Waarom is homosexualiteit in vele landen nog een taboe (zelfs strafbaar met de dood)?

[carlgustaaf]

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Als iedereen homo zou worden, zijn er geen kindjes meer om te adopteren tenzij sommigen zich opofferen en aan de verfoeilijke heterosexuele praktijken gaan doen...

Kortom de veroordeling van diverse sexuele praktijken ligt in de conservatieve opvatting dat sex gelieerd moet zijn aan de voortplanting en de socio-economische gevolgen van het bestaan van "wettelijke" gezinnen. Het landbezit moet ongeschonden kunnen overgaan op de eerste wettelijke zoon enz...

Het wegvallen van het belang van grondbezit en de opkomst van een bezitsloze klasse (niet noodzakelijkerwijze een arme bezitsloze klasse)
heeft samen met voorbehoedsmiddelen voor een "sexuele revolutie" gezorgd
de bevrijding van de "holebi's" is daar een logisch gevolg van. Dus die landen die nog het dichtst bij een feodale maatschappij aanleunen zijn die waar homo's nog met de dood bedreigt worden.

Alexander de Grote was op zijn minst bi-sexueel - wat een bewijs is voor het feit dat de sociale stedelijke ontwikkeling in Hellas in die tijd reeds ver gevorderd was (maar ook dat de vrouw in die tijd en in die beschaving fel ondergewaardeerd was).


Het delen of veroordelen van de waardering van wat anderen op sexueel gebied doen of presteren is een nog steeds aanwezige neiging, waar we best van afstappen : als iemand behoefte heeft en gelukkig is met een regelmatig orgiebezoek is dat helemaal zijn eigen zaak, zolang er maar geen intimidatie van zwakkeren aan te pas komt.

feodale maatschappij?In Cuba vliegen de homos de gevangenis in!En als ze met teveel zijn in de bak, zet hij ze de boot op, richting de States!Opsluiting plus verbanning dus...
Hebt gij Alexander de Grote gekend? In een vroeger leven ofzo?De Grieken hebben altijd al de reputatie gehad niet te spuwen op een mannelijke kont, op voorwaarde dat deze niet te oud was(is).Maar daarom trouwden ze toch niet onder mannen hoor, en hun kinderen verwekten ze zelf, ze gingen die niet adopteren in het buitenland.Maar hebben ze deze reputatie wel verdiend?Ik heb nooit over speciale Olympische feesten voor griekse homos gehoord in elk geval.Mischien was deze seksuele voorkeur beperkter in hun maatschappij, als tegenwoordig in de onze, en werd er daarom minder problemen over gemaakt.Zolang het geen gevaar werd voor het overleven van hun samenleving kon het hen niet schelen wat de mannen met hun penis allemaal uitvoerden...

[oeps]

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.....Alexander de Grote was op zijn minst bi-sexueel - wat een bewijs is voor het feit dat de sociale stedelijke ontwikkeling in Hellas in die tijd reeds ver gevorderd was (maar ook dat de vrouw in die tijd en in die beschaving fel ondergewaardeerd was).
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Het is wel toepasselijk, die Gay Olympics : de Grieken waren de eerste homo's, en tevens de uitvinders van de Olympische Spelen.
De Grieken waren immers de uitvinders van het anale geslachtsverkeer, dat natuuurlijk niet voor niets nog altijd "grieks" heet.

Het is dus volkomen logisch en passend dat de nazaten van de Grieken, de huidige homo's, de Olympics claimen als HUN feest.

[Jan van den Berghe]

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We mogen gerust stellen dat sexuele moraal in een nomadische tribale maatschappij minder stringent, minder gecodeerd is dan in een sedentaire maatschappij. Homlo-'s en Lesbo(s waren bij de oude Grieken absoluut geïntegreerd in de samenleving. Den Alex had een minnaar & bovendien kan eenieder die daartoe de behoefte voelt opkomen ellenlange lijsten opstellen over beroemde en beruchte homosexuelen en lesbische vrouwen.

U slaat er flink naast. De seksuele moraal is ook in tribale samenleving heel streng. Geen strengere huwelijksmoraal bijvoorbeeld dan bij de Bosjesmannen van Namibië.

Wat u schrijft over het oude Griekenland is totaal verkeerd. In meerdere stadstaten van het oude Griekenland werden homoseksuelen gestenigd tot ze het leven erbij lieten. Dat was bijvoorbeeld het geval bij Sparta en in de gebieden die onder invloed van Sparta stonden. Ook in het anders denkende Athena hadden homoseksuelen helemaal geen plaats in de samenleving. 't Is een van de grootste mythes die de ronde doen over Athene. In de stad van Pericles mocht een homoseksueel geen enkel staatsambt (hoe laag ook) uitoefenen. Zelfs al was hij Atheens burger en gesproten uit een bekend Atheens geslacht werd hem het recht ontnomen om in de ekklesia (de volksvergadering) en de boulè (de dagelijkse burgerraad) het woord te nemen. Hij mocht wel aanwezig zijn op de vergaderingen van de ekklesia, maar het woord richten tot de aanwezigen werd hem ontzegd. Voor de boulè kon hij zelfs niet aangeduid of verkozen worden.

Wat u schrijft over Alexander de Grote is de grootste onzin. En ja, u mag mij eens een dergelijke lijst opstellen...

[Manuel*]

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En ja, u mag mij eens een dergelijke lijst opstellen...

Famous Gays and Lesbians in History

1. Sappho (600 B.C.) Greek Poetess
2. Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek Teacher and Philosopher
3. Plato (427-347 B.C.) Greek Teacher and Philosopher
4. Alexander The Great (356-323 B.C.) Macedonian King and Military Leader
5. Wu (140-87 B.C.) Chinese Emperor
6. Hadrian (76-138 A.D.) Roman Emperor
7. Richard the Lion Hearted (1157-1199) English King and Crusader
8. Edward II (1254-1327) English King
9. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian Renaissance Artist, Teacher, Scientist and Inventor
10. Michelangelo (1475-1564) Italian Renaissance Artist and Sculptor
11. Montezuma II (1480-1520) Aztec Emperor
12. Julius III (1487-1555) Catholic Pope
13. Ieyasu Tokugawa (1542-1616) Japanese Shogun and founder of the Edo Shogunate
14. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British Statesman and Writer
15. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
16. Christina (1626-1689) Swedish Queen
17. Peter the Great (1672-1725) Russian Czar
18. Frederick the Great (1712-1786) Prussian King and Military Leader
19. Madame de Stael (1766-1817) French Writer and Intellectual
20. Lord Byron (1788-1824) British Poet
21. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish Poet and Writer
22. Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Euro-American Writer and Journalist
23. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Euro-American Philosopher, Naturalist, and Peace Activist
24. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Euro-American Poet
25. Herman Melville (1819-1891) Euro-American Writer
26. Chief Crazy Horse (Tashunca witco) (1849-1877) Oglala Sioux Chief
27. Peter I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian Composer
28. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Writer and Dramatist
29. Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) British Composer, Writer, and Activist
30. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French Writer
31. Sergei Diaghileff (1872-1929) Russian Ballet Impresario
32. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) British Writer
33. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) Russian Ballet Dancer
34. Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) British Author and Gay Rights Pioneer
35. Willa Cather (1873-1947) Euro-American Writer and Critic
36. Colette (1873-1954) French Writer and Actress
37. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British Writer and Dramatist
38. Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) Euro-American Writer; Stein's Domestic Partner
39. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Euro-American Writer and Art Collector; Toklas' Domestic Partner
40. Bessie Smith (1894-1937) African-American Blues Singer and Entertainer
41. E.M. Forster (1879-1970) British Writer
42. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British Writer and Publisher
43. Ernst Rohm (1887-1933) German Nazi and SA Leader
44. T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (1888-1935) British Soldier
45. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French Writer and Filmmaker
46. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British Economist and Nobel Prize Winner
47. Cole Porter (1893-1964) Euro-American Composer
48. Bayard Rustin (1910-87) African-American Civil Rights, Labor Rights, & Peace Activist/Leader
49. Alan Turing (1912-1954) British Mathematician and Computer Scientist
50. James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American Writer and Civil Rights Activist
51. Truman Capote (1924-1984) Euro-American Author
52. Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) Euro-American Dramatist
53. Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) Belgian-American Writer
54. Federico Garcia Lorca (1894-1936) Spanish Poet and Dramatist
55. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) British Author
56. W.H. Auden (1907-1973) British Poet and Writer
57. Harvey Milk (1930-1978) Euro-American Politician
58. Audre Lorde (1934-1992) African-American Writer and Activist
59. Billie Jean King (1943 - ) Euro-American Tennis Champion and Activist
60. Martina Navratilova (1956- ) Czechoslovakian-American Tennis Champion and Activist
61. Andy Warhol (1930-1987) Euro-American Pop Artist
62. Frieda Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexican Artist and Activist
63. Gore Vidal (1925- ) Euro-American Writer
64. Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) Russian dancer
65. Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) British Singer/songwriter/musician
66. Elton John (1947 - ) British Singer/songwriter/musican
67. Janis Ian (1951 - ) Euro-American Singer/songwriter/musician
68. Nathan Lane (1956 - ) Euro-American Actor
69. Ellen Degeneres (1958 - ) Euro-American Comedian/actor
70. Melissa Etheridge (1961 - ) Euro-American Singer/songwriter/musician
71. k. d. lang (1961 - ) Canadian Singer/songwriter

