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This is a partial list of confirmed and debated '''famous lesbian, bisexual, or gay people'''. The historical concept and definition of [[sexual orientation]] has changed greatly over time— the word "gay" wasn't used to describe sexual orientation until the mid [[20th century]]. See [[homosexuality]] and [[bisexuality]] for more about the primary (and by far the most controversial) distinguishing criterion of "lesbigay" people.

This is a list of notable<!--See [[Wikipedia:Notability]].--> [[gay men]], [[lesbian]] or [[bisexual]] people who have been open about their sexuality.

Some historical figures on this list wouldn't be considered "lesbigay" by today's standards, but they are included here because they were known to have had same-sex relationships. But even by today's standards, a relationship or two doesn't necessarily mean one is [[bisexual]]. Many people who identify as [[gay]] or [[lesbian]] have had different-gender relationships in their youth, and many who identify as [[heterosexual]] have experimented with same-sex relationships. Due to social norms that have remained consistent throughout [[history]], little information about such matters when discussing historical figures is available; therefore, only educated guesses can be made, based on limited evidence.

The definition of [[sexual orientation]] has changed greatly over time and the general term "[[gay]]" was not used to describe sexual orientation until the mid 20th century. A number of different classification schemes have been used to describe sexual orientation since the mid-19th century. Much of the research about sexual orientation has failed to define the term at all, making it difficult to reconcile the results of different studies.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shively|first1=Michael G.|last2=Jones|first2=Christopher|last3=De Cecco|first3=John P. |title=Research on sexual orientation: definitions and methods |journal=[[Journal of Homosexuality]] |year=1984 |volume= 9 |issue= 2/3 |pages=127–136 |doi=10.1300/J082v09n02_08 |pmid=6376622 |issn=0091-8369}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerdes |first1=Lilly C.|title=The Developing Adult |year=1988 | edition=2nd |___location=Austin, Texas |publisher=Butterworth Legal Publishers |isbn=978-0409101881}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sell |first1=Randall L. |title=Defining and Measuring Sexual Orientation: A Review |journal=[[Archives of Sexual Behavior]] |date=December 1997 |volume= 26 |issue= 6 |pages=643–658 |doi=10.1023/A:1024528427013 |pmid=9415799 |s2cid=29774549 |issn=0004-0002 |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/context/defining.html|url-access=subscription }} ("How Do You Define 'Sexual Orientation'?" excerpt via [[PBS Frontline]].)</ref>

==Controversy==

However, most definitions include a psychological component (such as the direction of an individual's erotic desire) and/or a behavioural component (which focuses on the sex of the individual's sexual partner/s). Some prefer to simply follow an individual's self-definition or [[Identity (social science)|identity]]. The high prevalence of people from the West on this list may be due to [[societal attitudes toward homosexuality]]. The [[Pew Research Center]]'s 2013 Global Attitudes Survey found that there is “greater acceptance in more [[Secularity|secular]] and affluent countries,” with "publics in 39 countries [having] broad acceptance of homosexuality in North America, the European Union, and much of Latin America, but equally widespread rejection in predominantly Muslim nations and in Africa, as well as in parts of Asia and in Russia. Opinion about the acceptability of homosexuality is divided in Israel, Poland and Bolivia.”<ref name=PewGlobal>{{Cite web|title=The Global Divide on Homosexuality|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Pew-Global-Attitudes-Homosexuality-Report-REVISED-MAY-27-2014.pdf|date=June 4, 2013|website=[[Pew Research Center]]|access-date=November 7, 2019}} (Updated May 27, 2014.)</ref> {{As of|2013|post=,||df=}} Americans are divided: A majority (60 percent) believes [[homosexuality]] should be accepted, while 33 percent disagree.<ref name=PewGlobal /> Attitudes towards homosexuality in Latin American countries have increasingly been more legally tolerant, but Mexico and Brazil have remained unaccepting about the subject.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mexico's Mindset Shifting on Homosexual Rights |url=http://www.realtruth.org/news/070323-001-societylifestyles.html |website=The Real Truth |date=March 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070331094854/http://www.realtruth.org/news/070323-001-societylifestyles.html |archive-date=March 31, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Time to Stop Homophobic Crimes in Latin America and the Caribbean |url=http://www.paho.org/English/D/COR-AguaBuena-Article-Eng-Feb-06.htm |website=[[Pan American Health Organization]] |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |date=March 2006}}</ref>

It is important to note that the sexual orientation of famous individuals is often fodder for [[tabloid]] press. As such, it is often subject to rumor simply because of a tabloid article. Some [[celebrity|stars]], especially those about whom rumors most often circulate, wish to maintain a public image of heterosexuality&mdash;perhaps believing that assertions to the contrary would negatively affect their profitability&mdash;and are vigorous in their legal pursuit of those who would question their heterosexuality. An excellent example of this is actor [[Tom Cruise]], who has been involved in at least three such lawsuits. In [[1998]], he successfully sued a [[United Kingdom|British]] tabloid that alleged that his [[marriage]] to [[Nicole Kidman]] was a sham designed to cover up his homosexuality. He obtained a default judgment against a gay [[erotic actor|porn actor]] ([[Chad Slater]], aka "Kyle Bradford") who had given an [[interview]] to a tabloid newspaper in which he claimed he had a sexual relationship with Tom Cruise, and he sued [[Michael Davis (magazine publisher)|Michael Davis]], a [[magazine]] [[publisher]], who alleged that he had [[photograph]]s that would prove Tom Cruise was homosexual: this suit was dropped in exchange for a public statement by Davis that Tom Cruise was heterosexual. Because of the threat of [[litigation]], it is considered prudent not to assert the homosexuality or bisexuality of a celebrity unless the celebrity has personally publicly asserted it. Some homosexual groups (e.g., ''Outrage!''), have followed a policy of ''[[outing]]'' public figures regularly for [[politics|political]] purposes, usually only if that person is publicly anti-gay. However, such a policy is generally condemned within the lesbian and gay community as an infringement on a person's [[right to privacy]], because of concerns about their [[family]], their right to cope with their own sexuality on their own terms, or the risk of [[discrimination]] or loss of reputation.

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Note that several of the people on this list were prosecuted for their behaviour under existing "[[Sodomy law|sodomy laws]]".

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==Persons of confirmed lesbian, gay or bisexual orientation==

Wikipedians: Edit this list with caution, because misidentifying the sexual identity of living individuals can lead to a charge of [[libel]]. It has not been tested whether Wikipedia's sponsor, Bomis, is liable for libel in the Wikipedia. Furthermore, categorization of historical figures no longer alive to define their own sexual orientation often leads to pointless debate. Recognize that just as adding non-gay people to this list would be wrong, removing gay people from this list is also wrong. You should justify additions or removals on the list's talk page: providing written sources would be best. The most convincing evidence about living persons would be a self-description by that individual.

The following list includes '''notable''' people who have self-identified as homosexual or bisexual.

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* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: A]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Ba–Bh]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Bi–Bz]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: C]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: D–E]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: F]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: G]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: H]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: I–J]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: K]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: L]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: M]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: N–O]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: P–Q]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: R]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sa–Sc]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sd–Si]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sj–Sz]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: T–V]]

* [[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: W–Z]]

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==See also==

== Persons of confirmed homosexual or bisexual orientation ==

* [[Lists of bisexual people]]

The following list includes those people who have confirmed their homosexual or bisexual orientation or whose homosexual or bisexual orientation is not debated.

