List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in ancient and classical fiction and myth

A

Acantha - Greek myth (bisexual)
Ash - Egyptian mythology lover of Set

H

Heracles/Hercules - Greek/Roman myth (bisexual)
Hu - God of creation itself in Egyptian mythology (gay)

I

Iolaus - Greek myth (bisexual?)

M

Mesenet - Goddess of brick-childbirth in Egyptian mythology (lesbian)

N

Narcissus - Greek/Roman myth (bisexual)

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Saa - God of wisdom in Egyptian mythology (gay) dt:Sia
Shai - Goddess of fate in Egyptian mythology (lesbian)
Set - A significant god in Egyptian mythology (dt: Seth (Ägyptische Mythologie)

List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction within comics

A

Freddie Allen - Preacher; Sexual Investigator and small-time drug trafficker. Partnered with Bob Glover (see below) (gay)
Anima - Anima (bisexual)
Anole - Marvel Comics's New X-Men (gay)
Apollo - Wildstorm Comics's The Authority (gay and married to husband Midnighter)

B

Bambi - The Invisibles; member of the "Poison Pussies" cell. (lesbian)
Terry Berg - DC Comics' Green Lantern supporting character (gay)
Titus Bird - The Enigma; comic book author and creator of The Enigma (see below) who appears to leap into the "real" world. (gay)
Black Cat - Spider-Man ; former cat-burglar and ally of Spider-Man. (bisexual)
Bobby - The Invisibles; member of the "Poison Pussies" cell. (lesbian)
Ken Brassai - Circles (gay)
Alex Burgess - The Sandman; a magus and lover of Paul McGuire (see below). (gay)

C

Captain Metropolis - Watchmen, "Outed" by Silk Spectre in a magazine interview. (gay)
Margarita Luisa "Maggie" Chascarrillo - Locas, Has had a long relationship with the woman Hopey, as well as with several different men. (bisexual)
Cherry Poptart - (bisexual)
Clarice - Dykes To Watch Out For (lesbian)
Si Coltrane - Preacher; investigative reporter looking into the "Reaver-Cleaver" killings. (gay)
Colossus - The Ultimate X-Men version confirmed his sexuality when he agrees to go out with Northstar. (gay)
Brody Coyote - The Suburban Jungle (gay)
Cutter - Elfquest Confirmed Sexual relationship with Skywise (bisexual)

D

Rodney Davis - Carpe Diem (gay)
Jesus De Sade - Preacher; unmitigated hedonist. (omnisexual)
Desire - The Sandman; whoever sees Desire sees him/her as the perfect man or woman, depending on their sexual preference. (nongendered, bisexual)
Destiny - Marvel Comics's X-Men (bisexual, preferred females)
Taylor "Taye" Dooley - Circles (gay)
Doop - Marvel Comics's X-Staix has been recognized by self and others as male; has been involved with both female and male characters. (bisexual)
Ellen Dunkel - El Goonish Shive (bisexual)

E

Electro - Marvel Comics' supervillain, revealed that in jail he'd found a new side to himself (bisexual)
Element Lad - DC Comics' Legion of Superheroes (gay, original continuity - had a relationship with m2f transsexual Sean/Shvaughn Erin, saying "anything we've ever shared physically...was in spite of" the sex change, not because of it - details at http://www.gayleague.com/gay/characters/display.php?id=139)
Sean/Shvaughn Erin - DC Comics' Legion of Superheroes (original continuity - see Element Lad)
The Enigma - Enigma; Apparently a comic book character come to life. Lover of Michael Smith (see below). (gay)
Extraño - member of DC Comics' The New Guardians; an effeminate man from Peru, he made references to himself as gay several times, and even referenced a former lover who had died from AIDS. (gay)

F

Fenris - Andreas Strucker, Marvel Comics super villain (bisexual)
Fire - Super-heroine who may have had a lesbian relationship with Icemaiden (possibly bisexual?)
Flatman - Superhero member of Great Lakes Avengers (gay)
Foxglove AKA Donna Cavanagh - The Sandman and the Death comics; writer turned poet turned pop star. Lover of Hazel McNamara and Judy (see below for both). she has a non-biological daughter with Hazel. (lesbian)

G

Trent Gaudaen - Carpe Diem (gay)
Esperanza Leticia "Hopey" Glass - Locas, Has had a long relationship with the woman Maggie, as well as with men. (bisexual?)
Bob Glover - Preacher; Sexual Investigator and small-time drug trafficker. Partnered with Freddie Allen (see above) (gay)
Kate Godwin AKA Coagula - Superheroine from Doom Patrol is both a transsexual and bisexual.
Go Go Fiasco - DC Comics' Vertigo title Codename: Knockout (gay)
Amy Grinderbinder - Preacher; in lust with Jesse Custer, possibly sexually interested in Tulip O'Hare, her best friend. (bisexual?)

H

Freddie "Tom O' Bedlam" Harper-Seaton - The Invisibles; homeless tramp and one of the greatest magicians in the history of the human species (possibly gay or bisexual)
Hooded Justice - Watchmen; super-hero. (gay)
Tefé Holland - Swamp Thing; daughter of Swamp Thing, John Constantine and Abigail Arcane Cable Holland (Swampy possessed John to use his body for the conception). Formerly a flesh elemental, now just a human girl. (bisexual)
Michael Bernard "Mikey" Hopkins - The Class Menagerie, The Suburban Jungle (gay)
Hulkling - Marvel Comics' Young Avengers - Confirmed as being in a relationship with fellow Young Avenger, Wiccan. (gay)

I

Icemaiden - Occasional member of the Justice League (bisexual; dislikes labels)
Invisible Kid of the Legion of Super-Heroes - in Threeboot continuity had a relationship with Condo Arlick (gay)

J

Jolly Roger - The Invisibles; leader of the "Poison Pusssies" cell. Real name unknown. (lesbian)
Marlo Chandler Jones - Incredible Hulk, Captain Marvel (bisexual)
Judy - The Sandman; former lover of Foxglove (see above) - they split up because Judy hit her. She was killed in a diner, and Foxglove later wrote a song about her. (lesbian)

K

Jennifer Kale - Marvel Comics witch (bisexual)
Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh) Marvel Comics' X-Men (lesbian)
Karolina Dean - Marvel Comics's Runaways (lesbian)
Alistair Katt - Newshounds (gay)
Nanase Kitsune - El Goonish Shive (lesbian)
Knockout - Superboy and Villains United (lesbian)
Arthur Korsky - Circles (gay)
Jackie "Jack Phantom" Kowalski - Top Ten; police detective, has the power to phase in and out of reality (lesbian)

L

Lightning Lass - DC Comics' Legion of Superheroes (original continuity - bisexual)
Lord Fanny - The Invisibles; glamorous shaman and occult terrorist (m-f transvestite)
Living Lightning - superhero and former member of the Avengers (gay)
Lois McGiver - Dykes To Watch Out For (lesbian)
Patrick Kevin Louis - Carpe Diem (bisexual)

M

Lady Edith Manning - The Invisibles; 1920s flapper with an interest in the occult. Fights on the side of chaos. Lover of Beryl Wyndham (see below). (bisexual)
Stanley Wayne Manor - Hellblazer; billionaire infatuated with John Constantine. Insane. (gay)
Marj - Hellblazer; former lover of John Constantine and Zed (see below). (bisexual)
Paulie Mayhew - Circles (gay)
Mazikeen - Lucifer and The Sandman; demon. In love with Lucifer. (bisexual)
Paul McGuire - The Sandman; lover and personal assistant to Alex Burgess (see above). (gay)
Hazel McNamara - The Sandman and the Death comics; chef and mother. Lover of Foxglove (see above). (lesbian)
Burt McPhearson - Carpe Diem (gay)
Midnighter - Wildstorm Comics The Authority (gay and married to husband Apollo)
Martin "Marty" Miller - Circles (gay)
Mo - Dykes To Watch Out For (lesbian)
Toy Molto - The Ballad of Halo Jones; secretly in love with Halo, although Halo has no idea (lesbian)
Ray Monde - Hellblazer; Antiques and curiosities dealer with an interest in the supernatural. In mourning for his lover, who died during a war. (gay)
Renee Montoya - Gotham Central and other Batman comic books (lesbian). First DC Comics character to actually say she is a lesbian.
Moondragon- Marvel Comics' (bisexual)
Mystique - Marvel Comics' X-Men (bisexual)

N

Sigrid Nansen (Icemaiden I) - DC Comics' Justice League (probably bisexual, says she dislikes labels)
Nick - Carpe Diem (bisexual)
Nigel - Newshounds (gay)
Northstar (Jean-Paul Baubier) - Marvel Comics' X-Men (gay, first outted gay in Marvel Comics, the first in mainstream comics)

O

Obsidian (Todd Rice) - DC Comics' Infinity Inc. (bisexual)
Omaha - Omaha the Cat Dancer have had sexual relations with women (bisexual?)

P

Ken Pierce - Carpe Diem (gay)
Douglas "Doug" Pope - Circles (gay)
Lawrence Poirier - For Better or For Worse (gay)

R

Sarah Rainmaker - Wildstorm's Gen 13 (lesbian)
Randolph - Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms (gay)
Hartley Rathaway a.k.a. The Pied Piper - DC Comics' The Flash (gay)
Rawhide Kid - Marvel Comics' first gay comic-book cowboy, at least in Marvel's Max adult-line title of the same name. (gay)
Riot - Marvel Comics's Skrull Kill Krew (strongly implied lesbian)
Wally Roo - The Suburban Jungle (gay)
Ruckus - Member of the Nasty Boys (gay?)

S

Scandal Savage - Villains United (lesbian)
Shinobi Shaw - Decadent son of Marvel Comics' Sebastian Shaw (bisexual)
Shrinking Violet - DC Comics' Legion of Superheroes (original continuity - bisexual)
Inspector Maggie Sawyer - DC Comics' Superman, Batman and Gotham Central (lesbian)
Izzy Sinclair - Doctor Who Magazine comic strip (lesbian)
Skywise - Elfquest Confirmed Sexual relationship with Cutter (bisexual)
Michael Smith - The Enigma; lover of The Enigma (see above), who used his powers to make him gay. But that's alright - Michael's happier that way. (gay)
Sparrow - Dykes To Watch Out For (bisexual?)
Sunfire - Marvel Comics' Exiles (lesbian)
Swift - Wildstorm Comics - former member of Stormwatch and current member of The Authority (bisexual)
Sydney Krukowski - Dykes To Watch Out For (lesbian)

T

Tasmanian Devil - DC Comics' Justice League International (gay)
Thea - Dykes To Watch Out For (lesbian)
Michael "Mouse" Tolliver - Tales of the City (gay)
Justin Tolkiberry - El Goonish Shive (gay)
Toni Ortiz - Dykes To Watch Out For (lesbian)
Steven "Jetlad/Jetman" Traynor - Top Ten; police captain and brilliant pilot; in a lifelong relationship with Wulf (see below) (gay)
Elizabeth "Liz" Tremayne - Swamp Thing (bisexual)

U

Utahraptor - Dinosaur Comics (gay)

W

Detective Paulie Walters - Preacher; supercop. Investigating the "Reaver-Cleaver" killings. (gay)
Beatrice Wechsler - Lucifer; waitress at Lucifer's piano bar. Primarily heterosexual but is in love with Mazikeen (see above). (bisexual)
Wiccan - Marvel Comics' Young Avengers - Confirmed as being in a relationship with fellow Young Avenger, Hulkling. (gay)
Drezzer Wolf - The Suburban Jungle (gay)
Wulf - Top Ten; expert pilot and former member of the Skysharks squadron. In a lifelong relationship with Steve Traynor (see above) (gay)
Beryl Wyndham - The Invisibles; occultist from the 1920s, lover of Edith Manning (see above). (bisexual)

Z

'Zed', AKA Mary - Hellblazer; former girlfriend of John Constantine and Marj (see above for both). She was raised to become a vessel for a new Christ-child, but rebelled and ended up running a pagan travelling group instead. (bisexual)

List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in film, radio, and TV fiction

A

Big Gay Al - from the animated television series South Park (gay)
The Ambiguously Gay Duo - Saturday Night Live - animated superhero duo (ambiguously gay)
Athena -- Xena: Warrior Princess (lesbian?) Athena, the Greek Goddess of Wisdom and Warfare, was shown in a very close and affectionate relationship with her favorite warrior, Ilainis; the dialogue implied that they were lovers.

B

Nancy Bartlett - Roseanne (lesbian, bisexual?)
Billy and Chuck – World Wrestling Entertainment tag team (ambiguously gay) – Tag team that made headlines in 2002 following an angle where Chuck asked Billy to be his "partner for life," and resulted in a well-publicized "marriage ceremony" on WWE SmackDown!.
Harvey Birdman - Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (bisexual) - Has an intimate experience with Booboo Bear and marries his bunkmate Magilla Gorilla while in prison.
Larry Blaisdell - closeted high school jock and bully from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (gay)
Stanford Blatch - Sex and the City (gay)
Patty Bouvier - The Simpsons - one of Marge Simpson's sisters and twin of Selma Bouvier (lesbian)
Drew Boyd - pro football player and lover of Queer as Folk's Emmett (gay)
Brunhilda, Xena: Warrior Princess (lesbian??) Brunhilda was a Valkyrie who appeared in the Season 6 Xena episodes "The Rheingold" and "The Ring." Initially a stern warrior who scorned all love, Brunhilda fell in love with Xena's friend Gabrielle.

C

Leon Carp - Roseanne (gay)
Steven Carrington - 1980s TV drama Dynasty (gay)
Stimpson J. Cat, better known as "Stimpy" - Ren and Stimpy (gay) It has been confirmed by creator John Kricfalusi that Ren and Stimpy are gay lovers.
Carl Carlson - The Simpsons (gay?) There is question whether or not Carl is gay. In some episodes he shares an obvious attraction to Lenny Leonard, however in others he mentions having been married.
Keith Charles - Six Feet Under (gay) Los Angeles police officer who is the lover (and later husband) of David Fisher.
Seymour "Big" Cheese (Kōn no Kami) - Samurai Pizza Cats (gay) - Occasionally flirts with male subordinates, but never with women.
Princess Clara - Drawn Together, oppressed by her father (bisexual)
Buddy Cole - The Kids in the Hall, effeminate and flamboyant character who talks openly about his sexual activities (gay)
Daniel Colson - One Life to Live, played by Mark Dobies from 2003 to 2005, closeted district attorney who killed several people to conceal his relationship with another man (bisexual)
Marissa Cooper - The O.C. played by Mischa Barton (bisexual)
Cousin Liz – All in the Family (lesbian) – unseen character and Edith Bunker's cousin on the 1977 episode "Cousin Liz".
Mitch Crumb - Crumbs (gay)
Liz Cruz - Nip/Tuck (lesbian)

D

Jodie Dallas - openly gay primetime TV character from the 1977 TV series Soap - portrayed by Billy Crystal. (gay)
Beauchamp Day - Tales of the City seducer, corrupter & opportunist, portrayed by Thomas Gibson in the mini-series (bisexual)
Michael Delaney - All My Children, played by Chris Bruno from 1995 to 1997 (gay)
Billy Douglas - One Life to Live, gay teen played by Ryan Phillippe from 1992 to 1993 (gay)

E

Banky Edwards - Jason Lee's Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back comic book artist (gay) - Was confirmed as gay at the end of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Jura Basil Elden - Vandread (lesbian) - Barnette Orangello's lover.
Hank Eliot - As the World Turns (gay) - Openly gay character played by Brian Starcher from 1988 to 1989.