[Manuel*]

A

Louise Abbéma (1858-1927), French painter
Bernice Abbott (1898-1991), U.S. photographer
J.R. Ackerly (Joe Randolph Ackerly, 1896-1967), British writer
Abu Nuw·s (756?-810), Arabian poet
Valentine Ackland (1906-1958), British writer
Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1967), U.S. writer
Nick Adams (Nicholas Adamschock, 1931-1968), U.S. actor
Jane Addams (1866-1935), U.S. social reformer
Baron Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen (1880-1923), French writer
James Agate (1877-1942), British critic
Agathon (450?-400? B.C.E.), Greek playwright and musician
Akhenaton (ruled 1375?-1358? B.C.E.), Egyptian pharoah
Edward Albee (1928- ), U.S. playwright*
Giulio Alberoni (1664-1752), Italian statesman
Alcibiades (450?-404 B.C.E.), Greek general
Alexander I (1777-1825), Russian ruler
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), Macedonian general and ruler
Vincente Aleixandre (1898-1984), Spanish poet
Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764), Italian philosopher and art connoiseur
Horatio Alger (1832-1899), U.S. writer
Washington Allston (1779-1843), U.S. painter and art critic
Nestor Almendros (1930- ), Spanish-born filmmaker*
Pedro Almodovar (1949- ), Spanish filmmaker*
Manuel Altolaguirre (1904-1959), Spanish poet and printer
Amanullah Khan (1892-1960), Afghani ruler
Anacreon (572?-485? B.C.E.), Greek poet
Emily Anderson (1956- ), British photographer*
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish writer
Guy Irving Anderson (1906- ), U.S. artist*
Margaret C. Anderson (1886-1973), U.S. editor and writer
Anne (1665-1714), British queen
Katherine (Susan) Anthony (1877-1965), U.S. writer, teacher, activist
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), U.S. social reformer
Antigonus II Gonatus (319?-239 B.C.E.), Macedonian ruler
Antiochus I ("Soter," 324-c.261 B.C.E.), Greek ruler of Syria
Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), French ruler
Pavel Grigorievich Antolkolsky (1896-1978), Russian poet, critic,
stage director, publisher
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), French poet and critic
Virginia M. Apuzzo (1940- ), U.S. activist*
Louis Aragon (1897-1982), French writer
Elizabeth Arden (1878-1966), Canadian entrepreneur
Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), Cuban-born U.S. writer
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), Italian statesman and writer
Aristippus (435?-356 B.C.E.), Ancient Greek philosopher born in North Africa
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher
Gustave Mauritz Armfelt (1757-1814), Finnish-born Swedish statesman
Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), British composer
Frederick Newton Arvin, Jr. (1900-1963), U.S. writer and literary critic
Dorothy Arzner (1900-1979), U.S. filmmaker
John Ash (1948- ), British poet and literary critic*
Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942), British architect, designer, and writer
John Ashbery (1927- ), U.S. poet and critic*
Yoshimitsu Ashikaga (1358-1408), Japanese military and political leader
Howard Ashman (1950-1991), U.S. songwriter
Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938), Turkish ruler
W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), British poet, critic, and scholar
Anita Augspurg (1857-1943), German social reformer
Saint Augustine (354-430), priest, scholar, theologian
Augustus (Gaius Caesar Octavianus, 63 B.C.E.-C.E. 14), Roman ruler
(Elizabeth) Alice Austen (1866-1952), U.S. photographer
Manuel Azana y Diaz (1880-1940), Spanish ruler


B

Babur (1483-1530), Indian military leader, ruler, and writer
R.S.S. Baden-Powell (1857-1941), British soldier (and founder of
the Boy Scouts)
Don Bachardy (1934- ), U.S. artist*
Guido Bachmann (1940- ), German writer*
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British scientist, writer, statesman
Francis Bacon (1910-1992), Irish-born British painter
Joan Baez (1941- ), U.S. singer*
Dorothy Baker (1907-1968), U.S. writer
Sara Josephine Baker (1873-1945), U.S. health reformer
James Baldwin (1924-1988), U.S. writer
Ann Bancroft (1955- ), U.S. explorer and teacher*
Herman Bang (1857-1912), Danish novelist
Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968), U.S. actress
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), U.S. scientist
John Banting (1902-1972), British artist
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), U.S. composer
Dame Lillian Charlotte Barker (1874-1955), British educator and prison
administrator
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982), U.S. writer
Natalie Clifford Barney (1877-1972), U.S. writer, arts patron
Sir James M. Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish writer
Paul Bartel (1938- ), U.S. filmmaker*
Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French writer, critic, philosopher
Basil II (c. 958-1025), Byzantine ruler
Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929), U.S. poet
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet
Robert Bauman (1937- ), U.S. politician*
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi ("Il Sodoma," 1477?-1549), Italian painter
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), U.S. arts patron, publisher
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), British illustrator and writer
Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), British designer, photographer, writer
Hugh Beaumont (1908-1973), British film producer
Pia Beck (1925- ), Dutch singer and pianist*
William Beckford (1760-1844), British writer
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet and playwright
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer
Brendan Behan (1923-1964), Irish playwright and poet
Arthur Bell (1939-1984), U.S. writer, activist
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), Italian composer
Jacinto Benavente y Martìnez (1866-1954), Spanish playwright
Benedict IX (1020-1055), pope
Michael Bennett (1943-1987), U.S. choreographer
A.C. (Arthur Christopher) Benson (1862-1925), British educator, writer
Eric Bentley (1916- ), British-born U.S. critic, theatre director, and translator*
Gladys Bentley (1907-1960), U.S. entertainer
Christian Bérard (1902-1949), French painter, art director, and
fashion designer
Anita Berber (1899-1928), German dancer and actress
Pierre Bernac (1899-1979), French singer
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French actress
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1991), U.S. composer, conductor
Beyazid I (1347-1403), Ottoman ruler
Théodore Beza (1519-1605), French theologian, poet, and scholar
George Birimisa (1924- ), U.S. actor and playwright*
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet
Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950), U.S. activist and feminist
Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (1825-1921), U.S. minister and feminist
Emily Blackwell (1826-1910), U.S. physician
Marie-Claire Blais (1939- ), Canadian novelist*
Nayland Blake (1960- ), U.S. artist*
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, artist
Anna Blaman (1905-1960), Dutch novelist
Robin Blaser (1925- ), Canadian writer born in U.S.*
Ross Bleckner (1949- ), U.S. artist*
Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964), U.S. composer
Diana Blok (1952- ), Dutch photographer*
Sir Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), British art historian and political advisor
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), Italian artist
Dirk Bogarde (Dirk Niven van de Bogaerde, 1921- ), British actor*
Francois Le Metel de Boisrobert (1592-1662), French literary patron
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), French artist
Claude-Alexandre Comte Claude de Bonneval (Kumbaracibasi Ahmet Pasha,
1675-1747), French-born soldier
Anne Bonney (17th-18th century), British pirate
Charles Victor de Bonstetten (1745-1832), Swiss writer
Henri�tte Hilda Bosmans (1895-1952), Dutch pianist and composer
Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510), Italian artist
Antonio Botto (1902-1959), Portuguese poet
Emile-Marie Bouchard ("Polaire," 1877-1939, French actress and singer
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), French composer
Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, Duc de Vendome (1654-1712), French soldier
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Irish writer
David Bowie (David Robert Jones, 1947- ), British singer, actor*
Jane Bowles (1917-1973), U.S. writer
Paul Bowles (1910- ), U.S. writer*
William Alan Bowne (1945?-1989), U.S. playwright and novelist
C.M. Bowra (Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, 1898-1970), British literary critic born
in China
Malcolm Boyd (1923- ), U.S. minister, activist, writer*
Karin Boye (1900-1941), Swedish writer
Katherine Bradley (1848-1914), British playwright and poet
Joe Brainard (1942- ), U.S. poet, artist*
Marlon Brando (1924- ), U.S. actor*
Harry Britt (1938- ), U.S. minister and politician*
Benjamin Britten (1913-1977), British composer
Il Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano, 1503-1572), Italian painter
Romaine Brooks (Beatrice Romaine Goddard, 1874-1970), Italian-born
U.S. painter who lived in France
James Broughton (1913- ), U.S. poet, filmmaker, and playwright*
Olga Broumas (1949- ), U.S. poet*
Howard Brown (1924-1975), U.S. public health administrator and writer
Rita Mae Brown (1944- ), U.S. writer*
Oscar Browning (1837-1923), British educator, writer
John Brunner (1934- ), U.S. writer*
Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellermann, 1894-1983), British writer
James Buchanan (1791-1868), U.S. president
Charlotte Bunch (1944- ), U.S. writer and editor*
Guy Burgess (1911-1963), British spy
John Horne Burns (1916-1953), U.S. novelist
Edward Burra (1905-1976), British painter
William Burroughs (1914- ), U.S. writer*
Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-1890), British explorer and scholar
Scott Burton (1939- ), U.S. artist*
Aldo Busi (1948- ), Italian novelist*
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), Italian pianist, composer
Lady Eleanor Butler ("Lady of Llangollen," 1738 or 1739-1829), Irish recluse
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British writer, painter, composer
Merritt Butrick (1959-1989), U.S. actor
Dick Button (1929- ), U.S. athlete*
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), British poet


