Abu Nuwas (poet) 

Akhenaten (pharaoh) 

Alexander the Great (imperialist) 

Alli, Waheed (television mogul, peer) 

Almond, Marc (pop singer) 

Altman, Dennis (activist) 

Anderson, Lindsay (actor, stage and film director) 

Arquette, Alexis (actor) 

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) 

Ball, David (academic, social geographer) 

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) 

Benjamin, George (composer) 

Bennett, Richard Rodney (composer) 

Bernstein, Leonard (composer) 

Berry, Paul (writer) 

Billany, Dan (writer, poet, teacher, soldier) 

Blachford, Gregg (activist) 

Blue, Lionel (Rabbi, writer, broadcaster) 

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, Stephen (film and television analyst) 

Bowers, Edgar (poet, teacher) 

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) 

Brown, Michael (MP) 

Brown, Nick (MP) 

Burr, Chandler (geneticist) 


Cahun, Claude (photographer, writer) 

Callow, Simon (actor) 

Cameron, Edwin (High Court judge, human rights advocate) 

Cameron, Rhona (comedian) 

Cant, Bob (activist, historian) 

Carpenter, Edward (social reformer) 

Carr, Allan (film and theatre producer, actors' agent) 

Carson, Rachel (naturalist, writer) 

Cashman, Michael (actor, gay activist, MEP) 

Cave, Dudley (gay rights campaigner) 

Charleson, Ian (actor) 

Châtelet, Gilles (mathematician, philosopher) 

Chatwin, Bruce (novelist, travel writer) 

Claiborne, Craig (food writer, restaurant critic) 

Clary, Julian (comedian, actor, television compére) 

Clark, Michael (dancer, choreographer) 

Clarke, Ossie(fashion designer) 

Colette (novelist, journalist) 

Colquhoun, Maureen (MP) 

Cone, Etta (lover of Gertrude Stein, 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) 

Cukor, George (film director) 

Cunningham Reid, Fiona (film director) 


Dali, Salvador (artist) 

Davidson, James (academic, classicist) 

Davies, Peter (academic, sociologist) 

Davies, Ron (MP) 

Davies, Terence (film director) 

Davis, Evan (economics correspondent) 

Davis, Jill (editor) 

DeGeneres, Ellen (comedian, actor) 

Doerr, Tom (activist) 

Dollimore, Jonanthan (academic, sociologist) 

Donoghue, Emma (novelist) 

Douglas, Alfred (poet) 

Drewitt, Barrie (businessman, gay parent) 

Driberg, Tom (MP) 

Duffy, Carol Ann (poet) 

Duffy, Maureen (novelist, poet, playwright) 

Dunn, Ian (activist) 

Dyer, Richard (academic, social and cultural analyst) 


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) 

Evans, Arthur (archeologist) 

Evans, Arthur (gay activist) 

Everett, Rupert (actor, writer) 


Fairbrass, Richard (pop singer, television presenter) 

Fanthorpe, U. A. (poet) 

Fashanu, Justin (footballer) 

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (film director) 

Finnissey, Michael (composer) 

Firbank, Ronald (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) 

Frederick the Great (King of Prussia) 

Freeman, Alan (disc jockey) 

French, Gavin (gay activist) 

Fry, Stephen (comedian, actor, writer) 

Furnish, David (film maker) 


Gambaccini, Paul (disc jockey) 

García Lorca, Federico (poet, dramatist) 

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) 

Grant, Duncan (painter) 

Grayson, Larry (comedian, television compére) 

Grey, Antony (activist) 

Griffin, Gabriele (academic, literary critic and editor) 

Grissell, Reynell (pianist) 


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) 

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) 

Heliogabalus (emporer) 

Hellman, Allan (activist) 

Hennegan, Alison (academic, literary analyst and editor) 

Herek, Greg (psychologist) 

Heritage, Paul (academic, drama teacher) 

Hersch, Fred (jazz pianist and composer) 

Hicks, Steve (academic) 

Highsmith, Patricia (writer) 

Hirschfeld, Magnus (sociologist) 

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) 

Howes, Keith (broadcasting historian) 

Hubby, Elaine (academic, writer on women's studies) 

Hudson, Rock (film actor) 

Hytner, Nicholas (film and theatre director) 


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) 

Jennings, Dale (writer, campaigner) 

John, Elton (pop singer, songwriter) 

Johnson, Corey (American football player) 

Johnson, Darren (London Assembly member) 

Johnson, Holly (pop singer) 

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) 

Kirkup, James (poet, novelist, playwright, translator, broadcaster) 

Kitzinger, Celia (academic, social psychologist) 

