After all, he was also quite mad - he commited seppuku out of no other reason as to raise public unrest.

Actually, what are the following two gentlemen - the good guys or the bad guys? I would say, it depends on whether one is/was "with US or against US"?

Mr. Mishima raises interesting questions about just what sort of person should be on the list. I like Mishima's writing, make no mistake, but he was also essentially a neo-fascist-- the guy had a private army, for goodness sake,

Guy Burgess (1911-1963), Soviet spy;

Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), Soviet spy;

Yukio MISHIMA (1925 -1970), writer

Everett George Klippert (1926-1996) was the last person in Canada to be arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for homosexuality before its legalization in 1969; the reforms which led to Canadian legalization of homosexuality were a direct result of the Klippert case.

Since Gay History Month does start the day after tomorrow, perhaps we should do ourselves the favor of coming up with a more realistic top-50 list... you know, one that actually has some relevance to Gay History Month, with gay people on it.

How can you be proud of how far we have come if you don't know how we got there?

The "gay" world today is in fact overwhelmingly, oppressively STRAIGHT. It is not so much "gay" as "stray", STRaight in form and substance, peopled by "gAYs" who aren't nearly so homosexual as they need to be, because their surroundings endlessly perpetuate straight ways of thinking and behaving.

Much has changed since 1965, not all of it for the better. Public "tolerance" of homosexuality is much greater, tho active, aggressive intolerance prevails in some areas of society, such as the military. But the tradeoff is that gay men must now present themselves as essentially straight — heterosexual in all ways except as to whom they actually have sex with.

We must immerse ourselves in straight culture, accept that heterosexuality must prevail everywhere, even in gay bars, and pretend to love women except in bed.

In the typical gay bar, not one minute of gay men's music is ever heard. Indeed, between 70% and 95% of all the music played in "gay" bars is of women's voices singing — or screaming — heterosexual lyrics. Never do men sing romantically of men. Worse, these singing/screaming women are often shown on TV screens, bumping and grinding suggestively, filling an ostensibly "gay" space with disgusting heterosexual images one's eye is constantly drawn to. Elsewhere in the same "gay" bar, there will be a regular TV turned to one or another of the many heterosexual TV stations of the general community — as tho we don't have TV at home, so need to watch straight TV in gay bars. I don't know about you, but I have four TVs and four VCRs at home. If I wanted to watch straight TV, I wouldn't go to a gay bar to do so.

A recent poll of over 5,000 gay people found that Kylie Minogue is their goddess, and that the gay community seems to worship straight women who can hold a tune more than the real heroes that have made their lives better.

Guess where the first homosexual on the list appeared? 19th place. There were no lesbians on the list. That means only 18% of "gay icons" are in fact gay. A depressing statistic.

A person ignorant of their own history cannot really know themselves. How can you be proud of how far we have come if you don't know how we got there?