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SIZE 2][/SIZE][COLOR orange][/COLOR]Sexual Behavior Facts and Rumors on the Rich, Famous, and histor List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people This is a list of confirmed and debated famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people (lesbigay for short). The historical concept and definition of sexual orientation has changed greatly over time—in fact, the word "gay" wasn't used to describe sexual orientation until the late 20th century. See homosexuality for more about the primary (and by far the most controversial) distinguishing characteristic of GLBs. Some historical figures on this list wouldn't be considered lesbigay by today's standards, but they are included here because they were known to have had same-gender relationships. But even by today's standards, a relationship or two doesn't necessarily mean one is bisexual. Many people who identify as gay or lesbian have had different-gender relationships in their youth, and many who identify as heterosexual have experimented with same-sex relationships. Due to social norms that have remained consistent throughout history, little information about such matters when discussing historical figures is available; therefore, one can only make educated guesses based on limited evidence. It is important to note that the sexual orientation of famous individuals is often fodder for tabloid press. As such, the sexual preference of famous individuals is often subject to rumor simply because of a tabloid article. Some stars, especially those about whom rumors most often circulate, wish to maintain a public image of heterosexuality—believing that assertions to the contrary would negatively affect their profitability—and are vigorous in their legal pursuit of those who would question their heterosexuality. An excellent example of this is actor Tom Cruise, who has been involved in at least three such lawsuits. In 1998, he successfully sued a British tabloid that alleged that his marriage to Nicole Kidman was a sham designed to cover up his homosexuality. He obtained a default judgment against a gay porn actor (Chad Slater, aka "Kyle Bradford") who had given an interview to a tabloid newspaper in which he claimed he had a sexual relationship with Tom Cruise, and he sued Michael Davis, a magazine publisher, who alleged that he had photographs that would prove Tom Cruise was homosexual: this suit was dropped in exchange for a public statement by Davis that Tom Cruise was heterosexual. Because of the threat of litigation, it is considered prudent not to assert the homosexuality or bisexuality of a celebrity unless the celebrity has personally publically asserted it. Some gay groups (e.g., Outrage!), have followed a policy of outing public figures regularly for political purposes, usually only if that person is publicly anti-gay. However, such a policy is generally condemned within the lesbian and gay community as an infringement on a person's right to privacy, because of concerns about their family, their right to cope with their own sexuality on their own terms, or the risk of discrimination or loss of reputation. Note that several of the people on this list were prosecuted for their behavior under existing "sodomy laws". Wikipedians: Edit this list with caution, because misidentifying the sexual identity of living individuals can lead to a charge of libel. It has not been tested whether Wikipedia's sponsor, Bomis, is liable for libel in the Wikipedia. Furthermore, categorization of historical figures no longer alive to define their own sexual orientation often leads to pointless debate. Recognize that just as adding non-gay people to this list would be wrong, removing gay people from this list is also wrong. You should justify additions or removals on the list's talk page: providing written sources would be best. The most convincing evidence about living persons would be a self-description by that individual. And keep in mind the skepticism of that great actress Tallulah Bankhead, who, when asked whether a certain distinguished British actor was gay, responded, "I don't know, darling. He's never sucked my dick!" Persons of confirmed lesbigay sexual orientation The following list includes those people who have confirmed their lesbian, gay or bisexual orientation or whose lesbian, gay, or bisexual orientation is not debated. Roberta Achtenberg, US Politician Edward Albee, American Playwright (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) Alexander the Great Chad Allen, American actor Steve Antin, American actor Gregg Araki, director of Doom Generation and The Living End Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, author