LGBT Historical Figures

Alexander the Great, Macedonian ruler

Horatio Alger, Jr., US author, founder of orphanages

Hans Christian Anderson, Danish author

Susan B. Anthony, US suffragist

Francis Bacon, English statesman, author

James Baldwin, US author

Ruth Benedict, US anthropologist

Leonard Bernstein, US composer

Lord Bryon, English poet

Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor

Willa Cather, US author

Jean Cocteau, French author, filmmaker

Noel Coward, English author, composer

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist, inventor

Madame de Stael, French writer

Emily Dickinson, US poet

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch monk, philosopher

E.M. Forster, English author

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

Margaret Fuller, US writer, educator

Hadrian, Roman Emperor

Langston Hughes, US author

John Maynard Keynes, English economist

Charles Laughton, English actor

T.E. Lawrence, English soldier, author

Liberace, US Musician

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, dramatist

Audre Lorde, US author

Amy Lowell, US poet

Christopher Marlowe, English writer

Herman Melville, US author

Michelangelo, Italian artist

Harvey Milk, San Francisco supervisor

Yukio Mishima, Japanese author

Montezuma II, Aztec ruler

Anais Nin, French author

Peter the Great, Russian czar

Plato, Greek philosopher

Cole Porter, US composer

Ma Rainey, US singer

Richard the Lion-Hearted, English king

Richard II, English king

Marlon Riggs, filmmaker

Eleanor Roosevelt, US stateswoman

Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, Syria

Sappho, Greek philosopher, poet

May Sarton, US author

Gertrude Stein, US author, poet

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer

Alice B. Toklas, US author

Wu Tsao, Chinese poet

Alan Turing, English mathematician

Andy Warhol, US artist

Walt Whitman, US author, poet

Oscar Wilde, Irish author

Tennessee Williams, US playwright

Virginia Woolf, English author

 

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