F

Dana Fairbanks - The L Word (lesbian)
Gavin Featherly - The Brittas Empire (gay) - in a relationship with coworker Tim Whistler
Marina Ferrer - The L Word (lesbian)
David Fisher - Six Feet Under (gay) Funeral director who is in a relationship with Los Angeles police officer Keith Charles. The two later marry in the series finale.
Fish Eye - Fish Eye appears in the fourth Sailor Moon series (SuperS), and is an extremely effeminate, young (physically) man who is assigned to work with Tiger Eye and Hawk Eye under the auspices of Zirconia, the main operative of the Dead Moon Circus (gay)
Flowerdew - The Goon Show (bisexual?)
Fred – A waiter in first-season episodes of Archie Bunker's Place (gay).
Shizuru Fujino - Mai-HiME. Student body president of Fuuka Academy. (Lesbian)

G

William "Butch" Gamble - Main character in the television series Normal, Ohio (gay). The plot of the series centers around the sexual orientation of the main character.
Ian Gallagher- Teenager in the Gallagher family in the television series Shameless (gay).
Monica Gallagher- Ex-wife of Frank Gallagher in the television series Shameless (lesbian).
Pussy Galore Bond girl in James Bond novel and film Goldfinger (Lesbian then bisexual)
Herbert Garrison - Elementary school teacher from the cartoon series South Park. Has a sex change operation in a later episode (gay, transgendered)
Bart Garsus - Vandread (bisexual)
Meia Gisborn - Vandread (lesbian) - In one of Meia's flashbacks, she is shown in bed with another woman.
Goldust – Professional wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment, whose gimmick is that of an ambiguously gay movie star.
Grace - Marc Maron and the Temple of Doom - Marc Maron's lesbian aide who helps him try to find the earthly identity of the anti-christ. She takes great offensive when Fred Phelps insults Ellen DeGeneres.
Grady – The Simpsons (gay) – guest character on the 2003 episode "Three Gays of the Condo."
Stewie Griffin - Family Guy (possibly gay, although only aged 1. However, has shown interest in females on numerous occasions. Has said "...then I thought wouldn't it be great if I turned out to be a homosexual"). He often refers to his toy teddy bear "Rupert" as being gay.(gay?)
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne - The Goon Show BBC radio series (gay) - This was not confirmed until the release of The Goon Show Companion in 1972, where it was mentioned in a biographical note.

H

Jack Harkness - a companion of the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who (bisexual)
Carter Heywood - Spin City - the Government's head of minority affairs is a gay black man.
Bev Harris - Roseanne (lesbian, bisexual?)
Kimber Henry - Nip/Tuck (bisexual)
Herbert - Family Guy (gay)
Captain Hero - Drawn Together, seemingly regretted an incident in some public toilets (bisexual?)
Anthy Himemiya - character in the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena (bisexual).
Louis Hines - Murder One (gay).
Ren Höek - Ren and Stimpy (bisexual) It has been confirmed by creator John Kricfalusi that Ren and Stimpy are gay lovers.
Hollywood - Mannequin movie series (gay)
Emmett Honeycutt - Queer as Folk (gay)
Scott Hope - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (gay) - Buffy's boyfriend early season 3 is outed by a vampire in season 7.
Mr. Humphries - flamboyant sales clerk from the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? and the sequel series, portrayed by John Inman (bisexual)

I

Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 - (bisexual?) She said she loved Talia Winters.

J

Jace -- Xena: Warrior Princess (gay?) The brother of Joxer who appears in one episode; he is a flamboyant singer who is initially shunned by Joxer because he is "different."
Jakotsu - A character from the anime InuYasha likes InuYasha, Miroku, and most males from raided towns
Jasper - Family Guy (gay)
Jez- landlady of the local pub The Jockey in the TV series Shameless (lesbian)
John – The Simpsons (gay) – guest character in the 1997 episode "Homer's Phobia."
Allysa Jones - Chasing Amy (Lesbian)
Lucas Jones - General Hospital played by Ben Hogestyn since 2005. (gay)
Samantha Jones - Sex and the City (bisexual) played by Kim Cattrall
Justin - Desperate Housewives (gay) Roommate of landscaper John Rowland who attempts to blackmail Gabrielle Solis into sleeping with him. When Gabrielle asks him why, he tells her that he might be gay. It is later revealed that Justin is in a secret relationship with Andrew Van De Kamp. Played by Ryan Carnes.

K

Kaorin - Azumanga Daioh (lesbian)
Michiru Kaioh, also known as Sailor Neptune, from Sailor Moon. (lesbian)
Kash Karib- clerk of the local shop and one-time boyfriend of Ian Gallagher in Shameless. (gay)
Tina Kennard - The L Word (lesbian)
Kennedy - Iyari Limon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Potential Slayer", lover of Willow (see below), (lesbian)
Brian Kinney - Queer as Folk One of the main characters of the series (gay)
Kunzite - lover of Zoisite from Sailor Moon (gay)

L

Malcolm Laffley - the gay vice president of casting for LGT in Beggars and Choosers, played by Tuc Watkins.
Lamar, A character from Revenge of the Nerds and the sequel, played by Larry B. Scott (gay)
Jim Lahey, A character from Trailer Park Boys (gay)
Lenny Leonard - The Simpsons (gay?) - In some episodes, Lenny has been known to express his liking for Carl, carving his face into a mountain and imagining a constilation forming his head. However, In early episodes, Lenny says he has a wife.
Loc Dog - Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (bisexual?)
Foxxy Love - Drawn Together (bisexual) - forcibly French-kisses Clara in the first episode; her promiscuity is one of the series's most enduring running gags.
Sebastian Love - Little Britain (gay)
Fred Luo - Outlaw Star (gay) - has a long-running crush on Gene and a mild liking to Jim, and is unphased by females; this is never actually mentioned, but is obviously implied.

M

Tara Maclay - Amber Benson's Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Scoobie" and witch, lover of Willow (see below), (lesbian)
Melanie Marcus - Queer as Folk One of the main characters of the series, partner of Lindsay Peterson (lesbian)
Mark- As If (bisexual)
Jo Masters - The Bill (UK) Lesbian CID officer, doesnt conform to stereotypes
Donald Maulpey - from the Showtime series Brothers (gay)
Shane McCutcheon - The L Word (lesbian)
Jack McFarland - Will & Grace (gay)
Matt McNamara - Nip/Tuck Though the situation is complicated, Matt doesn't seem to have a problem with sleeping with/having relationships with post-op male-to-female transgendered people. (bisexual?)
Jack McPhee - Kerr Smith's Dawson's Creek regular, (gay)
Bianca Montgomery - All My Children (lesbian) Played by actress Eden Riegel. Shared the first same-sex kiss on daytime television with close friend and confidante Mary Margaret "Maggie" Stone (Elizabeth Hendrickson) both left the cast in 2005.
Ellen Morgan - principal character of the TV sitcom Ellen (lesbian)
Myfanwy- Little Britain (lesbian)

N

Kaworu Nagisa from Neon Genesis Evangelion hinted at relationship with Shinji (gay?)
Nigel - the Adrian Mole series (gay)
Norma- girlfriend of Monica Gallagher in Shameless (lesbian)
Michael Novotny - Queer as Folk One of the main characters (gay)

O

Barnette Orangello - Vandread (lesbian) - Jura Basil Elden's lover.
Omar - The Wire (Gay) - stick-up artist .

P

Dan Parker- As If (gay)
Perry - Home Movies (gay)
Lindsay Peterson - Queer as Folk One of the main characters of the series, partner to Melanie Marcus (lesbian)
Philip - "South Park"; makes a comment in the special "Not Without My Anus" which heavily implies that he is gay. (gay)
Alice Pieszecki - The L Word (bisexual)
Bette Porter - The L Word (lesbian)

Q

Queer Duck - Main character of cartoon of the same name (gay)

R

Sarah Rainmaker - Wildstorm's Gen 13 (lesbian)
Randy - A character from Trailer Park Boys (bisexual)
Gascogne Rheingau - Vandread (probably lesbian)
Richard Richard - Bottom. Shows homosexual tendencies in the Bottom Live shows. Presumably due to the fact that he has had no luck with women and now doesn't care who he loses his virginity to. (Bisexual?)
Arnold (Ace) Rimmer - Super-hero alter-ego of Chris Barrie's character in Red Dwarf (gay?)
Allen Rissbrook- As If- (gay)
Willow Rosenberg - Alyson Hannigan's Buffy the Vampire Slayer witch, lover of Tara and Kennedy (see above) (despite previous heterosexual relationships, lesbian)

S

Saddam Hussein - A deceased hellbound character from South Park (gay)
Seishirou Sakurazuka - from X 1999 - Subaru's "special person" who killed his sister (gay)
Jessie Sammler - A character from the ABC series Once and Again
Joel Sansom - character in 1995 film adaptation of Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, played by David Speck (gay)
Satan - A character from South Park (gay)
Jenny Schecter - The L Word (bisexual)
Theodore "Ted" Schmidt - Queer as Folk One of the main characters of the series (gay)
Scott - Roseanne (gay)
Phil Ken Sebben - Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (bi-curious)
Inara Serra - A regular character from the FOX series Firefly. She is a "Companion", which is the 26th century equivalent of a courtesan. (bisexual)
Lenny Shapiro - Shade, The Changing Man; rich-girl and sometime armed robber. Lover of Rac Shade and Kathy George (see above). (bisexual)
Kevin Sheffield - gay teen on All My Children, played by Ben Jorgensen from 1996 to 1998. (gay)
Shuichi Shindou - Nineteen year old pop star and protagonist of the anime Gravitation (gay)
Simon - Family Guy (gay)
Randolph Skully - character in 1995 film adaptation of Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, played by Lothaire Bluteau (gay)
Mr. Slave - A leather clad S&M afficianado from South Park (gay)
Stuart Smalley - Al Franken's Saturday Night Live, book, and movie character. (gay)
Waylon Smithers from The Simpsons - (gay) Has never mentioned being gay directly, but shows great interest in his employer, Mr. Burns.
Mark Solomon - One Life to Live recurring character played by Matt Cavanaugh from 2004 to 2005, revealed to be secret lover of Daniel Colson (gay)
Asst. District Attorney Serena Southerlyn - Law and Order, played by Elisabeth Rohm; homosexuality revealed on last episode as a regular (lesbian)
Sparky - Stan Marsh's dog from South Park (gay)
Vito Spatafore - An obese closeted mobster from The Sopranos portrayed by Joseph Gannascali
Alex Staton- As If (gay)
Stevo - Narrator and protagonist of SLC Punk, played by Matthew Lillard; at a point later on in the movie after the death of his best friend he states that he didn't know if he was gay, bi, or straight. Before this he states that the character Brandy was going to be his wife. (bisexual?)
Subaru Sumeragi - His sister, Hokuto, was killed by his love interest, Sakurasuka Seishirou, eight years before the start of X 1999 (gay)

T

Yosh Tanaka - ER (gay)
Justin Taylor - Queer as Folk One of the main characters of the series (gay)
Ryan Taylor - character of Tinsel Town (BBC), played by David Paisley, 17yo Ryan, falls in love with a police officer.
Utena Tenjou - character in the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena (bisexual). Many other characters in the series are gay, lesbian, or bisexual also.
Haruka Tenoh, also known as Sailor Uranus, from Sailor Moon. (lesbian)
Daffyd Thomas - Little Britain (gay)
Izaak Titsingh - Samurai Champloo (gay)
Michael "Mouse" Tolliver - Tales of the City (gay)
Will Truman - Will & Grace (gay)
Anna Taggaro - One Tree Hill (bisexual)

U

Eiri "Yuki" Uesugi - Gravitation

V

Andrew Van De Kamp - Desperate Housewives (bisexual) The son of character Bree Van De Kamp (Marcia Cross) who came out as gay in order to get out of deprogramming camp. He currently is in a secret relationship with Justin, a neighborhood gardener. Andrew then told his pastor that he was bisexual and not ashamed.
Veronica – All in the Family (lesbian) – partner of Edith Bunker's cousin, Liz, on the 1977 episode "Cousin Liz."
Ezra Vieil - Vandread (lesbian)

W

Karen Walker - Will & Grace (bisexual tendencies)
Eric Walsh - One Life to Live recurring character played by Bill Dawes since 2004 (gay)
Walter - Home Movies (gay)
Cliff Waters - from the Showtime series Brothers (gay)
Dr. Kerry Weaver - ER (lesbian, bisexual?)
Jonathan Weed - Family Guy (gay)
Andrew Wells - closeted ubergeek from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer(bisexual)
Tim Whistler - The Brittas Empire (gay) - in a relationship with coworker Gavin Featherly
Dr. Peter White - The Venture Bros. (bisexual) - Is "totally gay" according to another character's words, but Dr. White also seems to be interested in Triana.
Daley Wong - Bubblegum Crisis (gay) - Openly gay and often flirts with his heterosexual partner, Leon.

X

Xandir - Drawn Together (gay)
Xena (Xena Warrior Princess) (bisexual?) Xena had an extremely close friendship with her sidekick Gabrielle, and the show sometimes hinted at a possible sexual and romantic relationship between the two, particularly late in the series when they were described as "soulmates." However, Xena was also shown as being attracted to men, including Mark Antony and Ares, God of War. Xena's sexuality and her relationship with Gabrielle were deliberately left open to interpretation right up to the end of the show.

Z

'Zed' - rapist in Pulp Fiction (gay?)
Zoisite - lover of Kunzite from Sailor Moon (gay)

List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in video games

B

Billy - Wild ARMs: 2nd Ignition (gay) - Brad Evans's old military boyfriend.
Birdo - Descriptions of Birdo in the Super Mario Bros. 2 instruction manual read: "He thinks he is a girl" and "He'd rather be called 'Birdetta.'" Birdo has since been portrayed as a girl with romantic interest in Yoshi. (gay, transexual)
Lawrence Blood (gay) - A fighting game character that first appeared in Fatal Fury 2.

C

Charles - Radiata Stories (possibly gay) - Effeminate castle guard. He has the charm ability.

E

Eagle, a character from Street Fighter and Capcom vs. SNK 2 (gay)
Ebisumaru, a character from the Mystical Ninja series (possibly gay)
Brad Evans - Wild ARMs 2 (gay) - In love with Billy since their military years.

