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• Abu Nuwas (poet)
   
• Akhenaten (pharaoh)
   
• Alexander the Great (imperialist)
   
• Alli, Waheed (television entrepeneur, peer)
   
• Almond, Marc (pop singer)
   
• Altman, Dennis (activist)
   
• Anderson, Lindsay (actor, stage and film director)
   
• Anderson, Mitchell (actor, activist)
   
• Arditti, Michael (writer)
   
• Arenas, Reinaldo (writer)
   
• Arnott, Jake (writer)
   
• Arquette, Alexis (actor)
   
• Arrowsmith, Pat (activist, writer)
   
• Aucoin, Kevyn (make-up artist, gay rights activist)
   
• Auden, W. H. (poet)
   
• Axgil, Axel (activist, husband and wife)
  
   
• Bacon, Francis (artist)
   
• Bacon, Francis (scientist)
   
• Baker, James Robert (novelist, film-maker)
   
• Baker, Gilbert (activist)
   
• Baldwin, James (novelist, essayist, playwright)
   
• Ball, David (academic, social geographer)
   
• Barker, Clive (film-maker, writer, painter)
   
• Barlow, Tony (businessman, gay parent)
   
• Barrymore, Michael (comedian, television compére)
   
• Barnes Djuna (writer)
   
• Bart, Lionel (composer, playwright, lyricist)
   
• Bartel, Paul (film actor, writer, director)
   
• Bartlett, Neil (theatre director, writer, playwright, actor, translator)
   
• Batten, Mabel (lover of Radclyffe Hall)
   
• Beadle-Blair, Rikki (actor, director, writer, musician)
   
• Bellos, Linda (councillor, activist)
   
• Benjamin, George (composer)
   
• Bennett, Richard Rodney (composer)
   
• Berger, Helmut (film actor)
   
• Bernard, James (composer for radio, television, and film)
   
• Bernstein, Leonard (composer)
   
• Berry, Paul (writer)
   
• Billany, Dan (writer, poet, teacher, soldier)
   
• Blachford, Gregg (activist)
   
• Blass, Bill (fashion designer)
   
• Blue, Lionel (Rabbi, writer, broadcaster)
   
• Blunt, Anthony (art historian, critic, Soviet spy)
   
• Boffin, Tessa (photographer)
   
• Bogarde, Dirk (actor, writer)
   
• Bonheur, Rosa (painter and sculptor)
   
• Bono, Chastity (one-time pop singer, lesbian activist, writer)
   
• Bookstaver, May (lover of Gertrude Stein)
   
• Borrow, David (MP)
   
• Bourne, Matthew (dancer, choreographer)
   
• Bourne, Stephen (film and television analyst)
   
• Bowers, Edgar (poet, teacher)
   
• Bowles, Jane (writer)
   
• Bowles, Paul (writer, composer)
   
• Boy George (pop singer, disc jockey)
   
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer (writer)
   
• Bradshaw, Ben (MP)
   
• Bray, Alan (academic, historian)
   
• Bristow, Joseph (academic, literary critic)
   
• Britten, Benjamin (composer)
   
• Brockway, James (poet, translator, critic)
   
• Brown, Michael (MP)
   
• Brown, Nick (MP)
   
• Brûlé, Tyler (magazine publisher)
   
• Bryant, Chris (MP)
   
• Buckle, Richard (ballet critic, writer, exhibition designer)
• Burgess, Guy (journalist, television producer, double agent)
   
• Burr, Chandler (journalist)
  
   
• Cahun, Claude (photographer, writer)
   
• Callow, Simon (actor)
   
• Cameron, Edwin (High Court judge, human rights advocate)
   
• Cameron, Rhona (comedian)
   
• Camille, Michael (art historian)
   
• Cant, Bob (activist, historian)
   
• Capote, Truman (writer)
   
• Carpenter, Edward (social reformer)
   
• Carr, Allan (film and theatre producer, actors' agent)
   
• Carson, Rachel (naturalist, writer)
   
• Casdagli, Penny (theatre playwright, director, actor)
   
• Cashman, Michael (actor, gay activist, MEP)
   