C

Paul Cadmus (1904- ), U.S. artist*
Julius Caesar (100?-44 B.C.E.), Roman ruler
John Cage (1942- ), U.S. composer and music theorist*
Alesandro, Counte di Cagliostro (1743-1795) Italian adventurer
Hall Caine (1853-1931), British novelist
Jerome Caja (1958- ), U.S. artist*
Caligula (C.E. 12-41), Roman ruler
Simon Callow (1949- ), British actor*
Emma Calv� (1858-1942), French opera singer
Jean Jacques R�gis de Cambac�r�s (1753-1824), French lawmaker
Roy Campbell (1901-1957), South African poet
Renaud Camus (1946- ), French novelist*
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Italian sculptor
Truman Capote (1924-1984), U.S. writer
Caracalla (C.E. 188-217), Roman ruler
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1569-1609), Italian artist
Benedetta Carlini (17th century), Italian abbess
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish writer and historian
Bliss Carman (1861-1929), Canadian poet
Marcel Carn� (1909- ), French filmmaker*
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), British poet, philosopher, reformer
Emily Carr (1871-1945), Canadian artist and writer
Dora de Houghton Carrington (1893-1932), British painter
Craig Carver (1954- ), U.S. artist*
George Washington Carver (1864-1943), U.S. scientist and teacher
Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916), Irish poet and reformer
Willa Cather (1873-1947), U.S. writer
Catherine the Great (1729-1796), Russian ruler born in Germany
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), U.S. suffragist
Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus, 87-54 B.C.E.), Latin poet
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1935), Greek poet
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), Italian sculptor, writer
Luis Cernuda y Bid�n (1902-1963), Spanish poet, critic, educator
Jane Chambers (1937-1983), U.S. writer
Charlotte Charke (1713-1760), British actress
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgandy (1433-1477), French nobleman
Charles IX (1550-1574), French ruler
Charles XII (1682-1718), Swedish ruler
Charles XV (1826-1872), Swedish and Norwegian ruler
John Cheever (1912-1982), U.S. writer
Robert Chesley (1943-1990), U.S. playwright
Georgy Vasilievich Chicherin (1872-1936), Russian diplomat
Frèdèric Chopin (1810-1849), French composer born in Poland
Christian VII (1749-1808), Danish and Norwegian ruler
Christina (1626-1689), Swedish queen
Ralph Nicholas Chubb (1892-1960), British poet
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.), Roman statesman, orator, writer
Craig Claiborne (1920- ), U.S. writer, gourmet*
Claudius (10 B.C.E.-C.E. 54), Roman ruler
Gabrielle De Veaux Clements (1858-1948), U.S. painter
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (1846-1918), U.S. writer, educator, lecturer, editor
Montgomery Clift (1920-1966), U.S. actor
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), British journalist, feminist, lecturer,
social reformer
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French writer, artist, filmmaker
Roy Cohn (1927-1986), U.S. attorney
Jack Cole (1911-1974), U.S. dancer and choreographer
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrille Colette Goudeket, 1873-1954), French writer
Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962), British artist and theatre designer
Commodus (C.E. 161-192), Roman ruler
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969), British novelist
Louis Cond� (1621-1686), French and Spanish general
Arch Connelly (1950- ), U.S. artist*
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British editor, critic
Conradin (1252-1268), Bavarian prince
Constantine V ("Copronymus," 718-775), Byzantine ruler
Constantine VIII (d. 947), Byzantine ruler
Constantine IX (961-1028), Byzantine ruler
Florence Converse (1871-1967), U.S. teacher and novelist
Eliza Cook (1818-1889), British poet
Edith Cooper (1862-1913), British playwright and poet
Aaron Copland (1900-1991), U.S. composer
Philip Core (1951- ), British painter*
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Italian composer
Marie Corelli ("Mary MacKay," 1855-1924), British novelist
John Corigliano (1938- ), U.S. composer*
Alfred Corn (1943- ), U.S. poet*
Katharine Cornell (1893-1974), U.S. actress
Tee A. Corrine (1943- ), U.S. artist
Baron Corvo (Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, 1860-1913),
British adventurer and writer
Antonio Allegri Correggio (1494-1534), Italian artist
Kate Cory, (1861-1958), U.S. photographer
Louis Couperus (1863-1923), Dutch novelist
Edilberto Coutinho (1933?-1938?), Brazilian writer*
Thomas Couture (1815-1879), U.S. artist
Sir Noel Coward (1899-1973), British playwright, actor, composer
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), U.S. composer
Edith ("Edy") Craig ("Ailsa Craig," 1869-1947), British actress, stage producer,
costume designer, activist
Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet
Stephen Crane (1871-1900), U.S. writer
John Cyril Cranko (1927-1973), South African ballet dancer and choreographer
Joan Crawford (1908-1977), U.S. actress
Rene Crevel (1900-1935), French writer and art critic
Quentin Crisp (1908- ), British writer and critic*
Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-1979), British writer
Aleister Crowley (Edward Alexander Crowley, 1875-1947), British adventurer,
occultist, and writer
Enzo Cucci (1950- ), Italian artist*
George Cukor (1899-1983), U.S. film director
Countee Cullen (1903-1946), U.S. poet
Merce Cunningham (1919- ), U.S. dancer and choreographer*
John Curry (1949- ), British athlete*
Charlotte Cushman (1816-1976), U.S. actress
Elizabeth Cushier (1837-1932), U.S. physician
Astolphe, Marquis de Custine (1790-1857), French writer
Karl Czerny (1791-1857), Austrian pianist, composer


D

Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), Portuguese admiral, explorer
Gasparino Damata (Gasparino da Mata e Silva, 1918- ), Brazilian writer*
Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828), British sculptor
Betsy Damon (1940- ), U.S. artist*
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Italian poet and politician
David Dar (1910-1980), Russian poet
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), French artist
Juan Davila (1946- ), Australian writer born in Chile*
Frederick Holland Day (1864-1933), U.S. photographer
James Dean (1931-1955), U.S. actor
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French composer
Eugène Delacroix (1799-1863), French artist
Samuel Delany (1942- ), U.S. novelist*
Frederick Delius (1862-1934), British composer
Mazo Del la Roche (1885-1961), Canadian novelist
Giovanni Della Casa (1503-1556), Italian poet and religious leader
Barbara Deming (1917-1984), U.S. writer and activist
Charles Demuth (1833-1935), U.S. artist
Patrick Dennis (Edward Everett Tanner III, 1921- ), U.S. novelist*
Billy De Wolfe (William Andrew Jones, 1907-1974), U.S. actor
Elsie De Wolfe (Lady Elsie De Wolfe Mendl, 1865-1950), U.S. interior designer
Serge de Diaghilev (1872-1918), Russian ballet impresario
David Diamond (1915- ), U.S. composer*
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932), U.S. writer, orator, social reformer
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932), British historian and humanist
Marlene Dietrich (Maria Magdalene von Losch, 1901-1992), German-born
actress
Johannes Willem DiMaria-Kuiper (1943- ), Dutch-born U.S. minister*
Jim Dine (1935- ), U.S. artist*
Christian Dior (1905-1957)), French fashion designer
Owen Dodson (1914-1983), U.S. writer
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848-1867), British poet
Sir Anton Dolin (Patrick Healy-Kay, 1904-1983), British dancer
Domitian (C.E. 51-96), Roman ruler
Donatello (Donato di Niccol� di Betto Bardo, 1386-1466), Italian sculptor
Hilda Doolittle ("H.D.," 1886-1961), U.S. poet and scholar
Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), British writer
Norman Douglas (1868-1952), British writer
Jerry Dreva ("Jerri Bonbon," 1945- ), U.S. artist*
Guillaume Cardinal Dubois (1656-1723), French statesman
Alice Dunbar (Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson, 1875-1935), U.S. editor,
writer, and activist
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), U.S. choreographer and dancer
Robert Edward Howard Duncan (1919-1988), U.S. poet
Jérême Duquesnoy (1602-1654), Flemish sculptor and engraver
George Dureau (1930- ), U.S. photographer*
Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760-1812), Czech pianist and composer
Andrea Dworkin (1946- ), U.S. writer*


E

Jeanne Eagles (1890-1929), U.S. actress
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), U.S. painter
Joan Eardley (1921-1963), Scottish painter
Edward II (1284-1327), British ruler
John Menlove Edwards (1910-1958), British psychiatrist and
mountaineer/athlete
Sally Edwards (1947- ), U.S. athlete and entrepreneur*
Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Russian film director
Karl Eitel (1839-1914), German-born Rumanian ruler
Vilhelm Ekelund (1880-1949), Swedish poet
Elisarion (Elisar von Kupffer, 1872-1942), German painter, writer,
and philosopher
Edith Lees Ellis (1856-1916), British writer and lecturer
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), British psychologist
Perry Ellis (1940-1986), U.S. fashion designer
Kenward Elmslie (1929- ), U.S. writer and opera librettist*
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. philosopher and writer
Enrique IV of Castile (1425-1474), ruler of Castile and Leon
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch scholar and theologian
Magnus Eriksson (1316-1374), Swedish/Norwegian ruler
Erte (Romain de Tirtoff, 1892-1990), Russian-born designer and artist
Evelien Eshius (1942- ), Dutch politician*
Sergei Esenin (1895-1925), Russian poet
Angel Estrada (1958-1989), Spanish fashion designer living in the U.S.
Eugene, Prince of Savoy (1663-1736), French-Italian-Austrian general
Prince zu Philipp Eulenberg-Hertefeld (1847-1921), German diplomat
Euripides (480-406 B.C.E.), Athenian playwright