F

Fox- Bloody Roar - (gay)

H

Hammer the Supplier - Xenogears - Most likely gay from his heavily gaydar-tripping personality. (gay?)
Hana- Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix - (lesbian)

J

Jeanette- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - (bisexual)

R

Ivan Raikov - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (gay)

V

Vamp - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (bisexual)
Venom - Guilty Gear (gay)
Vivian - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (gay, transvestite) (Note that this theme was only present in the Japanese version of the game)

Z

Zangief - Street Fighter - Capcom officially "outed" Zangief as a homosexual. (gay)

List of bisexual people

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Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
Krista Allen+ American actress
Brett Anderson, of British rock band Suede
David Bacon+ American actor
Marina Baker+, British model, author, politician
Jillian Barberie+ (born 1966), TV hostess, actress
Angie Bowie (born 1950), Model, actress, author - ex-wife of art-rock legend David Bowie.
Susie Bright (born 1958), sex columnist
Golden Brooks (born 1970), actress
Jim Carroll (born 1950), Poet/Author of The Basketball Diaries
Claudette Colbert+ (1903 – 1996), French-American actress
Richard Cromwell, American actor, first husband of Angela Lansbury, star of 1930s classic films: Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel, and Young Mr. Lincoln.
Rebecca Cummings+ (born 1970), American porn star
Adrianne Curry (born 1982)
Wendy Curry, American bisexual activist
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish painter
Dave Davies (born 1947), British rock musician (see http://www.davedavies.com/articles/mojo_0596.htm)
Elsie de Wolfe+ (1865–1950), American socialite and interior decorator
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961), American poet
Diane Duane, author
James Euringer+, (aka--Little Jimmy Urine), American lead singer of Mindless Self Indulgence and The Left Rights
Brenda Fassie (1964-2004), South African pop singer
Frances Faye, nightclub singer
Luigi Ferrer, American bisexual activist
Greta Garbo, actress of "Queen Christina"
Janet Gaynor, American actress
Paul Goodman, anarchist author
Devin Grayson, comic book writer
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre
Max Hardcore, American porn star
Nina Hartley, one of the few pornstars who identifies as bi, outside of her career.
Sophie B. Hawkins, musician
Nona Hendryx, singer with LaBelle
Paris Hilton+, celebrity heiress
Billie Holiday, legendary jazz singer
Dave Holland, former drummer of Judas Priest
Judy Holliday, American actress
John Holmes (1944–1988), American porn actor
Brenda Howard (1946–2005), American bisexual activist
Magdalen Hsu-Li, Singer-songwriter
Michael Huffington (born 1947), California Republican politician
Howard Hughes+, American aviator and film producer
Simon Hughes+, British Liberal Democrat politician
Loraine Hutchins, American bisexual activist & writer
Janis Ian, folk singer
Patricia Ireland (born 1945), American feminist, former president of NOW
Janis Joplin, Bisexual blues-rock singer
June Jordan, author of "Technical Difficulties" and a Berkeley professor
Lani Ka'ahumanu, American bisexual activist & writer
Miranda July
Debra Kolodny, bisexual activist
Nancy Kulp, Miss Hathaway on the Beverly Hillbillies
Jesse Liberty (born 1955), Author, programmer
Kristanna Loken (born 1979), actress, model
Rebecca Loos former personal assistant to David Beckham
Josie Maran (born 1978), US model
Carson McCullers, Southern author
Margaret Mead+, American anthropologist and writer
Herman Melville (1819–1891), American writer
George Melly, Jazz musician. (Noted to have had only heterosexual relationships later in life)
Dannii Minogue+, Australian singer
Sharon Mitchell+, American pornstar
Bif Naked, Canadian rock musician
Dave Navarro+, American rock musician
Me'Shell NdegeOcello, funk musician and bassist
Holly Near, singer-songwriter and political activist
Anais Nin (1903–1977), French author
Gary North, American bisexual activist & journalist
Conor Oberst+ (born 1980), singer-songwriter, Bright Eyes and Desaparecidos
Pink+ (born 1979), American pop singer and musician
Queen Pen+, rapper
Michael Portillo (born 1953), British politician, Conservative member of parliament
Tyrone Power (1913–1958, actor - this has been confirmed through several writings, including a best-selling novel entitled The Secret Life Of Tyrone Power written by .
Dack Rambo, American actor
Anthony Rapp, American actor
James Julian Rios or Julian Andretti, male porn star, mostly straight, but has performed some solo films and one bi film under the name "Jordan Rivers."
Margaret Rood, American bisexual activist
Sapphire, Penname of African-American poet and author
Reece Shearsmith, British comedian and actor, best known as part of troupe The League Of Gentlemen
Rachel Sterling (born 1979), American model and actress
Jacqueline Susann (1918-08-20–1974-09-21), American actress, playwriter and writer
Sharon Stone
Corin Tucker+, lead singer and guitarist for the band Sleater-Kinney
Alice Walker+, author of "The Color Purple"
Rebecca Walker, author and activist
David Walliams, British comedian in Little Britain
Jane Wiedlin+, guitarist for the Go-Go's
Eglantina Zingg, Latin American MTV VJ
König Ferdinand I. (Bulgarien) (1861-1948), German aristocrat
Alexander der Grosse+, Macedonian Emperor

Disputed

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Leonardo da Vinci, famous artist who was trialled for having taken part in several gay relationships, many of his portraits explore androgyny, homosexuality and the male form.
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), rumours of his bisexuality started after an interview in a gay magazine in which he stated: "I could be bisexual... If I wouldn't have found Courtney (Love), I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle."
König David, King of ancient Israel, bisexual, lover of Jonathan, see 2 Samuel 1:26
Hugh Hefner, publicly acknowledged to having gay relationships during the 1970s
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003): according to biographer Anne Edwards
Jonathan, prince of ancient Israel, bisexual, lover of King David
Brian Jones, original lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones - according to interview with Dave Davies in UNCUT magazine
Alfred Kinsey (according to biographer James Jones)
Abraham Lincoln (see The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln)
John Lennon (according to separate biographies by Geoffrey Giuliano and Albert Goldman), implied in interview in Rolling Stone magazine
Michelangelo, famous Italian sculptor, artist, architect and poet - many of his writings were clearly homoerotic in nature.
Jim Morrison, American rock singer, according to biographer Stephen Davis
Friedrich Nietzsche (according to biographer Joachim Kohler's "Zarathustra's Secret")
Peter North, a porn star rumored to be bisexual because he has performed in numerous gay porn movies at the beginning of his career. Also many of his former girlfriends have made the accusations that he is bisexual also.
River Phoenix, according to biographer Brian J. Robb.
Nicholas Ray
Lou Reed - "came out" as bisexual in 1970s, renounced his bisexuality in the early 1980s (according to biographer Victor Bockris)
Cesar Romero (1907–1994), actor, most famous for playing role of The Joker in television's Batman of the sixties. He once called fellow actor Tyrone Power "his greatest love."
Simon Rex - actor, former MTV personality, publicly only dates women, but has appeared in gay-themed pornography. Brad Posey, the director of the gay-themed films that Rex appeared in, claims that he performed oral sex on Rex.
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (born 1977), says he is open to the possibility.
Kelly Ripa - American actress/talkshow host, makes frequent sexual suggestions about females on her talkshow.
Sappho (married a man, and gave birth, but wrote love poems to women)
Randolph Scott - actor primarily in Westerns of the 1930s-60s, according to Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon 2
William Shakespeare wrote love poems that some believe were to both men and women.
Anna Nicole Smith, model, has been rumored to have had affairs with women. This has been verified by Margaret Cho during one of her stand-up shows where she described putting Smith against the wall and kissing her for an extended period.
Malcolm X, African-American political activist, see [48]

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A

Louise Abbéma, French painter. ^[1]
Roberta Achtenberg, American politician. ^[2]
Jean Acker, American actress. ^[3]
Sir Harold Acton, British art writer, aesthete.^[4]
Alvin Ailey+, American dancer and choreographer. ^[5]
Francesco Algarotti, Italian academic. ^[6]
Ted Allen, American food and wine guru on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. ^[7]
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli+, British TV industry executive and life member of the House of Lords
Scott Amedure+, American victim in the "Jenny Jones Murder".

Enza Anderson, Canadian drag queen and political gadfly. {{fact}}

Kenneth Anger, American filmmaker.^[8]
Steve Antin, American actor. {{fact}}
Gloria E. Anzaldúa+, American writer
Marshall Applewhite+, American cult leader.
Aleksey Apukhtin+, Russian poet. ^[9]
Neil Armfield, Australian theatre director. {{fact}}
Othniel Askew+, American assassin
Kevyn Aucoin+, American celebrity makeup artist
Kevin Aviance, American dance music singer. ^[10]

B

David Bacon+, American film actor.
Francis Bacon+, British painter
Paul Bailey, British author. ^[11]
Claire Balding+, BBC sports presenter and journalist
James Baldwin+, American author
Tammy Baldwin+, member of the United States House of Representatives (D - Wisconsin)
Alan Ball+, American writer (American Beauty, Six Feet Under)
Brent Bambury, Canadian journalist for CBC. {{fact}}
Jillian Barberie+, American tv hostess, actress, bisexual
Alexander Bard, Swedish musician, bisexual (Army of Lovers, Vacuum). ^[12]
Fred Barnes+, British music hall singer.
Tim Barnett+, New Zealand member of parliament.
Natalie Clifford Barney+, American poet.
Michael Barrymore+, British comedian
Paul Bartel, American filmaker. ^[13]
Jurgen Bartsch+, German serial killer. ^[14]
Katharine Lee Bates, American writer of America the Beautiful ^[15]
Terry Baum, American playwright and congressional candidate
Billy Bean+, American former major league baseball player
Andy Bell, British singer ^[16]
Linda Bellos+, British black and LGBT activist and politician
A C Benson, British writer of the words 'Land of Hope and Glory'; 2 of his brothers (sons of the Archbishop of Canterbury) were also gay ^[17]
Gladys Bentley, American blues singer ^[18]
Nate Berkus, American interior designer and regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show ^[19]
Christopher Bernau+, American stage actor known for his Shakespearean roles, as well as roles on soap operas (Alan Spaulding on The Guiding Light)
James Bidgood, American photographer and filmmaker (Pink Narcissus)
Jón Þor Birgisson+, Lead singer of Icelandic band Sigur Rós.
Marie-Claire Blais, Québec novelist ^[20]
Ross Bleckner, American artist ^[21]
Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
Lizzie Borden, bisexual filmmaker ^[22]
Michel Marc Bouchard+, Canadian playwright (Les feluettes)
Matthew Bourne, British choreographer ^[23]
Leigh Bowery, Australian performance artist, fashion designer, and nightclub promoter. ^[24]
E. E. Bradford+, British Uranian poet
Ben Bradshaw+, British politician
Johnny Brandon, British singer popular in the 1950s ^[25]
Allison Brewer+, Canadian politician, leader of the New Brunswick NDP
Scott Brison+, Canadian member of Parliament and Minister of Public Works and Government Services
David Brock+, American journalist and author
Romaine Brooks+, American painter, bisexual
Nicole Brossard, Québec poet and novelist ^[26]
Jack Buetel+, American film actor
Jim J. Bullock, American tv personality
Lady Bunny, American drag performer
Glenn Burke+, American baseball player
Pete Burns+, British singer (Dead or Alive) ^[27]
Chandler Burr, American author and journalist
Dan Butler+, American actor
Spring Byington+, American actress

C

Paul Cadmus, American painter
John Cage+, American composer of aleatoric music and partner of Merce Cunningham.
Andrew Calimach, American author
Simon Callow, British actor
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, French lawyer and statesman, author of the Code Napoléon
Rhona Cameron, British Comedienne, TV Presenter
Tevin Campbell, American R&B musician
Truman Capote, American author
Capucine, French actress (The Pink Panther), (Walk on the Wild Side)
Scott Capurro, American comedian and writer
Gia Carangi, American fashion model, widely considered the world's first supermodel
Caravaggio, Italian Renaissance artist
Edward Carpenter, British poet and activist
Chris Carter, New Zealand Minister of Conservation, Minister of Local Government and Minister for Ethnic Affairs
Nell Carter, American actress/singer (star of Gimme a Break)
Giacomo Casanova, Italian seducer - bon vivant, bisexual
Michael Cashman, British actor and politician
Maggie Cassella, Canadian comedian
Cazuza, Brazilian singer and poet
Luis Cernuda, Spanish playwright
Richard Chamberlain, American actor
Graham Chapman+, British comedian, member of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
Tracy Chapman, American singer/songwriter
Karl IV.+, Spanish king
Ian Charleson, Scottish actor
Mary Cheney, daughter of U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney
Marc Cherry, American creator of Desperate Housewives
Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer/actor
Margaret Cho, American comedian, bisexual
Wayson Choy, Canadian novelist
Nathan Christoffersen, American activist and journalist
Ralph Chubb, British poet, artist, printer, and prophet
David Cicilline, American politician; Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
Golan Cipel, Israeli associate of former New Jersey governor James McGreevey, with whom he had an affair
James Clark, British ambassador to Luxembourg
Julian Clary, British comedian
Montgomery Clift, American actor
Kate Clinton, American comedian
James Coco, American actor
Jean Cocteau, French director and artist, lover of Jean Marais
Roy Cohn, American lawyer and associate of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
Claudette Colbert, French-American actress, bisexual
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic Poet, bisexual
Colette French novelist, music hall performer, bisexual
Cyril Collard, French writer, director (Les Nuits Fauves), bisexual
Russ Conway, British pianist popular in late 1950s and early 1960s
Nancy Cook, suffragette, educator, and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt
Dennis Cooper, American novelist, poet, and critic
Aaron Copland, American composer (bisexual according to a biography)
John Corigliano, American composer
Dean Corll, serial killer
Douglas Coupland, Canadian Writer, author of Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Noel Coward, British writer
Henry Cowell, American composer
Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
William Craig, Canadian owner of HARD on PrideVision and OUTtv
Cheryl Crane, Lana Turner's daughter; killer of Johnny Stompanato
Nicky Crane+, British co-founder of neo-nazi organization Blood and Honour
Darby Crash, lead singer of American punk band The Germs
Gavin Crawford, Canadian television comic
Rene Crevel, French surrealist author
Quentin Crisp, British actor, author, and wit
Richard Cromwell, American actor, was Angela Lansbury's first husband, and best known for his work on Jezebel and Lives of a Bengal Lancer, bisexual
Rodney Croome, Australian gay activist
Aleister Crowley, British occultist
Howard Cruse, American underground cartoonist
Wilson Cruz, American actor and activist
George Cukor, American film director
Alan Cumming, British actor, bisexual
Rebecca Cummings+, American porn star, bisexual
Andrew Cunanan, American spree killer, murdered Gianni Versace
Merce Cunningham+, American choreographer and partner of John Cage.
Michael Cunningham, American writer
Pam Currie, Scottish Socialist Party activist
John Curry, British figure skater, 1976 Winter Olympics gold medalist
Catie Curtis, American singer-songwriter
Charlotte Cushman, American stage actress
Julie Cypher, American former lover of Melissa Etheridge

