Gays and Lesbians in History

Famous Gays and Lesbians in History
Sappho (600 B.C.) Greek Poetess

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek Teacher and Philosopher

Plato (427-347 B.C.) Greek Teacher and Philosopher

Alexander The Great (356-323 B.C.) Macedonian King and Military Leader

Wu (140-87 B.C.) Chinese Emperor

Hadrian (76-138 A.D.) Roman Emperor

Richard the Lion Hearted (1157-1199) English King and Crusader

Edward II (1254-1327) English King

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian Renaissance Artist, Teacher, Scientist and Inventor

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Italian Renaissance Artist and Sculptor

Montezuma II (1480-1520) Aztec Emperor

Julius III (1487-1555) Catholic Pope

Ieyasu Tokugawa (1542-1616) Japanese Shogun and founder of the Edo Shogunate

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British Statesman and Writer

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet

Christina (1626-1689) Swedish Queen
Peter the Great (1672-1725) Russian Czar (pictured at left)

Frederick the Great (1712-1786) Prussian King and Military Leader

Madame de Stael (1766-1817) French Writer and Intellectual

Lord Byron (1788-1824) British Poet

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish Poet and Writer

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Euro-American Writer and Journalist

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Euro-American Philosopher, Naturalist, and Peace Activist

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Euro-American Poet

Herman Melville (1819-1891) Euro-American Writer

Chief Crazy Horse (Tashunca witco) (1849-1877) Oglala Sioux Chief

Peter I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian Composer (pictured at right)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Writer and Dramatist

Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) British Composer, Writer, and Activist

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French Writer

Sergei Diaghileff (1872-1929) Russian Ballet Impresario

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) British Writer

Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) Russian Ballet Dancer

Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) British Author and Gay Rights Pioneer

Willa Cather (1873-1947) Euro-American Writer and Critic

Colette (1873-1954) French Writer and Actress

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British Writer and Dramatist

Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) Euro-American Writer; Stein's Domestic Partner

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Euro-American Writer and Art Collector (pictured at right, photo by Carl Van Vechten); Toklas' Domestic Partner

Bessie Smith (1894-1937) African-American Blues Singer and Entertainer

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) British Writer

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British Writer and Publisher

Ernst Rohm (1887-1933) German Nazi and SA Leader

T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (1888-1935) British Soldier

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French Writer and Filmmaker

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British Economist and Nobel Prize Winner

Cole Porter (1893-1964) Euro-American Composer

Bayard Rustin (1910-87) African-American Civil Rights, Labor Rights, & Peace Activist/Leader

Alan Turing (1912-1954) British Mathematician and Computer Scientist

James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American Writer and Civil Rights Activist

Truman Capote (1924-1984) Euro-American Author

Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) Euro-American Dramatist

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) Belgian-American Writer

Federico Garcia Lorca (1894-1936) Spanish Poet and Dramatist

Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) British Author

W.H. Auden (1907-1973) British Poet and Writer

Harvey Milk (1930-1978) Euro-American Politician

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) African-American Writer and Activist

Billie Jean King (1943 - ) Euro-American Tennis Champion and Activist

Martina Navratilova (1956- ) Czechoslovakian-American Tennis Champion and Activist

Andy Warhol (1930-1987) Euro-American Pop Artist

Frieda Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexican Artist and Activist

Gore Vidal (1925- ) Euro-American Writer

Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) Russian dancer The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation

Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) British Singer/songwriter/musician

Elton John (1947 - ) British Singer/songwriter/musican

Janis Ian (1951 - ) Euro-American Singer/songwriter/musician

Nathan Lane (1956 - ) Euro-American Actor

Ellen Degeneres (1958 - ) Euro-American Comedian/actor
Melissa Etheridge (1961 - ) Euro-American Singer/songwriter/musician (pictured at right) Click here for a sample of Melissa's music from her official website. Requires Real Player

k. d. lang (1961 - ) Canadian Singer/songwriter

I'm very proud that all this great personalities was/are homosexual
Thank you Walid

Thanks my friend Walid this information so we got these figures in the gay world ranking, but this form does not own satisfaction. Must be in their ranking by giving each of them to our world. Vharvy Milk made many, many to the world of freedom. It was not a political policy, but who is a professional politician defends gay. He also did not separating this life from politics in order to obtain freedom
Please re-arrangement

Hello dear Khaled
Thanks dear for a nice comment. Am agreed these great persons make a goods things for humanity's history. About Heavy Milk I can't change any thing in this topic ,because I did not write it, I was translate it from a site web, unfortunately I forgot the link ....You can doing it dear Khaled in new topic. What you think my friend?
Thanks again dear for nice comment.
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Hello dear Zouhair.
Me too am so proud because these great persons was gays and lesbians.
Thanks dear ,we miss you so much here.

I would be very honored if these people were writers, poets, athletes Arab ...[b]

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