History Gays
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Karl Heinrich ULRICHS
(1825 - 1895), the first ever gay man to speak out publicly for civil rights of
gay people;
Harvey MILK (1930 - 1978),
the first ever openly gay US-politician elected to a public office;
Oscar WILDE (1854 - 1900), poet &
playwright;
Harry HAY (1912 - 2002),
co-founder of the Mattachine Society and of Radical Faeries;
Dr. Magnus HIRSCHFELD
(1868 - 1935), physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate.
Edward CARPENTER (1844
- 1929), poet and early gay rights activist;
Adolf BRAND (1874-1945)
writer, publisher of the magazine "Der Eigene";
Larry KRAMER (1935 -
living), author and gay rights activist;
Peter TATCHELL (1952 -
living), gay rights campaigner, spokesman of Outrage!;
Dr. Franklin E. KAMENY
(1925 - living), gay rights activist;
Bayard RUSTIN (1912 -
1987), civil rights activist;
Sir Ian MCKELLEN (1939
- living), actor;
Manfred BRUNS (1934 -
living), lawyer and gay rights activist;
Rosa VON PRAUNHEIM
(1942 - living) film director and gay rights activist;
Alan TURING (1912 - 1954)
mathematician, logician, and cryptographer;
Peter TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840 - 1893), composer;
Pierre SEEL (1923 - 2005),
former KZ prisoner, gay activist;
Theodor WIDDIG
(uncertain, ca. 1870 - ca. 1921+), cobbler in Cologne, early-day gay activist from the
working class;
John Henry Mackay
(1864 - 1933), writer;
Yukio MISHIMA (1925
-1970), writer;
Fyodor SOLOGUB (1863 -
1927), writer;
Craig SCHOONMAKER (?? - living),
a gay rights activist, editor of HI! and co-founder of
the "Expansionist Party of the United States";
Volker BECK (1960 -
living), politician;
Klaus WOWEREIT (1953 -
living), politician, mayor of Berlin (Germany);
Bertrand DELANOE (1950
- living) - politician, mayor of Paris;
Paul-Marie VERLAINE (1844 - 1896), poet;
Arthur RIMBAUD (1754 - 1891), poet;
Christopher ISHERWOOD
(1904 - 1986), writer;
Michael DENNENY (?? -
living), writer and editor;
Nokolai
ALEXEJEV (?? - living), gay rights activist;
Fannyann EDDY (1974 -
2004), lesbian activist in Sierra Leone;
Brian WILLIAMSON (?? - 2004), gay rights aktivist in Jamaica.
Everett George KLIPPERT
(1926-1996), 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.
Roy COHN (1927-1986), Clout
merchant & political kingmaker;
Guy BURGESS (1911-1963),
Soviet spy;
Anthony BLUNT
(1907-1983), Soviet spy;
Michel FOUCAULT
(1926-1984), Philosopher & writer;
Jean GENET (1910-1986),
Writer;
Marcel PROUST
(1871-1922), Writer;
Rainer Werner
FASSBINDER (1945-1983), Film director;
Gus Van SANT (1952-
living), Film director
Wolfgang PETERSEN
(1941-living), Film director
Pier Paolo PASOLINI
(1922-1975), Poet, intellectual, film director, painter, activist & writer.
Thomas
MANN (1875-1955), Writer.
André GIDE
(1869–1951), Writer.