F

Frederick William Faber (1814-1863), British hymn-writer and theologian
Emily Faithfull (1835-1895), British printer and activist
Manuel de Falla y Mattheu (1876-1946), Spanish composer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1946-1982), German film director, actor, writer
Bernard Faucon (1950- ), French photographer*
Frank Faulkner (1946- ), U.S. painter*
Ellen Thorneycroft Felkin (1860-1929), British novelist
Ferdinand I (1861-1948), Bulgarian ruler
Dominique Fernandez (1929- ), French novelist*
Rainer Fetting (1949- ), German artist*
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1896-1992), British actress
Hubert Fichte (1935-1986), German writer
Edward Field (1924- ), U.S. poet*
Leonor Fini (b. 1908), Italian painter*
Ronald Firbank (Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank, 1886-1926), British writer
Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), British writer and scholar
H. Harkness Flagler (1870-1952), U.S. financier and socialite
William Flanagan (1926?-1969), U.S. composer
Janet Flanner ("Genet," 1892-1978), U.S. journalist
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French writer
James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915), British playwright, novelist, and poet
John Fletcher (1579-1625), British playwright
Wayland Flowers, Jr. (1939-1988), U.S. comedian
Errol Flynn (1909-1959), U.S. actor
Mary Anna Hallock Foote (1847-1938), U.S. illustrator and writer
E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British writer
Stephen Foster (1826-1864), U.S. composer
Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher and scholar
Barney Frank (1940- ), U.S. politician*
Miles Franklin (Stella Maria Miles Lampe Franklin, 1879-1954),
Australian writer
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Prussian ruler
Olive Fremstad (1871-1951), U.S. opera singer
Nancy Fried (1945- ), U.S. artist*
Donald Friend (1915-1989), Australian artist
Roger Fry (1866-1934), British artist
Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929), U.S. novelist
Loie Fuller (1862-1928), U.S. choreographer and dancer
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), U.S. journalist and reformer


G

Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Swedish actress
Federico Garc�a Lorca (1898-1936), Spanish writer
Jedd Garet (1955- ), U.S. artist*
Jane Gay (1830-1919), U.S. photographer
Sally Miller Gearhart (1931- ), U.S. activist, writer*
Jean Genet (1910-1986), French writer
George III (1738-1820), British ruler
Stefan George (1868-1933), German poet and translator
Georges II (1890-1947), Greek ruler
Jean-Louis G�ricault (1791-1824), French artist
Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985), U.S. fashion designer
George Gershwin (1898-1937), U.S. composer
Andrè Gide (1869-1951), French writer
Sir (Arthur) John Gielgud (1904- ), British actor, director*
Gilles de Raiz (1404-1440), French general
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), U.S. photographer
Allen Ginsberg (1926- ), U.S. poet*
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912- ), Australian composer*
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931), German photographer
Hannah Gluckstein ("Gluck," 1895-1978), British painter
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer and scientist
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian writer
Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Lithuanian-born U.S. revolutionary, lecturer,
journalist
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), Polish writer
Jewelle Gomez (1948- ), U.S. writer*
Paul Goodman (1911-1972), U.S. psychologist, writer, reformer
Charles George Gordon (1833-1885), British military hero
Laura de Force Gordon (1838-1907), U.S. journalist, lawyer, politician,
orator, activist
Eva Selina Gore-Booth (1870-1926), Irish poet and social reformer
Edward Gorey (1925- ), U.S. artist and illustrator*
Sir Edmund (William) Gosse (1849-1928), British critic, scholar
Wallace Gould (1882-1940), U.S. novelist
Edmund Goulding (1891-1959), British-born filmmaker
Juan Goytisolo Gay (1931- ), Spanish writer*
Judy Grahn (1940- ), U.S. poet*
Duncan Grant (1885-1978), Scottish painter, decorator, and designer
Morris Graves (1910- ), U.S. artist*
Eileen Gray (Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray, 1878-1976), Irish architect, designer
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet
Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott, 1823-1904), U.S. writer
Annemarie Grewel (1935- ), Dutch politician and scholar*
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Norwegian composer
Barbara Grier ("Gene Damon," 1933- ), U.S. writer and publisher*
Francis Grierson (Benjamin Henry Jesse Francis Shepard, 1848-1927),
English-born U.S. writer and singer
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920), U.S. composer
Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian playwright
Angelina Emily Grimk� Weld (1805?-1879), U.S. writer, feminist
Doris Grumbach (1918- ), U.S. writer and critic*
Gustav Grundgens (1899-1963), German actor and director
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666), Italian painter
Daniel Guerin (1904- ), French journalist*
Karoline von G�nderode (1780-1806), German poet
Thom Gunn (1929- ), British poet*
Allan Gurganus (1947- ), U.S. novelist*
Gustavus III (1746-1792), Swedish ruler
Gustavus V (1858-1950), Swedish ruler


H

Marilyn Hacker (1942- ), U.S. poet*
Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrian, C.E. 76-138), Roman ruler
Hafiz (Shams ud-Din Mohammed, d. 1389?), Persian poet
Reynaldo Hahn (Reynaldo Hahn Echenagucia, 1875-1947), Venezuelan composer
who lived in France
William Haines (1900-1973), U.S. actor, interior decorator
Ellen Day Hale (1855-1940), U.S. painter
Radclyffe Hall (Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, 1880-1943), British writer
Richard Halliburton (1900-1939), U.S. adventurer, writer
Halston (Roy Halston Frowick, 1932-1990), U.S. fashion designer
Alexander Hamilton (1757?-1804), U.S. politician and political theorist
Cicely Hamilton (Cecily Mary Hammill, 1875-1952), British actress,
playwright, activist
Edith Hamilton (1867-1963), U.S. classicist
Lady Emma Hamilton (1761?-1815), British mistress of Admiral Nelson
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961), Swedish diplomat
Barbara Hammer (1939- ), U.S. filmmaker*
Harmony Lynn Hammond (1944- ), U.S. artist*
Christopher Hampton (1946- ), British playwright*
Mabel Hampton (1902-1989), U.S. activist
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German composer
Hannibal (247-182 B.C.E.), Cartagenian military leader
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), U.S. playwright
Keith Haring (1958-1990), U.S. artist
Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911), U.S. writer and social reformer
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), British scholar and translator
Lou Harrison (1917- ), U.S. composer*
Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), U.S. songwriter
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), U.S. artist and writer
Viscountess Clementia Hawarden (1822-1865), British photographer
Harry Hay (1912- ), U.S. activist*
Mary Garrett Hay (1857-1928), U.S. suffragist
Gerald Heard (1889-1971), British writer
Heliogabulus (Varius Avitus Bassianus, C.E. 204-222), Roman ruler
Essex Hemphill (1957- ), U.S. poet*
Henry (1726-1802), Prussian prince
Henry III (1551-1589), French ruler
Henry IV of Castile (1425-1472), Castlian ruler
John Hervey (1696-1743), British politician
Robert Smyth Hichens (1864-1950), British novelist
Lorena Hickok (1892-1968), U.S. journalist, writer
Colin Higgins (1941-1988), U.S. filmmaker
Octavia Hill (1838-1917), British social reformer
Kurt Hiller (1885-1972), German writer and social activist born in Prague
Jon Hinson (1942- ), U.S. politician*
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), German sociologist
Hannah H�ch (1899-1978), German painter
David Hockney (1937- ), British artist*
Guy Hocquenghem (1946-1988), French writer, filmmaker, activist
Heinrich Hoessli (1784-1864), Swiss-German writer
Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966), U.S. sculptor
William M. Hoffmann (1939- ), U.S. playwright*
Johann Christian H�lderlin (1770-1843), German writer
Billie Holiday (1915-1959), U.S. singer
Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim, 1922-1965), U.S. actress
Libby Holman (1906-1971), U.S. actress and entertainer
Winslow Homer (1836-1910), U.S. artist
J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), U.S. criminologist
Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 B.C.E.), Roman poet
Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), Russian-born U.S. pianist
Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970), U.S. actor
Harriet (Goodhue) Hosmer (1830-1908), U.S. sculptor
A.E. Housman (1859-1936), British poet, teacher, scholar
Laurence Housman (1865-1959), British illustrator and playwright
Richard Howard (1929- ), U.S. poet, translator, and editor*
Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent (1886-1940), Spanish writer
Nan Hudson (Ann Hope Hudson, 1869-1957), U.S. painter
Rock Hudson (Roy Scherer, 1925-1985), U.S. actor
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. writer
Peter Hujar (1934-1987), U.S. photographer
Helen Rose Hull (1888-1971), U.S. writer and teacher
Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German scientist, explorer,
and geographer
Alberta Hunter (1895-1984), U.S. singer
David Hutter (1935- ), British painter*
J.K. Huysmans (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans, 1848-1907), French writer
Gladys Hynes (1888-1958), British painter


I

Janis Ian (1951- ), U.S. singer and songwriter*
August Wilhelm Iffland (1759-1814), German playwright
Robert Indiana (1928- ), U.S. artist*
William Inge (1913-1973), U.S. playwright
Edward Irving (1792-1834), British theologian
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), U.S. writer born in England
Viacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866-1947?), Russian writer
Anna Ivanovna (1693-1740), Russian ruler
George Cecil Ives (1867-1950), British writer born in Germany
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (1894-1980), Polish writer