* [[List of LGBT African Americans]]

* [[List of LGBTQ Jews]]

* [[Lists of LGBTQ people]]

* [[List of people with non-binary gender identities]]

* [[List of transgender people]]

* [[LGBTQ]]

;Fictional

===A===

* [[Lists of LGBTQ figures in fiction and myth]]

*[[Louise Abbéma]], French painter, relationship with [[Sarah Bernhardt]]

*[[Berenice Abbott]], U.S. photographer

*[[Roberta Achtenberg]], US Politician

*[[Jean Acker]], American Actress

*[[Valentine Ackland]], British writer

*[[Mercedes de Acosta]], American poet, playwright and costume designer

*[[Sir Harold Acton]], British art writer, aesthete

*[[Jane Addams]], American social reformer

*[[Edward Albee]], American Playwright (''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'')

*[[Alexander the Great]], [[Macedon]]ian King and conquerer of Eurasia, bisexual

*[[Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov]], Russian mathematician

*[[Francesco Algarotti]], academic

*[[Waheed Alli, Baron Alli]], UK TV industry executive and life member of the [[House of Lords]]

*[[Néstor Almendros]], Spanish [[Academy Award]]-winning [[cinematographer]]

*[[Pedro Almodóvar]] Spanish director, Oscar winner

*[[Chad Allen]], American actor

*[[Peter Allen]], Australian entertainer, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001).

*[[Ted Allen]], food and wine guru on ''[[Queer Eye]]''

*[[Marc Almond]], British singer

*[[Dennis Altman]], Australian writer, educator, gay activist

*[[Scott Amedure]], victim in the "[[Jenny Jones (presenter)|Jenny Jones]] murder"

*[[Alejandro Amenábar]], Spanish filmmaker

*[[Nena Cherry|Dawn Marie Anderson]], bi-sexual American porn actress known as Nina Cherry

*[[Enza Anderson]], Canadian drag queen and political gadfly

*[[Ruth Anderson]], composer

*[[Jerzy Andrzejewski]], Polish writer

*[[Kenneth Anger]], American filmaker

*[[Steve Antin]], American actor

*[[Antinous]], Lover of powerful Roman military commander and emperor [[Hadrian]]

*[[Gloria E. Anzaldua]], Famous Chicana Lesbian Writer

*[[Louis Aragon]], French poet, bisexual - documented in Ruth Brandon's "Surreal Lives"

*[[Gregg Araki]], director of Doom Generation and The Living End

*[[Denys Arcand]], director of "[[The Barbarian Invasions]]" (''Les invasions barbares'')

*[[Reinaldo Arenas]], Cuban poet, author of "Before Night Falls" (''Antes que anochezca'')

*[[Aristomenes]], Ancient Greek military commander

*[[Joan Armatrading]], singer-songwriter

*[[Neil Armfield]], Australian theatre director

*[[Billie Joe Armstrong]], songwriter, frontman of the American band [[Green Day]], stated he was bisexual in an interview in The Advocate, January 24, 1995.

*[[Alexis Arquette]], American actor

*[[Claudio Arrau]], Chilean pianist

*[[John Ashbery]], American poet

*[[Kaitlyn Ashley]], bi-sexual American porn actress

*[[Othniel Askew]], American assassin

*[[Frederick Ashton|Sir Frederick Ashton]], British choreographer

*[[Asophicus]], Lover of [[Epaminondas]]

*[[Kutlug Ataman]], Turkish artist

*[[W. H. Auden]], British poet

*[[Kevin Aviance]], dance music singer

===B=References==

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*[[Francis_Bacon_(painter)|Francis Bacon]], British painter

*[[Francis Bacon]], British philosopher and scientist

*[[Joan Baez]], American singer, bisexual

*[[Paul Bailey]], British author

*[[Josephine Baker]], Singer, actress, French resistance member during WWII, bisexual

*[[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]], American author

*[[Tammy Baldwin]] - member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] ([[United States Democratic Party|D]] - [[Wisconsin]])

*[[Alan Ball (screenwriter)|Alan Ball]], writer (''[[American Beauty (1999 movie)|American Beauty]]'', "[[Six Feet Under]]")

*[[Tallulah Bankhead]], Actress

*[[Samuel Barber]], U.S. composer

*[[Jillian Barberie]], tv hostess, actress, bisexual

*[[Clive Barker]], Author, director, artist, known primarily for his work in the [[Horror fiction|horror]] genre

*[[Djuna Barnes]], Novelist, bisexual

*[[Fred Barnes]] (Frederick Jester Barnes), Musical Hall singer.

*[[Tim Barnett]], New Zealand member of parliament

*[[Jean Barraqué]], French composer

*[[José Luis Barry]], Cuban pianist and singer famous on Puerto Rican [[television]] and newspapers; came out as gay on one of his [[El Vocero]] columns

*[[Michael Barrymore]], British comedian

*[[Drew Barrymore]], actress, bisexual

*[[Roland Barthes]], French literary theorist

*[[Paul Bartel]], American filmaker

*[[Katharine Lee Bates]], writer of "[[America the Beautiful]]" [http://www.lesgo.com/articles/america.html]

*[[Terry Baum]], American playwright and congressional candidate

*[[Billy Bean]], former major league baseball player

*[[Amanda Bearse]], American actor ("[[Married with Children|Married...with Children]]"), director

*[[Cecil Beaton]], British photographer, [[Tony Award]]-winning set designer and [[Academy Award]]-winning costume designer

*[[Maria Beatty]], American filmmaker

*[[Simone de Beauvoir]], French philosopher and novelist, bisexual

*[[Alison Bechdel]], American cartoonist (''Dykes to Watch Out For'')

*[[Brendan Behan]], Irish writer

*[[Andy Bell]], British singer

*[[Chester Bennington]], songwriter, singer in the American band [[Linkin Park]], bisexual

*[[A C Benson]], UK writer of the words 'Land of Hope and Glory'; 2 of his brothers (all were sons of the Archbishop of Canterbury) were also gay

*[[Gladys Bentley]], American [[blues]] singer

*[[Christopher Bernau]], stage actor known for his [[Shakespeare]] roles, as well as roles on soap operas (Alan Spaulding on ''[[The Guiding Light]]'')

*[[Sandra Bernhard]], American comedian, singer, author and actor, bisexual

*[[Sarah Bernhardt]], French actress

*[[Leonard Bernstein]], U.S. composer and conductor, bisexual, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001).

