Name famous homosexuals that made significant contributions and what were they?

Question

1. Alexander the Great-not sure what he did, but it was Great.
2. King James I - version of the Bible, but he apparently liked young boys in his bed.

um anyone else you can think of?

Answer 1

Take a look at this article:
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/famous.htm

Answer 2

Alan Turing - founder of modern computer science and largely responsible for cracking the German enigma code

Ludwig Wittgenstein - founder of modern philosophy of language

Peter Tchaikovsky - Russian romantic composer

John Maynard Keynes - founder of post-war demand-side economics

Christopher Marlowe - father of the Renaissance English drama and precursor to Shakespeare

Shakespeare - if his sonnets are anything to go by

Marcel Proust - greatest modernist novelist in Europe

a whole lot of artists including Michaelangelo and Caravaggio

practically everyone in the classical world (Pericles, Julius Caesar, etc.) was 'bisexual'

Shouldn't this be in the LGBT section?

Answer 3

it never ceases to amaze why people have to make sure the world knows that there are homosexuals that make great contributions in the world. Why can't their contributions just speak for themselves. What are you trying to prove by mentioning their sexuality? Is this a way to say that they are good people? Heterosexuals do good things too, but until they except Christ their goodness means nothing, because being good does not save anyone, homosexual or heterosexual.

Answer 4

Florence Nightengale.
Statistics as applied to Modern nursing and military hospitals.
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Florence Nightingale had exhibited a gift for mathematics from an early age and excelled in the subject under the tutorship of her father. She had a special interest in statistics, a field in which her father, a pioneer in the nascent field of epidemiology, was an expert. She made extensive use of statistical analysis in the compilation, analysis and presentation of statistics on medical care and public health.


"Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East" by Florence Nightingale.Nightingale was a pioneer in the visual presentation of information. Among other things she used the pie chart, which had first been developed by William Playfair in 1801. After the Crimean War, Nightingale used the polar area chart, equivalent to a modern circular histogram or rose diagram, to illustrate seasonal sources of patient mortality in the military field hospital she managed. Nightingale called a compilation of such diagrams a "coxcomb", but later that term has frequently been used for the individual diagrams. She made extensive use of coxcombs to present reports on the nature and magnitude of the conditions of medical care in the Crimean War to Members of Parliament and civil servants who would have been unlikely to read or understand traditional statistical reports.

In her later life Nightingale made a comprehensive statistical study of sanitation in Indian rural life and was the leading figure in the introduction of improved medical care and public health service in India.

In 1858 Nightingale was elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and she later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

Answer 5

Alan Turing the WW2 computer expert who helped crack the German Enigma cipher system, and who was later hounded to suicide for his sexuality, arguably did more for the Allied war effort than anybody else. And the Turing test is now the gold standard when it comes to comparing computer and human intelligence. I'm not gay, but in my experience a higher proportion of gays are creative and intelligent than the general population.

Answer 6

Beautiful Audrey Hepburn was one of many. She was another tireless worker for the UNICEF cause. She started with a focus on the plight of children living in Ethiopia. Promoting the needs in the United States, Canada and Europe she gave countless interviews. In 1992 sick with the cancer that would take her life the next year Hepburn continued her work for UNICEF, travelling to Somalia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France...and fought for them as long as she was physically able.

Answer 7

There are a number of homos/bis who contributed greatly to the world..... like Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde.

In the roman Christian empire having sex with men was considered manly as long as you went onto have a wife and kids.... so there will be plenty there.

Answer 8

Just because someone had a homosexual encounter it doesn't make then a homosexual. I've ridden a motorcycle before but that doesn't make me a biker! I've taught a class before but that doesn't make me a teacher! Also, people "alleged" to be homosexual are innocent until proven otherwise. If someone "apparently" liked little boys in his bed that doesn't make it fact.

Answer 9

Alexander von Humboldt
One of the greatest naturalists/scientists of his day (c.1805).
He made great observations, measurements and advances in the fields of geography, weather, climate, biology, ecology, and geology.

Answer 10

And your point? ALL members of MENSA are sinners. ALL recipients of Nobel Peace Prizes are/were sinners. ALL college professors are sinners.

Some of these people's sins include homosexuality, and some do not. Why single out that one sin?

Try to name ONE person who had a significant contribution who was NOT a sinner?

The list is very short, but there is one name on it. He's the one that 100% of sinners need.

Answer 11

Leonardo da Vinci. Long list of contributions.