ok, can anyone name me gay people that have changed history for the better, or that have made very important contributions to society, please try not to mention singers cause i know most of the men singers are gay.
2006-11-01 03:54:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
come on TRACER, Abraham Lincoln????!!!!!
2006-11-01 04:04:48 · update #1
come on TRACER, Abraham Lincoln????!!!!!
2006-11-01 04:04:54 · update #2
dickn2000, you are not very bright are you, if you would have bothered to read my question correctly, i asked for people who have made important and positive contributions, all i got from your list were singers(which i said i didn't want),serial killers, a bunch of authors and a drag queen!
2006-11-01 04:16:41 · update #3
Sir Isaac Newton?!!!!!
2006-11-01 04:17:41 · update #4
no
2006-11-01 03:56:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
I was initially taking your question seriously until I read your followups.
Several people have mentioned Alexander the Great -- which you have ignored. People have mentioned the man who broke the Nazi code -- which you ignored.
Lawrence of Arabia springs to mind of course -- Philip the Fair, King of France as well -- Richard the Lionhearted (who was Philip's lover, as best we can tell) -- however, it is very difficult to tell who was homosexual very far back in history -- people hid, people still hide.
Please define what you mean by changed history. Did Hormel change history? Or is being an ambassador too minor? Did Philip the Fair?.... I'm not sure he did. Was he important at this time... yes.
However, you take away the performing arts -- which has always been a major gay area. I presume that you include music composition in that exclusion, so gay composers are out of the question, you ignore a major sci-fi author, so I guess that authors are included too.
What is it that you are looking for? If you are looking for major political figures, then it is very difficult. Most gay men hid. Garfield is conceded by a lot of historians that I know (I am factulty in a University) to have been gay -- but it can't be proven absolutely -- so who knows? Some historians think Lincoln was functionally bisexual and emotionally homosexual, I've read the evidence and I tend to think they are correct, but its impossible to know for certain so I can't make an assertion of Lincoln being gay as a fact.
Please, define clearly what you are looking for -- and what you will accept as proof -- otherwise you are just asking people to engage in a fishing expedition so that you can ridicule them.
Regards,
Reynolds
believeinyou24@yahoo.com
2006-11-01 12:30:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky; Alexander the Great; Leonardo Da Vinci; Michelangelo
2006-11-01 13:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by dmspartan2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander the Great. All the Roman Emperors. All early Greek leaders. Alan Turing (father of computing). J Edgar Hoover (a homophobe you'd be proud of!). Without gay people there would never have been civilisation. Tough luck lady!!
2006-11-01 15:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by paul h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln, Alexander the Great, Julius Ceasar, etc, many more
http://www.freeessays.cc/db/42/sra137.shtml
2006-11-01 12:03:07 · answer #5 · answered by TRACER 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Susan B. Anthony is said to have been a lesbian, but that may or may not be true.
Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader/minister, worked alongside Martin Luther King
Alan Turing, mathematician. Broke Nazi code in WWII, made today's PCs possible.
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
Oh, and check this out!
http://www.famousandgay.com/
2006-11-01 12:02:33 · answer #6 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indy T. has the right answer. Now, If I may, why such a specific question? Implicity in the question is that gays have not contributed. Was that your intent?
2006-11-01 12:05:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every LGBT person who is a good person has changed the world for the better
2006-11-01 12:32:07 · answer #8 · answered by st.uncumber 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you want a list including historical figures start HERE.
http://www.famousandgay.com/a.html
2006-11-01 12:00:22 · answer #9 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Too numerous to mention.
2006-11-01 12:05:32 · answer #10 · answered by malcy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buy the book, Homosexuals In History by A. L. Rowse
And here's a partial list for you to start with.
P.S. you're not very bright, are you?
