Sometimes I think L/B/G people think that they have no role models
or anyone in history that is L/B/G.  For this reason...I post this list.




            Famous Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual People
   
Aristotle (Greek philosopher) 
Billie Holiday (U.S. singer)
Hans Christian Anderson (Dutch writer)
David Kopay (U.S. football player)
Edith Head (U.S. clothing designer)
Peter Tchaikovsky (Russian composer)
Sappho (Greek poet)
George Santayana (writer)
Michelangelo (Italian painter)
James Dean (U.S. actor)
Martina Navritrilova (U.S. tennis player)
Yukio Mishima (Japanese writer)
Walt Whitman (U.S. poet)
Bessie Smith (U.S. singer)
T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia-Brit. soldier)
Leonardo da Vinci (Ital. inventor/painter)
Emily Dickinson (poet)
Brian Epstein (British mgr. of the Beatles)
Bill Tilden (U.S. tennis player)
Frederico Garcia Lorca (writer)
Alice B. Toklas (U.S. writer)
Plato (Greek philosopher)
Gore Vidal (U.S. writer)
Henry IV of Castile (Spanish king)
Andy Warhol (U.S. painter)
Alexander Hamilton (U.S. politician)
Margaret Mead (U.S. anthropologist)
Rudolph Valentino (U.S./Italian actor)
George Washington Carver (U.S. inventor)
Montezuma II (Native American warrior/leader)
Richard I (Lion Hearted-British king)
Willa Cather (U.S. novelist)
Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch theologian)
Leonard Bernstein (U.S. composer)
Alberta Hunter (U.S. singer)
Billie Jean King (U.S. tennis player)
Tom Waddell (U.S. Olympic decathlon champion)
Langston Hughes (U.S. poet and playwright)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (U.S. poet)
Oscar Wilde (British writer)
Sojourner Truth (U.S. abolitionist)
John Maynard Keynes (British economist)
Alexander the Great (Macedonian warrior/ruler)
Virginia Woolf (British writer)
Dag Hammarskjold (Swed.Sec.-General of U.N.)
Edward Albee (U.S. playwright)
Gertrude Stein (U.S. writer)
Sir Francis Bacon (British explorer/scientist)
Ernst Rohm (German military leader)
Ma Rainey (U.S. singer)
Noel Coward (British playwright/composer)
Rita Mae Brown (U.S. writer)
Henry David Thoreau (U.S. writer)
John Gielgud (British actor)
Moliere (French playwright)
   
List compiled by the National Gay & Lesbian Task 
Force and the Black Gay & Lesbian ? ?

(Sorry, the last two words of the name of the group
 were messed up on the paper I had. :(


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Tina M. Wood       ____  | "And when the walls begin to
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EQUALITY is not a   \/   |  that love will conquer all."            
"special right"!         |             --Three Dog Night