*[[Sarah Bettens]], leading vocal of [[K's Choice]]

*[[Ole von Beust]], mayor of [[Hamburg]]

*[[James Bidgood]], US photographer and filmmaker (''[[Pink Narcissus]]'')

*[[Thom Bierdz]], [[soap opera]] actor most famous for his role on ''[[The Young and the Restless]]''

*[[Elizabeth Birch]], former head of [[Human Rights Campaign]], longtime partner of Hillary Rosen (see below)

*[[Jón Þor (Jónsi) Birgisson]], singer and guitarist of [[Icelandic]] band [[Sigur Rós]]

*[[Marie-Claire Blais]], [[Quebec]] novelist

*[[Ross Bleckner]], American artist

*[[Neil Blewett]], Australian Labor politician 1977-94; Minister for Health 1983-91; High Commissioner to the United Kingdom 1995-98

*[[Marc Blitzstein]], American theater composer

*[[Anthony Blunt]], British art-historian and traitor

*[[Dirk Bogarde|Sir Dirk Bogarde]], British actor

*[[Chastity Bono]], American activist, lesbian, daughter of [[Cher (singer)|Cher]] and [[Sonny Bono]]

*[[Josep Borrell Fontelles]], Europarlamentary from the [[PSOE]] (an Spanish marxist party)

*[[Sandro Botticelli]], Italian painter

*[[Michel Marc Bouchard]], [[Canada|Canadian]] playwright (''[[Les feluettes]]'')

*[[Jane Bowles]], American author, married to [[Paul Bowles]]

*[[Paul Bowles]], American expatriate author and once composer, married to Jane Bowles, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001).

*[[Karin Boye]], Swedish poet and novelist

*[[Edwin Emmanuel Bradford|E. E. Bradford]], [[Uranian poetry|Uranian]] poet

*[[Ben Bradshaw]], British politician

*[[Wilfrid Brambell]], British actor (''[[Steptoe & Son]]'')

*[[Scott Brison]], Canadian member of Parliament and Minister of Public Works and Government Services

*[[Benjamin Britten]], British composer, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001).

*[[David Brock]], American journalist and author.

*[[Nicole Brossard]], [[Quebec]] poet and novelist

*[[Bob Brown]], Australian senator

*[[Lady Bunny]], drag performer

*[[Guy Burgess]], Spy

*[[Glenn Burke]], American baseball player

*[[William S. Burroughs]], American [[Beat]] author (''[[Naked Lunch]], [[Junky]]'')

*[[Dan Butler]], American actor

*[[Judith Butler]]

*[[Samuel Butler]], UK novelist '[[Erewhon]]'

===C===

*[[John Cage]], highly influential American composer of [[aleatoric music]] and partner of [[Merce Cunningham]]

*[[Caligula]], [[Roman emperor]]

*[[Andrew Calimach]], American author of Romanian extraction

*[[Simon Callow]], British Actor

*[[Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès]], French lawyer and statesman, author of the Code Napoléon

*[[Rhona Cameron]], British Comedienne, TV Presenter

*[[Caphisodorus]], Lover of [[Epaminondas]] who died with him in battle

*[[Truman Capote]], American author

*[[Claudia Card]], academic

*[[Edward Carpenter]], poet

*[[Chris Carter (politician)|Chris Carter]], New Zealand Minister of Conservation, Minister of Local Government and Minister for Ethnic Affairs

*[[Nell Carter]], actress/singer (star of ''[[Gimme a Break]]'')

*[[Giacomo Casanova]], seducer

*[[Roger Casement]], Irish patriot

*[[Michael Cashman]], British actor and politician

*[[Maggie Cassella]], Canadian comedian

*[[Luis Cernuda]], Spanish playwright

*[[Graham Chapman]], British comedian

*[[Tracy Chapman]], singer/songwriter

*[[Richard Chamberlain]], American actor

*[[Mary Cheney]], daughter of U.S. vice-president [[Dick Cheney]]

*[[Leslie Cheung]], Hong Kong singer/actor

*[[Margaret Cho]], American comedian, bisexual

*[[Wayson Choy]], [[Canada|Canadian]] novelist

*[[Ralph Chubb]], British poet, artist, printer, and prophet

*[[Cimon]], Ancient Greek military commander, aristocrat, and philanthropist

*[[David Cicilline]], American politician; Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island

*[[James Clark(Britain)|James Clark]], British ambassador to [[Luxembourg]]

*[[Montgomery Clift]], American actor

*[[Kate Clinton]], American comedian

*[[James Coco]], American actor

*[[Jean Cocteau]], French director and artist, lover of [[Jean Marais]]

*[[Roy Cohn]], associate of U.S. Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]]

*[[Colette]] French novelist, music hall performer, bisexual

*[[Cyril Collard]], French writer, director (''Les Nuits Fauves''), bisexual

*[[Dennis Cooper]], US novelist, poet, and critic

*[[Aaron Copland]], American composer, documented in [[Howard Pollack]]'s biography, ''[[Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man]]''

*[[John Corigliano]], American composer

*[[Noel Coward]], British writer

*[[Henry Cowell]], highly influential American composer

*[[Darby Crash]], lead singer of American punk band [[The Germs]]

*[[Gavin Crawford]], [[Canada|Canadian]] television comic

*[[Rene Crevel]], French surrealist author

*[[Quentin Crisp]], British actor, author, and wit

*[[Rodney Croome]], Australia gay activist

*[[Aleister Crowley]], occultist

*[[Howard Cruse]], American underground cartoonist

*[[Wilson Cruz]], American actor and activist

*[[Alan Cumming]], British actor

*[[Andrew Cunanan]], American [[spree killer]], murdered [[Gianni Versace]]

*[[Merce Cunningham]], choreographer and partner of [[John Cage]]

*[[John Curry]], British figure skater, [[1976 Winter Olympics]] gold medalist

*[[Catie Curtis]], American singer-songwriter

===D===

*[[Jeffrey Dahmer]], American serial killer and cannibal

*[[Dan Dailey]], American actor and dancer

*[[Dave Davies]], British rock musician, see http://www.davedavies.com

*[[Libby Davies]], Canadian member of parliament

*[[Peter Maxwell Davies]], British composer

*[[The Singing Nun|Jeanine Deckers]], Belgian nun and singer-songwriter

*[[Ellen DeGeneres]], writer, comedian and actor

*[[Diane Dimassa]], cartoonist and author, ''HotHead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist''

*[[Divine (Glen Milstead)|Divine]], actor (in many of [[John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]]' films)

*[[Dreuxilla Divine]], transvestite

*[[Bertrand Delanoë]], mayor of Paris

*[[Samuel Delany]], [[science fiction]] author

*[[Lea DeLaria]], American comedian, jazz singer, author

*[[Portia de Rossi]], actress

*[[Andy Dick]], American actor and comedian, bisexual

*[[Marlene Dietrich]], actress, bisexual

*[[Ani DiFranco]], American folk singer, bisexual

*[[Elio Di Rupo]], Belgian politician

*[[Roman Dmowski]], Polish politician, black mailed by the [[Okhranka]], [[Imperial Russia]]'s secret police

*[[Candas Dorsey]], Canadian science fiction author

*[[Joseph Doucé]], [[psychologist]] and [[Baptist]] minister, founder of the [[International Lesbian and Gay Association]]

*[[Brian Dowling]], 2001 British ''[[Big Brother (UK)|Big Brother]]'' winner

*Lord [[Alfred Douglas]], son of [[John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry]] and partner of [[Oscar Wilde]].

