Famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people

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• Famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people
• past and present

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A C BensonAuthor Writer of Land of Hope and
Gloryson of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 2 of
his brothers were also gay
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• Radclyffe Hall
• British poet and author of eight novels,
  including the lesbian novel The Well of
  Loneliness

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Alan TuringBritish mathematician, computer
scientist and theorist WW II code breaker
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Alejandro AmenabarOscar winnerWidely considered
one of the most important Spanish directors
working today even though he has directed only
four films.
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K D LangMusicianSomething in me broods love
into fearIt veils my vision leaves my thoughts
unclearI've been outside myself for so
longEvery feeling I had is close to gone
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Alexander the GreatKing of Macedon (336323 BC),
was one of the most successful military
commanders in history.
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SapphoAncient Greek lyric poet The word
lesbian itself is derived from the name of the
island of Lesbos from which she came. (Her name
is also the origin of its much rarer synonym
sapphic.)
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Alfred KinseyScientistDuring this work, he
developed a scale measuring sexual orientation
now known as the Kinsey Scale which ranks from 0
to 6, where 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6
is exclusively homosexual.
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Andre GideNobel Laureate(Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1947 )It is better to be hated
for what you are than to be loved for what you
are not.
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Martina NavratilovaProfessional Tennis Player
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Andy WarholArtist
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Alex ParksFame Academy winner in 2003
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Mark Feehily Westlife
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Benjamin BritainComposerOne of Britain's
greatest composers and musicians
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Amelie MauresmoProfessional tennis player
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Brian DowlingBig Brother Winner
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• Daphne du Maurier
• Best known for her short story "The Birds" and
  her classic novel Rebecca. Both were adapted into
  films by Alfred Hitchcock. Passionate letters
  written between Gertrude Lawrence and Du Maurier
  were published in a 1993
• biography of Du Maurier and she reportedly had an
  infatuation for the wife of her American
  publisher, Ellen Doubleday

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• Bayard Rustin
• Civil rights and gay activist, best known as the
  organiser of the 1963 March on Washington for
  Jobs and Freedom. During the march, King
  delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

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Brian PaddickBritish Police Commander openly gay
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Colonel Dr.Margarethe CammermyerHighest ranking
out USA Military Officer In 1994 she published
her autobiography Serving in Silence, which was
made into a TV movie starring Glenn Close. The
movie won a Peabody and three Emmy awards.
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Christopher MarloweWriterWas this the face
that launchd a thousand ships,And burnt the
topless towers of Ilium? Faustus.
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Claire BaldingSports Presenter
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E M ForsterWriter of Howards End, A passage to
India, A room with a view I would rather be a
coward than brave because people hurt you when
you are brave
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Ellen DeGeneresComedianApril 1997 Ellen
DeGeneres (and her character on the show Ellen)
came out of the closet on national television. On
September 7, 2006, DeGeneres was chosen to host
the 79th Academy Awards ceremony, which took
place on February 25, 2007. This makes her the
first openly gay person to have hosted the event.
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Eoin O DuffyIrish Police Commissioner aide to
Michael Collins.
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Ferdinand 1 of BulgariaTsarFerdinand's
bisexuality was both well-known and exploited
throughout European diplomatic circles. His
regular holidays on Capri, then a famous haunt
for wealthy gay men, was common knowledge in
royal courts throughout Europe.
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Will Young Won UK Pop Idol contest 2002
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Sheryl SwoopesProfessional Basketball
PlayerNikes Air Swoopes named after her
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G H HardymathematicianKnown for his
achievements in number theory and mathematical
analysis.
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George Michael and Elton JohnMusicians
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Nancy Cookand Ethel Smythsuffragettes
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Gianni Versaceand Jean Paul Gaultier Designers
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Graham ChapmanEnglish comedian, actor, writer
and physician. He was one of the six Monty
Python members and lead actor in their two
narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty
Python and the Holy Grail and Brian in Life of
Brian.
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Greta GarboActressGreta Garbo and fellow
actress Mimi Pollak became involved in an affair
at Drama school. Circumstances did not allow the
two to continue the relationship, Garbo went on
to become involved with several other Hollywood
actresses, though keeping her sexuality a secret.
As recorded in her personal writings Garbo
remained in love with Pollak until her death in
1990.
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HadrianRoman EmperorInitiated building of
Hadrians Wall
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Ivor NovelloActorThe Ivor Novello Award is a
prize awarded for songwriting, named for Ivor
Novello, and awarded each year by the record
industry to song writers and arrangers rather
than the performing artistes.
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• Skin
• Former lead singer of rock group Skunk Anansie

