late ’80s, when Leibovitz photographed her for a book jacket. They never lived together, though they each had an apartment within view of the other’s.” When Leibovitz was interviewed for her autobiography A Photographer’s Life: 1990–2005, she said that the book told a number of stories, and “with Susan, it was a love story.” While The New York Times in 2009 referred to Sontag as Leibovitz’s “companion”, Leibovitz wrote in A Photographer’s Life: “words like ‘companion’ and ‘partner’ were not in our vocabulary. We were two people who helped each other through our lives. The closest word is still ‘friend’.” That same year, Leibovitz said the descriptor “lover” was accurate. She later reiterated: “Call us ‘lovers’. I like ‘lovers.’ You know, ‘lovers’ sounds romantic. I mean, I want to be perfectly clear. I love Susan.”

Gore Vidal

Eugene Louis Vidal, (3 October 1925 – 31 July 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the United States Senate (for California).

As a novelist, Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship, offended conservative book reviewers’ literary, political and moral sensibilities.

In the satirical novel Myra Breckinridge (1968), Gore Vidal explores the mutability of gender roles and sexual orientation as social constructs established by social mores. Vidal often repudiated the label “gay”, maintaining that it referred to sexual acts, not innate sexuality. He described his style as “knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”

Chevalier d’Éon

Charles d’Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d’Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, freemason and soldier. D’Éon fought in the Seven Years’ War, and spied for France while in Russia and England.

D’Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic and a spy. D’Éon appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years, although during that time, d’Éon successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. Starting in 1777, d’Éon lived as a woman and was officially recognised as a woman by King Louis XVI.