*[[Kyan Douglas]], grooming guru on ''[[Queer Eye for the Straight Guy]]''

*[[Diane Duane]], author, bisexual

*[[Marcel Duchamp]], artist, inventor of the found object

*[[Don Dunstan]], Australian Labor politician, Premier of South Australia; married twice; bisexual

===E===

*[[Hilton Edwards]], actor, co-founder of Dublin's Gate Theatre, partner of [[Micheál MacLiammoir]]

*[[Denholm Elliott]], actor, bisexual

*[[Ruth Ellis (American)|Ruth Ellis]], lesbian matriarch and only known African-American centenarian lesbian

*[[Epaminondas]], Thebian military commander and statesmen

*[[Brian Epstein]], British, manager of [[The Beatles]]

*[[Melissa Etheridge]], American singer, lesbian, musician, composer

*[[Uzi Even]], first openly gay member of the Israeli [[Knesset]]

*[[Kenny Everett]], British DJ and comic

*[[Rupert Everett]], British actor, gay

===F===

*[[Richard Fairbrass]], British singer, "Right Said Fred", bisexual

*[[Justin Fashanu]], British Footballer

*[[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]], German movie director

*[[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria]], former Tsar of Bulgaria

*[[Harvey Fierstein]], American actor, playwright (''[[Torch Song Trilogy]]'')

*[[Thom Filicia]], home design guru on ''[[Queer Eye for the Straight Guy]]''

*[[Timothy Findley]], [[Canada|Canadian]] novelist and playwright

*[[Tom Ford]], American fashion designer

*[[E. M. Forster]], British author

*[[Jackie Forster]], TV news presenter/journalist and [[Minorities Research Group]] member

*[[Pim Fortuyn]], assassinated Dutch politician

*[[Per-Kristian Foss]], Finance Minister of [[Norway]]

*[[Jen Foster]], American singer/songwriter

*[[Michel Foucault]], French scholar, partnered with [[Daniel Defert]] from 1963 till his death, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). Also dated [[Jean Barraque]].

*[[Jorja Fox]], actress (CSI)

*[[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]] (D, MA), US Representative

*[[Donald Friend]], Australian artist

*[[Stephen Fry]], British actor, comedian, and novelist

*[[Mac Foster]], austin texas

===G===

*[[John Wayne Gacy]], American serial killer, convicted of the rape and murder of thirty-three men

*[[Robert Gant]], American actor

*[[Greta Garbo]], actress

*[[Federico García Lorca]], Spanish poet and playwright, martyred in the [[Spanish Civil War]]

*[[Jonas Gardell]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] artist and "riksbög".

*[[Stephen Gately]], Irish singer and ex member of the boyband [[Boyzone]]

*[[David Geffen]], music producer and record executive, gay

*[[Jean Genet]], French writer

*[[Kitty Genovese]], crime victim [http://www.mountainpridemedia.org/oitm/issues/2004/04apr2004/editorial.htm]

*[[Chrissy Gephardt]], daughter of [[United States|US]] [[Congress of the United States|Congressman]] and 2004 presidential candidate [[Dick Gephardt|Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt]]

*[[Boy George]], British musician

*[[Ashlyn Gere]], bi-sexual American porn actress

*[[David Gerrold]], science fiction writer, inventor of [[Tribble]]s

*[[André Gide]], French novelist and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Laureate]]

*[[John Gielgud|Sir John Gielgud OM CH]], Theatre and film actor

*[[Uzma Gillani]], Pakistani actress

*[[Candace Gingrich]], activist, half-sister of former U.S. Speaker of the House [[Newt Gingrich]]

*[[Allen Ginsberg]], Beat poet ("Howl")

*[[Chyna Girl]], drag performer and model (BACARDI's Tom, Dick and Harry ad campaign)

*[[Neil Giuliano]], [[Tempe, Arizona]] mayor, declared himself homosexual in public

*[[Luis Gonzalo]], Argentine illustrator and designer

*[[Brian Greig]], [[Australia|Australian]] [[Australian Senate|senator]]

*[[Julie Goodyear]], UK television actress ([[Coronation Street]])

*[[Michael Guest]], [[Ambassadors_from_the_United_States|US ambassador]] to [[Romania]]. Appointed by President [[George W. Bush|Bush]] in 2001. He resides at the ambassador's residence in Bucharest with his partner Alex Nevarez, who was publicly acknowledged by former Secretary of State [[Colin Powell]] at his swearing in.

*Sir [[Alec Guinness]], bisexual actor who was arrested while [[cottaging]] in [[1948]], in the 50's he converted to Catholicism

*[[Gorgidas]], [[Thebes (Greece)|Theban]] military leader of the [[Sacred band]] of elite troops of paired gay lovers.

*[[Juan Goytisolo]], Spanish writer

*[[Judy Grahn]], American poet

*[[Gustaf Gründgens]], German actor and stage director

===H===

*[[Hadrian]], Powerful Roman military commander and emperor

*[[Leisha Hailey]], American musician and actress

*[[William Haines]], American actor

*[[Rob Halford]], British singer ([[Judas Priest]])

*[[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

*[[George Frideric Handel]], German-British composer

*[[G. H. Hardy]], British mathematician

*[[Lou Harrison]], American composer

*[[Randy Harrison]], American actor ([[Queer As Folk]])

*[[Deborah Harry]], singer in the group [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], bisexual American singer

*[[Lorenz Hart]], Broadway lyricist, who penned his work with [[Richard Rodgers]]

*[[Nina Hartley]], bi-sexual American porn actress

*[[Richard Hatch (reality TV)|Richard Hatch]], ''[[Survivor (television series)|Survivor]]'' winner

*[[Sophie B. Hawkins]], musician, bisexual

*[[Nigel Hawthorne]], British actor

* George Hartree, British actor, who took the name of [[Charles Hawtrey]], (not to be confused with Sir Charles Hawtrey, the victorian actor)

*[[Harry Hay]], American [[gay rights]] activist, founder of the [[Mattachine Society]]

*[[Bruce Hayes]], American gold medalist uring the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in swimming

*[[Todd Haynes]], director

*[[Michael Hendricks]], Canadian gay rights activist, half of first couple to [[same-sex marriage in Canada|legally marry]] in Quebec

*[[Sighsten Herrgård]], designer, trendsetter. Became the face of [[AIDS]] in Sweden.