D

Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist and poet
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer and cannibal
Dan Dailey, American actor and dancer
Stephen Daldry, British gay film director
Joe Dallesandro, American actor and Andy Warhol protegé
Dave Davies+, British rock musician (The Kinks)
Libby Davies, Canadian member of parliament
Michael Llewelyn-Davies, British inspiration for the literary character Peter Pan.
Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer
Ron Davies, former MP and former member of Welsh Assembly
Mercedes de Acosta+, American author and socialite
James Dean+, American actor, bisexual
Dean DeBlois, Canadian animator and director (Lilo & Stitch) ^[28]
Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer-songwriter
Edgar de Evia+, Mexican-born American photographer, writer, artist
Ellen DeGeneres, American writer, comedian and actress
Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg+, editor of Town & Country, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and mentor to: Calvin Klein, Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta
Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris
Samuel Delany+, American science fiction author
Lea DeLaria, American comedian, jazz singer, author
Robert Denning+, American interior designer, socialite in New York City and Paris and protégé of Edgar de Evia
Denice Denton, American university chancellor
Drea de Matteo+, American actress, bisexual
Portia de Rossi, Australian-born actress
Elsie de Wolfe+, American socialite and interior decorator
Guillermo Diaz, American actor
Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
Marion Dickerman suffragette, educator, vice-principal of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt
Janice Dickinson, American model (claims to be 1st supermodel), bisexual [49]
Dave Dictor, frontman of American hardcore punk band MDC
Marlene Dietrich, German actress, bisexual
Ani DiFranco, American folk singer, bisexual
Diane DiMassa, American cartoonist and author, HotHead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
Thomas M. Disch, writer of science fiction and horror
Divine, American actor (in many of John Waters's films)
Tom Dooley, American Catholic who became a national hero for his humanitarian work in Vietnam during the 1950s and early 1960s.
Candas Dorsey, Canadian science fiction author
Joseph Doucé, French psychologist and Baptist minister, founder of the International Lesbian and Gay Association
Lord Alfred Douglas, British poet and author, Oscar Wilde's lover.
Kyan Douglas, American grooming guru on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Brian Dowling, 2001 British Big Brother winner
James Dreyfus, British film and television actor
Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet and feminist
Diane Duane, American author, bisexual
Alan Duncan, British politician
Don Dunstan, Australian Labor politician, Premier of South Australia; married twice; bisexual
James Duval, American actor, bisexual
Clea DuVall, American actress
Andrea Dworkin, American feminist

E

Angela Eagle, British Member of Parliament
Edward II., king of England, bisexual
Hilton Edwards, Irish actor, co-founder of Dublin's Gate Theatre, partner of Micheál MacLiammoir
Elagabalus+, Roman emperor
Cássia Eller, Brazilian musician
Bret Easton Ellis+, American writer, gay
Ruth Ellis, lesbian matriarch and only known African-American centenarian lesbian
Julian Eltinge, American vaudeville performer, drag queen, and film actor
Brian Epstein, British, manager of The Beatles
Epaminondas, Thebian military commander and statesmen
Melissa Etheridge, American musician
James Euringer, (A.K.A. Little Jimmy Urine), American lead singer of Mindless Self Indulgence and The Left Rights, bisexual
Uzi Even, first openly gay member of the Israeli Knesset
Kenny Everett, British DJ and comic
Rupert Everett, British actor

F

George Faludy, Hungarian poet and writer (My Happy Days in Hell), bisexual.
Justin Fashanu, British Footballer.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German movie director.^[29]
Mark Feehily, Irish singer, Westlife.
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, former Tsar von Bulgarien.
Harvey Fierstein+, American actor, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy).
Thom Filicia, American home design guru on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright.
Leslie Fish+, SF writer, folk musician and poltical activist, bisexual.
Fannie Flagg, American author, Fried Green Tomatoes.
Laura Flanders, American host on Air America Radio.
Gary Floyd, American frontman of hardcore punk band The Dicks.
Mark Foley, member of the United States House of Representatives (R-FL).
Tom Ford, American fashion designer.
E. M. Forster+, British author.
Jackie Forster, American tv news presenter/journalist and Minorities Research Group member.
Pim Fortuyn, assassinated Dutch politician.
Per-Kristian Foss, Finance Minister of Norway.
Michel Foucault+, French scholar, partnered with Daniel Defert from 1963 till his death, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). Also dated Jean Barraque.
Samantha Fox, British model and one time pop singer.
Virgil Fox, American organist.
Simon Fowler, British vocalist for rock band Ocean Colour Scene.
Barney Frank+, American congressman (D-MA).
Sidney Franklin, American matador.
Robert Fraser, English art dealer and producer .
Peter Frechette, American film, stage and television actor.
Aaron Fricke+, American gay rights activist who successfully sued his high school for the right to bring his boyfriend to the senior prom.
Donald Friend, Australian artist.
Stephen Fry, British actor, comedian, novelist and wit.

G

John Wayne Gacy+, American serial killer
Rudy Galindo, American figure skater
Jeff Gannon (James Dale Guckert), American reporter
Robert Gant, American actor (Queer As Folk)
Greta Garbo, Swedish actress
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet and playwright, martyred in the Spanish Civil War
Stephen Gately, Irish singer and ex member of the boyband Boyzone
Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
Piers Gaveston, French-born lover of Edward II
Janet Gaynor+, American film actress
Will Geer, American actor (Grandpa Walton, The Waltons)
David Geffen, American music producer and record executive
Jean Genet, French writer
Kitty Genovese, American crime victim ^[30]
Chrissy Gephardt, American daughter of U.S. congressman Dick Gephardt
Boy George, British musician
David Gerrold, American science fiction writer, inventor of Tribbles
André Gide, French novelist and Nobel Laureate
Sir John Gielgud, British theater and film actor
Sara Gilbert, American television actress, series Roseanne
Rolf Gindorf, German sexologist
Candace Gingrich, American activist, half-sister of former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
Allen Ginsberg, American Beat poet ("Howl").[50]
Judy Gold, American comedienne
Claudia Gonson, musician, collaborator with Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, American artist
Julie Goodyear, British television actress (Coronation Street)
Lesley Gore, American singer
Gorgidas, Theban military leader of the Sacred band of elite troops of paired gay lovers.
Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer
Judy Grahn, American poet
Barbara Graham, American burglar, had a well-publicized relationship with fellow inmate Donna Prow
Brian Greig, Australian senator.[51]
Athen Grey, American photographer
John Greyson, Canadian filmmaker (Zero Patience, Proteus)
Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and stage director
Michael Guest+, former U.S. ambassador to Romania.

H

Fritz Haarmann+, German serial killer
Hadrian, Roman military commander and emperor
Leisha Hailey, American musician and actress
William Haines, American actor
Rob Halford+, British singer (Judas Priest)
Kristen Hall, American musician and songwriter, formerly of Sugarland
Radclyffe Hall+, British lesbian, author of The Well of Loneliness
Marc Hall, Canadian student and activist
Vincent Hanley, Irish radio DJ who died of an AIDS-related illness
Kathleen Hanna, American musician, bisexual
Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (A Raisin in the Sun)
G. H. Hardy, British mathematician
Billy James Hargis American televangelist.
Keith Haring, American artist
Lou Harrison, American composer
Randy Harrison, American actor (Queer As Folk)
Deborah Harry, American singer, Blondie. {{fact}}
Lorenz Hart+, American Broadway lyricist, who penned his work with Richard Rodgers
Marsden Hartley, American painter
Nina Hartley+, American porn actress
Patrick Harvie, Scottish Green Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, bisexual
Bill Hastings+, Chief Censor of New Zealand
Richard Hatch, American contestant and winner of reality tv series Survivor
Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician, bisexual
Sir Nigel Hawthorne, British actor
Charles Hawtrey (George Hartree), British actor (not to be confused with Sir Charles Hawtrey, the Victorian stage actor)
Harry Hay+, American gay rights activist, founder of the Mattachine Society
Todd Haynes, American film director
Edith Head, American costume designer, winner of 8 Academy Awards
Anne Heche+, American actress, bisexual
Michael Hendricks, Canadian gay rights activist, half of first couple to legally marry in Québec
Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle), bisexual
Hans Werner Henze+, German-italian composer
Hephaestion, Alexander The Great's lover and best friend. Military officer.
Ty Herndon, American Country & Western singer, bisexual
Sighsten Herrgård, Swedish designer, trendsetter. Became the face of AIDS in Sweden.
Frank Hershey (aka Franklin Q. Hershey) American automotive designer (1949 Cadillac, 1955 Ford Thunderbird)
Ralph Hexter, American educator, President of Hampshire College
Hibiscus+, American founder of the all-drag The Cockettes
Patricia Highsmith, American writer, bisexual
Hildegarde+, American cabaret singer, lesbian partner of Anna Sosenko
Magnus Hirschfeld+, German sociologist, formed the possible first gay rights organization, the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in 1897.
Billie Holiday+, American blues singer
Alan Hollinghurst, British author (The Swimming Pool Library)
Dave Holmes, American TV personality, former MTV VJ
Philippe Honoré+, French-born violinist, life-partner of Indian novelist Vikram Seth
John Holmes+, American porn actor, bisexual
James Hormel, former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999.
A. E. Housman, British poet
Frankie Howerd, British actor
Rock Hudson, American actor
Tanya Huff, Canadian author
Michael Huffington, American politician
Langston Hughes, American author, poet
Simon Hughes+, British politician (bi)
Jerry Hunt, American composer
Tab Hunter+, American actor/singer
Chris Hyndman, Canadian tv personality

I

Janis Ian, American singer/songwriter
Norman Iceberg, Canadian singer/songwriter
Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand author, Whale Rider
William Inge, American dramatist
Javed Iqbal (Serienmörder), Pakistani serial killer
Christopher Isherwood, British novelist
James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter

J

Tony Jackson, American pianist and composer ^[31]
Max Jacob+, French poet
Cheryl Jacques+, American politician
Paco Jamandreu, Argentine fashion designer and actor
James I of England +, James VI of Scotland
Jenna Jameson+, American adult-film actress, bisexual
Tove Jansson, Finnish author of the Moomin books ^[32]
Derek Jarman+, British film director, artist and writer
Michael Jeter, American actor, "Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle" of Sesame Street ^[33]
Sarah Orne Jewett, American author {{fact}}
Patria Jiménez, Mexican politican - PRD member of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies - first openly lesbian member of Mexico's National Legislature. [52]
Phil Jimenez, American comic artist ^[34]
Jobriath+, American rock singer
Edmund John, Uranian poet ^[35]
Elton John, British singer, musician, composer ^[36]
Jeffrey John+, Church of England dean
Jasper Johns+, American pop artist in the 1960s ^[37]
Holly Johnson+, British lead singer for Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Philip Johnson, American architect, bisexual ^[38]
Angelina Jolie, American actress, bisexual ^[39]
Bill T. Jones, American dancer and choreographer ^[40]
Cherry Jones, American actress ^[41]
Grace Jones, Jamaican-born actress and singer {{fact}}
Jim Jones, American cult leader {{fact}}
Janis Joplin, American singer, bisexual ^[42] ^[43]
Barbara Jordan+, American congresswoman
Leslie Jordan, American character actor; Will & Grace, Sordid Lives ^[44]
Mychal F. Judge, American Franciscan priest, WTC terrorism victim ^[45]
Miranda July, American performance artist and film director, bisexual ^[46]

K

Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist, wife of Diego Rivera, bisexual
Gorden Kaye, British actor
Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch Olympic swimmer
Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality
Jack Kerouac, American author, bisexual
Maya Keyes, American daughter of U.S. politician Alan Keyes
John Maynard Keynes, British economist
Larry Kert, American Broadway stage performer
Udo Kier+, German actor
Bernard King, Australian tv personality, celebrity chef
Billie Jean King+, American tennis player, bisexual
Florence King+, American writer and columnist, bisexual
Andrew Kinlochan, British member of boy band Phixx
Alfred Kinsey, American scientist, sexologist, founder of the Institute for Sex Research, bisexual
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, Justice of the High Court of Australia
Robert Kirby, American cartoonist (Curbside)
Tommy Kirk, American actor
Tim Kirkman, American writer and film director
James Kirkwood, American playwright (A Chorus Line)
Jim Kolbe, member of the United States House of Representatives (R-Arizona)
Jeffrey Kofman, Canadian journalist at ABC
David Kopay, American football player
Dave Koz, American jazz musician and radio host
Ronnie Kray, British gangster
Carson Kressley, American style guru on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sheila Kuehl, California State Senator and former teenage actress
Michael Kühnen, German neo-nazi leader
Nancy Kulp, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies)
Elvira Kurt, Canadian comedian
Tony Kushner, American playwright (Angels in America)
Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian novelist and poet
Stanley Kwan, Chinese filmmaker

L

Touko Laaksonen+ (Tom of Finland), Finnish artist
Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker^[47]
David LaChapelle, American photographer^[48]
Gavin Lambert+, British screenwriter, novelist and biographer
Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichord, companion of Denise Restout{{fact}}
Nathan Lane, American actor and singer^[49]
k.d. lang+, Canadian country and blues singer.
Tom Lanoye, Belgian writer. ^[50]
Laurier L. LaPierre+, Canadian broadcaster and Senator
Danny La Rue+, Irish-born comedian and drag queen
Derek Laud, British political activist and Big Brother contestant^[51]
Charles Laughton, British actor, bisexual {{fact}}
Lonnie Latham disgraced minister {{fact}}
Chris Lea+, former leader of the Green Party of Canada, first openly gay party leader in Canada
René Leboeuf+, Canadian gay rights activist, half of first same-sex couple to legally marry in Québec
Mark Leduc+, Canadian Olympic medallist/boxing, 1992
Violette Leduc+, French author
Sook-Yin Lee+, Canadian tv personality, former MuchMusic VJ, bisexual
Eva Le Gallienne+, British-born American actress and screenwirter
Annie Leibovitz, American photographer. {{fact}}
Robert Lepage, Canadian playwright, actor and film director {{fact}}
José Lezama Lima, Cuban poet {{fact}}
Liberace+, American musician (denied by Liberace himself)
Jesse Liberty, American writer, bisexual ^[52]
Ivri Lider+, Israeli singer
Limahl+, British singer, lead of Kajagoogoo band
Janine Lindemulder+, American porn actress, bisexual
Brian Linehan, Canadian tv personality {{fact}}
Alain Locke, first African-American Rhodes scholar {{fact}}
Kristanna Loken+, American actress, bisexual
Audre Lorde+, American poet, author
Lance Loud, American reality television show An American Family, rock singer {Lance Loud and the Mumps) ^[53]
Greg Louganis, U.S. Olympic high-diver ^[54]
Matt Lucas+, British comedian
Ludwig II.+, German King of Bavaria (The Mad King)
Ernst Ludwig, German Grand Duke of Hesse and The Rhine {{fact}}
Paul Lynde+, American actor and comedian