• Cave, Dudley (gay rights campaigner)
   
• Charleson, Ian (actor and singer)
   
• Châtelet, Gilles (mathematician, philosopher)
   
• Chatwin, Bruce (novelist, travel writer)
   
• Claiborne, Craig (food writer, restaurant critic)
   
• Clark, Michael (dancer, choreographer)
   
• Clarke, Ossie(fashion designer)
   
• Clary, Julian (comedian, actor, television compére)
   
• Clift, Montgomery (stage and fim actor)
   
• Clodd, Alan (publisher, book collector, dealer)
   
• Colette (novelist, journalist)
   
• Colquhoun, Maureen (MP)
   
• Cone, Etta (art collector)
   
• Corbett, Martin (activist)
   
• Coward, Noël (actor, playwright, composer)
   
• Craig, Paul (Gay Pride organiser)
   
• Crane, Hart (poet)
   
• Craxton, Antony (television producer)
   
• Crisp, Quentin (writer, actor, wit)
   
• Croft-Cooke, Rupert (writer, playwright)
   
• Crutchley, Kate (theatre director, actor)
   
• Cukor, George (film director)
   
• Cunningham Reid, Fiona (film director)
  
   
• Dali, Salvador (artist)
   
• Daniels, Sarah (theatre playwright)
   
• Danquah, Paul (actor, barrister, bank consultant)
   
• Davidson, James (academic, classicist)
   
• Davies, Peter (academic, sociologist)
   
• Davies, Ron (MP)
   
• Davies, Terence (film director)
   
• Davis, Evan (economics correspondent)
   
• Davis, Jill (editor)
   
• Davis, Noel (actor, theatre and film casting director)
   
• DeGeneres, Ellen (comedian, actor)
   
• Dehn, Paul (film critic, writer, poet, librettist, screenwriter)
   
• De-la-Noy, Michael (author, journalist)
   
• Dent, Edward (musicologist, translator, academic)
   
• Derbyshire, Bryan (journalist, magazine editor, entrepreneur)
   
• Devereaux, Colin (female impersonator)
   
• Dick, Kay (novelist, literary critic)
   
• Diuguid, Nancy (theatre actor, director for theatre, opera, film)
   
• Doerr, Tom (activist)
   
• Dollimore, Jonanthan (academic, sociologist)
   
• Donati, Danilo (film and theatre designer)
   
• Donoghue, Emma (novelist)
   
• Douglas, Alfred (poet)
   
• Douglas, Norman (writer)
   
• Drewitt, Barrie (businessman, gay parent)
   
• Driberg, Tom (MP)
   
• Duffy, Carol Ann (poet)
   
• Duffy, Maureen (novelist, poet, playwright)
   
• Duncan, Alan (MP)
   
• Dunn, Ian (activist)
   
• Dyer, Richard (academic, social and cultural analyst)
   
• Dyson, Tony (literary critic, university lecturer, gay rights campaigner)
  
   
• Eagle, Angela (MP)
   
• Easton, Michael J. (composer)
   
• Edward II (monarch)
   
• Edwards, Jimmy (comedian, actor)
   
• Edwards, Menlove (rock climber)
   
• Ellis, Havelock (psychologist)
   
• Engelschman, Niek (activist)
   
• Epstein, Brian (pop group manager)
   
• Erasmus, Desiderius (philosopher)
   
• Etheridge, Melissa (pop singer)
   
• Evans, Arthur (archaeologist)
   
• Evans, Arthur (gay activist)
   
• Everett, Rupert (actor, writer)
  
   
• Fairbanks, Tasha (playwright, theatrical performer)
   
• Fairbrass, Richard (pop singer, television presenter)
   
• Fanthorpe, U. A. (poet)
   
• Fashanu, Justin (footballer)
   
• Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (film director)
   
• Findley, Timothy (writer)
   
• Finnissey, Michael (composer)
   
• Firbank, Ronald (novelist)
   
• FitzGerald, Edward (scholar, poet, translator)
   
• Flanner, Janet (journalist, essayist, translator, novelist)
   
• Fletcher, John (academic, psychoanalytic theorist)
   
