John Waters Born April 22nd

John Samuel Waters, Jr was born April 22nd, 1946 in Baltimore, MD though he grew up in the suburb of Lutherville. Waters is best known as the purveyor of camp and controversy in movies like Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, and Polyester. Waters moved dramatically toward the mainstream with his later movies. Get yourself to Netflix if you've never watched even one of them.

“Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.”

Read more about Waters at Wikipedia.