M

Ann-Marie MacDonald, Canadian author and playwright
Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian fiddler from Cape Breton
Mary MacLane, British Edwardian-era writer
Micheál MacLiammoir, Irish actor and co-founder of Dublin's Gate Theatre
Rachel Maddow, American talk show host, Air America Radio
Gregory Maguire, American author (Wicked), married to painter Andy Newman
Makarios III., Archbishop, President of the Cypriot Republic According to historian Rupert Allason the late Archbishop's private life was documented by the MI6.
Tony Malone, British graphic designer and typographist
Peter Mandelson, Britain's EU commissioner
Marjorie Main, American actress best known for portraying Ma Kettle
Irshad Manji, Canadian journalist, author, and "Muslim Refusenik".
Erika Mann, German cabaret producer, actress, author
Klaus Mann, German author
Thomas Mann, German author
Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist, photographer
Jean Marais, French actor, lover of Jean Cocteau
Josie Maran, American model, bisexual
Marilyn, British pop star and musician
Beatriz Marinello, President of United States Chess Federation
Christopher Marlowe, British Elizabethan playwright
Del Marquis, American, bass player in Scissor Sisters
David Marr, Australian author, broadcaster and media commentator
David Marsden, Canadian radio broadcaster and music promoter
Andy Martin, British musician (The Apostles, Academy 23), editor (SMILE) and writer
Jake Maskall, British actor from EastEnders
Heather Matarazzo, American actress
Johnny Mathis, American singer
William Somerset Maugham, British writer and dramatist
Armistead Maupin, American writer (Tales of the City)
Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
Roddy McDowall, British actor and photographer
Frank McGuinness, Irish playwright
Jonny McGovern ("The Gay Pimp"), American comedian and singer
Jim McGreevey, American former governor of New Jersey
Sir Ian McKellen, British actor, gay rights campaigner
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist
Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, last Medici ruler of Tuscany
Joe Meek, British record producer
Armin Meiwes, German cannibal
Meleager, Greek military commander
Réal Ménard, Canadian member of parliament
Gian Carlo Menotti, American composer
Rick Mercer, Canadian television comedian
Ismail Merchant, Indian-born British film director, producer, and screen witer
Freddie Mercury, British musician (Queen)
James Merrill, American poet
Stephin Merritt, American singer/songwriter for the Magnetic Fields, the Sixths, and the Gothic Archies
Metrobius, ancient Roman actor
George Michael, British singer (Wham)
Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress, partner of Melissa Etheridge
Harvey Milk, American former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, assassinated in 1978
Eric Millegan, American actor
Merle Miller, American presidential biographer
Kate Millett, American author
Scott Mills, British Radio DJ
Vincente Minnelli, American husband of Judy Garland, father of Liza Minnelli, bisexual
Sal Mineo, American actor
Yukio Mishima, Japanese author
Jerry Mitchell, American Tony Award-winning choreographer
John Cameron Mitchell, American writer and director. Creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer, television show host
Dave Moffatt, Canadian singer
Albert Mol, Dutch actor
Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer of British rock band Placebo, bisexual
Comte Robert de Montesquiou poet, writer, set designer, patron of the arts
Amanda Moore, American fashion model
Gene Moore leading window dresser first at Bonwit Teller then at Tiffany
Tyria Moore, American love partner of serial killer Aileen Wuornos
Agnes Moorehead, American actress
Cherrie Moraga, American author on lesbian Hispanic themes
Richard Morel, American singer, music producer
Chris Morgan, British powerlifting champion
Paul Morrissey, American filmmaker
Rudolph Moshammer, German clothing designer
Bob Mould, American rock musician, former member of Hüsker Dü and Sugar
Megan Mullally, American actress, bisexual
Murathan Mungan, Turkish author, playwright and poet
Saki (real name H.H. Munro), British Edwardian writer
Glen Murray, Canadian former mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba
Michael Musto, American columnist, TV personality

N

Martina Navratilova, Czech-born American tennis player
Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian born American silent film actress
Ted Nebbeling, Canadian politician, first Cabinet Minister to legally marry his same sex partner.
Mike Nelson, American politician. Five-term mayor of Carrboro, NC; first openly gay mayor in the American South.
Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer, choreographer
Dennis Nilsen, British serial killer
Cynthia Nixon, American actress
Klaus Nomi, German singer
Peter North, Canadian born adult-film actor who predominantly appears in heterosexual porn
Graham Norton, Irish comedian and television personality
Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American silent screen actor
Ivor Novello, British stage and film actor
Richard Bruce Nugent, American author, wrote first description of homosexuality in African-American literature.
Terri Nunn, American singer, new wave band Berlin, bisexual
Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer
Laura Nyro, American singer

O

Mark Oaten, British politician
Sinéad O’Connor, Irish singer, bisexual (Ryan Confidential, broadcast on RTÉ 1 on May 29, 2003)
Daniel O'Donnell, American politician, brother of Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian
Eoin O'Duffy, Irish police commissioner, leader of the 'Blueshirts' and aide to Michael Collins
Paul O'Grady, British television performer
Andrew Olexander, Australian politician, current member of the Victorian Legislative Council
Mary Oliver, American poet
Pauline Oliveros, American composer
Laurence Olivier, British actor, bisexual
Brian Orser, Canadian silver medalist at both the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics
Joe Orton, British playwright
Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Irish poet
Kanako Otsuji, Japan's 1st openly lesbian politician
François Ozon, French writer and film director

P

David Paisley, British actor
Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
Chuck Palahniuk, American writer, Fight Club
Chuck Panozzo+, American musician (Styx).
Carl Panzram, American serial killer
Antonia Pantojas, Puerto Rican educator
Antonio Pantojas, Puerto Rican actor
Benito Papazón, Mexican journalist and politician.
Bob Paris+, American bodybuilder
Annise Parker+, American activist/politician
Alex Parks, British singer/songwriter
Matthew Parris, British journalist and former politician
Harry Partch, American composer and just intonation instrument inventor
Pier Paolo Pasolini+, Italian director and writer
Robert Patrick, American Off-Off Broadway playwright
Paul Patrick, British LGBT activist
John Paulk, American former leader of the ex-gay movement and ex-president of Exodus International
Sarah Paulson, American actress
Graham Payn, British actor and singer
Douglas Pearce, British musician best known for his work as Death In June.
Peter Pears, British singer
Queen Pen, American bisexual rapper
Anthony Perkins, American actor, bisexual
Linda Perry, American singer
Roger Peyrefitte+, French diplomat and writer
Dean Phoenix, pornographic actor
Philip II., French monarch
Philippe, French Duke of Orléans under Louis XIV
Phranc, American singer/songwriter, musician and artist
Doug Pinnick, American singer and musician, King's X
Danny Pintauro, American actor (Who's the Boss?)
Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, bisexual
Plato, Greek Philosopher
Edmond de Polignac, French composer
Marcel Proust, French author
Carole Pope, Canadian rock singer
Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist
Michael Portillo, British politician and journalist
Francis Poulenc, French composer
Manuel Puig, Argentine writer

Q

Colin Quinn, American comedian and actor, acknowledges several same-sex encounters in his late teens and early twenties.

R

Justin Raimondo, American writer
Gilles de Rais, French nobleman and serial killer
Richard Ramirez, American serial killer, bisexual
Anthony Rapp, American actor and singer
Robert Rauschenberg, American artist
Amy Ray, American singer, The Indigo Girls
Nicholas Ray, American film director, bisexual
John Rechy, American author
Robert Reed, American actor (The Brady Bunch)
Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and former game-show regular
George Reinholt, American soap opera actor (Steve Frame on Another World)
Jennifer Diane Reitz+, computer programmer, cartoonist and gender rights advocate, bisexual.
Rio Reiser, German musician ("Ton Steine Scherben"), bisexual
John Reith, 1. Baron Reith British founder of the BBC
Mary Renault, South African novelist
Denise Restout+, French companion of Wanda Landowska
Cecil Rhodes, British financier and colonizer of Africa
Christopher Rice, American author (son of Anne Rice)
Adrienne Rich, American poet and critic
Marlon Riggs, American author and producer of Tongues Untied
Arthur Rimbaud, French poet
Herb Ritts, American fashion photographer
Jerome Robbins, American choreographer. {{fact}}
Ian Roberts, Australian Rugby League player
Angela Robinson, American film director
Anwar Robinson, American Idol contestant
Gene Robinson, American Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire
Svend Robinson, former Canadian member of parliament
Tom Robinson, British rock musician
Roland Rocchiccioli, Australian performer and television personality
Roche-sur-Yon, French prince and King of Poland
Jai Rodriguez, American "culture guru" on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Ernst Röhm, German leader of the Nazi SA (Brownshirts)
Anthony Romero, first Hispanic and openly gay Executive Director of the ACLU
Cesar Romero, American actor
Ned Rorem, American composer,
Seraphim Rose, informal saint of the Russian Orthodox Church; had longterm same-sex relationship in his youth later converted to Orthodox Christianity and became celibate in order to live according to the rules of the faith.
Hilary Rosen, American former CEO of the RIAA, longtime partner of Elizabeth Birch (see above)
Jane Rule, Canadian author
RuPaul (RuPaul Andre Charles), Actor, American singer
Joanna Russ, American science fiction/fantasy author and feminist
Bayard Rustin+, American civil rights activist, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to the writings of Mahatma Gandhi and non-violence, fired for being gay

S

Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Portuguese modern poet
Steven Sabados, Canadian TV personality
Vita Sackville-West, British author and poet ^[55]
Marquis de Sade, French author and philosopher, bisexual
Leontine Sagan, Austrian film-maker
JD Samson, American musician, Le Tigre
Emily Saliers, American singer, The Indigo Girls
Victor Salva, American writer/director (Jeepers Creepers) ^[56]
Alex Sanchez, Mexican author. ^[57]
Ben Sander (Brini Maxwell), American drag performer and television host
Sue Sanders+, British LGBT activist
Emanuel Sandhu, Canadian figure skater^[58]
Jeremy Sapienza, American anarcho-capitalist
Dick Sargent, American actor, (zweiter "Darrin" in Verliebt in eine Hexe) ^[59]
Siegfried Sassoon+, British poet
John Saul, American novelist
Dan Savage, American columnist ^[60]
Francesco Scavullo, American fashion photographer ^[61]^[62]
John Schlesinger, British film director (Midnight Cowboy,Sunday Bloody Sunday)^[63]
Fred Schneider, American lead singer of The B-52's^[64]
Joel Schumacher, American filmmaker (The Phantom of the Opera)
David Sedaris, American essayist and radio personality ^[65]
Pierre Seel+, French concentration camp survivor
Shyam Selvadurai, Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist (Funny Boy)
Vikram Seth, Indian novelist, poet, biographer-memoirist, travel writer and librettist (A Suitable Boy, An Equal Music, From Heaven Lake, Golden Gate)
Adam Shankman, American director.^[66]
Penny Sharpe, Australian politician
Clay Shaw, American tried in the conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
Jake Shears, American singer for the band the Scissor Sisters
Pete Shelley, British singer of the punk band The Buzzcocks
Matthew Shepard, American hate crime victim, violently murdered in Wyoming, subject of Emmy winning films The Laramie Project and The Matthew Shepard Story^[67]
Jeremy Sheffield, British Actor
Ned Sherrin, British broadcaster
Randy Shilts, American author, journalist and AIDS activist
Henry Sidgwick, British utilitarian philosopher
Michelangelo Signorile, American columnist, advocate, and pundit
Bill Siksay, Canadian member of parliament
Mario Silva, Canadian member of parliament
Bryan Singer, American movie director (Superman Returns, X-Men)
Winnaretta Singer, patron of the arts, heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune ^[68]
Jeffrey Smart, Australian painter
Anna Nicole Smith, American celebrity, bisexual
Bessie Smith, American blues singer
Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury|Chris Smith, first openly gay British MP
Liz Smith+, British actress.
Liz Smith, American gossip columnist, bisexual ^[69]
George Smitherman, Canadian politician (Ontario cabinet minister) [53]
Socrates, Greek philosopher
Valerie Solanas, American cult writer, feminist, attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol.
Simeon Solomon, British artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic art movement
Jimmy Somerville, British singer (Bronski Beat, The Communards)
Stephen Sondheim, American musical theater composer and lyricist^[70]
Susan Sontag, American essayist and novelist ^[71]
Dusty Springfield, British pop singer
Annie Sprinkle, American adult-film actress, performance artist
Pam St. Clement, British television actress (EastEnders)
James St. James, American author and former New York party icon.
Mia St. John, American boxer, bisexual
Darren Star, American television producer and screenwriter
Barbara Stanwyck, American actress
David Starkey, British historian
Gertrude Stein, American expatriate author, partner of Alice B. Toklas ^[72]
Sharon Stone, American actress, bisexual
Michael Stipe, American singer (R.E.M.), film producer ^[73]
Jim Stork, American politician ^[74]
Billy Strayhorn, American jazz composer, lyricist, arranger, and pianist (Duke Ellington Orchestra)
Jeff Stryker, American adult-film actor
Sylvester, American singer
Gerry Studds, American politician ^[75]
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman dictator
Andrew Sullivan, British-born American conservative journalist Retr
Terry Sweeney, American writer and actor who was a Saturday Night Live cast member in the mid-1980s
Sheryl Swoopes, American WNBA basketball player ^[76]
Algernon Swinburne, British poet
Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist

T

George Takei, American actor (Star Trek)
Peter Tatchell, Australian born LGBT activist and politician
Rip Taylor, American comic
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer
Tegan and Sara, Canadian singer/songwriters and sisters
Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
Stephen Tennant, British aristocrat
Mark Tewksbury, Canadian gold medal winner in the 1992 Summer Olympics
George Thomas, 1. Viscount Tonypandy, British statesman
Scott Thompson+, Canadian comedian and actor (Kids in the Hall)
Virgil Thomson, American theater composer and music critic
Jeremy Thorpe, leader of British Liberal Party
William Tatem (Bill) Tilden II, American tennis champion.
Billy Tipton, American jazz musician, male impersonator
Colm Tóibín, Irish novelist
Alice B. Toklas+, American author, partner of Gertrude Stein, known for her cookbook that contains Brion Gysin's hashish brownies (marijuana)
Sandi Toksvig, British comedian
Lily Tomlin+, American comedian, actress
Pussy Tourette, drag performer and singer
Noel Tovey, Australian actor, producer and write
Trajan, Roman emperor
Violet Trefusis, British lesbian daughter of King Edward VII's mistress Alice Keppel; lover of Vita Sackville-West
Michel Tremblay, Canadian writer
Mark Trevorrow, Australian comedian
Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and writer
Esera Tuaolo, American former NFL player
Alan Turing, British mathematician, computer scientist and theorist, WWII codebreaker
Colin Turnbull, British-born American anthropologist
Guinevere Turner, American actress and screenwriter
Stephen Twigg, British politician, MP, defeated Michael Portillo in 1997 election
Oras Tynkkynen, Finnish politician