• Flett, Keith (letter writer)
   
• Fogarty, Pat (illustrator, photographer)
   
• Fogedgaard, Helmer (activist)
   
• Forster, E M (writer)
   
• Forster, Jackie (broadcaster, actor, lesbian activist)
   
• 4guyz (pop group)
   
• Fowler, Simon (pop singer, guitarist)
   
• Fox, Jeremy (barrister)
   
• Franko B (artist)
   
• Frederick the Great (King of Prussia)
   
• Freeman, Alan (disc jockey)
   
• French, Gavin (gay activist)
   
• Frumin, Sue (theatre playwright, performer, teacher)
   
• Fry, Stephen (comedian, actor, writer)
   
• Furlong, Terry (teacher)
   
• Furnish, David (film maker)
  
   
• Gale, Patrick (writer)
   
• Gambaccini, Paul (disc jockey)
   
• García Lorca, Federico (poet, dramatist)
   
• Garland, Rodney (Adam de Hegedus) (writer)
   
• Gately, Stephen (pop singer)
   
• Geffen, David (popular music and film magnate)
   
• Gielgud, John (actor)
   
• Gilbert & George (artists)
   
• Ginsberg, Allen (poet, activist)
   
• Gluckstein, Hannah (Gluck) (painter, artist)
   
• Goethe, Johann von (writer)
   
• Golding, Sue (academic))
   
• Goytisolo, Juan (novelist, critic)
   
• Gradidge, Roderick (architect)
   
• Grant, Duncan (painter)
   
• Grayson, Larry (comedian, television compére)
   
• Green, Maro (Penny Casdagli) (theatre playwright, director, actor)
   
• Gregoriadis, Theodoros (novelist)
   
• Grey, Antony (activist)
   
• Griffin, Gabriele (academic, literary critic and editor)
   
• Grissell, Reynell (pianist)
   
• Guinness, Alec (film and theatre actor)
   
• Gysin, Brion (artist, writer)
  
   
• Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus) (Roman Emperor)
   
• Haines, William (film actor, interior designer)
   
• Halford, Rob (rock singer)
   
• Hall, Radclyffe (novelist)
   
• Hall, Richard (writer, literary critic)
   
• Hallidie Smith, Andrew (activist)
   
• Halliwell, Kenneth (lover of Joe Orton)
   
• Hamer, Dean (geneticist, researcher)
   
• Harris, Sam (popular singer, songwriter, actor, theatre producer, and director)
   
• Harrison, Jane (classical scholar)
   
• Hartley, LP (novelist)
   
• Harvey, Andrew (academic, mystic)
   
• Hashiguchi, Ryosuke (film director/writer)
   
• Haver, William (academic))
   
• Hawthorne, Nigel (actor)
   
• Hay, Harry (activist)
   
• Hayward, Rob (MP)
   
• Heche, Anne (film and television actor)
   
• Adam de Hegedus (also called Rodney Garland) (writer)
   
• Heliogabalus (emporer)
   
• Hellman, Allan (activist)
   
• Hennegan, Alison (academic, literary analyst and editor)
   
• Herbert, David (writer, aesthete)
   
• Herek, Greg (psychologist)
   
• Heritage, Paul (academic, drama teacher)
   
• Hersch, Fred (jazz pianist and composer)
   
• Hicks, Steve (academic)
   
• Highsmith, Patricia (writer)
   
• Hirschfeld, Magnus (sociologist)
   
• Hobby, Elaine (academic, writer on women's studies)
   
• Hockney, David (artist)
   
• Hodgkin, Howard (artist)
   
• Holland, Janet (academic)
   
• Hollinghurst, Alan (writer)
   
• Holt, Simon (composer)
   
• Hood, Robin (traditional outlaw, leader of merry men)
   
• Hormel, James (philanthropist, ambassador)
   
• Horsfall, Allan (activist)
   
• Housman, A. E. (poet, classical scholar)
   
• Howard, Brian (poet, literary critic)
   
• Howes, Keith (broadcasting historian)
   
• Hudson, Rock (film actor)
   
• Hughes, Langston (poet, fiction writer, dramatist)
   
