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There are many thousands of gay people of note. Here is a short list:

  • Elton John
  • kd lang
  • Ellen Degeneres
  • Ian McKellon
  • Jake Shears
  • Rosie O'Donnell
  • Jodie Foster
  • Rupert Everett
  • Leslie Jordan
  • David Geffen
  • Alan Poul
  • Martina Navritalova
  • Melissa Etheridge
  • Lily Tomlin
  • Greg Louganis
  • Billy Bean
  • Barney Frank
  • Margarethe Cammermeyer
  • (and about a thousand other celebrities)

Historically speaking, these famous people are known to have been gay/bisexual:

  • Alexander the great
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Richard the Lionhearted
  • Lord Byron
  • Walt Whitman
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Willa Cather
  • Alice B. Toklas
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Cole Porter
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Federico Garcia Lorca
  • James Baldwin
  • Michelangelo
  • Leonardo da vinci
  • Herman Melville
  • Piotr Tchaikovsky
  • Camille Saint-Saens
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Bessie Smith
  • Noel Coward
  • Christopher Isherwood
  • Yukio Mashima
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • James I
  • Pope Benedict IX
  • Dag Hammerskjøld
  • Edna Ferber
  • Peter the Great
  • Langston Hughes
  • Hans Christian Andersen
  • Suleiman the Magnificent
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
  • Rudolf Nuryev
  • Aristotle
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Montgomery Clift
  • Edward II
  • Horatio Alger
  • (and many, many more)
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