U

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, German activist, author

V

Urvashi Vaid, American former head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Penny Valentine, British rock critic, music journalist
Pierre Vallières, Canadian writer, member of the terrorist FLQ
Gus Van Sant, American director
Chavela Vargas, Mexican singer, who came out as lesbian during an interview with Colombian television [[54]]
Gianni Vattimo, Italian philosopher
Nichi Vendola, Italian communist politician
Paul Verlaine, French poet
Jim Verraros, American singer, actor, American Idol contestant
Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer
Gore Vidal, American writer
Salka Viertel, Ukrainian-born Hollywood screenwriter
Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer
Norah Vincent, American Immersion Journalist
Luchino Visconti, Italian director

W

Tom Waddell, American athlete
Rufus Wainwright+, Canadian singer
Alice Walker, American author, The Color Purple, bisexual
Rebecca Walker, American author, bisexual
Horace Walpole, British 4th Earl of Orford
Andy Warhol, American artist and pop art icon
Patricia Nell Warren, American writer, Front Runner
Tony Warren, British scriptwriter (creator of Coronation Street)
John Waters, American film director (Pink Flamingos)
Sarah Waters, British author (Tipping the Velvet)
Aaron Webster, Canadian hate crime victim
Martin Webster, British neo-nazi
Apichatpong Weerasethakul+, Thai experimental filmmaker (Mysterious Object At Noon, Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady) and artist
Sumner Welles, American Under Secretary of State 1937-1943
James E. West, American politician
Guido Westerwelle, leader of the German liberal party FDP
James Whale, British film director
Diane Whipple, American victim in the Presa Canario dog mauling trial
Edmund White, American novelist (A Boy's Own Story)
Patrick White, Australian novelist and Nobel Prize winner(The Twyborn Affair)
Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass)
Jane Wiedlin, American guitarist/singer for The Go-Go's, bisexual
Tracey Wigginton, Australian "lesbian vampire murderer"
Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright and bon vivant, imprisoned after conviction for "gross indecency" for homosexual behavior
Thornton Wilder, American playwright (Our Town) and novelist
Kenneth Williams, British actor and diarist
Rozz Williams, American gothic music icon and musician, bisexual
Tennessee Williams, American playwright
Wendy O. Williams, American singer, formerly of the Plasmatics
John Wilmot, 2. Earl of Rochester, Anglo-Irish poet and rake.
Ricky Wilson, guitarist, new wave band The B-52's
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical archaeologist and art historian
Paul Winfield, American actor
Jeanette Winterson, British author
Dale Winton, British television presenter
Michal Witkowski, Polish writer
Ludwig Wittgenstein+, Austrian philosopher
Monique Wittig, French-born American academic
B.D. Wong, American actor
David Wojnarowicz, American artist
Alexander Wood, Canadian merchant and magistrate, "Founder of Gay Toronto"
Virginia Woolf, British author
Klaus Wowereit, German mayor of Berlin
Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer

Y

Kenji Yoshino, American legal scholar, author, and social activist. ^[77]
Will Young+, British pop singer, winner of ITV's 2001 Pop Idol, and singer of the million-selling 2002 single "Anything Is Possible / Evergreen"

Z

Pedro Zamora+, Cuban-American AIDS activist, The Real World participant
Zhou Dan+, Chinese lawyer and gay activist

Trans

The word transgender, for the purposes of this article, is an umbrella term that can include transmen and transwomen, who may identify themselves as transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, androgynous, cross-dressers, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings or those intersexual (some prefer hermaphroditic) people whose gender identity differs from the gender they were assigned; or people who use similar terms to describe themselves. See those pages for an explanation of these terms. People on the list have been described according to their self-identification. This article is not sorted by transgender behaviour.

Regarding historical persons, please also note that for individuals at least until the beginning of the 20th century, there were no names for transgender behaviour, and therefore we have no statements that are a clear documentation for their reasons to behave the way they did; most of the time, we have no statements by themselves at all. All we can say is that by today's standards, these people or their behaviour would be considered transgender.

The people on this list have been selected because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their transgender behaviour.

Living individuals

Courtney Act, drag queen
Calpernia Addams, actress, author, autobiographer, entrepreneur, activist, fiddle player
Janice Allen, motion picture preservationist, transsexual
Paul J. Allen, gay porn star
Nadia Almada, Big Brother UK 2004 winner, transsexual
Adèle Anderson, cabaret singer, actress, member of Fascinating Aida
Enza "Supermodel" Anderson, drag performer
Buck Angel, world's first FTM transsexual porn star
Arcipello a British digital artist
April Ashley, model
Brianna Austin, writer and gender columnist
Mianne Bagger, golfer, transsexual woman
Dana Baitz, musician (pianist, producer, songwriter)
Shirley Temple Bar, drag performer
Georgina Beyer, New Zealand's (and the world's) first transsexual mayor (1995) and member of parliament (2002)
Joan Jett Blakk, drag performer
Sister Boom-Boom, drag queen
Kate Bornstein, transsexual author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist
Sara Davis Buechner (née David Buechner), concert pianist
Lady Bunny, drag performer
Charles Busch, drag performer
Mauro Cabral, transman, educator
Meryn Cadell, writer and singer-songwriter
Patrick Califia, a writer
Loren Cameron, transman, photographer
Endry Cardeño, Colombian transsexual actor
Wendy Carlos, American transsexual composer and electronic musician
The Lady Chablis, drag queen
Parinaya Charoemphol aka Nong Toom, transsexual Thai actress and former kickboxer
Roberta Close, Brasilian transsexual model
Coccinelle, French transsexual performer
Lynn Conway, transsexual computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender advocate
Caroline Cossey, also Tula, British transsexual model, author, and Bond girl
Jayne County, U.S. rock singer (previously famous as 'Wayne County')
Ginger Coyote, San Francisco punk scenester and founder of Punk Globe magazine. Singer in the White Trash Debutantes.
Jennifer Cross (née Carl Cross), computer programmer
Katherine Cummings (née John Cummings), librarian
Vaginal Davis, drag queen
Delia Death, model and singer
Morty Diamond, transman filmmaker and performance artist
Dreuxilla Divine, drag queen
Colin Kennedy Donovan, genderqueer/trans disability writer and anti-racist activist
Aaron H. Dover, writer and educator
Qwo-Li Driskill, writer, activist, and educator
Michelle Dumaresq, transsexual professional mountain bicyclist
Monet Dupree, drag performer
Julian Eltinge, drag performer
Jackie Enx, transsexual drummer for the heavy metal band Rhino Bucket
Bulent Ersoy, Turkish transsexual singer
Leslie Feinberg, transgender activist and author
Jamie Faye Fenton, computer game designer
Bibiana Fernández, Spanish transsexual actress, model, performer
Harvey Fierstein, drag performer, Hairspray
Jacqualine Elizabeth Gaynor, female illusionist, show promoter
James Green, transman, writer & educator
Stasha Goliaszewski, corporate activist, minister, radio host & producer TransPhillyRadio
Rachael Goss a computer programmer and founder of TACT (Transgender Activists of Central Texas) and political activist
Aidy Griffin (née Aidan Griffin), activist
Jacob Hale, transman, philosopher
Lauren Harries, famous as child prodigy 'James Harries'
David Harrison, performer
Harisu, transsexual model, singer and actress
Mike Hernandez, writer and activist
Blaine Paxton Hill, transman, psychic
Jenny Hiloudaki, Greek transsexual model
Clover Honey, drag queen
Mary Ann Horton, (also Mark Horton), transgendered (bi-gendered) Internet pioneer
House of Diabolique, drag queen
Dana International, Israeli pop singer
Eddie Izzard, comedian who cross-dresses and calls himself an "executive transvestite"
Andrea James, transwoman, entrepreneur, film producer, screenwriter, actress, and activist
Michelle Josef, Canadian musician
Kamikawa Aya, or Aya KAMIKAWA Tokyo municipal official (first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan)
Mara Keisling, transsexual, founder of the National Center for Transgender Equality. Key leader in passing several laws protecting transgender people. www,nctequality.org
Taff al-Khalifa, transsexual man, member of Bahrain's royal family, now exiled
Andreas Krieger, transman, athlete
Mado Lamotte, drag performer
Danny La Rue, drag performer
Jennifer Jane Leitham, transsexual jazz bassist
Amanda Lepore, transexual icon and model
Hedda Lettuce, drag performer
Miss Shangay Lily, drag performer
Shirley Q Liquor, drag queen
Charles Ludlam
Lypsinka (John Epperson), drag queen
Deirdre McCloskey, noted American Economist, argued The McCloskey critique
Christine Mancini, drag performer
Brini Maxwell, drag performer
Dana Moran, NASCAR driver 1970, sprint car champion, super modified champion, advocate
Billy More, drag queen
Angela Morley, (née Wally Stott), composer and conductor
Shannon Minter, transsexual man, attorney, legal director of National Center for Lesbian Rights
Jan Morris, transsexual author, winner of English Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature
Nancy Nangeroni, trans activist, GenderTalk Radio founder/producer/host, writer, musician, engineer
Terri O'Connell, stock car racer, previously paricipated in NASCAR under the name J.T. Hayes
Kathy Padilla, transsexual, aka Kathleen Padilla, the first openly transgender official in Pennsylvania, Democratic delegate to the 2004 Democratic Presidential Convention in Boston, Commissioner Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission
Dee Palmer, (née David Palmer), transsexual musician
Larry Paciotti, porn movie director, transvestite
Pauline Pantsdown, Australian drag queen and musician
Roberta Perkins (née Robert Perkins), anthropologist
Grayson Perry, artist whose work sometimes features his female alter ego, Claire. Winner of the 2003 Turner Prize for art
Charles Pierce, drag performer
Angela Piland, model
Mark Rees, activist
Madame Regina, transgender author
Rebecca Richards, computer programmer
Dr. Renee Richards, transsexual, professional tennis player
Jennifer Diane Reitz, computer programmer, cartoonist and gender rights advocate
Joan Roughgarden, professor of biology; evolution and ecology expert
RuPaul, AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American drag queen
Fulvia Celica Siguas Sandoval the person with the most Gender Reassignment Surgeries in the world and perhaps the first transsexual in Peru
José Sarria, drag performer, first LGBT person to run for elective office in the USA, activist, noted fund raiser for AIDS services
Lily Savage, drag performer
Erik Schinegger, 1968 women's world champion downhill skier for Austria
Scott Turner Schofield, writer, performer
Melissa Sklarz, the first openly transgender public official in New York State, Democratic county judicial delegate in Manhattan
Fonda Shepards, drag queen
Dean Spade, transman, attorney, and founder Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Sandy Stone, transgender activist and author
Ethan St. Pierre, transsexual man, hate crimes survivor, radio host transfm.org
Margaret Stumpp, transsexual co-manager of Quantitative Management department at Prudential Financial Inc.
Jolene Sugarbaker, drag queen
Karen Taylor (aka Rodney Taylor), Australian drag queen
Tina Dee Taylor, transgendered actor, artist and writer in Hollywood
Terre Thaemlitz, musician
Nicole Thomas, scientist
Stephen Thorne, transman, police officer
Pussy Tourette, drag performer and singer
Miss Understood, drag performer and entrepreneur
Pieter Dirk Uys, drag performer
Daniel Van Oosterwijck, transman, lawyer
Max Valerio, performer
Kelly Van Der Veer, transsexual Big Brother Holland contestant
Del Lagrace Volcano, transman, performer and photographer
Megan Webb (née Lee Webb), cyclist
Stephen Whittle, transman, lawyer, writer and educator
Holly Woodlawn, U.S. drag queen, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and featured in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"
Jin Xing, transsexual Chinese dancer

20th and 21st century individuals

Gwen Araujo, U.S. pre-operative transsexual girl, murdered 2002 [55]
Danielle Bunten Berry, U.S. software developer, formerly Dan Bunten, author of several titles for Electronic Arts in the 1980s, died of cancer
Jackie Curtis, U.S. drag queen who had a friendship with the famous pop artist, Andy Warhol
Candy Darling, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and subject of The Velvet Underground song "Candy Says", and Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"
Ethyl Eichelberger drag performer, actor, performance artist
Lili Elbe, Danish transsexual, one of the first women to undergo a crude form of sexual reassignment surgery, through five operations which were completed by 1930. Fifteen months after her final surgery, she either died from complications or faked her own death to avoid the media attention. She is the subject of the 1933 book Man Into Woman, although it is likely she was never biologically male, but rather born intersexual, supposedy with rudimentary ovaries which would conflict with the speculative diagnosis of Klinefelter's Syndrome
Bella Evangelista, also known as Elvys Perez, drag performer who was murdered in Washington, D.C. [56]
Tyra Hunter, U.S. transsexual woman, died 1995
Marsha P. Johnson, transgender activist, involved in Stonewall (UK), co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
Frankie 'Halfpint' Jaxon, American singer and entertainer who has often sung with a female voice
Christine Jorgensen, one of the first Americans to have sexual reassignment surgery in 1952
Dawn Kereluik, hate crime survivor in Columbus, Ohio. Legally married in a Same-Sex Marriage to Katheryn Kereluik.
Pepper LaBeija, Harlem, New York drag queen, subject of the documentary Paris Is Burning
Cam Lyman millionaire transman, disappeared in 1987, found murdered in 1997.
Glen Milstead, actor and drag performer also known popularly as Divine, star of many John Waters films
Sylvia Rivera, transgender activist, resisted police at Stonewall on June 27, 1969
Craig Russell, Canadian actor and female impersonator Outrageous
Jeanette Schmid, World famous whistler
Brandon Teena, U.S. transsexual boy who was murdered, subject of the film Boys Don't Cry [57]
Billy Tipton, woman who lived as a male jazz musician
Ed Wood, Jr., film-maker with transvestite tendencies

Earlier historical individuals

It is often difficult to construe the gender and sexual identity of pre-modern individuals. In many societies, those whom Western society might consider homosexual or bisexual are or were considered transgendered. Therefore, see also List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual people.

Many of these persons cross-dressed during wartime for various purposes. Such people are covered under the article Crossdressing During Wartime.

