The legal status of transgender people varies greatly around the world. Some countries have enacted laws protecting the rights of transgender individuals, but others have criminalized their gender identity or expression. In many cases, transgender individuals face discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, and other areas of life.

A transgender person is someone whose gender identity is inconsistent or not culturally associated with the sex they were assigned at birth and also with the gender role that is associated with that sex. They may have, or may intend to establish, a new gender status that accords with their gender identity. Transsexual is generally considered a subset of transgender, but some transsexual people reject being labelled transgender. (Full article...)

Edgars Rinkēvičs (born 21 September 1973) is a Latvian public official and politician serving as the 11th and current president of Latvia since July 2023. He previously served as the minister of foreign affairs of Latvia from 2011 to 2023, and head of the Chancery of the President of Latvia as state secretary of the Ministry of Defence, as well as a deputy of the Saeima.

Upon taking office as president, Rinkēvičs became the first openly gay head of state in a European Union country. Prior to becoming president, Rinkēvičs had represented Latvian Way, Reform Party, and the Unity party since May 2014. He left Unity after being elected president as it is customarily expected in Latvia for presidents to maintain political neutrality. (Full article...)

“

But I always have and still do consider myself queer. To me, being queer isn't who you're sleeping with; it's just an idea that sexuality isn't gender-based, that it's love-based.

”

• October 5: Supreme court of Mauritius rules the colonial era law criminalizing homosexuality unconstitutional
• August 5: DaBaby Levitating remix losing US radio audiences after the rapper's comments on HIV/AIDS
• May 19: Taiwan's legislature first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage
• February 1: Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to eight murders
• October 30: 22nd annual ILGA-Europe conference meets in Brussels: in pictures
• October 30: In pictures: thousands attend 16th annual Taiwan Pride

John Barrowman (center) and partner Scott Gill (left)

• ... that the Heian period Japanese story Torikaebaya Monogatari is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives?
• ... that in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement?
• ... that the 2009 book Unfriendly Fire argues that bans on gays in the military were based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data?
• ... that sexual activism group Sex Panic! criticized the efficacy of 1990s US anti-HIV campaigns that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture?

• 1 – E. M. Forster (1879–1970), English novelist and short story writer
• 1 – James Hormel (1933–2021), American philanthropist, LGBT activist & former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
• 1 – Joe Orton (1933–1967), English playwright
• 1 – Martine Rothblatt (1954–), American lawyer, author, entrepreneur, business executive, & CEO of United Therapeutics
• 2 – William Haines (1900–1973), American film actor and interior designer
• 2 – M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935), American educator, linguist and women's suffragist
• 4 – Dot-Marie Jones (1964–), American actress and arm wrestler
• 4 – Michael Stipe (1960–), American singer
• 4 – Gianni Vattimo (1936–), Italian philosopher, politician, and Member of European Parliament
• 6 – Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French writer, philosopher and activist
• 6 – Kate McKinnon (1984–), American actress and comedian
• 6 – Nancy Ruth (1942–), Canadian Senator
• 6 – Gábor Szetey (1968–), Hungarian politician and former Secretary of State
• 7 – Christian Louboutin (1963–), French footwear designer
• 7 – Chester Kallman (1921–1975), American poet, librettist, and translator
• 7 – Michael Sam (1990–), American football player, first publicly gay player drafted by the NFL
• 8 – Jack Andraka (1997–), American inventor, scientist, and cancer researcher
• 8 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864–1892), English royalty
• 8 – Winnaretta Singer (1865–1943), American heiress
• 10 – Sal Mineo (1939–1976), American actor
• 11 – Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991), English actress, producer and director
• 12 – Edith Cooper (1862–1913), English poet
• 12 – Patsy Kelly (1910–1981), American actress
• 12 – Kieron Richardson (1986–), English actor
• 13 – Charles Nelson Reilly (1931–2007), American actor, comedian, and director
• 13 – Charlotte Charke (1713–1760), English actress, playwright, novelist and transvestite
• 13 – Edmund White (1940–), American author
• 13 – Nate Silver (1978–), American statistician, journalist, and writer
• 14 – Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), English fashion and portrait photographer
• 14 – Holland Taylor (1943–), American actress
• 14 – Alice Nkom (1945–), Cameroonian lawyer and LGBT advocate
• 18 – Cary Grant (1904–1986), English actor
• 18 – Mike Michaud (1955–), American Democratic congressman (Maine)
• 18 – Seamus O'Regan (1971–), Canadian broadcast journalist and politician
• 18 – Maulik Pancholy (1974–), American actor
• 19 – Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), American novelist and short-story writer
• 19 – Janis Joplin (1943–1970), American rock singer-songwriter
• 19 – Jakub Jankto (1996–), Czech professional footballer
• 21 – Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895–1972), Spanish fashion designer
• 21 – Christian Dior (1905–1957), French fashion designer
• 21 – Janis Sidovský (1968–), Czech producer
• 22 – Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author
• 22 – Lord Byron (1788–1824), British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism
• 22 – Elaine Noble (1944–), American politician and LGBT activist
• 22 – Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989), Slovak figure skater, 1972 Olympic champion
• 23 – Luisa, Marquise Casati Stampa di Soncino (1881–1957), Italian aristocrat, muse and patron of the arts
• 24 – Hadrian (76–138), Roman emperor
• 24 – Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Prussian king, military leader, and composer
• 25 – Aya Kamikawa (1968–), Japanese politician and writer, first openly transgender politician in Japan
• 25 – W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), English playwright, novelist, and short story writer
• 25 – Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), English writer
• 26 – Ellen DeGeneres (1958–), American actress and stand-up comedian
• 27 – Eric Radford (1985–), Canadian pairs figure skater, 2015 World Champion
• 28 – Colette (1873–1954), French novelist
• 28 – Marnie McBean (1968–), Canadian rower, three-time Olympic Gold Medalist
• 29 – Gia Carangi (1960–1986), American model
• 29 – Sara Gilbert (1975–), American actress and talk show co-host
• 29 – Greg Louganis (1960–), American Olympic diver and author
• 30 – Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), English writer
• 30 – Stewart McKinney (1931–1987), American politician, Republican congressman (Connecticut) (1971–1987)
• 30 – Claudia Brind-Woody (1955–), American business executive, IBM
• 31 – Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863–1922), British politician
• 31 – Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968), American actress
• 31 – Patricia Velásquez (1971–), Venezuelan actress and model
• 31 – Portia de Rossi (1973–), Australian actress
• 31 – Czeslaw Walek (1975–), Czech lawyer and LGBT activist

• Timeline of LGBT history
• List of LGBT events
• List of LGBT rights activists
• List of years in LGBT rights
• List of LGBT bookstores
• List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people
• Lists of bisexual people
• List of LGBT African Americans
• List of LGBT writers
• List of LGBT artists
• List of pansexual people
• List of drag queens