Source: Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals by Keith Stern
Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 December 9, 1991)
J.R. Ackerley (November 4, 1896 - June 4, 1967)
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 May 9, 1968)
Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 May 21, 1935)
Adrian (March 3, 1903 September 13, 1959)
James Agate (September 9, 1877 June 6, 1947)
Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931 - December 1, 1989)
Edward Albee (born March 12, 1928)
Alexander the Great (July 20 or 21, 356 June 10 or 11, 323 BC)
Chad Allen (born June 5, 1974)
Peter Allen (February 19, 1944 June 18, 1992)
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born November 16, 1964)
Pedro Almodσvar (born September 25, 1949)
Joseph Alsop (October 10, 1910 August 28, 1989)
Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 August 4, 1875)
Dame Judith Anderson (February 10, 1897 January 3, 1992)
Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927)
Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 March 13, 1906)
Antinous (November 27, c. 111 October 30, 130)
Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 December 24, 1982)
Emile Ardolino (May 9, 1943 - Novembber 20, 1993)
Willem Arondeus (August 22, 1894 - July 1, 1943)
Newton Arvin (August 25, 1900 March 21, 1963)
Howard Ashman (May 17, 1950 March 14, 1991)
Anthony Asquith (November 9, 1902 February 20, 1968)
Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk (May 19, 1881 November 10, 1938)
W.H. Auden (February 21, 1907 September 29, 1973)
Manuel Azaρa (January 10, 1880 November 3, 1940)
Don Bachardy (born May 18, 1934)
Sir Francis Bacon (January 22, 1561 April 9, 1626)
Francis Bacon (October 28, 1909 April 28, 1992)
Sara Josephine Baker (November 15, 1873 February 22, 1945)
James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 December 1, 1987)
Way Bandy (August 9, 1941 August 13, 1986)
Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 December 12, 1968)
Samuel Barber (March 9, 1910 January 23, 1981)
Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 June 18, 1982)
Tim Barnett (born August 4, 1958)
Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 February 2, 1972)
John Barrowman (born March 11, 1967)
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 March 25, 1980)
Lance Bass (born May 4, 1979)
Sir Alan Bates (February 17, 1934 December 27, 2003)
Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 March 28, 1929)
Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 - October 5, 1962)
James Beard (May 5, 1903 January 21, 1985)
Cecil Beaton (January 14, 1904 January 18, 1980)
Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont (March 27, 1908 March 22, 1973)
William Thomas Beckford (October 1, 1760 May 2, 1844)
Lucius Beebe (December 9, 1902 February 4, 1966)
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 March 8, 1887)
Andy Bell (born April 25, 1964)
Ruth Benedict (June 5, 1887 September 17, 1948)
Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934)
Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 July 2, 1987)
Helmut Berger (born May 29, 1944)
Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955)
Lem Billings (April 15, 1916 May 28, 1981)
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 October 6, 1979)
Marc Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 January 22, 1964)
Dirk Bogarde (March 28, 1921 - May 8, 1999)
Rosa Bonheur (March 16, 1822 May 25, 1899)
John Boswell (March 20, 1947 December 24, 1994)
David Bowie (born January 8, 1947)
Paul Bowles (December 30, 1910 November 18, 1999)
Malcolm Boyd (born June 8, 1923)
Marlon Brando (April 3, 1924 July 1, 2004)
James Bridges (February 3, 1936 - June 6, 1993)
David Brock (born November 2, 1962)
Rupert Brooke (August 3, 1887 April 23, 1915)
Romaine Brooks (May 1, 1874 December 7, 1970)
Brigid Brophy, Lady Levey (June 12, 1929 August 7, 1995)
Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910 November 13, 1952)
Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944)
Oscar Browning (January 17, 1837 - October 6, 1923)
Guy Burgess (April 16, 1911 August 30, 1963)
Glenn Burke (November 16, 1952 May 30, 1995)
Raymond Burr (May 21, 1917 September 12, 1993)
William S. Burroughs (February 5, 1914 August 2, 1997)
Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943)
Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (May 11, 1739 June 2, 1829)
Samuel Butler (December 4 o 5, 1835 June 18, 1902)
George Gordon Byron, sixth baron Byron of Rochdale, Lord Byron (January 22, 1788 April 19, 1824)
Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 December 12, 1999)
John Cage (September 5, 1912 August 12, 1992)
Simon Callow (born June 15, 1949)
Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer (born March 24, 1942)
Truman Capote (September 30, 1924 - August 25, 1984)
Wendy Carlos (born November 14, 1939)
Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 - June 28, 1929)
Michael Cashman (born December 17, 1950)
C.P. Cavafy (April 29, 1863 April 29, 1933)
Luis Cernuda (September 21, 1902 November 5, 1963)
Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934)
Jane Chambers (March 27, 1937 - February 15, 1983)
Coco Chanel (August 19, 1883 January 10, 1971)
Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 - October 4, 1989)
Ian Charleson (August 11, 1949 January 6, 1990)
L.E.O. Charlton (July 7, 1879 April 18, 1958)
John Cheever (May 27, 1912 June 18, 1982)
Alfred Chester (September 7, 1928 August 1, 1971)
Leslie Cheung (September 12, 1956 April 1, 2003)
Margaret Cho (born December 5, 1968)
Kate Chopin (February 8, 1850 August 22, 1904)
Queen Christina of Sweden (December 18, 1626 April 19, 1689)
Joe Cino (November 16, 1931 April 2, 1967)
Craig Claiborne (September 4, 1920 January 22, 2000)
Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963)
Roy Cohn (February 20, 1927 August 2, 1986)
Colette (January 28, 1873 August 3, 1954)
Cyril Connolly (September 10, 1903 November 26, 1974)
Douglas Cooper (February 20, 1911 April 1, 1984)
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 December 2, 1990)
Marie Corelli (May 1, 1855 April 21, 1924)
Patricia Cornwell (born June 9, 1956)
Noλl Coward (December 16, 1899 March 26, 1973)
Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 December 10, 1965)
Wally Cox (December 6, 1924 February 15, 1973)
Ralph Adams Cram (December 16, 1863 September 22, 1942)
Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 April 27, 1932)
Laird Cregar (July 28, 1913 December 9, 1944)
Quentin Crisp (December 25, 1908 November 21, 1999)
Juana Inιs de la Cruz (November 12, 1651 April 17, 1695)
George Cukor (July 7, 1899 January 24, 1983)
Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 January 9, 1946)
Alan Cumming (born January 27, 1965)
Merce Cunningham (April 16, 1919 July 26, 2009)
Salvador Dalν (May 11, 1904 January 23, 1989)
Joe Dallesandro (born December 31, 1948)
Terence Davies (born November 10, 1945)
Angela Davis (born January 26, 1944)
Brad Davis (November 6, 1949 September 8, 1991)
Evan Davis (born April 8, 1962)
Stephen Decatur, Jr. (January 5, 1779 March 22, 1820)
Ellen DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958)
Samuel R. Delany (born April 1, 1942)
Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958)
Charles Demuth (November 8, 1883 October 23, 1935)
Patrick Dennis (May 18, 1921 November 6, 1976)
Sergey Diaghilev (March 31, 1872 August 19, 1929)
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886)
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (August 6, 1862 - August 3, 1932)
Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 May 6, 1992)
Barry Diller (born February 2, 1942)
Herb Donaldson
Donatello (circa 1386 December 13, 1466)
H.D. aka Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 September 27, 1961)
Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas (October 22, 1870 March 20, 1945)
Dame Daphne du Maurier (May 13, 1907 April 19, 1989)
Pierre-Ιtienne Du Ponceau (June 3, 1760 - April 1, 1844)
Edward II (April 25, 1284 September 21, 1327)
Denholm Elliott (May 31, 1922 - October 6, 1992)
Perry Ellis (March 3, 1940 May 30, 1986)
Roland Emmerich (born November 10, 1955)
Nick Enright (December 22, 1950 - March 30, 2003)
Ertι (November 23, 1892 April 21, 1990)
Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (30 June 1852 22 January 1930)
Melissa Etheridge (born May 29, 1961)
Kenny Everett (December 25, 1944 April 4, 1995)
Rupert Everett (born May 29, 1959)
Marianne Faithfull (born December 29, 1946)
Manuel de Falla (November 23, 1876 November 14, 1946)
Michael Feinstein (born September 7, 1956)
Baron Jacques d'Adelswδrd-Fersen (February 20, 1880 November 5, 1923)
Hubert Fichte (March 21, 1935 - March 8, 1986)
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6, 1952)