Herculine Barbin, 19th Century French hermaphrodite
James Barry, female bodied surgeon who lived as a man throughout his/her life, according to some accounts in order to be able to practice medicine.
Christina von Schweden, Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1654 who went by the name of "Count Dohna" at one point, dressing in male attire as part of the role. Despite speculation, modern medical examinations of her remains have not uncovered any evidence of intersexuality, although such examinations might not be conclusive.
Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat (1728-1810) who claimed that he had been born a girl and later adopted a female persona.
Venerable Onuphrius, in Eastern Orthodoxy, is supposed to had been a virtuous young girl who, in order not to lose her virginity to a persistent suitor, had her wish to become a man granted by divine intervention.

Fictional individuals

Azure C., a transsexual model on the American soap opera The City. The first transsexual portrayed on American soaps, she was played by Carlotta Chang from 1995 to 1996.
Bree, a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual played by Felicity Huffman in the 2005 film Transamerica.
Myra Breckinridge, transsexual character in two best-selling novels by Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge and Myron, and a well-known film.
Liane Cartman, parent of Eric Cartman and local hermaphrodite in the fictional town of South Park
Nuriko (born Chou Ryuuen), biologically male but living as and referred to as a woman throughout the course of the anime and manga series Fushigi Yūgi. Expresses a wish to be reincarnated as a woman.
Chloe, pre-operative transsexual nightclub singer from the comic book How Loathsome by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane.
Herbert Garrison, schoolteacher in the fictional town of South Park, who, in the Season 9 premiere, underwent sexual reassignment surgery.
Hayley Cropper, transsexual character in the popular British soap opera Coronation Street. First transsexual portrayed on British soaps, since 1998.
Henry "Hildegarde" Desmond, a hetero male who dresses as a woman to live in a budget "women's hotel" in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. Portrayed by Peter Scolari.
Frank N. Furter, the transvestite antagonist of the cult musical Rocky Horror Show and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Emily Howard, the "unconvincing transvestite" character in the BBC sketch show Little Britain.
Dorothy Michaels, a male actor posing as an actress in the film Tootsie. Portrayed by Dustin Hoffman.
Josephine Monaghan, the protagonist of "The Ballad of Little Jo", dresses as a man to escape the bourgeois East and survive in the rugged West as a single person. Played by Suzy Amis. [58]
Ava Moore, transsexual character in the American drama Nip/Tuck, played by Famke Janssen from 2004.
Roberta Muldoon, a large muscular transexual woman (former male football player) in The World According to Garp. Portrayed by John Lithgow in the film version.
Orlando, An Elizabethan era immortal from the novel of the same name by Virginia Woolf. After 200 years, Orlando changes from a man to a woman. Also a 1993 film.
Princess Ozma of the Land of Oz, temporarily changed into a boy, later restored to girlhood.
Hedwig Robinson, "internationally ignored song stylist" and lead role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Nao Tsurumoto, a 15-year-old female from season 6 of the Japanese dorama 3 Nen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei who despises her female body and knows she is male inside. The season focuses heavily on Nao's trials and peer reactions throughout the 22 episode span. Played by Aya Ueto.
Kip "Buffy" Wilson, a hetero male who dresses as a woman to live in a budget "women's hotel" in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. Portrayed by Tom Hanks.
Sadako Yamamura, the genetically male psychic villain of the Ring series of novels. Victim of a birth disorder causing "her" to have a vagina and breasts. Her physical appearance was that of a very beautiful young woman. (Note: There is no evidence that the version of Sadako portrayed in the Ringu movie series, and it is even less likely that Samara Morgan of the American remake has the same condition)
Stephen - female character in The Well of Loneliness, a novel by Radclyffe Hall. Commonly thought of as a lesbian, modern reading of the text identifies Stephen as transgendered rather than a lesbian.
Angel, an AIDS-infected street performer in the broadway musical Rent.
Birdo, Nintendo's Super Mario Bros 2 character who, according to the original manual, "...thinks he is a girl...He'd rather be called 'Birdetta.'" Eventually sticking with Birdo, she is currently accepted as female and is rumoured to be dating Yoshi.

Mythological figures

Alfhild, beautiful maiden in Norse mythology who dressed as a man to avoid marrying King Alf
Guan Yin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has both been depicted as male and female, and, according to the Lotus Sutra, has the ability to change form in order to help people.
Heracles, was dressed as a woman when enslaved by Omphale
The Norse god Thor put on the wedding gown and veil of his enemy's bride, married his enemy, and then slew him at the end of the ceremony.
Tiresias, soothsayer to Oedipus from Greek mythology changed into a woman and back in an unrelated tale
Pope Joan, who according to legend was a cross-dressing woman elected Catholic Pope (given the name "John VIII"), whose reign was variously attributed to several periods of history. She allegedly died or was murdered in childbirth during a papal procession. There is no evidence for her existence, and the story originates from a much later date than the purported events.

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Josephine Baker - Singer, actress, French resistance member in WWII and very beautiful as well :^)
Stephen Donaldson (Donny the Punk) - Stop Prisoner Rape activist, punk, one time presidential candidate. Died of AIDS July 1996
Sappho - Ancient greek poet
k.d. lang - Singer "... I have always felt inclined towards women. I have felt inclined towards men - not as deeply or sexually as towards women - but I'm definitely attracted to men." (Marie Claire, January 1997)
Janis Joplin - Singer, songwriter, poet
Anaïs Nin - Author
David Bowie - Singer, actor (The Hunger, etc.)
Angela Bowie
Claudia Christian - Actress (Ivanova on Babylon 5), singer
Lou Reed - At one point lived with a transvestite named "Rachel"
Ani DiFranco - Folk/rock singer and songwriter
Stephen Fry - Author, comedian, all-round brainiac
Skin - Singer (Skunk Anansie) in a British band
Brett Anderson - Lead singer of British group Suede. "I'm a bisexual who's never had a homosexual experience..." ("Bit of a twat, actually...." - T.L in the U.K.)
Dave Navarro - guitarist for Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Marlene Dietrich - Actress
Greta Garbo - Actress
James Dean - Actor
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lawrence Olivier - Actor
Errol Flynn - Actor
Danny Kaye - Entertainer
Frida Kahlo - Artist
Robert Taylor
Cary Grant - Actor
Mick Jagger - Singer
Madonna - Singer
Greg Araki - Film maker (Nowhere, The Living End, Totally F***ed Up)
Maria Maggenti - Film maker (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love)
Elaine Holliman - Film maker (Chicks In White Satin)
Tom Ford - Gucci designer
Michael Stipe - REM
Kurt Cobain - Nirvana
Me'shelle Ndegeochello - Singer / songwriter
Sophie B. Hawkins - Singer / songwriter
Michael Feinstein - Pianist / singer
Patricia Ireland - President of NOW
Nan Goldin - Photographer
Anne Heche - Actress
Alexander the Great
Saint Augustine - Theologian
Joan Baez - Singer
Tallulah Bankhead - Actress
Djuna Barnes - Novelist
Leonard Berstein - Conducter
Paul Bowles - Writer, composer
Colette - Novelist, actress
Thomas Mann - Novelist
Margaret Mead - Anthropologist
Julius Caesar - Emperor
Socrates - Philosopher
James I - King of England
Shakespeare - Writer
Marie Antoinette - Wife of Louis XVI
Julie Ann Park - Singer (Fem 2 Fem)
Sandra Bernhard - Comedian, entertainer
Sarah Bernhardt
Oscar Wilde - Author
Marlon Brando - Actor
Laurence Olivier - Actor
Georgia O'Keefe - Painter
D. H. Lawrence - Author
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey - Singer
Countee Cullen - Poet
Langston Hughes - Poet
Wallace Thurman - Writer
Bessie Smith - Singer
Pietro Aretino
John Maynard Keynes
Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
Louis XIII
Robin Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
Kate Millett
Francis Bacon
Harold Nicolson
Charles Reich
Catullus
Vita Sackville-West
Maria Schneider - Actress
Philip, Duke of Orleans
Ted Shawn
Edward II
Andre' Gide
Henry III
Dorothy Thompson
Horace
Paul Verlaine
Janis Ian
Gore Vidal
Oscar Wilde
Elton John
Virginia Woolf
Drew Barrymore - Actress
Jill Sobule - Singer / songwriter
Courtney Love - Actress / singer
Tom Robinson - Activist / musician

List of famous gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered composers of music

A

Peter Allen ^[4], once married Liza Minnelli, partnered with Gregory Connell from 1973 until his own death in 1992
Ruth Anderson ^[2]

B

Samuel Barber ^{[1],[2], [5]}
Jean Barraqué ^[5], dated Michel Foucault
Eve Beglarian ^[2]
Leonard Bernstein ^[1],[4], though married had "indiscretions"
Chester Biscardi ^[2]
Chris de Blasio ^[2]
Marc Blitzstein ^[1],[2],[3]
Konrad Boehmer ^[5]
David Bowie, ^[4], came out as bisexual to Playboy in 1975, married Iman in 1992 and said he had been 'a closet heterosexual' in the 70's but that he does not regret it
Paul Bowles, ^[4],[5], though married to lesbian Jane Auer
Benjamin Britten ^[1],[4], (Lord Britten of Aldeburgh) partnered with singer Sir Peter Pears from 1936 till his own death in 1976
Sylvano Bussotti ^[1],[5]
Madelyn Byrne ^[2]

C

D

Peter Maxwell Davies ^[1],[3]
David Del Tredici ^[1],[2],[5]
David Diamond ^[5],[59],[60],[61]
Ani DiFranco ^[1],[3], bisexual, she was married to Andrew Gilchrist for five years starting in 1998

F

Manuel de Falla
Gareth Farr, New Zealand classical composer who also appears in his alter ego "Lilith" in cabaret performances.
Wolfgang Fortner ^[5]
Lori Freedman ^[2]

G

H

I

Janis Ian ^[3] http://www.janisian.com/wedannounce.html
Norman Iceberg ^[1]
John Ireland ^[5]

K

Paula Kimper ^[2]

L

k.d. lang
John Lennon - bisexual according to Albert Goldman in The Lives of John Lennon (First edition 1988, ISBN 0688047211; 2001 edition: ISBN 1556523998)
Marilyn Lerner ^[2]
André Éric Létourneau ^[2]
Annea Lockwood ^[2]

M

N

Alwin Nikolais ^[2]

O

Pauline Oliveros ^[2]

P

Harry Partch ^[2]
Thomas Pasatieri ^[5]
Dominique Phinot, executed in Lyon, France for homosexuality in 1556 ^[6]
Daniel Pinkham ^[5]
Cole Porter ^[5]
Francis Poulenc ^[1],[3],[4] French composer, openly gay from his first serious relationship, that with painter Richard Chanelaire to whom he wrote, "You have changed my life, you are the sunshine of my thirty years, a reason for living and working." He also said, "You know that I am as sincere in my faith, without any messianic screamings, as I am in my Parisian sexuality."

Q

Roger Quilter ^[5]

R

S

Marc Shaiman ^[1], coupled with lyricist/director Scott Wittman since 1979
Sławek Słarosta, ^[4]
Dame Ethel Smyth ^[1]
Jimmy Somerville ^[3],[4]
Stephen Sondheim ^[1],[5]
William Thomas Strayhorn ^[1]
Conrad Susa ^[5]
Sylvester ^[4]
Karol Szymanowski ^[1]

T

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ^[1],[3]
Virgil Thomson ^[1],[2]
Nurit Tilles ^[2]
Sir Michael Tippett ^[1],[4], Of his one time partner painter Wilfred Franks Tippett wrote, "Meeting with Wilf was the deepest, most shattering experience of falling in love; and I am quite certain that it was a major factor underlying the discovery of my own individual musical voice...all that love flowed out in the slow movement of my First String Quartet. He was partnered with Meirion Bowen till his own death in 1998.
Hordur Torfason, ^[4]

V

Claude Vivier ([62])

W

Sources

Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture
included on CRI's Gay American Composers Vol. 1 or 2, or Lesbian American Composers
Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. New York: Routledge. ISBN 041522974X.
Larivière, Michel, Homosexuels et bisexuels célèbres: le dictionnaire, preface by Pierre Bergé, drawings by Jean Cocteau - Paris, Delétraz, 1997. - 393 p., ill., 22 cm. - ISBN 2911110196
Lesbian and Gay Music by Philip Brett and Elizabeth Wood
Roger Jacob: "Dominique Phinot", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 1, 2006), (subscription access)

Reference

Bredel, Marc, Erik Satie - Paris, Mazarine, 1982 - 232 p. - ISBN 2863740555

External links

UC Press: The Queer Composition of America's Sound Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity by Nadine Hubbs
The Rest Is Noise: How gay is it? by Alex Ross

List of LGBT Jews

While traditional Jewish views opposed homosexuality (and other sexual orientations and gender identities), more accepting attitudes have accompanied increased secularisation and social awareness (as well as a tendency to leftwing politics). These attitudes have had an effect on all the major denominations: gay rabbis are increasingly common, and same-sex marriages are sanctioned by both the Reform and Reconstructionist denominations (see: Jewish views of homosexuality). The following is a list of some prominent LGBT Jews.