*[[Alan Hollinghurst]], British author (''The Swimming Pool Library'')

*[[John Holmes (actor)|John Holmes]], American porn actor, bisexual

*[[James Hormel]], former [[Ambassadors from the United States|US 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, bisexual

*[[Jerry Hunt]], American composer from Texas

===I===

*[[Janis Ian]], American Singer/songwriter

*[[Witi Ihimaera]], New Zealand author, wrote ''Whale Rider''

*[[Power Infiniti]], International circuit party performance artist

*[[William Inge]], American dramatist

*[[Christopher Isherwood]], British novelist

*[[Küçük &#304;skender]], Turkish poet

===J===

*[[Tony Jackson]], American pianist and composer

*[[Max Jacob]], poet

*[[Tove Jansson]], author of the [[Moomin]] books

*[[Michel Jasmin]], French-Canadian daytime television talk show host, homosexual

*[[Michael Jeter]], American actor, "[[Mr. Noodle's Brother|Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle]]" of [[Sesame Street]]

*[[Joan Jett]], musician

*[[Sarah Orne Jewett]], American author

*[[Edmund John]], [[Uranian poetry|Uranian]] poet

*Sir [[Elton John]], British singer, musician, composer

*[[Jeffrey John]], [[Church of England]] priest

*[[Jasper Johns]], artist

*[[Holly Johnson]], British lead singer for [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]]

*[[Philip Johnson]], American architect

*[[Angelina Jolie]], American actress, bisexual

*[[Janis Joplin]], American singer

*[[Juan Gabriel]], Mexican singer

*[[Mychal F. Judge]], Franciscan priest, [[WTC]] terrorism victim

===K===

*[[Gorden Kaye]], British actor

*[[Johan Kenkhuis]], Dutch Olympic swimmer

*[[Hape Kerkeling]], German comedian

*[[John Maynard Keynes]], British economist

*[[Bernard King]], Australian TV personality, celebrity chef

*[[Billie Jean King]], tennis player, bisexual

*[[Andrew Kinlochan]], member of [[boy band]] [[Phixx]]

*[[The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby]], Justice of the High Court of Australia

*[[James Kirkwood]], American playwright (''[[A Chorus Line]]'')

*[[Steve Kmetko]], U.S. entertainment journalist

*[[Jim Kolbe]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] ([[United States Republican Party|R]]-[[Arizona]])

*[[Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov]], Russian mathematician

*[[David Kopay]], American football player, outed self in autobiography

*[[Ronnie Kray]], One half of the [[Kray twins]]

*[[Carson Kressley]], style guru on ''[[Queer Eye for the Straight Guy]]''

*[[Elvira Kurt]], Canadian comedian

*[[Tony Kushner]], playwright (''[[Angels in America]]'')

===L===

*[[Elaine Lancaster]], American drag performer

*[[Nathan Lane]], American actor and singer

*[[k.d. lang]], Canadian country and blues singer, musician, lesbian

*[[Laurier L. LaPierre]], Canadian broadcaster and [[Senate of Canada|Senator]]

*[[Charles Laughton]], British actor, bisexual

*[[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 couple to [[same-sex marriage in Canada|legally marry]] in Quebec

*[[Mark Leduc]], Canadian Olympic medalist/boxing, 1992

*[[Sook-Yin Lee]], Canadian TV personality, former [[MuchMusic]] VJ, bisexual

*[[Annie Leibowitz]], American photographer

*[[Robert Lepage]], Canadian playwright, actor and film director

*[[Hedda Lettuce]], drag performer

*[[Mark Levengod]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] TV host

*[[José Lezama Lima]], Cuban poet

*[[Jesse Liberty]], American writer. Bisexual

*[[Liberace]], American musician

*[[Brian Linehan]], Canadian TV personality

*[[Little Richard]], American singer and musician, bisexual, has also denounced homosexuality and bisexuality

*[[Kristanna Loken]], actress, model, bisexual

*[[Audre Lorde]], poet, author

*[[Lance Loud]], gay son on [[reality television]] show ''[[An American Family]]''

*[[Greg Louganis]], U.S Olympic high-diver

*[[Matt Lucas]], British comedian

*[[Ernst Ludwig]], Grand Duke of Hesse and The Rhine

*[[Paul Lynde]], American actor and comedian

===M===

*[[Ann-Marie MacDonald]], Canadian author and playwright

*[[Ashley MacIsaac]], Canadian [[fiddle]]r from [[Cape Breton]]

*[[Mary MacLane]], Edwardian-era writer

*[[Micheál MacLiammoir]] actor and co-founder of Dublin's Gate Theatre

*[[Peter Mandelson]], Britain's EU commissioner

*[[Irshad Manji]], Canadian journalist, author, and "Muslim Refusenik".

*[[Thomas Mann]], German author

*[[Erika Mann]], cabaret producer, actress

*[[Robert Mapplethorpe]], American artist, photographer

*[[Jean Marais]], French actor, lover of [[Jean Cocteau]]

*[[Josie Maran]], US model, bisexual

*[[Christopher Marlowe]], [[Elizabethan]] playwright

*[[David Marsden]], Canadian radio broadcaster and music promoter

*[[Heather Matarazzo]], American actress

*[[Holly Matcalf]], gold medal winner in [[rowing]] during the [[1984 Summer Olympics]]

*[[Johnny Mathis]], Singer

*[[William Somerset Maugham]], British writer and dramatist

*[[Armistead Maupin]], American writer (''[[Tales of the City]]'')

*[[Amelie Mauresmo]], French tennis player, lesbian

*[[Steve May]], Arizona state legislator and Army reservist

*[[Roddy McDowall]], U.S. actor and photographer

*[[James McGreevey]], U.S. politician and former governor of [[New Jersey]], resigned in November 2004 after admitting having an extramarital affair with a man

*Sir [[Ian McKellen]], British actor (''[[X-Men]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''), gay rights campaigner

*[[Margaret Mead]], anthropologist

*[[Joe Meek]], British record producer

*[[Meleager (general)]], Greek military commander

*[[Real Menard|Réal Ménard]], Canadian member of parliament

*[[Gian Carlo Menotti]], U.S. composer

*[[Kitty Meow]], International circuit party Icon

*[[Rick Mercer]], [[Canada|Canadian]] television comedian

*[[Freddie Mercury]], British musician ([[Queen (band)|Queen]])

*[[Metrobius]]

*[[George Michael]], British singer ([[Wham]])

*[[Tammy Lynn Michaels]], U.S. actress, partner of Melissa Etheridge

*[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], [[Italian Renaissance]] artist

*[[Harvey Milk]], American politician

*[[Scott Mills]], British Radio DJ

*[[Sal Mineo]], American actor

*[[Frank McGuinness]], [[Ireland|Irish]] playwright

*[[Yukio Mishima]], Japanese author

*[[Isaac Mizrahi]], [[Fashion designer]], [[television]] show host, gay

*[[Albert Mol]], Dutch actor

*[[Tyria Moore]], love partner of serial killer Aileen Wuornos

*[[Cherrie Moraga]], author on lesbian Hispanic themes

*[[Richard Morel]], singer, music producer

*[[Jon Moss]], British musician

*[[Megan Mullally]], US actress, bisexual

*[[Murathan Mungan]], Turkish author, playwright and poet

*[[Glen Murray]], former mayor of [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]]

*[[Boris Moiseev]], Russian singer

===N===

*[[Kathy Najimy]], US actress, bisexual

*[[Martina Navratilova]], tennis champion, lesbian

*[[Alla Nazimova]] (1879-1945), actress

*[[Me'shell Ndegeocello]], singer and guitarist, bisexual

*[[Émile Nelligan]], [[Canada|Canadian]] poet

*[[Robert Newton (athlete)|Rob Newton]], British athlete

*[[John Gambril Nicholson]], [[Uranian poetry|Uranian]] poet

*[[Simon Niemiec]], LGBT activist

*[[Vaslav Nijinsky]], ballet dancer

*[[Anaïs Nin]], French author, bisexual

*[[Cynthia Nixon]], US actress (bisexual?)