Nigel Finch (August 1, 1949 February 14, 1995)
Ronald Firbank (January 17, 1886 May 21, 1926)
Edward FitzGerald (March 31, 1809 June 14, 1883)
Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 November 7, 1978)
Malcolm Forbes (August 19, 1919 February 24, 1990)
E. M. Forster (January 1, 1879 June 7, 1970)
Per-Kristian Foss (born July 19, 1950)
Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962)
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 June 25, 1984)
Barney Frank (born March 31, 1940)
John Fraser (born March 18, 1931)
Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 October 9, 1982)
Stephen Fry (born August 24, 1957)
Henry Blake Fuller (January 9, 1857 July 28, 1929)
Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 November 16, 1960)
Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 April 15, 1990)
Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 April 15, 1986)
Rudi Gernreich (August 8, 1922 April 21, 1985)
Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 November 18, 1986)
Andrι Gide (November 22, 1869 February 19, 1951)
John Gielgud (April 14, 1904 May 21, 2000)
Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997)
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (September 16, 1856 February 16, 1931)
John Glover (born August 7, 1944)
Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 August 2, 1972)
Charles "Chinese" Gordon (January 28, 1833 January 26, 1885)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 December 18, 1869)
Edmund Goulding (March 20, 1891 December 24, 1959)
Farley Granger (July 1, 1925 March 27, 2011)
Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 November 29, 1986)
Duncan Grant (January 21, 1885 May 8, 1978)
Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771)
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (September 17, 1884 - April 8, 1920)
Franz Grillparzer (January 15, 1791 January 21, 1872)
Steve Gunderson (born May 10, 1951)
Thom Gunn (August 29, 1929 April 25, 2004)
Hadrian (24 January 76 10 July 138)
Reynaldo Hahn (August 9, 1875 January 28, 1947)
William Haines (January 2, 1900 December 26, 1973)
Radclyffe Hall (August 12, 1880 October 7, 1943)
Halston (April 23, 1932 March 26, 1990)
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 May 31, 1963)
James Henry Hammond (November 15, 1807 November 13, 1864)
Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 January 12, 1965)
Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 February 16, 1990)
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973)
Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943)
Laurence Harvey (October 1, 1928 November 25, 1973)
Sir Nigel Hawthorne (April 5, 1929 December 26, 2001)
Harry Hay (April 7, 1912 October 24, 2002)
Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961)
Gerald Heard (October 6, 1889 - August 14, 1971)
Gordon Heath (September 20, 1918 - August 27, 1991)
Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995)
Magnus Hirschfeld (May 14, 1868 May 14, 1935)
David Hockney (born July 9, 1937)
Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921 June 7, 1965)
James Hormel (born January 1, 1933)
Vladimir Horowitz (October 1 1903 November 5, 1989)
A.E. Housman (March 26, 1859 - April 30, 1936)
Frankie Howerd (March 6, 1917 April 19, 1992)
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 October 2, 1985)
Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967)
Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769 May 6, 1859)
Tab Hunter (born July 11, 1931)
Ihara Saikaku (1642 September 9, 1693)
William Inge (May 3, 1913 June 10, 1973)
Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904 - January 4, 1986)
George Cecil Ives (October 1, 1867 - June 4, 1950)
James Ivory (born June 7, 1928)
Derek Jarman (January 31, 1942 February 19, 1994)
Walter Jenkins (March 23, 1918 - November 23, 1985)
Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930)
Holly Johnson (born February 9, 1960)
Lionel Johnson (March 15, 1867 - October 4, 1902)
Philip Johnson (July 8, 1906 January 25, 2005)
Van Johnson (August 25, 1916 December 12, 2008)
Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956)
Barbara Jordan (February 21, 1936 January 17, 1996)
Mychal Judge (May 11, 1933 - September 11, 2001)
Gary Kalkin (1950 - January 6, 1995)
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 March 3, 1987)