of "Before Night Falls" ("Antes que anochezca") John Ashbery, American poet Othniel Askew, American assassin W. H. Auden, British poet Kevin Aviance, dance music singer James Baldwin, American author Alan Ball, writer (American Beauty, "Six Feet Under") Samuel Barber, U.S. composer Clive Barker, Author, director, artist, known primarily for his work in the horror genre Michael Barrymore, British comedian Drew Barrymore, actress, bisexual Roland Barthes, French literary theorist Katharine Lee Bates, writer of "America the Beautiful" [1] Billy Bean, former major league baseball player Amanda Bearse, American actor ("Married...with "), director Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist (Dykes to Watch Out For) Sandra Bernhard, American comedian, singer, author and actor Leonard Bernstein, U.S. composer and conductor Ole von Beust, major of Hamburg James Bidgood, US photographer and filmmaker (Pink Narcissus) Mark Bingham, United Airlines flight 93 passenger, victim of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks Ross Bleckner, American artist Marc Blitzstein, American theater composer Chastity Bono, American activist, lesbian, of Cher and Sonny Bono Michel Marc Bouchard, Canadian playwright (Les feluettes) Jane Bowles, American author, married to Paul Bowles Paul Bowles, American expatriate author and once composer, married to Jane Bowles Karin Boye, Swedish poet and novelist Easter Bradford, American musician, actor and human rights activist Scott Brison, Canadian member of Parliament Benjamin Britten, English composer Lady Bunny, drag performer William S. Burroughs, American Beat author (Naked Lunch, Junky) John Cage, highly influential American composer of aleatoric music and partner of Merce Cunningham Truman Capote, American author Giacomo Casanova, seducer Roger Casement, Irish patriot Jose-Javier Castro, Peruvian artist, thinker, poet, composer of post-rock and experimental music, air crash survivor, member of ATA revolutionary group http://Gay Hookup Zone.com Luis Cernuda, Spanish playwright Graham Chapman, British comedian Richard Chamberlain, American actor Margaret Cho, American comedian Montgomery Clift, American actor Kate Clinton, American comedian Jean Cocteau, French director and artist, lover of Jean Marais Jeffrey Collman, American Airlines flight 11 flight attendant, victim of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks Anderson Cooper, journalist, CNN Aaron Copland, American composer, documented in Howard Pollack's biography, Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man Henry Cowell, highly influential American composer Quentin Crisp, British actor and wit Alan Cumming, Scottish actor Andrew Cunanan, American spree killer, murdered Gianni Versace Merce Cunningham, choreographer and partner of John Cage Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer Libby Davies, Canadian member of parliament Ellen DeGeneres, writer, comedian and actor Divine, actor (in many of John Waters' films} Dreuxilla Divine, transvestite Bertrand Delano�, mayor of Paris Samuel Delany, science fiction author Lea DeLaria, American comedian, jazz singer, author Marlene Dietrich, actress, bisexual Ani DiFranco, American folk singer, bisexual Diane Duane, author, bisexual Marcel Duchamp, artist, inventor of the found object Hilton Edwards, actor, co-founder of Dublin's Gate Theatre, partner of Miche�l MacLiammoir Ruth Ellis, lesbian matriarch and only known African-American centenarian lesbian Melissa Etheridge, American singer, lesbian, musician, composer Kenny Everett, British DJ and comic Rupert Everett, British actor, gay Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German movie director Harvey Fierstein, American actor, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy) E. M. Forster, British author Pim Fortuyn, conservative Dutch politician Michel Foucault, French scholar Samantha Fox, British model and one time pop singer Barney Frank (D, MA), US Representative Stephen Fry, British actor, comedian, and novelist Greta Garbo, actress Federico Garc�a Lorca, Spanish poet and playwright, martyred in the Spanish Civil War Jonas Gardell, Swedish artist and "riksb�g". David Geffen, music producer and record executive, gay Jean Genet, French writer Chrissy Gephardt, of 2004 presidential candidate Dick Gephardt Boy George, British musician Prince George, Duke of Kent, British royal (uncle of Queen Elizabeth I  Andre Gide, French novelist and Nobel Laureate Candace Gingrich, activist, half-sister of former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet ("Howl") Sir Alec Guinness, bisexual actor who was arrested while cottaging in 1948 Gorgidas, Theban military leader of the Sacred band of elite troops of paired gay lovers. Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer Judy Grahn, American poet Gustav Gründgens, German actor and stage director Gustav V of Sweden Rob Halford, British singer (Judas Priest) Radclyffe Hall, British lesbian, author of "The Well of Loneliness" Marc Hall, Canadian student and activist Vincent Hanley, Irish radio DJ who died of an AIDS-related illness G. H. Hardy, British mathematician Lou Harrison, American composer Richard Hatch, Survivor winner Nigel Hawthorne, British actor Harry Hay, American gay rights activist, founder of the Mattachine Society Carl Hayden Anne Heche, American actress, bisexual Sighsten Herrg�rd, designer, trendsetter. Became the face of AIDS in Sweden. A. E. Housman, English poet Rock Hudson, American actor Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer Jerry Hunt, American composer from Texas Janis Ian, American Singer/songwriter Christopher Isherwood, British novelist Tony Jackson, American pianist and composer James I of England [1] Joan Jett, musician Elton John, British singer, musician, composer Jasper Johns, artist Philip Johnson, American architect Angelina Jolie, American actress, bisexual Janis Joplin, American singer Mychal F. Judge, Franciscan priest, WTC terrorism victim Pope Julius II John Maynard Keynes, British economist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics Billie Jean King, tennis player The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, Justice of the High Court of Australia James Kirkwood, American playwright (A Chorus Line) David Kopay, American football player, outed self in autobiography Ronnie Kray, One half of the Kray twins Nathan Lane, American actor and singer k.d. lang, Canadian country and blues singer, musician, lesbian Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance artist Hedda Lettuce, drag performer Mark Levengod, Swedish TV host Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet Liberace, American musician Kristanna Loken, actress, model, bisexual Audre Lorde, poet, author Lance Loud, gay on reality television show An American Family Greg Louganis, American olympic diver Ann-Marie MacDonald, Canadian author and playwright Miche�l MacLiammoir actor and co-founder of Dublin's Gate Theatre Madonna, American singer, actress, writer, dancer, producer Thomas Mann, German author Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist, photographer Jean Marais, French actor, lover of Jean Cocteau Christopher Marlowe, Elizabethan playwright Armistead Maupin, American writer (Tales of the City) Ian McKellen, British actor (X-Men, The Lord of the Rings), gay Réal Ménard, Canadian member of parliament Gian Carlo Menotti, U.S. composer Freddie Mercury, British musician (Queen) Metrobius George Michael, British singer (Wham) Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian Renaissance artist Harvey Milk, American politician Sal Mineo, American actor Yukio Mishima, Japanese author Cherrie Moraga, author on lesbian Hispanic themes Richard Morel, singer, music producer Steven Morrissey, British singer (The Smiths) David Norris, Irish senator, James Joyce scholar [1] Martina Navratilova, tennis champion, lesbian Me'shell N'Degeocello, singer and guitarist Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer Graham Norton, Irish actor, UK chat show host Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian, lesbian Eoin O'Duffy, Irish police commissioner, leader of the 'Blueshirts' and aide to Michael Collins Sinead O'Connor, singer, bisexual Pauline Oliveros, composer Joe Orton, playwright Brian Paddick, UK Police Commander and nephew of Hugh Paddick Hugh Paddick, British actor Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian director and writer Harry Partch, American composer and just intonation instrument inventor Peter Pears, English singer Patrick Pearse, Irish patriot and leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, whose poetry is littered with homoerotic imagery Pink singer, bisexual Danny Pintauro, American actor ("Who's the Boss") Plato Paula Poundstone, comedian Michael Portillo, former UK Defence Secretary and defeated leadership candidate Francis Poulenc, French composer Queen Pen, bisexual singer Robert Rauschenberg, American artist Rio Reiser, German musician ("Ton Steine Scherben"), bisexual Christopher Rice, American author ( of Anne Rice) Adrienne Rich, American poet and critic Herb Ritts, American fashion photographer Gene Robinson, American Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire Svend Robinson, Canadian member of parliament Ernst Roehm, leader of the Nazi SA Hilary Rosen, former CEO of the RIAA