• Hytner, Nicholas (film and theatre director)
  
   
• Ihimaera, Witi (writer)
   
• Irons, Evelyn (journalist)
   
• Isherwood, Christopher (writer)
  
   
• Jackson, Barry (public affairs manager, gay rights campaigner)
   
• James, Henry (novelist)
   
• James I (monarch)
   
• Jarman, Derek (film director, artist, activist)
   
• Jeffery-Poulter, Stephen (writer on media)
   
• Jenkins, Dafydd (editor, club manager)
   
• Jennings, Dale (writer, campaigner)
   
• John, Elton (pop singer, songwriter)
   
• Johnson, Corey (American football player)
   
• Johnson, Darren (London Assembly member)
   
• Johnson, Holly (pop singer)
   
• Jolie, Angelina (film actor)
   
• Julien, Isaac (film producer and director)
  
   
• Kahlo, Frida (painter, artist)
   
• Kameny, Frank (activist, astronomer)
   
• Kay, Jackie (poet, novelist)
   
• Kennerley, James (theatre actor)
   
• Kerouac, Jack (novelist)
   
• Keynes, John Maynard (mathematician, economist)
   
• King, Billie Jean (tennis player)
   
• Kinloch, David (poet, literary analyst, academic)
   
• Kirk, Kris (pop music journalist and writer)
   
• Kirkup, James (poet, novelist, playwright, translator, broadcaster)
   
• Kitzinger, Celia (academic, social psychologist)
   
• Kopay, David (American footballer)
   
• Krafft-Ebing, Richard (psychologist)
   
• Kuhn, Annette (academic, film analyst)
   
• Kuzmin, Mikhail (writer, poet, playwright)
  
   
• Lahire, Sandra (film-maker, critic, teacher)
   
• Lambert, Kit (pop group manager, entrepreneur)
   
• lang, kd (country singer songwriter)
   
• Lavery, Bryony (theatre playwright, director, performer, teacher)
   
• Lawrence, T. E. (writer, soldier)
   
• Lear, Edward (artist, humorist, poet)
   
• Lemon, Denis (magazine proprietor, editor, journalist)
   
• Leonardo da Vinci (artist, musician, scientist, engineer)
   
• Leyendecker, J. C. (Commercial artist)
   
• Loevaas, Rolf (activist)
   
• LeVay, Simon (biologist)
   
• Liberace (pianist, popular singer, entertainer)
   
• Limahl (Christopher Hamill) (popular singer)
   
• Lindner, Patrick (popular singer)
   
• Lorca, García Federico (poet, dramatist)
   
• Louganis, Greg (high diver)
   
• Lucie-Smith, Edward (art critic, writer, poet, photographer)
  
   
• Mackenzie, Jacqueline (broadcaster, actor, lesbian activist)
   
• Magrs, Paul (writer)
   
• Mann, Thomas (novelist)
   
• March, David (theatre and radio actor)
   
• Margolyes, Miriam (actor)
   
• Marilyn (Peter Robinson) (pop singer)
   
• Marlowe, Christopher (dramatist)
   
• Marsden, Gordon (MP)
   
• Marsh, Edward (civil servant, classicist, translator, arts patron)
   
• Martin, Robert (student activist)
   
• Martin, Violet (Martin Ross) (writer)
   
• Martland, Steve (composer)
   
• Mason, Angela (gay activist)
   
• Mason-John, Valerie (Queenie) (performer, writer, presenter)
   
• Massow, Ivan (businessman)
   
• Mathis, Johnny (singer)
   
• Maugham, Somerset (writer)
   
• Mauresmo, Amelie (tennis player)
   
• Maxwell Davies, Peter (composer)
   
• Mayer, Hans (writer, academic)
   
• McAlmont, David (pop singer, songwriter)
   
• McGlynn, John (lecturer)
   
• McIntosh, Mary (academic, sociologist)
   
• McKellen, Ian (actor, activist)
   
• McKoy, Chris (disc jockey, record producer)
   
• McLean, Steve (film director)
   
• Medhurst, Andy (academic, television and popular music analyst)
   