J

Max Jacob (1876-1944), French poet, artist
Harold Jackman (1901-1961), U.S. educator and arts patron
Rebecca Jackson (1795-1871), U.S. religious leader
Tony Jackson (1888-1921), U.S. composer, musician
Naomi Ellington Jacob (1889-1964), British novelist
Jahangir (1569-1627), Hindustani ruler
Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959), German novelist and dramatist
James I (1566-1625), British and Scottish ruler
Alice James (1848-1892), U.S. diarist
Henry James (1843-1916), British writer
Anna Brownell Murphy Jameson (1794-1860), Irish writer
Derek Jarman (1942- ), British painter, theatre designer, and filmmaker*
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), U.S. writer
Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1812-1880), British writer
Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912), English doctor and educator
Klara Johanson (1875-1948), Swedish writer and critic*
Elton John (1947- ), British singer*
Gwen John (1876-1939), British painter
John XXII (1249-1334), pope
Jasper Johns (1930- ), U.S. artist*
Frances Benjamin Johnson (1864-1952), U.S. photographer
Lionel Johnson (1867-1902), British journalist, editor
Sonia Johnson (1936- ), U.S. activist*
Janis Joplin (1943-1970), U.S. singer
Marcel Jouhandeau (1888-1979), French writer
Juan II of Castile and Leon (1405-1454), Spanish ruler and literary patron
Julius III (1487-1555), pope
Philippe Jullian (1919-1977), French artist


K

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter
Chester Kallman (1921-1975), U.S. poet
Christian Kampmann (1939-1988), Danish novelist
Arnie Kantrowitz (1940- ), writer, teacher, activist*
Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), German-American historian
Dennis Kelly (1943- ), U.S. poet*
George Kelly (1887-1974), U.S. playwright
Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), British actress and writer
William Sloan Kennedy (1850-1929), U.S. writer
Maurice Kenny (1929- ), U.S. poet*
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), U.S. writer
Ludwig Andreas Khevenhuller Frankenburg (1683-1744),
Austrian military leader
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist
Amanullah Khan (ruled 1919-1929), Afghan ruler
Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941?-1981), Russian writer
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1955), Danish philosopher, theologian
Billie Jean King (1943- ), U.S. athlete, sports commentator*
William Rufus De Vane King (1786-1853), U.S. politician
Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916), British general
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), German writer
Nikolai Kliuev (1887-1937), Russian poet
Anna (Elizabeth) Klumpke (1856-1942), U.S. painter
Dave Kopay (1942- ), U.S. athlete*
Sonya Kovalesky (1850-1891), Russian mathematician
Mikhail Alexandrovich Kovalev ("Riurik Ivnev,"1891-1981), Russian poet
Larry Kramer (1935- ), U.S. writer and activist*
Friedrich Krohnke (1956- ), German writer*
Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854-1902), German industrialist
Elisar von Kupffer ("Elisarion," 1872-1942), German painter, writer,
and philosopher
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745-1813), Russian military leader
Mikhail Alexeevich Kuz'min (1872-1936), Russian poet and translator


L

Louise Labè (c. 1524-1566), French poet
Edward Lacey (1938- ), Canadian poet
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French soldier and statesman
Selma Lagerlef (1858-1940), Swedish novelist
Lili Lakich (1944- ), U.S. artist*
Lamoriciere (Christophe Louis L�on Juchault de Lamoriciere, 1806-1865),
French military leader
Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), Polish musician and composer
Lang, k.d. (Kathy Dawn Lang, 1961- ), Canadian singer*
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (1948- ), U.S. artist*
Charles Laughton (1899-1962), British actor
Marie Laurencin (1885-1956), French painter
John Laurens (1754-1782), U.S. colonel
Lautrèamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Comte de Lautr�amont, 1846-1870),
French poet
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British writer
T.E. (Thomas Edward) Lawrence (1888-1935), British soldier and scholar
C.W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater (1847-1934), British clergyman
and occultist
Edward Lear (1812-1888), British writer and illustrator
Jan Lechon (1899-1956), Polish writer and critic
Violette Leduc (1907-1972), French writer
Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget, 1856-1935), British writer
Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849-1892), Swedish writer
Ursula Kroeber LeGuin (1929- ), U.S. novelist*
John Lehmann (1907-1987), British publisher, editor, and poet
Frederick Leighton (1830-1896), British painter and sculptor
(James) Mitchell Leisen (1898-1972), U.S. filmmaker
Sergei Iakovlevich Lemeshev (1902- ), Russian opera singer*
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist, scientist, inventor
Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev (1831-1891), Russian novelist and critic
Raymond Leppard (1927- ), British composer*
Edmonia (Mary) Lewis (1845-1911), U.S. artist
Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), British writer
J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951), U.S. illustrator
Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 1919-1987), U.S. entertainer
Hans Licht (Paul Brandts, 1875-1929), German classics scholar
Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), German chemist
Marvin Liebman (1923- ), U.S. political advisor*
Sergei Lifar (1905-1986), Russian dancer, choreographer
Beatrice Lillie (1898-1989), Canadian-born U.S. actress
Josè Lezama Lima (1910-1976), Cuban novelist and poet
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), U.S. poet
Herbert List (1903-1975), German photographer
Alain Locke (1886-1954), U.S. philosopher, author
Jack London (1876-1916), U.S. writer
Audre Lorde (1934-1992), U.S. writer
Frances (Norma) Loring (1887-1968), Canadian sculptor
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viand, 1850-1923), French writer
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Cond� (1621-1686), French military leader
Louis XIII (1601-1643), French ruler
Louis XVIII (1755-1824), French ruler
Pierre Louys (Pierre-Felix Louis, 1870-1925), French poet
Amy Lowell (1874-1925), U.S. poet
Ludwig II (1845-1886), Bavarian ruler
Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962), U.S. writer, arts patron
Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Italian-born French composer
Paul Lynde (1926-1982), U.S. actor
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), U.S. photographer
Phyllis Lyon (1924- ), U.S. writer*


M

Robert MacBryde (1913-1966), British artist and theatre designer
Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald (1853-1903), British general
John Henry MacKay (1864-1933), German poet, novelist, activist
Donald Duart Maclean (1913- ), British spy*
Robert McAlmon (1896-1956), U.S. writer and publisher
Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), U.S. politician
Carson McCullers (1917-1967), U.S. writer
David McDermott (1952- ), U.S. artist*
Sir Hector McDonald (1853-1903), British military leader
Peter McGough (1958- ), U.S. artist*
Ian McKellen (1939- ), British actor*
Rollie McKenna (1918- ), U.S. photographer*
Stuart McKinney (1931- ), U.S. politician*
Claude McKay (Festus Claudius McKay, 1890-1948), U.S. poet, author
Rod McKuen (1933- ), U.S. poet*
Brian McNaught (1948- ), U.S. writer and activist*
John J. McNeill (1925- ), U.S. priest, scholar, writer*
Jackie "Moms" Mabley (Mary Aiken, 1894-1975), U.S. singer, actor
Niccolú Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman, philosopher
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), Portuguese-Spanish admiral, explorer
Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976), German graphic artist
Klaus Mann (1906-1949), German writer and critic
Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German writer
Rosemary Manning ("Sara Davys," 1911-1988), English writer
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), New Zealand writer
Robert Mapplethorpe (1947-1989), U.S. photographer
Jean Marais (Jean Alfred Villain-Marais, 1913- ), French actor*
Miriam Margoyles (1941- ), British actress*
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Italian poet, scholar
Jeannette Augustus Marks (1875-1964), U.S. educator
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British playwright
Helen Marot (1865-1940), U.S. labor activist
Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953), British poet, translator, and painter
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis, C.E. 43-104), Roman poet, orator
Del Martin (1921- ), U.S. writer, activist*
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), British writer and political economist
Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953), U.S. composer
Leonide Massine (1896-1979), Russian dancer and choreographer
Margrethe Mather (c. 1885-1952), U.S. photographer
Johnny Mathis (1925- ), U.S. singer*
Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988), U.S. soldier, activist
Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), German organist, singer, and composer
F.O. (Francis Otto) Matthiessen (1902-1950), U.S. teacher, critic
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British writer
Armistead Maupin (1944- ), U.S. writer*
Francois Mauriac (1885-1970), French writer
Constance Louisa Maynard (1849-1935), British educator
Elsa Maxwell (1883-1963), U.S. journalist, socialite
Jules Cardinal Mazarin (1602-1661), French statesman
Margaret Mead (1901-1978), U.S. anthropologist
Taylor Mead (1940- ), U.S. poet and actor*
Robert Medley (1905- ), English painter*
Mary Meigs (1917- ), U.S. painter*
Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973), Danish opera singer
Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. writer
Elsie De Wolfe Mendl (1865-1950), U.S. interior designer
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868), French actress and poet
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911- ), U.S. composer*
Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (1672-1729), Russian military leader
and statesman
William Meredith (1919- ), U.S. poet*
James Ingram Merrill (1926- ), U.S. poet*
Stuart Merrill (1863-1915), U.S. poet who wrote in French
Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky (1839-1914), Russian novelist
and publisher
Oliver Messel (1904-1978), British theatre set designer
Charlotte Mary Mew (1869-1928), English poet
Duane Michals (1932- ), U.S. photographer*
Louise Michel (1830-1905), French anarchist
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italian artist
Jules Michelet (1798-1874), French historian
Harvey Milk (1930-1978), U.S. politician, political activist
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1915), U.S. poet, playwright
Marilyn Miller (1898-1936), U.S. entertainer
Merle Miller (1919-1986), U.S. writer
Kate Millet (1934- ), U.S. writer, feminist*
Ernest Milton (1890-1974), British playwright
John Milton (1608-1674), British poet, writer
Sal Mineo (1939-1976), U.S. actor
John Francis Minton (1917-1957), British painter and illustrator
Honor� Gabriel Rigueti de Mirabeau (1749-1791), French statesman
Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka, 1925-1970), Japanese writer
Dmitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960), Greek conductor
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moli�re (1622-1673), French playwright
Theodor Ernst Mommsen (1905-1958), German historian
Harold Monro (1879-1932), British poet, editor, bookstore owner, publisher
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French writer
Montezuma II (1480-1520), Aztec ruler
Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general
Henry de Montherlant (1895-1970), French writer
Antony Moorcroft (1960-1989), U.S. fashion designer
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet
Cherrìe Moraga (1952- ), U.S. writer*
Henry More (1614-1687), British philosopher and theologian
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), French artist
Marguèrite Morèno (1871-1948), French actress
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), French artist
Julia Morgan (1872-1957), U.S. architect
Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793), German novelist
Mark Morris (1957- ), U.S. dancer and choreographer*
Thomas Bird Mosher (1852-1923), U.S. publisher
Johannes von Muller (1752-1809), Swiss historian
Marc-Antoine Muret (1526-1585), French philologist and scholar
Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe Murnau (1889-1931), German film director
Robert Musil (1880-1942), Austrian writer
Benjamin Francis Musser (1889-1951), U.S. poet
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), composer
al-Mu'tamid (1069-1095), Spanish ruler
Mwanga (1866?-1903), Bugandan ruler
F.W.H. Myers (Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843-1901), British poet
and literary critic
Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (1885-1973), U.S. pacifist and writer