Famous Homosexuals
Pedro Aldomovar, filmmaker
Alexander the Great, conqueror
Hans Christian Andersen, writer
Marshall Applewhite, cult guru
Joan Armatrading, singer
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts
Joan Baez, singer
Jurgen Bartsch, German serial killer
Sandra Bernhard, actor
Mr. Blackwell, asshole fashion critic
Dirk Bogarde, actor
William G Bonin, serial killer
Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher
David Bowie, musician [bisexual]
Marlon Brando, actor [heteroflexible]
Susie Bright, sexpert
John Brunner, science fiction author
William S. Burroughs, writer
Julius Caesar, caesar
Truman Capote, writer
Marilyn Chambers, actor
Traci Chapman, singer
Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney
Margaret Cho, comic [heteroflexible]
Montgomery Clift, actor
Kurt Cobain, singer [bisexual]
James Coco, actor
Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy's henchman, Mob attorney
Colette, writer [bisexual]
Hart Crane, poet [bisexual]
Aleister Crowley, wicked wicked man
Captain Crunch, hacker
Andrew Cunanan, serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer
James Dean, actor [bisexual]
Ellen DeGeneres, actor
Emily Dickinson, poet
Divine, actor
Matt Drudge, columnist
John du Pont, heir and ornithologist, alleged homosexual
Andrea Dworkin, feminist idiot
Brian Epstein, managed The Beatles
Sergei Esenin, poet [bisexual]
Melissa Etheridge, singer
Rupert Everett, actor
Harvey Fierstein, actor
Malcolm Forbes, businessman [bisexual]
Pim Fortuyn, assassinated Dutch candidate
Jodi Foster, actor
Barney Frank, congressman from Massachusetts
John Wayne Gacy, serial killer
David Geffen, Geffen Records [bisexual?]
Jean Genet, felonious playwright
Boy George, singer
Sir John Gielgud, actor
Allen Ginsberg, poet
Cary Grant, actor [bisexual]
Merv Griffin, television mogul
Hadrian, Roman Emperor
Rob Halford, singer, Judas Priest
Keith Haring, artist
Nina Hartley, actor [bisexual]
Todd Haynes, filmmaker
Anne Heche, actor [bisexual]
Doug Henning, magician [if not gay, downgrade to fabulous]
Pee-wee Herman, actor
David Hockney, artist
John Holmes, porn actor [bisexual]
J. Edgar Hoover, longtime head of the FBI.
Rock Hudson, actor
Javed Iqbal, hunter of street urchins
Elton John, musician
Jasper Johns, artist
Jim Jones, cult guru [bisexual]
Billie Jean King, tennis player
k.d. lang, singer
Charles Laughton, actor
Ralph Lauren, fashion designer
Ursula LeGuin, author
Leonardo da Vinci, genius
Liberace, pianist
Greg Louganis, Olympic diver
Paul Lynde, Hollywood Square
Charles Manson, bisexual, sodomized a boy by force
Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer
W. Somerset Maugham, writer [bisexual]
Armistead Maupin, writer
Joseph McCarthy, Senator and persecutor
Sir Ian McKellen, actor
Freddie Mercury, singer, Queen.
George Michael, singer
Michaelangelo, Renaissance man
Harvey Milk, gay rights activist and martyr
Morrissey, singer
Martina Navratilova, tennis player
Sir Isaac Newton, scientist and celibate homo
Sinead O'Connor, singer
Rosie O'Donnell, talk show host
Joe Orton, playwright
Camille Paglia, author
Carl Panzram, serial killer.
Gilles de Rais, nobleman
Charles Nelson Riley, actor
Rimbaud, poet
Cesar Romero, actor
Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of Franklin D. Roosevelt [bisexual]
RuPaul, drag queen
Sappho, poet
Dick Sargent, second Darrin on Bewitched
Dan Savage, advice columnist
Matthew Shepard, martyr
Siegfried and Roy, magicians
Richard Simmons, fitness guru
Socrates, philosopher [bisexual]
Annie Sprinkle, sexpert
Gertrude Stein, author
Jeff Stryker, actor
Andrew Sullivan, conservative gay columnist, barebacker
Pëtr Ilich Tchaikovsky, composer
Scott Thompson, comic
Billy Tipton, jazz musician, lifelong male impersonator
Andrew Tobias, writer
Alice B. Toklas, cookbook author
Lily Tomlin, actor
Pete Townshend, The Who [bisexual]
Alan Turing, genius
Gus Van Sant, filmmaker
Versace, fashion designer
Gore Vidal, writer
Bruce Vilanch, joke writer
Andy Warhol, artist [bisexual]
John Waters, filmmaker
Oscar Wilde, writer
Tennessee Williams, playwright
2006-11-01 12:07:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