Politicians and activists

Roberta Achtenberg, HUD assistant secretary
Sheldon Andelson, University of California Regent
Miriam Ben-Shalom, US sergeant, founder of AVER
David Cicilline, Providence mayor (Jewish mother)
Roy Cohn, McCarthyist lawyer
Laura Di Nola, founder of first Italian lesbian/gay group in Rome, writer.
Niek Engelschman, Dutch gay activist
Arthur Finkelstein, Republican spin doctor
Deborah Glick, NY State Assembly
Judy Gold, American comedienne
Jackie Goldberg, California State Assembly
Kurt Hiller, German lawyer, activist & writer
Michal Eden, Tel-Aviv city councillor
Uzi Even, Israeli MP
Barney Frank, US congressman
Magnus Hirschfeld, German, founder of "Scientific-Humanitarian Committee" (WHK).
Brenda Howard (1946–2005), American bisexual activist and "Mother of Pride"
Tony Kushner, American playwright, wrote "Angels in America"
Mark Leno, California State Assembly
Peter Mandelson, British politician (Jewish father)
Aldo Mieli, first Italian homosexual activist ever
Mario Mieli, Italian gay activist and theorician, writer, performer (unconfirmed)
Carole Migden, California State Assembly
Harvey Milk, San Francisco city supervisor
Lillian Wald, US nurse & social worker
Evan Wolfson, US gay marriage activist

Religious figures

See also: List of LGBT Rabbis

Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski, Academic Dean, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Rabbi Allen Bennett, first openly gay rabbi
Rabbi Lionel Blue, first openly gay rabbi in the UK; broadcaster
Rabbi Lisa Edwards, rabbi of Congregation Beth Chayim Chadashim, the world's first LGBT Synagogue
Rabbi Steven Greenberg, first openly gay Orthodox rabbi
Rabbi Peter Kessler, first openly gay rabbi to be ordained
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, rabbi of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, the world's largest LGBT Synagogue
Rabbi Stacy Offner, first openly lesbian rabbi
Rabbi Sheila Shulman, first openly lesbian rabbi in the UK
Reuben Zellman, first openly transsexual rabbinical student (not yet ordained)

Academics

Dennis Altman, politics and sexuality
Sanford Berman, radical librarian
Allan Bloom, philosopher
Judith Butler, queer theorist
Martin Duberman, historian
Lillian Faderman, historian
Estelle Freedman, feminist historian
H. L. A. Hart, legal philosopher
Magnus Hirschfeld, sexologist
Richard Isay, psychoanalyst
George Mosse, historian
B. Ruby Rich, cultural theorist & film critic
Tobias Schneebaum, anthropologist
Charles Silverstein, psychotherapist & author
Otto Weininger, philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
Charlotte Wolff, psychiatrist

Showbusiness

Chantal Akerman, film director
Simon Amstell, comedian
Michael Bennett, choreographer (Jewish mother)
Sandra Bernhard, comedian
Sarah Bernhardt, stage actress (Jewish mother)
Nell Carter, actress (convert)
Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word
George Cukor, director
Sergei Eisenstein, director (Jewish father)
Harvey Fierstein, actor & playwright
Eytan Fox, film director
Leonard Frey, actor
Stephen Fry, actor & comedian (Jewish mother)
David Geffen, film producer
Sara Gilbert, actress
Judy Gold, comedian
Jason Gould, actor
Todd Graff, actor & filmmaker
Nina Hartley, porn actress
Todd Haynes, film director (Jewish mother)
Tab Hunter, actor (Jewish father)
Larry Kert, stage actor
Lincoln Kirstein, dance impressario
Matt Lucas, comedian
Miriam Margolyes, actress
Inge Meysel, actress (Jewish father)
Kimberly Peirce, director (half-Jewish)
Léa Pool, director (Jewish father)
Irving Rapper, director
Paul Reubens, actor & comedian
Jerome Robbins, choreographer
Steve Rubell, co-founder of Studio 54
Leontine Sagan, director
Anat Salomon, film editor
John Schlesinger, film director
Adam Shankman, film director, dancer, choreographer
Antony Sher, stage actor
Bryan Singer, film director
Ione Skye, actress
Annie Sprinkle, performance artist
Darren Star, tv producer & screenwriter
Mauritz Stiller, director
Jason Stuart, actor-comedian
Robin Tyler, comedian
Pieter-Dirk Uys, satirist, playwright (Jewish mother)
Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer
Jonathan Taylor Weiss, Actor
Arnie Zane, choreographer

Musicians

Howard Ashman, musical writer
Babydaddy, member of Scissor Sisters
Jean-Pierre Barda, member of Army of Lovers
Frieda Belinfante, conductor (Jewish father)
Leonard Bernstein, composer
Marc Blitzstein, composer
Aaron Copland, composer
Dana International, singer
David Diamond, composer
Ani DiFranco, singer/songwriter (unconfirmed Jewish mother)
Alix Dobkin, singer/songwriter
Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles
Frances Faye, jazz singer
Michael Feinstein, singer, pianist
William Finn, musical writer
Sandy Gallin, manager, talent agent, producer
Ari Gold, singer/songwriter
Reynaldo Hahn, composer (Jewish father)
Lorenz Hart, musical writer
Jerry Herman, musical writer
Libby Holman, singer, actress
Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
Janis Ian, singer/songwriter
John Kander & Fred Ebb, musical writers
Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist
Lynn Lavner, tin pan alley pop pianist
Marilyn Lerner, jazz pianist
Ivri Lider, singer
Frederick Loewe, composer
Meredith Monk, performance artist
Jon Moss, member of Culture Club
Laura Nyro, singer/songwriter (Jewish mother)
Peaches, electrothrash artist
Phranc, singer/songwriter
Lou Reed, singer
Hilary Rosen, former head of the RIAA
Rachael Sage, singer/songwriter
Kate Schellenbach, member of Luscious Jackson
Lorin Sklamberg & Alicia Svigals, members of The Klezmatics
Marc Shaiman, musical writer
Jill Sobule, singer/songwriter
Stephen Sondheim, musical writer

Writers

Leroy Aarons, journalist, founder of NLGJA
Naomi Alderman, novelist
Jon Robin Baitz, playwright
Kate Bornstein, author & performance artist
Jane Bowles, writer
Harold Brodkey, writer, bisexual
Bryher, novelist (probably Jewish father)
Charles Busch, playwright
Benjamin Cohen, journalist/ entrepreneur
György Faludy, poet
Leslie Feinberg, author & activist
Hubert Fichte, author (Jewish father)
Edward Field, poet
Giovanni Forti, Italian journalist, writer and activist. First gay Italian Jew ever to openly marry in a gay synagogue (with Brett Shapiro), and to adopt a child. He died of AIDS.
Diane Flacks, Playwright
Helen Fremont, author
Allen Ginsberg, poet
Paul Goodman, author & intellectual
Richard Greenberg, playwright
Jacob Israël de Haan, poet
Richard Hall, writer & literary critic
Marilyn Hacker, poet
William Hoffman, playwright
Richard Howard, poet & translator
Max Jacob, poet
Chester Kallman, poet & librettist
Moisés Kaufman, playwright
Larry Kramer, playwright, co-founder of GMHC
Tony Kushner, playwright
Boleslaw Lesmian, poet
Arthur Laurents, playwright & librettist
David Leavitt, writer
Amy Levy, novelist & poet
Jesse Liberty, writer & programmer, bisexual
Robin Morgan, feminist writer
Joan Nestle, writer & archivist
Leslea Newman, author
Marge Piercy, author
Alejandra Pizarnik, poet
Marcel Proust, novelist (Jewish mother)
Marc-André Raffalovich, poet
David Rakoff, writer
Adrienne Rich, poet
Maer Roshan, magazine editor
Paul Rudnick, playwright
Muriel Rukeyser, poet
Umberto Saba, poet (Jewish mother)
Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Jewish father)
Sarah Schulman, writer & activist
Martin Sherman, playwright
Susan Sontag, essayist & novelist
Stephen Spender, poet & essayist (Jewish mother)
Gertrude Stein, writer
Julian Stryjkowski, writer
Alice B. Toklas, literary figure
Karen X. Tulchinsky, writer
Rebecca Walker, feminist writer (Jewish father)

Artists

Gilbert Adrian, fashion designer
Ross Bleckner, painter
Brad Braverman, photographer & video artist
Claude Cahun, photographer
Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (Jewish father)
Robert Denning, interior designer
Laurie Toby Edison, photographer
Rudi Gernreich, fashion designer
Gluck, painter
Frank Israel, architect
Marc Jacobs, fashion designer
Frida Kahlo, painter (Jewish father)
Calvin Klein, fashion designer
Michael Kors, fashion designer (half Jewish)
Annie Leibovitz, photographer
Corrado Levi, architect, gay activist, writer.
Herbert List, photographer ('part-Jewish')
Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
Zac Posen, fashion designer
Benno Premsela, designer & activist
Herb Ritts, photographer
Simeon Solomon, painter
Jorge Zontal, artist, member of General Idea

Sports

Robert Dover, 6-time Olympic equestrianist
Dr. Renee Richards, tennis player
Andrew Goldstein, lacrosse player

Miscellaneous

Sidney Franklin, matador
Domino Harvey, model & bounty hunter (Jewish father)
Leopold and Loeb, murderers
Starhawk, Pagan & ecofeminist

Related figures

Persons of debated sexual orientation:

Maya Deren, avant-garde filmmaker
Andrea Dworkin, feminist writer
Anna Freud, psychoanalyst
Emma Goldman, anarchist leader
Herschel Grynszpan, assassin
Moss Hart, librettist
Danny Kaye, actor & comedian
Calvin Klein, fashion designer
Ed Koch, New York mayor
Nancy Lieberman, basketball player
Allard K. Lowenstein, US congressman
Alice Schwarzer

Straight contributors to LGBT culture:

Bella Abzug, congresswoman (gay rights campaigner)
Jonathan Ames, author (explores blurred boundaries in human sexuality)
Kate Braverman, author explores sexual identities in two major works.
Hélène Cixous, feminist philosopher (contributed to queer theory)
Job Cohen, mayor of Amsterdam (officiated first same-sex weddings)
Irwin Cotler, Canadian Justice minister (introduced Bill C-38)
Billy Crystal, actor (played Jodie Dallas in Soap)
Yael Dayan, Israeli MP (gay rights campaigner)
Jacques Derrida, philsoopher (contributed to queer theory)
Michael S. Gottlieb & Joel Weisman, doctors (early identifiers of AIDS)
Judith Light, actress (gay rights advocate)
Herbert Marcuse, philosopher (influence on sexual liberation theories)
Judd Marmor, psychiatrist (successfully campaigned to remove homosexuality from the DSM)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist
George Weinberg, psychologist (coined the word homophobia)

Fictional characters

Arnold Beckoff, drag queen from Torch Song Trilogy
Queer Duck Duckstein, duck from Queer Duck
Harold, birthday celebrant from The Boys in the Band
Daniel Hirsh, family doctor from Sunday Bloody Sunday
Melanie Marcus, lawyer from Queer as Folk
Max, concentration camp prisoner from Bent
Posner, student from The History Boys
Thea, bookstore clerk from Dykes to Watch Out For

Nachfrage

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Footnotes

↑ Louise Abbema on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006
↑ Roberta Achtenberg on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006
↑ Jean Acker on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006
↑ Aldrich, Robert, and Wotherspoon, Garry (2001). Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II, Routledge (UK). ISBN 0415159822. (discusses Harold Acton)
↑ Alvin Aily on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006
↑ Matt & Andrej Koymasky Famous GLTB discusses Grancesco Algarotti, Retrieved January 2006
↑ Ted Allen's official website, Retrieved Jan 2006
↑ Kenneth Anger discussed at Gay.com
↑ Aleksey Apukhtin on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006
↑ Gay City News: Bringing Fun Back to Sin City. Retrieved January 16, 2005.
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↑ Price, Deb. The Bellingham Herald, July 4, 1998: Two women's love made 'America' beautiful.[5]
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:"If Janis didn't boast about sleeping with women, she didn't deny the fact either." [When a Bay Area paper said she was a lesbian, she told her friend Richard Hundgen,] "You...tell this bitch that Janis has slept with thousands of men and a few hundred women.")
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↑ Derek Laud discussed on BBC
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↑ The Laramie Project, The Matthew Shepard Story.
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[1] Louise Abbema on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006

[2] Roberta Achtenberg on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006

[3] Jean Acker on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006

[4] Aldrich, Robert, and Wotherspoon, Garry (2001). Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II, Routledge (UK). ISBN 0415159822. (discusses Harold Acton)

[5] Alvin Aily on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006

[6] Matt & Andrej Koymasky Famous GLTB discusses Grancesco Algarotti, Retrieved January 2006

[7] Ted Allen's official website, Retrieved Jan 2006

[8] Kenneth Anger discussed at Gay.com

[9] Aleksey Apukhtin on Glbtq.com, Retrieved January 2006

[10] Gay City News: Bringing Fun Back to Sin City. Retrieved January 16, 2005.

[11] [1] Contemporary Writers. Retrieved January 16, 2006.

[12] [2] Matt & Andrej Koymasky Famous GLTB. Retrieved January 2006.

[13] [3] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 16 2006.

[14] [4] Jurgen Bartsch at Rotten Library. Retrieved January 16, 2006.

[15] Price, Deb. The Bellingham Herald, July 4, 1998: Two women's love made 'America' beautiful.[5]

[16] [6] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 16 2006.

[17] [7] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 18 2006.

[18] [8] About.com. Retrieved January 18 2006.

[19] [9] Out.com. Retrieved January 18 2006.

[20] [10] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 18 2006.

[21] [11] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 18 2006.

[22] [12] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 18 2006.

[23] [13] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 18 2006.

[24] [14] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 18 2006.

[25] [15] The Villager, July 6-12, 2005. Retrieved January 18, 2006.

[26] [16] Glbtq.com. Retrieved January 19 2006.

[27] [17] Gay.com article. Feb. 10, 2006

[28] Advocate interview with DeBlois, Retrieved March 2006

[29] [18] Bright Lights Film Journal on Fassbinder

[30] [19]

[31] [20] Retrieved Jan 2006

[32] [21] Retrieved Jan 2006

[33] [22] Gay.com on Michael Jeter. Retrieved Jan 2006

[34] [23]Retrieved Jan 2006

[35] 'Arch Smith, Timothy - Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English "Uranian" Poets from 1889 to 1930 (Routledge & Kegan Paul

[36] [24] Elton John's 'marriage' certificate released (GG2.NET NEWS [30/12/2005]). Retrieved Jan 2006

[37] Johnston, Jill -Jasper Johns: Privileged Information. ISBN 0500017360

[38] [25] Retrieved Jan 2006

[39] [26] Retrieved Jan 2006

[40] [27] Retrieved Jan 2006

[41] [28] Retrieved Jan 2006

[42] Caserta, Peggy, Going Down with Janis, Dell, New York, 1974

[43] Echols, Alice, Scars of Sweet Paradise, Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1999, p. 251.
:"If Janis didn't boast about sleeping with women, she didn't deny the fact either." [When a Bay Area paper said she was a lesbian, she told her friend Richard Hundgen,] "You...tell this bitch that Janis has slept with thousands of men and a few hundred women.")

[44] [29] Retrieved Jan 2006

[45] [30] Retrieved Jan 2006

[46] [31] Retrieved Jan 2006

[47] Montreal Mirror on Bruc LaBruce

[48] David LaChapelle's website

[49] Nathan Lane in the Guardian Retrieved Jan 2006

[50] Tom Lanoye in GLBTQ.com

[51] Derek Laud discussed on BBC

[52] Jess Liberty, Coming out as a happily married bisexual. Retrieved Jan 2006

[53] LA Times obituary and Lance Loud, Retrieved Jan 2006

[54] Greg Louganis on lgcsc.org. Retrived Jan 2006

[55] [32] Lover of Hilda Matheson, Mary Campbell, and Violet (Keppel) Trefusis

[56] [33]

[57] [34] Self-description by Alex Sanchez of his realization of his sexuality in childhood

[58] [35]

[59] [36] Retrieved Jan 2006

[60] The Kid : What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant by Dan Savage

[61] [37]

[62] [38] Mention of Francesco Scavullo's companion

[63] [39]

[64] [40]

[65] [41]

[66] Adam Shankman Advocate interview

[67] The Laramie Project, The Matthew Shepard Story.

[68] Kahan, Sylvia, Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, University of Rochester Press, 2003.

[69] [42] Liz Smith interview with Larry King. Retrieved Jan 2006

[70] Secrest, Meryle Stephen Sondheim : A Life, 780679448174

[71] ttp://www.thevillager.com/villager_88/susansontag71.html

[72] [43] Retrieved Jan 2006

[73] [44] BBC on Michael Stipe's coming out

[74] Retrieved Jan 2006

[75] [45]

[76] [46]

[77] [47] New York Times Magazine on Kenji Yoshino

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