N

Yevdokia Appolonovna Nagrodskaya (1866-1930), Russian writer
Yves Navarre (1940- ), French novelist*
Martina Navratilova (1956- ), U.S. athlete*
Alla Nazimova (1879-1945), Russian actress
Nero (12-41), Roman ruler
Nerva (C.E. 30?-98), Roman ruler
Joan Nestle (1940- ), U.S. writer*
Thèodor Antoine, Baron de Neuhof (1694-1756), German adventurer
John Henry (Cardinal) Newman (1801-1890), British priest, scholar
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British scientist
Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), British diplomat, gardener, publisher, writer
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse and reformer
Vaslav Fomitch Nijinski (1890?-1950), Russian dancer
Alexei Nikolaevich (1840-1893), Russian poet
Anaôs Nin (1903-1977), U.S. writer
Simon Nkoli (1959- ), South African activist*
Harold Norse (1916- ), U.S. poet*
Ramon Novarro (Ramon Samaniegos, 1899-1968), Mexican-American actor
Ivor Novello (1893-1951), British actor, playwright, songwriter
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906- ), U.S. writer and artist*
Rudolf Nureyev (1938- ), Russian dancer*


O

Violet Oakley (1874-1961), U.S. painter and illustrator
Frank O'Hara (1926-1946), U.S. poet, critic
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), U.S. painter
Seiko Okuhara (1837-1913), Japanese poet
Erwin Olaf (Erwin Olaf Springveld, 1959- ), Dutch photographer
Leonora O'Reilly (1870-1977), U.S. labor activist
Joe Orton (John Kingsley Orton, 1933-1967), British playwright
Miguel Íngel Osirio [Benitez] ("Porfirio Barba Jacob" and "Ricardo Arenales" ,
1883-1942), Columbian poet
Otto I (C.E. 912-973), Roman ruler
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 B.C.E.-C.E. 18), Roman poet
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), British poet


P

Dame Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), British lawyer, writer, activist
Sophia Iakovlevna Parnok ("Andrei Polianin", 1885-1933), Russian poet,
translator
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), Italian film director
Walter Pater (1839-1894), British writer and critic
Robert Patrick (1937- ), U.S. playwright*
Paul VI (1897-1978), pope
Ross Paxton (1931- ), U.S. artist*
Elizabeth Peabody (1804-1894), U.S. educator, feminist
Louise Pearce (1885-1959), U.S. medical researcher
Peter Pears (1910-1986), British singer
Mary Pearson (1944 - ), owner of ChristianGays.com
James Mills Peirce (1834-1906), U.S. mathematician
Sandro Penna (1906-1977), Italian poet and prose writer
Richard W. Penniman ("Little Richard," 1937- ), U.S. singer,
songwriter, pianist*
Darcy Penteado (1926- ), Brazilian writer*
Roger Peyrefitte (1907- ), French writer*
Esme Percy (1887-1957), British actor
Antonio P�rez (1540-1611), Spanish writer and politician
Thomas Sergeant Perry (1845-1928), U.S. writer
Troy Perry (1940- ), U.S. minister, activist*
Stan Persky (1941- ), U.S. poet*
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Portuguese poet
Peter I (Peter the Great, 1672-1725), Russian tsar
Robert Peters (1924- ), U.S. poet, critic, and teacher*
Kuz'ma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939), Russian artist
Phidias (500-432 B.C.E.), Athenian sculptor
Philip II (382-336 B.C.E.), Macedonian ruler
Philip, Duc d'Orleans (1640-1701), French aristocrat
Gerard Philipe (1922-1959), French actor
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884-1937), British painter
Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973), Spanish painter and sculptor
Pindar (522?-443 B.C.E.), Theban poet
Jody Pinto (1942- ), U.S. artist*
Pius XII (1876-1958), pope, theologian
Count August von Platen-Hallermunde (August, Graf von Platen-Hallermunde,
1796-1835), German poet and playwright
Plato (427-347 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher
Plautus (died about 184 B.C.E.), Latin playwright
William (Charles Franklyn) Plomer (1903-1973), South African writer
Demetrius I. Poliorcetes (336-283 B.C.E.), Macedonian ruler
Politian (Angelo Ambrogini, 1454-1494), Italian poet and humanist
Sarah Ponsonby ("Lady of Llangollen," 1754 or 1755-1831), Irish recluse
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet
James Pope-Hennessy (1906-1916), British editor and author
Nicola Porpora (1686-1768), Italian composer
Cole Porter (1891-1964), U.S. songwriter
Jill Posner (1953- ), British photographer*
Liane de Pougy (Anne Marie de Chassaigne, 1869-1950),
French princess, writer
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French composer
John Powell (1892-1963), U.S. composer and writer
Tyrone Power (1914-1958), U.S. actor
Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946- ), U.S. teacher and poet*
Rosa von Praunheim (Holger Mischwitzky, 1942- ), German filmmaker*
Edwards Reynolds Price (1933- ), U.S. novelist*
Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989), U.S. novelist
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French philosopher and reformer
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky (1839-1888), Russian explorer and naturalist
Ptolemy IV ("Philopater," 222-205 B.C.E.), ancient Greek ruler
Ptolemy VI ("Philometor," 181-146 B.C.E.), ancient Greek ruler
Henry Pu Yi (Hsuan T'ung, 1906-1967), Chinese ruler
Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentine writer


R

Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923), French writer
"Ma" Rainey (Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, 1886-1939), U.S. singer
Rama IV (1881-1925), Siamese ruler
Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), U.S. actress, writer, scholar
Antonio Ranieri (1806-1888), Italian writer, historian
Raphael (Raphael Santi, 1483-1520), Italian artist
Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946), British activist, politician, writer
Terrence Rattigan (1911-1977), British playwright
Raucourt (Francoise Marie Antoinette Joseph Saucerotte, 1756-1815),
French actress
Robert Rauschenburg (1925- ), U.S. artist
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French composer
Johnnie Ray (1927-1990), U.S. singer
Mary Read (d.1720), British pirate
Jeanne Recamier (1777-1849), French arts patron
John Rechy (1934- ), U.S. writer*
Michael Redgrave (1908-1985), British actor
Alfred Redl (1864-1913), Austro-Hungarian soldier and diplomat
John Reed (1887-1920), U.S. journalist, revolutionary
Forrest Reid (1875-1947), Irish novelist
Mary Renault (Mary Challans, 1905-1983), British novelist
Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902), British statesman, capitalist
Vicountess Rhonnda (Margaret Haig Thomas Mackworth, 1883-1958),
British businesswoman, political journalist, editor, and activist
Ernest Rhys (1859-1946), British editor and writer
Wallace Rice (Wallace de Groot Cecil Rice, 1859-1939), U.S. poet
Adrienne Rich (1929- ), U.S. poet, critic*
Richard I ("The Lion Heart," 1157-1199), British ruler
Richard II (1367-1400), British ruler
Charles Ricketts (Charles de Sousy Ricketts, 1866-1931), Swiss-born
British artist and art collector
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Rikhter (1915- ), Russian pianist*
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), U.S. poet
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Austrian poet
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), French poet
N.A. Rimski-Korsakov (1844-1908), Russian composer
Larry Rivers (1923- ), U.S. painter and sculptor*
Ethel F.L.R. Robertson ("Henry Handel Richardson," 1870-1946),
Australian novelist
Paul Robeson (1898-1976), U.S. singer, actor, political activist
Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary
Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), U.S. actress, playwright, novelist
Mabel Louise Robinson (1882?-1962), U.S. writer and teacher
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), French artist
Eduoard Herbert Roditi (1910- ), French-born U.S. writer*
Ernst Rohm (1887-1934), German Nazi leader
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), U.S. diplomat and reformer
Ned Rorem (1923- ), U.S. composer, writer, critic*
Paul Rosenfels (1909-1985), U.S. therapist and writer
Martin Ross (pseud. Violet Florence Martin, 1862-1915), Irish novelist
Maurice Rostand (1891-1968), French poet, dramatist
Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), French writer
Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov (1856-1919), Russian writer and social critic
Rudolf II (1552-1612), German-Bohemian-Hungarian ruler
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), U.S. poet
Jane Rule (1931- ), Canadian writer*
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814), North American-born
British scientist
Rumi (Jelal al-Din, 1207-1273), Persian poet and mystic
Vito Russo (1946-1990), U.S. film critic, film historian, and activist
Bayard Rustin (1910-1987), U.S. political activist


