American criminal and folk hero John Wojtowicz was BOTD in 1945. Born in New York, he joined the US Army and served in the Vietnam War. He married Carmen Vifulco in 1967, with whom he had two children, separating two years later. Openly and rampantly bisexual, he became involved in the Gay Activists Alliance. In 1971, he formed a relationship with Elizabeth Eden, a trans woman formerly known as Ernest Aron, with whom he had a public commitment ceremony. In 1972, Eden, despondent over her inability to get gender reassignment treatment, attempted suicide and was hospitalised. Later that year, Wojtowicz and two others led a robbery of a bank in Brooklyn, holding seven employees hostage. The 14 hour siege ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest, and he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, serving only five. His case became a media sensation, particularly following press reports that Wojtowicz’s motive for the robbery was to pay for Eden’s gender reassignment surgery. Later reports clarified that the robbery was a Mafia-planned operation, and that Eden’s surgery was a peripheral motive. Wojtowicz’s story inspired Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino as a bisexual thief robbing a bank to pay for his boyfriend’s gender reassignment. Wojtowicz objected to inaccuracies in the film, though loved being played by Pacino, and donated his earnings from the film to Eden to fund her surgery. Wojtowicz served two further prison sentences in the 1980s. His relationship with Eden ended after his release, and he lived in poverty until his death in 2006 aged 60. His larger-than-life personality and curious mix of machismo and omnisexual charm has been explored in numerous documentaries including The Third Memory, Based on a True Story and The Great Sex Addict Heist.