Kopay, David (American footballer) 

Kuhn, Annette (academic, film analyst) 

Kuzmin, Mikhail (writer, poet, playwright) 


lang, kd (country singer songwriter) 

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) 


Mackenzie, Jacqueline (broadcaster, actor, lesbian activist) 

Mann, Thomas (novelist) 

March, David (theatre and radio actor) 

Margolyes, Miriam (actor) 

Marilyn (Peter Robinson) (pop singer) 

Marlowe, Christopher (dramatist) 

Marsden, Gordon (MP) 

Martin, Robert (student activist) 

Martin, Violet (Martin Ross) (writer) 

Martland, Steve (composer) 

Mason, Angela (gay activist) 

Massow, Ivan (businessman) 

Maugham, Somerset (writer) 

Mauresmo, Amelie (tennis player) 

Maxwell Davies, Peter (composer) 

McAlmont, David (pop singer, songwriter) 

McIntosh, Mary (academic, sociologist) 

McKellen, Ian (actor, activist) 

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 (writer) 

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) 

Morrisroe, Mark (photographer) 

Mosse, George (historian) 

Munro, Hector Hugh (Saki) (writer) 

Munt, Sally (academic, cultural analyst) 

Myers, Pete (radio broadcaster) 


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) 

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) 

Orton, Joe (playwright) 

Owen, Wilfred (poet) 


Partridge, Nick (welfare coordinator and campaigner) 

Pater, Walter (writer, critic) 

Pears, Peter (singer) 

Pepy II (pharaoh) 

Pessoa (poet, translator) 

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) 

Porter, Kevin (academic, poet) 

Portillo, Michael (MP) 

Price, Bernard (actor) 

Proust, Marcel (novelist) 

Puig, Manuel (novelist) 


Quinn, Vincent (academic) 


Rattigan, Terence (playwright, screenwriter) 

Richardson, Colin (academic, writer on literature) 

Roberts, Ian (rugby player) 

Robinson, Edwin Arlington (poet) 

Robinson, Tom (pop musician, singer, songwriter, gay activist) 

Ross, Martin (Violet Martin) (writer) 

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) 

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) 

Starkey, David (academic, history teacher) 

Stein, Gertrude (author) 

Stipe, Michael (pop musician, singer, songwriter, film maker) 

Stoneham, Luke (composer) 

Strachey, Lytton (biographer, essayist) 

Studds, Gerry E. (United States Congressman) 

Sullivan, Andrew (journalist, writer) 

Sumner, Alaric (writer, poet, teacher) 

Symonds, John Addington (sociologist) 


Tasker, Yvonne (academic) 

Taylor, Jaci (town mayor) 

Tatchell, Peter (activist, writer) 

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (composer) 

Thoenes, Sander (journalist) 

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) 

Troche, Rose (film maker) 

Troubridge, Una (lover of Radclyffe Hall, sculptor) 

Turing, Alan (mathematician) 

Twigg, Stephen (MP) 

2wo Third3 (pop group) 


Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich (gay activist and theorist) 


Valentine, Gill (academic, social geographer) 

Valentino, Rudolph (film actor) 

Vidal, Gore (novelist, essayist, polemicist) 

Villiers, George (Aristocrat) 


Waddell, Tom (athlete) 

Walpole, Horace (writer, MP) 

Wakefield, Tom (novelist) 

Walker, Kenneth (activist) 

Wallis, Nick (academic, drama teacher) 

Walter, Aubrey (activist) 

Warhol, Andy (artist) 

Watney, Simon (writer on health) 

Warren, Edward Perry (classicist, collector) 

Weeks, Jeffrey (academic, sociologist and social historian) 

Whale, James (film and theatre director) 

White, Edmund (writer) 

Whitman, Walt (poet) 

Wilde, Oscar (playwright, poet) 

Wildeblood, Peter (journalist, novelist, playwright, television producer, gay rights campaigner) 

Williams, Kenneth (actor, comedian, writer, raconteur) 

William III (monarch) 

Wilson, Elizabeth (academic, fashion analyst) 

Wilton, Tamsin (academic, writer on health studies) 

Winn, Godfrey (actor, novelist, journalist) 

Winterson, Jeanette (writer) 

Wittgenstein, Ludwig (mathematician, philosopher) 

Wittman, Carl (activist) 

Woods, Gregory (academic, professor of lesbian and gay studies) 

Woolf, Virginia (writer) 

Worsley, T. C. (teacher, writer, theatre and television critic) 


Yorke, Liz (academic, poetry analyst) 

Yves Saint-Laurent (fashion designer)

Zimmerman, Bonnie (academic)