S

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), Austrian writer
Maurice Sachs (1906-1945), French writer
Vita Sackville-West (Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 1892-1962), British writer
Sadi (1184-1291), Persian writer
Camille Saint-Sa�ns (1835-1921), French composer
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870-1916), British writer
Saladin (1138-1193), Egyptian-Syrian soldier and ruler
Adolfo Salazar (1890-1958), Spanish music critic and historian
Pedro Salinas (Pedro Salinas y Serrano, 1892-1951), Spanish poet
Salomè (1954- ), German painter*
Edgar Saltus (1855-1921), U.S. novelist
Lucas Samaras (1936- ), U.S. artist*
George Sand (Aurore Dupin, 1803-1876), French writer
Ethel Sands (1873-1962), U.S.-born painter and arts patron
George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher
Vassily Sapelnikov (1868-1941), Russian pianist and composer
Sappho (6th century B.C.E.), Greek poet
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), U.S. painter
May Sarton (1912-1995), U.S. writer
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), British poet
Charles Edward Sayle (1864-1924), British bibliographer, editor, and poet
Thomas Schippers (1930- ), U.S. conductor
John Schlesinger (1926- ), British filmmaker*
Maria Schneider (1952- ), Belgian actress*
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), German composer
James Schuyler (1923- ), U.S. poet*
Moritz von Schwind (1804-1871), German artist
Vida Dutton Scudder (1861-1954), U.S. teacher and social reformer
Michael Servetus (1511-1553), Spanish physician, theologian
Louis Settembrini (1813-1876), Italian writer and patriot
Marie de Sevigne (1626-1696), French writer
Anne Seward (1747-1809), British poet
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British playwright, poet, actor
Charles Hazelwood Shannon (1863-1937), British artist and art collector
Ted Shawn (1891-1972), U.S. dancer and choreographer
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet
Antony Sher (1949- ), British actor born in South Africa*
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet
Aguinaldo Silva (Aguinaldo Ferreira da Silva, 1944- ), Brazilian writer*
Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), Sikh ruler
Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943), U.S.-born arts patron and philanthropist
Renèe Sintenis (1888-1965), German sculptor
Clara Sipprell (1885- 1975), U.S. photographer
Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), British poet
Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892-1964), British writer
Sixtus IV (1414-1484), pope
Aleksander Nikolayevich Skriabin (1872-1915), Russian composer
Bessie Smith (1894-1937), U.S. singer
Jerry Smith (1943-1986), U.S. athlete
Willi Smith (1948-1987), U.S. fashion designer
Dame Ethyl Smyth (1858-1944), British composer
Hannah Snell (1723-1792), British soldier
Socrates (469?-339 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher
Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), British artist
Edith Somerville (1858-1949), Irish novelist
Konstantin Andreevich Somov (1869-1939), Russian painter and graphic artist
Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.E.), Athenian dramatist and soldier
James Spada (1950- ), U.S. writer*
Nancy Spain (Nancy Brooker Spain, 1917-1964), British writer and
TV personality
Allan Spear, U.S. politician*
Stephen Spender (1909- ), British poet and critic*
Martin Sperr (1815-1882), German writer*
Jack Spicer (John Lester, 1925-1965), U.S. writer
Madame de Stael (1766-1817), French writer
Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), British adventurer
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940), U.S. social reformer
Emma Stebbins (1815-1882), U.S. sculptor
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S.-born writer and arts patron
Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860-1895), Russian-born writer
living in England
Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944), U.S. painter
Baron Friedrich von Steuben (1730-1794), Prussian-born U.S. general
Edward Iraneus Prime Stevenson ("Xavier Mayne," 1868-1942), U.S. novelist
and scholar
Samuel Steward ("Phil Andros," 1909- ), U.S. writer*
Lucy Stone (1818-1893), U.S. reformer, feminist
Sir Ronald Storrs (1881-1955), British historian and colonial administrator
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), British writer, critic
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian-born composer
Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967), U.S. musician
August Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish writer
Gerry E. Studds (1937- ), U.S. politician*
Pierre Andrè de Suffren de Saint-Tropez (1729-1788), French military leader
Suleiman I (1494-1566), Turkish sultan
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900), British composer
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), U.S. psychologist
Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924), U.S. architect
May Swenson (1913-1989), U.S. poet
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), British poet
Sylvester (Sylvester James, 1942-1988), U.S. singer, musician
John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), British writer and critic
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), Polish composer and novelist born in
the Ukraine


T

Mutsuo Takahashi (1937- ), Japanese poet*
Carla Tardi (1948- ), U.S. artist*
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), Italian poet
Ronald Tavel (1940- ), U.S. playwright*
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), U.S. writer and diplomat
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957), Russian-born U.S. artist, designer
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), U.S. poet
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), German composer
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet
Octave Thanet (pseudonym of Alice French, 1850-1934), U.S. novelist
Theocritus (c. 301 - c. 260, B.C.E.), Greek philologist and poet
Theognis (flourished c. 544-541 B.C.E.), Greek poet
Ernest Thesiger (1879-1961), British actor
Edna Lewis Thomas (1886-1974), U.S. actress
Martha Carey Thomas (1857-1935), U.S. educator
Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961), U.S. journalist
Karen Thompson (1947- ), U.S. activist*
Virgil Thompson (1896-1989), U.S. composer and music critic
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. writer
Wallace Henry Thurman (1902-1934), U.S. editor, novelist
Tiberius (42 B.C.E.-37 C.E.), Roman ruler
Albius Tibullus (55-19 B.C.E.), Roman poet
Bill Tilden (1893-1953), U.S. athlete
Mark Tobey (1890-1976), U.S. artist
Alice B. Toklas (1880-1967), U.S. writer
Iemitsu Tokugawa (1604-1651), Japanese military leader
Tsunayoshi Tokugawa (1646-1709), Japanese military leader
George Tooker (1920- ), U.S. artist*
Michel Tournier (1924- ), French writer*
Raymond Toussel (1877-1933), French poet, novelist, playwright
Prescott Townsend (1894-1973), U.S. activist
Peter Townshend (1945- ), British composer, musician, writer*
Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, C.E. 53?-117), Roman ruler
Pierre Yves Trèmois (1920- ), French artist*
Arthur Tress (1940- ), U.S. photographer*
Lady Una Troubridge (1887-1963), British writer, singer, sculptor
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Russian poet
Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), British painter
Alan Turing (1912-1954), British mathematician
Cy Twombly (1928- ), U.S. artist
Parker Tyler (1907-1974), U.S. writer
Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Berners (1883-1950), British composer


U

Karl H. Ulrichs (1825-1895), German lawyer, sociologist, reformer
Umberto II (1904-1983), Italian ruler


V

Valentian III (C.E. 419-455), Roman ruler
Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), Italian-American actor
Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565), Florentine writer and historian
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), U.S. writer, photographer
Elihu Vedder (1836-1923), U.S. painter and illustrator
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian composer
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), French poet
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French writer
Felicja Vestfali (Felicja Westfalowicz, 1824-1880), Polish opera singer
Theophile de Viau (1590-1629), French poet
Gore Vidal (1925- ), U.S. writer*
Jean Vigo (1905-1934), French filmmaker
Duke Claude de Villars (1653-1734), French general
Ricardo Vines (1875-1943), Spanish pianist and composer
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70 B.C.-C.E. 19), Roman poet
Luchino Visconti (1906-1976), Italian filmmaker
Renè Viviani (1863-1925), French statesman
Renèe Vivien (Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909), French writer born in England
Bruno Vogel (1895-1987), German writer


