Source: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey

Eve Addams aka Eva Kotchover	Dick Addison	Jeb Alexander	Robert T. Allen	Margaret Anderson	Nels Anderson	Amitai Avi-ram	Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968)
Theda Bara	George Beard	Aubrey Beardsley (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898)	Harold Beaver	Jack Benny	Susan Porter Benson	Gladys Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960)	Alexander Berkman
Milton Berle	Irving Berlin	Allan Bérubé (December 3, 1946 – December 11, 2007)	Phil Black	Caska Bonds	Rae Bourbon	Edouard Bournet	Clara Bow
Paul Boyer	Allan Brandt	Alan Bray (October 13, 1948 - November 25, 2001)	Sophonisba Breckinridge	Jay Brennan	A.A. Brill	Kennilworth Bruce	Richard Bruce Nugent (July 2, 1906 - May 27, 1987)
Arthur Budd aka Rose	Frank Burton	Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956)	Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999)	Hazel Carby	Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 - June 28, 1929)	Thelma Carpenter	Mary Casal
Billy Champion	Bob Chanler	Russell Cheney (October 16, 1881 - July 12 , 1945)	William and Samuel Childs	Samuel Chotzinoff	Bonnie Clark	Anthony Comstock	Donald Webster Cory aka Edward Sagarin (September 18, 1913 – June 10, 1986)
Nancy Cott	Noël Coward (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973)	Malcolm Cowley	Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946)	Kaier Curtin	Jimmie Daniels (1908 - June 29, 1984)	Bette Davis	Floyd Dell
John D'Emilio (born September 21, 1948)	Charles Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935)	Don Dickerman	Augustus Granville Dill	Muriel Draper	W.E.B. Du Bois	Yolanda Du Bois	Alice Dunbar-Nelson (July 19, 1875 - September 18, 1935)
Jimmy Durante	Max Eastman	Bobby Edwards	Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 – July 8, 1939)	Lewis Erenberg	James Everard	Max Ewing	Lillian Faderman (born July 18, 1940)
Will Finch	Leslie Fishbein	Austin Flint	Charles Henri Ford (February 10, 1913 - September 27, 2002)	Auguste Forel	Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984)	Sigmund Freud	Andrew Holleran aka Eric Garber (born January 1, 1944)
Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990)	Judy Garland	Marcus Garvey	Henry Gerber (June 29, 1892 - December 31, 1972)	Eldridge Gerry	Ira Gershwin	André Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951)	Timothy Gilfoyle
Erving Goffman	Mike Gold	Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940)	Martin Goodkin	Linda Gordon	Taylor Gordon	Elliot Gorn	Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986)
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (September 17, 1884 - April 8, 1920)	Alfred Gross	Texas Guinan	Radclyffe Hall (August 12, 1880 – October 7, 1943)	Jean Harlow	James Harris	Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943)	Terence Harvey
Gene Harwood	Jane Heap	David Hearst	William Randolph Hearst	Mark Hellinger	George Henry	John Higham	Magnus Hirschfeld (May 14, 1868 – May 14, 1935)
Alfred Hitchcock	Paula Holladay	Nora Holt	Morris Horowitz	William Lee Howard	William Dean Howells	Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967)	Laud Humphreys (October 16, 1930 - August 23, 1988)
Alberta Hunter	Harold Jackman	Dolly Judge	Simon Karlinsky	Jonathan Katz	Alfred Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956)	George Koenig	Eva Kotchover aka Eva Addams
Richard von Krafft-Ebing	Fiorello La Guardia	Jack Lait	Jean La Marr	Jackie Law	Jackson Lears	Gershon Legman	Lew Levenson
David Levering Lewis	Maurice Leznoff	Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987)	Perry Lichtenstein	Cyril Lightbody	Beatrice Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989)	Abraham Lincoln	Earl Lind (born 1874)
Vito Lorenzo	Mabel Dodge Luhan (February 26, 1879 – August 13, 1962)	Michael Lynch	Paul Lynde	Jackie Mabley	Frank McCarthy	Joseph McCarthy	Austin H. MacCormick
Bernarr Macfadden	Billy McGlory	Grant McGree	Claude McKay (September 15, 1889 - May 22, 1948)	Gene Malin aka Jean Malin (June 30, 1908 – August 10, 1933)	Bronislaw Malinowski	Eddie Manchester	Horace Mann
Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955)	John Mariano	Charles Marsden	Jack Mason aka Jackie	F.O. Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 - April 1, 1950)	Jackie Maye	Richard Meeker aka Forman Brown (January 8, 1901 - January 10, 1996)	Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891)
Mabel Mercer	Bruhs Mero (February 15, 1911 - August 10, 1995)	Joanne Meyerowitz	Harvey Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978)	Darius O. Mills	Vincente Minnelli	Clinton Moore	Helen Morgan, Jr.
Lee Mortimer	Edward Mulrooney	George Jean Nathan	Charles Nesbitt	Joan Nestle (born May 12, 1940)	Esther Newton	Blair Niles (1880 - April 13, 1959)	Karyl Norman
Richard Bruce Nugent (July 2, 1906 - May 27, 1987)	Eugene O'Neill	Robert Orsi	Thomas Mott Osborne	Thomas Painter	Robert Park	Jay Parker	Richard Parker
Charles Parkhurst	Mark Peel	Kathy Peiss	Edward G. Perry	Cole Porter	Adam Clayton Powell	Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922)	Joseph Pulitzer
Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939)	Walter Reckless	Alden Reimonenq	Francis Renault	Michel Rey	Harry Richman	William J. Robinson	Édouard Roditi (1910 – May 10, 1992)
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Theodore Roosevelt	Charles Rosenberg	Anthony Rotundo	Lillian Russell	Eugene Sandow	George Sardi	Bert Savoy
Dutch Schultz	Louis Schwartz	Judith Schwartz	James Scott	Billy Scully	Robert Scully	Samuel Seabury	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009)
Mordaunt Shairp	Louis Sheaffer	Charlie Sherman aka Chink	R.W. Shufeldt	Christina Simmons	Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937)	Roger Smith	Ruby Smith
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg	Joshua Stead	Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)	Edward Prime-Stevenson (July 23, 1858 - July 23, 1942)	Frank Stevenson	Samuel Steward aka Phil Andros (July 23, 1909 – December 31, 1993)	John Sumner	Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson aka Winston	John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893)	Andre Tellier	Battling Thompson	Frank Thompson	Wallace Thurman (August 16, 1902 - December 22, 1934)	Ellen Kay Trimberger	Randolph Trumbach
Parker Tyler (March 6, 1904 - June 1974)	Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (August 28, 1825 - July 14, 1895)	Theo Van Der Meer	James VanDerZee	Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964)	Walter R. Van Wagner	Donald Vining (June 20, 1917 - January 24, 1998)	A'Leila Walker
Jimmy Walker	Caroline Ware	Ethel Waters	Clifton Webb	Ralph Werther	Glenway Wescott (April 11, 1901 - February 22, 1987)	Mae West	Frederick Whitin
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)	Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)	Abram Will	Christine Williams	Emlyn Williams (November 26, 1905 – September 25, 1987)	Wayne S. Wooden	Donald Yacavone	Paul Yawitz

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