TIMELINE: A Brief History of John Waters

April 22, 1946
It's a boy
John Samuel Waters Jr. is born in Baltimore to Patricia and John Waters

1963
It's a boy in a dress
The teenage Waters meets a kid in his neighborhood named Glenn Milstead who liked to dress up in his mother's clothes. Milstead would later change his name to Divine, becoming a 300-pound transvestite -- a cult favorite and hallmark of Waters films.