W

Tom Waddell (1937-1987), U.S. physician, athlete
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), German composer
Claire Waldoff (1884-1957), German singer
Ethel Walker (1861-1951), British painter
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919), U.S. physician and reformer
Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), British writer
Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola, II, 1928-1987), U.S. artist and filmmaker
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), English writer
Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), U.S. art connoisseur and poet
Ethel Waters (1900-1977), U.S. singer
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), British writer
Bruce Webber (1951- ), U.S. photographer*
Anna Elisabet Weirauch (1887-1970), German writer
Denton Welch (Maurice Denton Welch, 1915-1948), British writer
(Benjamin) Sumner Welles (1892-1961), U.S. statesman
Glenway Wescott (1901-1987), U.S. writer
Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish anthropologist
James Whale (1896-1957), U.S. filmmaker
Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918), U.S. educator and diplomat
Minor Martin White (1908-1976), U.S. photographer
Patrick White (1912-1990), Australian writer
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet
John Wieners (1934- ), U.S. poet*
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish writer
Thronton Wilder (1897-1975), U.S. writer
Gale Wilhelm (1908-1991), U.S. novelist*
Frances E. Willard (1839-1898), U.S. reformer
William II (1056-1100), English ruler
William III (1650-1702), English and Dutch ruler
George Emlyn Williams (1905-1987), British actor, playwright, and
theatre director
Jonathan Williams (1929- ), U.S. poet and teacher*
Tennessee Williams (1911-1985), U.S. playwright
Val Wilmer (1944- ), British photographer and writer*
John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680), British poet
Millie Wilson (1948- ), U.S. artist*
Fran Winant (1943- ), U.S. artist*
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), German archeologist
Donald Windham (1920- ), U.S. writer*
Frances May Witherspoon (1886-1973), U.S. pacifist and political activist
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher
Monique Wittig (1935- ), French novelist*
David Wojnarowicz (1955-1992), U.S. writer and artist
Charlotte Wolff (1897-1986), Polish-born English psychiatrist and scholar
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British writer
Thelma Wood (1901-1970), U.S. sculptor
George Edward Woodberry (1855-1930), U.S. poet
Mary Emma Wooley (1863-1947), U.S. educator
Monty Wooley (1888-1963), U.S. teacher and actor
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British writer
Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943), U.S. journalist and critic
Florence Wyle (1881-1968), Canadian sculptor
I.A.R. Wylie (Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, 1885-1959), Australian novelist


Y

Tomiko Yamakawa (1879-1909), Japanese writer
Akiko Yosano (1878-1942), Japanese poet
Vincent Youmans (1898-1946), U.S. songwriter
Stark Young (1881-1963), U.S. writer and educator
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), French writer, critic, scholar
Mei Yuan (1716-1798), Chinese poet


Z

Yury Alexandrovich Zavadsky (1894-1977), Russian actor and director
Franco Zeffirelli (1924- ), Italian filmmaker and theatre set designer*
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907), Russian novelist
Zeno (336-264 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher
Count Graf von Zinzendorf (Nicolaus Ludwig, 1700-1760), German theologian
and poet

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Frieda Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexican Artist and Activist

Hoogstens bi-sexueel.
Ze had zelfs een affaire met Trotsky!

[Jan van den Berghe]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Manuel*

Famous Gays and Lesbians in History

1. Sappho (600 B.C.) Greek Poetess
2. Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek Teacher and Philosopher
3. Plato (427-347 B.C.) Greek Teacher and Philosopher
4. Alexander The Great (356-323 B.C.) Macedonian King and Military Leader

Dit ging over het oude Griekenland. Dan hou ik de volgende namen over.

Alexander, homoseksueel? Onzin.

Plato? Homoseksueel? Merkwaardig, in een van zijn werken, "De Wetten", oordeelt hij dat seks met mensen van hetzelfde geslacht onnatuurlijk is (Boek I). In hetzelfde werk, maar een stuk verder (boek VIII), vaart hij uit tegen wie er nog maar zou aandenken deze onnatuurlijke vorm te legaliseren. En hij omschrijft de bestaande wetten die homoseksualiteit bestraffen als "een zegen".

Socrates? Waarom omschreef Socrates dan homoseksuele relaties als "beschamend"? Van Socrates wordt ook verhaald dat een jonge man hem op een bepaald moment probeerde te verleiden, maar dat hij dit resoluut afwees omdat dergelijke relaties afkeurde...

[Jan van den Berghe]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Supe®Staaf

Hoogstens bi-sexueel.
Ze had zelfs een affaire met Trotsky!

Er staan in die lijst de meest rare namen. Zo werd keizer Domitianus opgevoerd als een homoseksueel. Nu is dat de grootste onzin: Domitianus vaardigde wetten uit tegen homoseksualiteit. Hij was trouwens heel rigoureus op seksueel vlak: hij liet bijvoorbeeld verschillende Vestaalse Maagden veroordelen op grond van overspel, alhoewel het in Rome al oogluikend werd toegestaan dat die "maagden" seksuele betrekkingen hadden. Domitianus keert terug naar de oude gestrengheid. Er waren trouwens keizerlijke wetten die seks onder mannen bestraften en gelijk stelden met overspel.

[Supe®Staaf]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Jan van den Berghe

Er staan in die lijst de meest rare namen. Zo werd keizer Domitianus opgevoerd als een homoseksueel. Nu is dat de grootste onzin: Domitianus vaardigde wetten uit tegen homoseksualiteit. Hij was trouwens heel rigoureus op seksueel vlak: hij liet bijvoorbeeld verschillende Vestaalse Maagden veroordelen op grond van overspel, alhoewel het in Rome al oogluikend werd toegestaan dat die "maagden" seksuele betrekkingen hadden. Domitianus keert terug naar de oude gestrengheid. Er waren trouwens keizerlijke wetten die seks onder mannen bestraften en gelijk stelden met overspel.

Chopin had te doen met George Sand (toch een dame)
De lijst lijkt me idd niet echt 100% betrouwbaar.

[oeps]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Supe®Staaf

Chopin had te doen met George Sand (toch een dame)
De lijst lijkt me idd niet echt 100% betrouwbaar.

Veel homo's hebben kinderen. Technisch kan dat, althans MET EEN VROUW. Maar toch zijn ze ook homo. Dus het één sluit het ander niet uit eh.

[Jan van den Berghe]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door oeps

Veel homo's hebben kinderen. Technisch kan dat, althans MET EEN VROUW. Maar toch zijn ze ook homo. Dus het één sluit het ander niet uit eh.

Waaruit moet blijken dat Chopin dan een homoseksueel was?

[cookie@vws]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Jan van den Berghe

Waaruit moet blijken dat Chopin dan een homoseksueel was?

En Hitler dan?

[debbie]

Blijkbaar was Jezus ook homoseksueel. Er zouden verschillende passages in de bijbel zijn die daarnaar verwijzen.

[debbie]

Ik heb ooit eens cijfers gezien van een onderzoek naar homoseksualiteit in katholieke kringen. Ik zou eens moeten zoeken of ik het terug vind. Maar daaruit bleek dat veel priesters en godsdienstleraars homoseksueel waren maar uit schaamte deze seksuele voorkeur kost wat kost wilden verbergen en zich daarom net heel hard in hun christelijk geloof verdiepten. Dat verklaart ook waarom ze zo hard tegen homo's gekant zijn.

[Jan van den Berghe]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door debbie

Ik heb ooit eens cijfers gezien van een onderzoek naar homoseksualiteit in katholieke kringen. Ik zou eens moeten zoeken of ik het terug vind. Maar daaruit bleek dat veel priesters en godsdienstleraars homoseksueel waren maar uit schaamte deze seksuele voorkeur kost wat kost wilden verbergen en zich daarom net heel hard in hun christelijk geloof verdiepten. Dat verklaart ook waarom ze zo hard tegen homo's gekant zijn.

Daar zijn we weer met het etiket bij uitstek: wie zich uitspreekt tegen homoseksualiteit is zelf een verborgen homoseksueel. Waar dit op gebaseerd is wordt nooit gezegd. En ongetwijfeld zullen we nooit die cijfers zien om de eenvoudige reden dat er nooit zo'n studie is geweest.

[Jan van den Berghe]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door debbie

Blijkbaar was Jezus ook homoseksueel. Er zouden verschillende passages in de bijbel zijn die daarnaar verwijzen.

Er zouden... Er zou een studie zijn... Er zou moeten blijken... Er zou... Er zou...

Argumenten? Neen, gewoon wat beweringen die ergens in de lucht zweven zonder ook maar enige argumentatie.

[debbie]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Jan van den Berghe

Daar zijn we weer met het etiket bij uitstek: wie zich uitspreekt tegen homoseksualiteit is zelf een verborgen homoseksueel. Waar dit op gebaseerd is wordt nooit gezegd. En ongetwijfeld zullen we nooit die cijfers zien om de eenvoudige reden dat er nooit zo'n studie is geweest.

Voel je je aangesproken misschien? Ik had het nochtans niet over jou. Door de mand gevallen zeker?

[Supe®Staaf]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door oeps

Veel homo's hebben kinderen. Technisch kan dat, althans MET EEN VROUW. Maar toch zijn ze ook homo. Dus het één sluit het ander niet uit eh.

Dat klopt.
Er bestaan meerdere homosexuelen die vooraf gelukkig getrouwd waren en zich ongebreideld voortplantten.
Maar eens ze zich geout hadden, verlieten ze hun partner en hadden nadien enkel slippertjes en affaires met mensen van eigen kunne.
En George Sand was een dame met héél mannelijke trekjes.

[Supe®Staaf]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door debbie

Blijkbaar was Jezus ook homoseksueel.

Niet alleen homosexueel...........

Er zouden verschillende passages in de bijbel zijn die daarnaar verwijzen.

Laat de kinderen tot mij komen....... (Marcus 10:14)

[cookie@vws]

Er was eens een man. Die man trok de ganse dag op met een groep van twaalf mannen. Ge gaat me toch niet wijsmaken dat die niet aan elkaar zaten te prutsen. Den Olijfberg of Brokeback Mountain....Wat is het verschil?