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FAMOUS
GLBT PEOPLE
ANCIENT TIMES
Socrates / Greek
Philosopher, 400 B.C.
Sappho / Greek Woman Poet, 600 B.C.
Aristotle / Greek philosopher, 384-322 B.C.
CLASSICS
Michelangelo / Italian artist, 15th c.
Leonardo Da Vinci / Ital. Artist, scientist, 15th c.
Christopher Marlowe / Eng. Playwright, 16th c.
RULERS
Alexander the Great / Macedonian Ruler, 300 B.C.
Peter the Great / Russian Czar, 17th-18th c.
Frederick the Great / King of Prussia
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Truman Capote |
Edward Albee |
Gertrude Stein |
WRITERS
Francis Bacon / English statesman, author
T.E. Lawrence / English soldier, author, 20th c.
Lord Byron / English poet, 18th c.
Walt Whitman / U.S. poet, author, 19th c.
Oscar Wilde / Irish author, 19th c.
Marcel Proust / French author, 20th c.
Gertrude Stein / U.S. poet, author, 20th c.
Alice B. Toklas / U.S. author, 20th c.
James Baldwin / U.S. author, 20th c.
Herman Melville / U.S. author, 19th c.
Willa Cather / U.S. author, 19th c.
Langston Hughes / U.S. author, 20th c.
E.M. Forster / English author, 20th c.
Hans Christian Andersen / Danish author, 19th c.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / U.S. author, 19th c.
Virginia Woolf / English author, 20th c.
Tennessee Williams / U.S. Playwright, 20th c.
Rainer Maria Rilke / German poet, 20th c.
Edward Albee / U.S.
playwright (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?), 20th c.
Armistead Maupin /
U.S. writer (Tales of the City)
Rita Mae Brown / U.S.
novelist, 20th c.
Gore Vidal / U.S.
novelist, 20th c.
Allen Ginsberg / U.S.
poet, 20th c.
W.H. Auden / English Poet, 20th c.
Truman Capote / U.S. Writer, 20th c.
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Michael Stipe |
Melissa Etheridge |
George Michael |
Elton John |
MUSICIANS
Cole Porter / U.S. composer
Leonard Bernstein / U.S. composer
Peter Tchaikovsky / Russian composer, 19th c.
Melissa Etheridge / U.S. Rock Star
Amy Ray & Emily Saliers / Indigo Girls, US musicians
Elton John / English Rock Star
Janis Joplin / U.S. singer
George Michael /
English musician
Boy George / English
musician
Ani DiFranco / U.S.
musician
Brian Epstein / First
manager for the Beatles
Liberace / U.S.
pianist/entertainer
Michael Stipe / U.S.
rock star, lead singer of R.E.M.
Joan Baez / U.S.
musician
Tracy Chapman / U.S. musician
KD Lang / U.S. musician
Rufus Wainwright / U.S. musician
Lance Bass / US musician (N'Sync)
Brandi Carlisle / US musician
ARTISTS/DANCERS
Rudolf Nuryev / Russian dancer
Andy Warhol / U.S. artist

At the National Center for
Lesbian rights 29th Annual Gala: NCLR Honoree Sheryl Swoopes, NCLR
Executive Director Kate Kendell, and NCLR Honoree Jennifer Harris
GOVT/POLITICS
John M. Keynes / English economist
Eleanor Roosevelt / U.S. stateswoman
Harvey Milk / U.S. politician
Roberta Achtenburg / U.S. politician
Barney Frank / U.S. Congressman
Gerry Studds / U.S. Congressman
J. Edgar Hoover / U.S. director of the FBI
Dag Hammerskjold / Swedish UN Secretary
Patricia Todd / Alabama Legislator
RELIGION
Gene Robinson /
US Episcopal Bishop
Mel White / President & Founder of SoulForce
ACTIVISTS
Bayard Rustin / U.S. Civil Rights activist w MLK
Angela Davis / U.S. political activist
Candace Gingrich / Gay Rights activist
ATHLETES
Martina Navratilova / U.S. tennis star
Greg Louganis / U.S. Olympic swimmer
Billie Jean King / U.S. tennis star
Sheryl Swoopes / U.S. Basketball star
Esera Tuaolo / U.S. NFL
Football Player
John Amaechi /
U.S. NBA Basketball Player
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Lily Tomlin |
Portia De Rossi & Ellen DeGeneres |
Rock Hudson |
ACTORS /
ENTERTAINERS
James Dean / U.S. actor
Montgomery Clift / U.S. actor
Rock Hudson / U.S. actor
Ellen Degeneres / U.S. Television actor
Lily Tomlin / U.S. actor
B.D. Wong / U.S. Actor
Margaret Cho / U.S. comedian
Rosie O'Donnell / U.S. comedian, actor
Suzanne Westenhofer / U.S. comedian
Sandra Bernhardt / U.S. comedian, actress
Siegfried and Roy / U.S. entertainers
Dick Sargent / U.S. actor (2nd Darrin on Bewitched)
Robert Reed / U.S. actor (Mike Brady on Brady Bunch)
Portia de Rossi / U.S. Television actor
Rupert Everett / English actor
David Hyde Pierce / U.S. Television actor
Graham Chapman / English actor (Monty Python)
Richard Chamberlain / U.S. actor
Amy Ray / U.S. musician (Indigo Girls)
Cynthia Nixon / US actor (Sex And The City)
OTHER
Mary Cheney / Daughter of US Vice President, Dick Cheney
Chrissy Gephardt / Daughter of US Senator, Richard Gephardt
Chastity Bono / Daughter of Sonny & Cher
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