• Meek, Joe (pop record producer)
   
• Meier, Karl (activist)
   
• Mellors, Bob (activist)
   
• Melville, Herman (novelist, poet)
   
• Merchant, Hoshang (writer, poet)
   
• Merck, Mandy (academic, television and film analyst)
   
• Mercury, Freddie (pop and rock singer, songwriter)
   
• Merritt, Stephin (pop singer, songwriter)
   
• Michael, George (pop singer, songwriter)
   
• Michals, Duane (photographer)
   
• Michelangelo (artist, sculptor, poet)
   
• Milk, Harvey (politician)
   
• Mills, Scott (disc jockey)
   
• Monro, Harold (poet, anthologist)
   
• Moor, George (writer)
   
• Morrisroe, Mark (photographer)
   
• Mosse, George (historian)
   
• Munro, Hector Hugh (Saki) (writer)
   
• Munt, Sally (academic, cultural analyst)
   
• Murnau, F. W. (film director)
   
• Myers, Pete (radio broadcaster)
  
   
• Nagy, Phyllis (theatre playwright)
   
• Napier-Bell, Simon (pop group manager, writer, journalist)
   
• Navratilova, Martina (tennis player)
   
• Nebrigic, Dejan (writer, philosopher, theatre critic, activist)
   
• Nero (emporer)
   
• Nestle, Joan (writer, archivist, activist)/A>
   
• Newton, Isaac (mathematician, scientist, alchemist)
   
• Nichols, Beverley (writer)
   
• Nicolson, John (broadcaster)
   
• Nijinsky, Vaslav (dancer, choreographer)
   
• Northern, Michael (stage lighting designer)
   
• Norton, Graham (comedian)
   
• Norton, Rictor (academic, writer on literature and cultural history)
   
• Novello, Ivor (actor, playwright, composer, songwriter)
   
• Nuwas, Abu (poet)
   
• Noyce, Wilfred (rock climber)
  
   
• O'Connor, Sinead (pop singer, songwriter)
   
• O'Dowd George (Boy George) (pop singer, disc jockey)
   
• O'Boyle, Paul (film actor)
   
• O'Neill, Jamie (writer)
   
• Orton, Joe (playwright)
   
• Owen, Kate (theatre director, actor, designer)
   
• Owen, Wilfred (poet)
  
   
• Parker, Julie (theatre director, actor)
   
• Parnes, Larry (pop group manager, impresario)
   
• Parsons, Charlie (television entrepeneur)
   
• Partridge, Nick (welfare coordinator and campaigner)
   
• Pater, Walter (writer, critic)
   
• Pears, Peter (singer)
   
• Penhaul, Burnel ("Transformer") (club entertainer, performance artist)
   
• Pepi II (pharaoh)
   
• Pessoa (poet, translator)
   
• Peyrefitte, Roger (novelist, French diplomat)
   
• Philpot, Glyn (artist)
   
• Pierce, Charles (female impersonator, actor)
   
• Pigou, Arthur (mountaineer, economist, pedagogue)
   
• Pitt, William, the Younger (prime minister)
   
• Plummer, Ken (academic, sociologist and historian)
   
• Pollock, Peter (restaurateur)
   
• Porter, Kevin (academic, poet)
   
• Portillo, Michael (MP)
   
• Preston, John (activist, writer, editor)
   
• Price, Bernard (actor)
   
• Price, Christopher (journalist, broadcaster)
   
• Proust, Marcel (novelist)
   
• Puig, Manuel (novelist)
  
   
• Quinn, Vincent (academic)
  
   
• Rapi, Nina (playwright, nonfiction writer)
   
• Rattigan, Terence (playwright, screenwriter)
   
• Ravenhill, Mark (playwright)
   
• Rechy, John (writer)
   
• Richardson, Colin (academic, writer on literature)
   
• Ritts, Herb (photographer)
   
• Roberts, Ian (rugby player)
   
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington (poet)
   
• Robinson, Tom (pop musician, singer, songwriter, gay activist)
   
• Ross, Martin (Violet Martin) (writer)
   
• Roussel, Raymond (novelist, playwright, poet)
   