*[[Klaus Nomi]], German singer, probably the first celebrity to die of [[AIDS]] (1983)

*[[Peter North]], porn star (primarily heterosexual, but starred in 5 gay porn movies in the early 1980s)

*[[David Norris (campaigner)|David Norris]], Irish senator, [[James Joyce]] scholar [http://www.iol.ie/~atticirl/norris.htm]

*[[Graham Norton]], Irish actor, comedian, chat show host

*[[Rudolf Nureyev]], ballet dancer

===O===

*[[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, lesbian

*[[Eoin O'Duffy]], Irish police commissioner, leader of the 'Blueshirts' and aide to [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)]]

*[[Andrew Olexander]], [[Australia]]n politician, current member of the [[Victorian Legislative Council]]

*[[Pauline Oliveros]], 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

*[[François Ozon]], French writer and film director

===P===

*[[Brian Paddick]], UK Police Commander and nephew of [[Hugh Paddick]]

*[[Hugh Paddick]], British actor

*[[Paetz]], [[Archbishop]] of [[Poznan]]

*[[Camille Paglia]], American author and social critic, bisexual

*[[Peter Paige]], American actor ("[[Queer as Folk]]")

*[[David Paisley]], British actor

*[[Pai Hsien-yung]], Taiwanese writer

*[[Chuck Palahniuk]], American writer, notably of ''[[Fight Club]]''

*[[Antonia Pantojas]], Puerto Rican educator, lesbian

*[[Antonio Pantojas]], Puerto Rican actor, homosexual

*[[Pier Paolo Pasolini]], Italian director and writer

*[[Alex Parks]], winner of [[Fame Academy]], British singer/songwriter

*[[Annise Parker]], Controller, City of Houston

*[[Matthew Parris]], British journalist and former politician

*[[Harry Partch]], American composer and [[just intonation]] instrument inventor

*[[Peter Pears]], English singer

*[[Patrick Pearse]], Irish patriot and leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, whose poetry is littered with homoerotic imagery

*[[Queen Pen]], bisexual rap singer

*[[Anthony Perkins]], American actor

*[[Linda Perry]], singer

*[[Philip II of France]]

*[[Philippe]], duke of Orléans under [[Louis XIV]]

*[[David Hyde Pierce]], American actor

*[[Pink_(musician)|Pink]] rap singer, bisexual

*[[Doug Pinnick]] American singer and musician ("[[King's X]]")

*[[Danny Pintauro]], American actor ("[[Who's the Boss?]]")

*[[Miguel Piñero]], Puerto Rican playwright, bisexual

*[[Plato]]

*[[Carole Pope]], [[Canada|Canadian]] rock singer

*[[Cole Porter]], American Composer and lyricist

*[[Michael Portillo]], former UK Defence Secretary and defeated leadership candidate

*[[Francis Poulenc]], 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." (Who's Who, 2001)

===R===

*[[Gilles de Rais]], [[France|French]] nobleman and [[serial killer]]

*[[Robert Rauschenberg]], American artist

*[[Øyvind Rauset]], (Who's Who, 2001)

*[[Charlie Ray]], American Entrepenuer, Writer

*[[Nicholas Ray]], American film director, bisexual

*[[John Rechy]], American author

*[[Robert Reed]], actor

*[[George Reinholt]], [[soap opera]] actor (Steve Frame on ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'')

*[[Rio Reiser]], German musician ("[[Ton Steine Scherben]]"), bisexual

*[[James Harry Reyos]], confessed murderer, stated he was gay on the [[A&E]] [[television]] channel

*[[Richard I]] the Lion Heart

*[[Christopher Rice]], American author (son of [[Anne Rice]])

*[[Adrienne Rich]], American poet and critic

*[[Bill Richardson (radio host)|Bill Richardson]], Canadian writer and radio broadcaster

*[[Herb Ritts]], American fashion photographer

*[[Ian Roberts]], Australian [[Rugby League]] player

*[[Gene Robinson]], American [[Episcopal Church|Episcopal]] [[bishop]] of [[New Hampshire]]

*[[Svend Robinson]], former Canadian member of parliament

*[[Tom Robinson]], [[United Kingdom|British]] rock musician

*[[Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon|Roche-sur-Yon]], French prince and King of Poland

*[[Jai Rodriguez]], "culture guru" on ''[[Queer Eye]]''

*[[Ernst Röhm]], leader of the [[Nazi]] SA

*[[Cesar Romero]], actor

*[[Ned Rorem]], composer, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001)

*[[Hilary Rosen]], former CEO of the [[RIAA]], longtime partner of Elizabeth Birch (see above)

*[[Jane Rule]], Canadian author

*[[RuPaul]], AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American [[drag queen]]

*[[Bayard Rustin]], [[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===

*[[Marquis de Sade]], 18th century author and philosopher, bisexual

*[[Leontine Sagan]], Austrian film-maker

*[[Victor Salva]], American writer/director ([[Jeepers Creepers]])

*[[Ben Sander]], a.k.a.. [[Brini Maxwell]], drag performer and television host

*[[Emmanuel Sandhu]], Canadian figure skater

*[[Dick Sargent]], American actor, (second "Darrin" on [[Bewitched]])

*[[Dan Savage]], American columnist

*[[David Sedaris]], American essayist and radio personality

*[[Shyam Selvadurai]], Canadian novelist (''Funny Boy'')

*[[Fred Schneider]], lead singer of the B-52s

*[[Pete Shelley]], lead singer of British punk band [[The Buzzcocks]]

*[[Matthew Shepard]], hate crime victim, violently murdered in [[Wyoming]], subject of [[Emmy]] winning films ''[[The Laramie Project]]'' and ''[[The Matthew Shepard Story]]''

*[[Ned Sherrin]], UK broadcaster

*[[Michelangelo Signorile]], columnist, advocate, and pundit

*[[Bill Siksay]], Canadian member of parliament

*[[Mario Silva]], Canadian member of parliament

*[[Bryan Singer]], movie director ([[X-Men]]])

*[[S&#322;awek Starosta]], Polish gay activist

*[[Jeffrey Smart]], Australian painter

*[[Bessie Smith]], American blues singer

*[[Chris Smith (UK politician)|Chris Smith]], UK Politician

*[[Liz Smith (journalist)]], gossip columnist, bisexual

*[[George Smitherman]], Canadian politician ([[Ontario]] cabinet minister) [http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/102303smithermanCabinet.htm]

*[[Socrates]]

*[[Solon]], Greek statesman

*[[Jimmy Somerville]], singer ([[Bronski Beat]], [[The Communards]]) (Who's Who, 2001)

*[[Susan Sontag]], American [[essay|essayist]] and [[novelist]]

*[[Dusty Springfield]], singer

*[[Pam St Clement]], UK television actress ([[Eastenders]])

*[[Mia St. John]], US boxer, bisexual

*[[Gertrude Stein]], American [[expatriate]] author, partner of [[Alice B. Toklas]]

*[[Michael Stipe]], American singer ([[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]), film producer

*[[Jim Stork]], US politician

*[[Billy Strayhorn]], jazz composer, lyricist, arranger, and pianist ([[Duke Ellington]] Orchestra)

*[[Sylvester James|Sylvester]], American singer (Who's Who, 2001)

*[[Gerry Studds]], US politician

*[[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]], [[Roman dictator]]

