just wondering...somebody asked, "why are there gay people?". then this question came across my mind, who is the first gay in the world recognized as so by many people anyway?
2006-08-06 14:06:13 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
i meant the oldest gay person known.
2006-08-06 21:05:52 · update #1
First well-known gay man: I'm going to go with Plato.
First well-known lesbian: Sapphos (Poet from the island of Lesbos, where we get the word "lesbian", today.)
I think you're going to need a time-line to see which order all of these suggestions go in. :)
2006-08-06 14:34:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michaelangelo is the first one I can remember
Sappho, the poetess
There are a lot of famous gay people from hundreds of years ago. I just read that Marie Antoinette, Queen Anne, Queen Christina of Englan all had female lovers. Eleanor Roosevelt also. Oh, I'm going ack to my reading -- this IS interesting.
2006-08-11 04:43:14 · answer #2 · answered by reme_1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander the Great was a bisexual and Queen Christina of Sweden was a lesbian. And there are others though out history but these two came to mind first.
2006-08-07 00:29:14 · answer #3 · answered by MindStorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oscar Wilde
2006-08-06 21:20:21 · answer #4 · answered by JP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I second the Sappho comment. She helped coin the phrase "lesbian"
As for the first gay man, my dad is a United Methodist pastor, & he thinks that Paul (I think) was gay because of the "thorn in his side"
2006-08-06 23:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by dementors_suck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander the Great was gay
2006-08-06 21:49:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liberace the piano player was open a bout his preferences but the Eleanor Roosevelt did not hide that her press sectary and here was a couple either
2006-08-06 21:15:39 · answer #7 · answered by robecca_san 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about Alexander the Great. I can't see the other answers so I bet somebody else already said this.
2006-08-11 21:18:12 · answer #8 · answered by 5375 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rock Hudson I think. He was one of the first people that was famous to die of AIDS . And also to be known as gay also.
2006-08-06 21:12:51 · answer #9 · answered by bren_jim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander the Great. In modern times I'd have to guess, so I'd say Liberace. (pronounced li.ber.ah.che)
2006-08-06 22:47:22 · answer #10 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