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James 1 of England(James VI Scotland)Authorised
an official translation of the Bible, which came
to be known as the King James Bible (published in
1611). Responding to deflect the growing
criticism over his sexuality James adopted a
severe stance towards sodomy using English law.
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Jane AddamsFirst American female Nobel Peace
Prize Winner
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Jean Michael BasquaitArtistIn 1981, he
catapulted from being an unknown nineteen
year-old graffiti writer to becoming one of the
most successful, controversial, glamorous artists
in the world. By 1988, he was dead at the age of
27. In 1996 his story was made into a movie under
the title 'Basquiat', with Jeffrey Wright as
Basquiat and David Bowie as Andy Warhol.
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John BarrowmanActor / PerformerHis most
prominent television role has been the con man
Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and its spin-off
series Torchwood.
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Pat St. ClementsActorPat from Eastenders
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Leonard BernsteinComposer
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Leisha Hailey American actress, musician, and
producer.Most famous for playing Alice
Pieszecki, a bisexual journalist, on the The L
Word.
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Brian Kennedy Singer
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Lord Alfred DouglasWriter"the Love that dare
not speak its name
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• Josephine Baker
• American-born dancer, actress and singer.
• She became a citizen of France in 1937. She was
  so well known and popular that even the Nazis,
  who occupied France during World War II were
  hesitant to cause her harm. In turn, this allowed
  Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country
  by participating in the Underground. After the
  war, Baker was awarded the Croix de Guerre for
  her underground activity.

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Lord ByronPoet Those who will not reason, are
bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those
who dare not, are slaves.
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Marlene DietrichActressI am at heart a
gentleman.
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Noel CowardWriterIt is discouraging how many
people are shocked by honesty and how few by
deceit.
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Oscar WildeWriterMan is least himself when he
talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he
will tell you the truth. The aim of life is
self-development. To realise one's nature
perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to
live, it is asking others to live as one wishes
to live.
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Sue Perkins English television presenter,
actress, and writer.
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Prince Edmond de PolignacComposerMarried
Winnaretta Eugenie Singer, daughter of Isaac
Singer, the sewing machine tycoon, who was a
lesbian.
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Portia de Rossi ActressAustralian actress who
is best known for her role as lawyer Nelle Porter
on the television series Ally McBeal, and as
Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the television series
Arrested Development.
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Sir Derek JacobiActor
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Jake Shears Vocalist for the American music
group the Scissor Sisters.
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Sarah WatersWriter Tipping the Velvet,
Fingersmith
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Sir Ian McKellenActor
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Matt Lucas Actor, comedian, writer
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Virginia WoolfWriterDifferent though the sexes
are, they inter-mix. In every human being a
vacillation from one sex to the other takes
place, and often it is only the clothes that keep
the male or female likeness, while underneath the
sex is the very opposite of what it is
above.If one could be friendly with women,
what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and
private compared with relations with men. Why not
write about it truthfully?
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Stephen FryComedian If ignorance is bliss, why
aren't there more happy people in the world?
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Stephen TwiggMPHe was the first gay man to be
out at the time of their election to the House of
Commons when he was elected at the 1997 General
Election, in that regard it proved a close
contest for just 21 minutes later Ben Bradshaw,
also openly gay, was elected in Exeter.
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TrajanRoman Emperor
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• Vita (Victoria Mary) Sackville- West
• English poet and novelist
• Her most famous affair was with Virginia Woolf

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Leonardo Da VinciArtistAt age 24, da Vinci was
formally charged with sodomy.
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MichaelangeloFrom 1490 to 1492, Michelangelo
attended Lorenzo's school and was influenced by
many prominent people who modified and expanded
his ideas on art, following the dominant Platonic
view of that age, and even his feelings about
sexuality. He wrote the Veracci Sonnets - love
poems to a younger man.