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Appendix: A List of Historical Gays and Lesbians

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  • Sappho (600 B.C.) Greek Poetess
  • Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek Teacher and Philosopher
  • Plato (427-347 B.C.) Greek Teacher and Philosopher
  • Alexander The Great (356-323 B.C.) Macedonian King and perhaps Greatest Military Leader of all Times
  • Wu (140-87 B.C.) Chinese Emperor
  • Hadrian (76-138 A.D.) The Roman Emperor who Commanded Great Armies of Working Soldiers, who Built Stone Aqueducts, Highways, Bridges, Tunnels, and the Oldest Largest still-existing Dome in the World, called the Pantheon, in Rome, Italy, which was Dedicated to all of the Gods of all People. The Original Polished Marble within the Pantheon makes it one of the most Beautiful Buildings in the World; but, no Building is as Beautiful as the Crowning Work of the Creation of God, which is a Man. See Genesis.
  • Richard the Lion Hearted (1157-1199) English King and Crusader
  • Edward II (1254-1327) English King
  • Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian Renaissance Artist, Teacher, Scientist and Inventor
  • Michelangelo (1475-1564) The most Famous Italian Renaissance Artist and Sculptor
  • Montezuma II (1480-1520) Aztec Emperor
  • Julius III (1487-1555) Catholic Pope
  • Ieyasu Tokugawa (1542-1616) Japanese Shogun and founder of the Edo Shogunate
  • Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British Statesman and Writer
  • Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
  • Christina (1626-1689) Swedish Queen
  • Peter the Great (1672-1725) Russian Czar
  • Frederick the Great (1712-1786) Prussian King and Military Leader
  • Madame de Stael (1766-1817) French Writer and Intellectual
  • Lord Byron (1788-1824) British Poet
  • Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish Poet and Writer
  • Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Euro-American Writer and Journalist
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Euro-American Philosopher, Naturalist, and Peace Activist
  • Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Euro-American Poet
  • Herman Melville (1819-1891) Euro-American Writer
  • Chief Crazy Horse (Tashunca witco) (1849-1877) Oglala Sioux Chief
  • Peter I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian Composer
  • Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Writer and Dramatist
  • Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) British Composer, Writer, and Activist
  • Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French Writer
  • Sergei Diaghileff (1872-1929) Russian Ballet Impresario
  • Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) British Writer
  • Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) Russian Ballet Dancer
  • Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) British Author and Gay Rights Pioneer
  • Willa Cather (1873-1947) Euro-American Writer and Critic
  • Colette (1873-1954) French Writer and Actress
  • W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British Writer and Dramatist
  • Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) Euro-American Writer; Stein's Domestic Partner
  • Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Euro-American Writer and Art Collector; Toklas' Domestic Partner
  • Bessie Smith (1894-1937) African-American Blues Singer and Entertainer
  • E.M. Forster (1879-1970) British Writer
  • Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British Writer and Publisher
  • Ernst Rohm (1887-1933) German Nazi and SA Leader
  • T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (1888-1935) British Soldier
  • Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French Writer and Filmmaker
  • John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British Economist and Nobel Prize Winner
  • Cole Porter (1893-1964) Euro-American Composer
  • Bayard Rustin (1910-87) African-American Civil Rights, Labor Rights, & Peace Activist/Leader
  • Alan Turing (1912-1954) British Mathematician and Computer Scientist
  • James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American Writer and Civil Rights Activist
  • Truman Capote (1924-1984) Euro-American Author
  • Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) Euro-American Dramatist
  • Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) Belgian-American Writer
  • Federico Garcia Lorca (1894-1936) Spanish Poet and Dramatist
  • Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) British Author
  • W.H. Auden (1907-1973) British Poet and Writer
  • Harvey Milk (1930-1978) Euro-American Politician
  • Audre Lorde (1934-1992) African-American Writer and Activist
  • Martina Navratilova (1956- ) Czechoslovakian-American Tennis Champion and Activist
  • Andy Warhol (1930-1987) Euro-American Pop Artist
  • Frieda Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexican Artist and Activist
  • Gore Vidal (1925- ) Euro-American Writer
  • Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) Russian dancer
  • Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) British Singer/songwriter/musician
  • Elton John (1947- ) British Singer/songwriter/musician
  • Janis Ian (1951- ) Euro-American Singer/songwriter/musician
  • Nathan Lane (1956- ) Euro-American Actor
  • Ellen Degeneres (1958- ) Euro-American Comedian/actress
  • Melissa Etheridge (1961- ) Euro-American Singer/songwriter/musician
  • k. d. lang (1961- ) Canadian Singer/songwriter
  • Greg Louganis (1960- ) All-time Olympics Gold Medal Winner for Diving
  • Even the great William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the composer Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827) are said to have been gay. President George Washington (1732-1799) and Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) are also thought to have had a relationship going on. On March 3, 1777, Washington hired Hamilton to be his personal secretary. Hamilton then left to do some military service. In 1789, Washington appointed Hamilton as the first ever Secretary of Treasury of the United States.
  • Alexander Hamilton is also rumored to having a relationship with John Laurens (1754-1782) and comparing each other to Damon and Phintias.
  • Even President Abraham Lincoln is said to have had a homosexual relationship. This is suggested to be between himself and Joshua Speed. People now (and may have then) think that because the two men were bed partners for a number of years.
  • During World War II, the British mathematician, Alan Turing, broke the secrets of the German code machine, called the Enigma. History classes will usually pass him up because he was homosexual, even as the World Book Encyclopedia does not mention Liberace, who was perhaps the greatest Pianist of all.
  • Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), the equal rights activist, and Eleanor Roosevelt are suggested to be lesbians of the past, as are Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) and Amelia Earhart (1898-1937?). Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) wrote about lesbianism in some of her poetry.
  • In addition, in the 1800s, writers Herman Melville (1819-1891) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) were intimate. Melville wrote in a letter to Hawthorne, “your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s.”
  • Past actors and performers such as James Dean (1931-1955), Rock Hudson (1925-1985), Charles Laughton (1889-1962), and Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) were notorious homosexuals of their times. Janis Joplin (which can be debated), the talented singer, and Joan Jett were also lesbians.
  • There are also many well-known people in the present who are open with their sexuality. There is Ellen DeGeneres, Anne Heche, Melissa Etheridge, k.d. lang, Elton John, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, Chastity Bono (daughter of Sonny and Cher), and Jodie Foster.