RuPaul, AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American drag queen Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, introduced Martin Luther King Jr to the writings of Gandhi and non-violence, fired for being gay Jason Saffer, AKA Jolene Sugarbaker, drag performer and comedian Dan Savage, American columnist Franz Schubert, Austrian composer David Sedaris, American essayist and radio personality Fred Schneider, lead singer of the B-52s Matthew Shepard, hate crime victim, violently murdered in Wyoming, subject of Emmy winning films The Laramie Project and The Matthew Shepard Story Michelangelo Signorile, columnist, advocate, and pundit Bessie Smith, American blues singer Chris Smith, UK Politician George Smitherman, Canadian politician (Ontario cabinet minister) [1] Solon, Greek statesman Jimmy Somerville, singer (Bronski Beat, The Communards) Dusty Springfield, singer Gertrude Stein, American expatriate author, partner of Alice B. Toklas Michael Stipe, American singer (R.E.M), film producer Gerry Studds, US politician Lucius Cornelius Sulla Andrew Sullivan, conservative journalist Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys) Scott Thompson, Canadian comedian and actor ( in the Hall) Virgil Thomson, American theater composer and music critic Alice B. Toklas, partner of Gertrude Stein, known for her cookbook which contains Brion Gysin's hashish brownies (marijuana) Lily Tomlin, American comedian, actress, lesbian Pussy Tourette, drag performer and singer Michel Tremblay, Canadian writer Esera Tuaolo, former NFL player Alan Turing, British mathematician, computer scientist and theorist, gay Colin Turnbull, British anthropologist, later American citizen, Buddhist Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer Gore Vidal, American writer Tom Waddell, American sports Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford Andy Warhol, American artist and pop icon John Waters, American film director (Pink Flamingos) James Whale, American film director Diane Whipple, victim in the Presa Canario mauling trial Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright and bon vivant Tennessee Williams, American playwright Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass) Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical archaeologist and art historian Virginia Woolf, British author Klaus Wowereit, mayor of Berlin Dick York, American actor Will Young, British "UK Pop Idol" winner Felix Yussupov, Russian prince Pedro Zamora, Cuban AIDS activist, The Real World participant Persons of debated lesbian, gay, or bisexual orientation The following list includes those who some people believe there is evidence the person was gay, lesbian or bisexual. More information about what is known about each individual's sexuality should be available in the individual's biography. Christina Aguilera, Ecuadorian-American pop singer Akhenaton, Egyptian pharaoh Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and womens' suffrage activist Aristotle, Greek philosopher David Bowie, British, singer, husband of Iman James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States Julius Caesar Cepillin, Mexican clown Michael Collins - Irish revolutionary leader and long rumoured bisexual. F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher James Dean, American actor Edgardo Diaz, Menudo creator Siegfried Fischbacher, magician Jodie Foster, American actress Juan Gabriel John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer, convicted of the and murder of thirty-three men George Gershwin David Gest, Liza Minnelli's manager Thomas Gray, English poet J. Edgar Hoover, director of FBI Roy Horn, magician Lena Katina and Julia Volkova (t.A.T.u), Russian pop group William R. King, United States Senator and Vice President under Franklin Pierce T. E. Lawrence, British soldier Nancy Lieberman, basketball player W. Somerset Maugham, British author Walter Mercado Cheryl Miller basketball player and coach Pope Paul VI, head of the Roman Catholic Church (1963-7  Elvis Presley Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom, outed on new ITV programme as bisexual Johnny Ray Puerto Rican actor Luis Raul Puerto Rican actor and show host Camille Saint-Saens Victor Santiago, mayor in Puerto Rico, accused of sexual harrasment by two men Some of the members of The Village People group Sappho, Greek poet:her love poetry to men and women may or may not have autobiographical import. William Shakespeare, Elizabethan playwright and poet (had a wife and :his love sonnets to a man may or may not have autobiographical import.) Socrates, Greek philosopher Britney Spears, pop singer |
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