• Rowse, A. L. (historian)
   
• Russell Beale, Simon (theatre actor)
  
   
• Sackville-West, Vita (poet, writer)
   
• Saint Laurent, Yves (fashion designer)
   
• Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) (writer)
   
• Sappho (poet)
   
• Saran, Nish (film-maker)
   
• Sassoon, Siegfried (poet)
   
• Sawer, David (composer)
   
• Schlesinger, John (film and television director)
   
• Schorer, Jacob (activist)
   
• Schubert, Franz (composer)
   
• Scott, Peter (academic, writer on health studies)
   
• Severs, Dennis (museum creator)
   
• Shakespeare, Tom (academic, sociology teacher)
   
• Shaw, Aiden (poet)
   
• Sheldrake, Kevin (athlete)
   
• Shepherd, Simon (academic, drama and cultural historian)
   
• Sher, Antony (actor, novelist)
   
• Sidney, Philip (poet, patron)
   
• Siffre, Labi (pop singer, songwriter, poet)
   
• Sinfield, Alan (academic, sociologist)
   
• Smith, Chris (MP)
   
• Smith, Paul Julian (academic, Hispanic literary analyst)
   
• Smith, Richard (pop music writer and journalist)
   
• Smyth, Ethel (composer)
   
• Somerville, Edith (writer, artist, poet)
   
• Somerville, Jimmy (pop singer, composer, actor, and gay activist)
   
• Sondheim, Stephen (composer, lyricist)
   
• Spencer, Tom (MEP)
   
• Spencer-Devlin, Muffin (golfer)
   
• Springfield, Dusty (pop singer)
   
• Starkey, David (academic, history teacher, writer, broadcaster)
   
• Stein, Gertrude (author)
   
• Stipe, Michael (pop musician, singer, songwriter, film maker)
   
• Stoneham, Luke (composer)
   
• Strachey, Lytton (biographer, essayist)
   
• Stricklyn, Ray (actor, publicist)
   
• Studds, Gerry E. (United States Congressman)
   
• Sullivan, Andrew (journalist, writer)
   
• Sumner, Alaric (writer, poet, teacher)
   
• Sundin, Michael (trampolinist, dancer, film actor, television presenter, entertainer)
   
• Sweetman, David (writer, poet, film-maker, restaurateur, philanthropist)
   
• Symonds, John Addington (sociologist)
  
   
• Tagg, Alan (theatre designer)
   
• Tasker, Yvonne (academic)
   
• Taylor, Jaci (town mayor)
   
• Tatchell, Peter (activist, writer)
   
• Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (composer)
   
• Thoenes, Sander (journalist)
   
• Thompson, Edward (publisher, theatre supporter)
   
• Thomson, Virgil (composer)
   
• Tilden, Bill (tennis player, athlete, writer)
   
• Tinky Winky (Teletubby, television character)
   
• Tippett, Michael (composer)
   
• Toklas, Alice B. (lover of Gertrude Stein, cook)
   
• Toksvig, Sandi (comedian)
   
• Troche, Rose (film maker)
   
• Troubridge, Una (lover of Radclyffe Hall, sculptor)
   
• Tucker, Cliff (industrial relations manager, magistrate, local councillor)
   
• Turing, Alan (mathematician)
   
• Twigg, Stephen (MP)
   
• 2wo Third3 (pop group)
  
   
• Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich (gay activist and theorist)
  
   
• Valentine, Gill (academic, social geographer)
   
• Valentine, James (academic, sociologist)
   
• Valentino, Rudolph (film actor)
   
• Vaughan, Keith (artist)
   
• Versace, Gianni (fashion designer)
   
• Vidal, Gore (novelist, essayist, polemicist)
   
• Villiers, George (Aristocrat)
   
• Visconti, Luchino (stage and film director)
  
   
• Waddell, Tom (athlete)
   
• Wallenberg, Raoul (diplomat))
   
• Walpole, Horace (writer, MP)
   
• Wakefield, Tom (teacher, writer)
   
• Walker, Kenneth (activist)
   
• Wallis, Nick (academic, drama teacher)