*[[Andrew Sullivan]], conservative journalist

===T===

*[[Titof]], French hard porn star, bisexual (see http://comingout.free.fr/gpagac15.htm)

*[[Hordur Torfason]], (Who's Who, 2001)

*[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], Russian composer

*[[Neil Tennant]], British musician ([[Pet Shop Boys]])

*[[Mark Tewksbury]], Canadian gold medal winner in the [[1992 Summer Olympics]]

*[[Scott Thompson]], Canadian comedian and actor ([[Kids in the Hall]])

*[[Virgil Thomson]], American theater composer and music critic

*[[Bill Tilden|William Tatem (Bill) Tilden II]], American tennis champion

*[[Colm Tóibín]], Irish novelist

*[[Alice B. Toklas]], 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, lesbian

*[[Pussy Tourette]], drag performer and singer

*[[Pete Townshend]], guitarist of [[The Who]], self-proclaimed bisexual

*[[Trajan]], Roman emperor

*[[Michel Tremblay]], Canadian writer

*[[Esera Tuaolo]], former [[National Football League|NFL]] player

*[[Alan Turing]], British mathematician, computer scientist and theorist

*[[Colin Turnbull]], British anthropologist, later American citizen, Buddhist

*[[Stephen Twigg]], UK Politician, MP, defeated [[Michael Portillo]] in [[1997]] election

=== U ===

*[[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]], German activist, author

===V===

*[[Pierre Vallières]], writer, member of the terrorist [[FLQ]]

*[[Lupe Valdez]], Dallas County, TX Sheriff-Elect (2004)

*[[Michele van Gorp]], [[WNBA]] player for the [[Minnesota Lynx]]

*[[Chavela Vargas]], Mexican singer, who came out as lesbian during an interview with [[Colombia]]n [[television]]

*[[Paul Verlaine]], French poet

*[[Jim Verraros]], singer, actor, ''[[American Idol]]'' contestant

*[[Reginald VelJohnson]], actor (the dad on Urkel-based ''Family Matters'')

*[[Maréchal de Vendôme]], General under [[Louis XIV]]

*[[Compte de Vermandois]], Admiral of France

*[[Gianni Versace]], Italian [[fashion designer]]

*[[Gore Vidal]], American writer, bisexual

===W===

*[[Tom Waddell]], American sports

*[[Rufus Wainwright]], Canadian/American singer

*[[Horace Walpole]], 4th Earl of Orford

*[[Wanda]], American drag performer

*[[Andy Warhol]], American artist and [[pop art]] icon

*[[Tony Warren]], British scriptwriter (creator of ''[[Coronation Street]]'')

*[[John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]], American film director (''[[Pink Flamingos]]'')

*[[Sumner Welles]], U.S. Under Secretary of State 1937-1943

*[[Mae West]], American actress

*[[Suzanne Westenhoefer]], American comedian

*[[Guido Westerwelle]], Leader of the German liberal party [[Free Democratic Party of Germany|FDP]]

*[[James Whale]], American film director

*[[Diane Whipple]], victim in the Presa Canario dog mauling trial

*[[Edmund White]], American novelist (''[[A Boy's Own Story]]'')

*[[Walt Whitman]], American poet (''[[Leaves of Grass]]'')

*[[Tracey Wigginton]], [[Brisbane]]'s "lesbian vampire murderer"

*[[Oscar Wilde]], Irish playwright and bon vivant, imprisoned after being convicted of "gross indecency" for his homosexual behavior.

*[[Thornton Wilder]], playwright ([[Our Town]]) and novelist <!--http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/gaybears/wilder/ which quotes his journals--->

*[[Kenneth Williams]], British actor and diarist

*[[Tennessee Williams]], American playwright

*[[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]], German classical archaeologist and art historian

*[[Paul Winfield]], American actor

*[[Jeanette Winterson]], UK author

*[[Dale Winton]], British television presenter

*[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], Philosopher

*[[Monique Wittig]], academic

*[[Virginia Woolf]], British author

*[[Klaus Wowereit]], mayor of [[Berlin]]

*[[Aileen Wuornos]], serial killer, bisexual

===Y===

*[[Will Young]], British pop singer, winner of ITV's 2001 Pop Idol final, and singer of the million-selling 2002 single "Anything Is Possible / Evergreen"

*[[Felix Yusupov]], Russian prince

===Z===

*[[Pedro Zamora]], Cuban-American [[AIDS]] activist, ''[[The Real World]]'' participant

== Persons of debated lesbian, gay, or bisexual orientation ==

The following list includes those who some people believe there is evidence the person was gay, lesbian or bisexual. More information about what is known about each individual's sexuality '''should be available''' in the individual's '''[[Biographical Listing|biography]].'''

===A===

*[[Christina Aguilera]], US singer, has said she enjoys kissing and looking at women

*[[Akhenaton]], Egyptian [[pharaoh]]

*[[Fernando Allende]], actor

*[[Hans Christian Andersen]], Danish author

*[[Louie Anderson]], ''[[Family Feud]]'' show host

*[[Marie Antoinette]], wife of [[Louis XVI]], bisexual

*[[Aristotle]], Greek philosopher

*[[Susan B. Anthony]], American [[feminist]] and women's [[suffrage]] activist

===B===

*[[Elizabeth Bathory]], Hungarian countess, serial killer

*[[Lucecita Benitez|Lucecita Benítez]], Puerto Rican singer

*[[Richard Benjamin]], US actor, film director; married to [[Paula Prentiss]]

*[[Miguel Bosé]], [[Spain|Spanish]] singer

*[[James Bourne]], member of boyband [[Busted]]

*[[Pierre Bouvier]], singer with band Simple Plan

*[[Ian Buchanan]], [[soap opera]] actor (''[[General Hospital]]'', ''[[The Bold and the Beautiful]]'')

*[[James Buchanan]], 15th President of the United States

*[[Lord Byron]], poet

===C===

*[[Julius Caesar]], Roman emperor, suggested to have had a relationship with King Nicomedes III of Bithynia

*[[Nellie Cashman]], gold prospector

*[[Cristian Castro]], Mexican singer

*[[Willa Cather]], U.S. novelist

*[[Ernest Chausson]], composer

*[[Anderson Cooper]], news anchor

*[[Steven Cojocaru]], fashion expert

*[[Tony Curtis]], American actor

===D===

*[[Salvador Dalí]], Spanish painter

*[[F. Holland Day]], American photographer and publisher

*[[James Dean]], American actor

*[[David Desrosiers]], bassist with band Simple Plan

*[[Edgardo Diaz|Edgardo Díaz]], Menudo creator

*[[Matt Drudge]], Internet gossip publisher

*[[Francis Archibald Douglas]], Lord Drumlanrig (1867-1894), Private Secretary to [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery]]. Drumlanrig was the eldest son of [[John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry]] and elder brother of Lord [[Alfred Douglas]]; according to a biography of [[Oscar Wilde]], ''The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde'' by [[Neil McKenna]], Drumlanrig had a secret affair with Rosebery and committed suicide because this became known to his family.

*[[Guillaume Dufay]], composer

===E===

*[[Edward II]], British monarch

===F===

*[[Alejandro Fernández]], [[Mexico|Mexican]] singer; according to tabloid, had relationship with [[Miguel Bosé]]

*[[Siegfried Fischbacher]], magician

*[[Edward FitzGerald]], poet (informed speculation by at least one authority)

*[[Susan Flannery]], soap opera actress (''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', ''[[The Bold and the Beautiful]]'')

*[[Frederick the Great]], [[eighteenth-century]] [[King]] of [[Prussia]]

===G===

*[[Prince George, Duke of Kent]], British royal (uncle of Queen Elizabeth II)

*[[Gustav V of Sweden]]

*[[Maureen Garrett]], soap opera actress (''[[Guiding Light]]'')

*[[Marvin Gaye]], American singer

*[[Anthony Geary]], soap opera actor, most famous for being one-half of the [[supercouple]] [[Luke and Laura]] on ''[[General Hospital]]''

*[[Cary Grant]], American actor, bisexual (see http://comingout.free.fr/gpanac09.htm)

*[[Thomas Gray]], English poet

===H===

*[[G.Handel]], composer

*[[Richard Bennett Hatfield]], Canadian politician (premier of [[New Brunswick]], 1970-1987)

*[[Davey Havok]], lead singer of [[AFI (band)|AFI]]

*[[Hugh Hefner]], publicly acknowledged to having gay relationships during the [[1970s]]

*[[Adolf Hitler]], Chancellor of the [[Third Reich]]

*[[J. Edgar Hoover]], director of FBI

*[[Howard Hughes]]

*[[Langston Hughes]], American poet and dramatist

*[[Alexander von Humboldt]], German naturalist and explorer

===I===

===J===

*[[Brian Jones]],British guitarist of [[The Rolling Stones]], according to Dave Davies interview in "Uncut"

===K===

*[[Immanuel Kant]], German philosopher

*Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova ([[t.A.T.u.]]), Russian pop group

*[[William R. King]], United States Senator and Vice President under [[Franklin Pierce]]

===L===

*[[Orlando Lasso]], composer

*[[T. E. Lawrence]] (of Arabia), British soldier

*[[Adam Lazzara]], front man of [[Taking Back Sunday]]

* [[John Lennon]] (according to separate biographies by [[Geoffrey Giuliano]] and [[Albert Goldman]])

*[[Abraham Lincoln]] (1809-1869), Sixteenth [[President of the United States]], as argued in the book ''The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln'' (ISBN 0743266390)

*[[Jean-Baptiste Lully]] (1632-1687), composer

*[[Leonardo da Vinci]] (1452-1519), Renaissance architect, musician, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and artist

===M===

*[[Madonna]], American rock singer

*[[Benji Madden]], guitarist for rock band [[Good Charlotte]]

*[[Shane MacGowan]], Irish punk rocker

*[[Katherine Mansfield]], New Zealand author

*[[Ricky Martin]], Lantino singer and [[soap opera]] actor (''[[General Hospital]]'')

*[[Joseph McCarthy]], U.S. politician, see http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/joseph-mccarthy

*[[Walter Mercado]], actor, astrologer

*[[Michelangelo]], Renaissance painter and sculptor

*[[Bernard Montgomery]], British soldier

*[[Modeste Mussorgsky]], composer

*[[Frank Murphy]], Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

===N===

*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]], philosopher

===O===

*[[Titus Oates]], inventor of the "[[Popish Plot]]"

*[[Daisy Ocasio]], Puerto Rican multi-sports star

===P===

*[[Paula Poundstone]], comedian

*[[Tyrone Power]], actor

*King [[Nicomedes III]], King of [[Bithynia]], rumoured to have had a relationship with Julius Caesar.

===Q===

===R===

*[[Sun Ra]], musician

*[[Luis Raul]] Puerto Rican actor and show host

*[[Johnny Ray]] Puerto Rican actor

*[[Eleanor Roosevelt]] First Lady (1933 - 1945), columnist

*[[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery]] (1847-1929), British [[Prime Minister]]. Had an affair with [[Francis Archibald Douglas|Lord Drumlanrig]], according to a biography of [[Oscar Wilde]], ''The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde'', by [[Neil McKenna]].

===S===

*[[Camille Saint-Saëns]]

*[[Sandro]], Argentine singer

*[[Victor Santiago]], mayor in [[Puerto Rico]], accused of sexual harassment by two men

*[[Sappho]], Greek poet: her love poetry to men and women may or may not have autobiographical import.

*[[David Schine]], aide to Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]]

*[[Franz Schubert]], Austrian composer (Solomon, Maynard: "Franz Schubert and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini")

*[[William Shakespeare]], [[Elizabethan]] playwright and poet (had a wife and children; his love [[Shakespeare%27s_Sonnets|sonnets]] to a man may or may not have autobiographical import.)

*[[Richard Simmons]], America fitness guru

*[[Shepard Smith]], US cable news anchor

*[[Oliver Sipple]], who saved president [[Gerald Ford]]'s family, he sued a newspaper for running a story about his sexuality

*[[Baron Friedrich von Steuben]], [[American revolution]]ary soldier

===T===

*[[Tarkan]], [[Turkish]] [[pop singer]], was outed with highly speculative photographs by TV station SHOW TV. He has not yet publicly declared his homosexuality nor denied it.

*[[Cesar Torres]], mayor of [[Gurabo, Puerto Rico]], fined 250 [[US dollar|dollars]] for allegedly asking an [[undercover]] [[Man|male]] [[police]] officer for [[Intercourse|sex]]

===U===

===V===

===W===

*[[H from Steps|Ian Watkins]], AKA 'H' from [[Steps]], British pop singer

*[[Orson Welles]], actor and director

===X===

===Y===

===Z===

*[[Mauricio Zeilic]], Cuban [[television]] gossiper

==Persons no longer identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual==

The following list includes people who at one point identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual but no longer do.

*[[David Bowie]], English musician artist and stage/film performer, came out as bisexual later identifying as "closeted heterosexual", Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001).

*[[Anne Heche]], American actress

*[[Madonna (singer)|Madonna]], came out as bisexual, later denied

*[[Lou Reed]], American musician, came out as bisexual, later denied - see [[Victor Bockris]]' "Transformer"

*[[t.A.T.u.]], Russian pop group [http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2004/09/21/4]

==See also==

*[[homophobia]]

*[[homophobic hate speech]]

*[[the closet]]

*[[list of transgendered people]]

*[[list of bisexuals]]

*[[list of people who have denied being gay]]

*[[list of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual composers]]

*[[list of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual academics]]

*[[list of LGBT Jews|list of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual Jews]]

*[[list of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction and myth]]

*[[Gay rights timeline]]

==External links==

*[http://gayinfo.tripod.com/ Rob's A-Z of famous gay, lesbian and bisexual people]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050317094204/http://www.glbtq.com/ The gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender queer encyclopedia] – contains entries on thousands of LGBTQ people.

*[http://www.fembio.org/default.shtml FemBio - Notable Women International includes biographies of lesbians and a search function]

*[http://www.fembio.org/english/ FemBio – Notable Women International includes biographies of lesbians and a search function, German Version complete, English Version growing]

==Sources==

*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.

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