Johan Kenkhuis (born May 7, 1980)
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (June 5, 1883 April 21, 1946)
Billie Jean King (born November 22, 1943)
William R. King (April 7, 1786 April 18, 1853)
Alfred Kinsey (June 23, 1894 August 25, 1956)
Tommy Kirk (born December 10, 1941)
James Kirkwood, Jr. (August 22, 1924 - April 21, 1989)
Lincoln Kirstein (May 4, 1907 January 5, 1996)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (June 24, 1850 June 5, 1916)
Calvin Klein (born November 19, 1942)
Heinrich von Kleist (October 18, 1777 November 21, 1811)
Frankie Knuckles (born January 18, 1955)
John Kobal (May 30, 1940 - October 28, 1991)
David Kopay (born June 28, 1942)
Andrew Kopkind (August 24, 1935 October 23, 1994)
Sofia Kovalevskaya (January 15, 1850 February 10, 1891)
Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935)
Friedrich A. Krupp (February 17, 1854 November 22, 1902)
Sheila James Kuehl (born February 9, 1941)
Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956)
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963)
Selma Lagerlφf (November 20, 1858 March 16, 1940)
Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 January 19, 2000)
Gavin Lambert (July 23, 1924 - July 17, 2005)
Wanda Landowska (July 5, 1879 August 16, 1959)
Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956)
k.d. lang (born November 2, 1961)
Charles Laughton (July 1, 1899 December 15, 1962)
Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 May 5, 2011)
Gertrude Lawrence (July 4, 1898 September 6, 1952)
T.E. Lawrence (August 16, 1888 May 19, 1935)
Eva Le Gallienne (January 11, 1899 June 3, 1991)
Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 January 29, 1888)
David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961)
John Lehmann (June 2, 1907 - April 7, 1987)
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (December 3, 1830 January 25, 1896)
Matthew Lewis (July 9, 1775 May 14, 1818)
J.C. Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 July 25, 1951)
Liberace (May 16, 1919 February 4, 1987)
Justus von Liebig (May 12, 1803 April 18, 1873)
Serge Lifar (April 15, 1905 December 15, 1986)
Jennie Livingston (born February 24, 1962)
William Longchamp (1140 - January 1197)
Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 November 17, 1992)
Greg Louganis (born January 29, 1960)
Murray Louis (born November 4, 1926)
Amy Lowell (February 9, 1874 May 12, 1925)
Charles Ludlam (April 12, 1943 May 28, 1987)
Mabel Dodge Luhan (February 26, 1879 August 13, 1962)
Hubert Lyautey (November 17, 1854 July 21, 1934)
George Platt Lynes (April 15, 1907 December 6, 1955)
Moms Mabley (March 19, 1894 May 23, 1975)
Bob Mackie (born March 24, 1940)
Micheαl Mac Liammσir (October 25, 1899 March 6, 1978)
Rachel Maddow (born April 1, 1973)
Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 August 12, 1955)
Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 March 9, 1989)
Jean Marais (December 11, 1913 November 8, 1998)
Hans von Marιes (December 24, 1837 June 5, 1887)
Miriam Margolyes (born May 18, 1941)
Christopher Marlowe (February 26, 1564 - May 30, 1593)
Sean Mathias (born March 14, 1956)
Leonard Matlovich (July 6, 1943 June 22, 1988)
W. Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 December 16, 1965)
Armistead Maupin (born May 13, 1944)
Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 November 1, 1963)
Guthrie McClintic (August 6, 1893 - October 29, 1961)
Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 September 29, 1967)
Roddy McDowall (September 17, 1928 October 3, 1998)
Sir Ian McKellen (born May 25, 1939)
Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1939)
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 November 15, 1978)
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 September 28, 1891)
Pierre Menard (1941 - August 3, 1994)
Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 February 1, 2007)
Ismail Merchant (December 25, 1936 May 25, 2005)
Freddie Mercury (September 5, 1946 November 24, 1991)
James Merrill (March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995)
George Michael (born June 25, 1963)
Duane Michals (born February 18, 1932)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (March 6, 1475 February 18, 1564)
Harvey Milk (May 22, 1930 November 27, 1978)
Kate Millett (born September 14, 1934)
Sal Mineo (January 10, 1939 February 12, 1976)
Yukio Mishima (January 14, 1925 November 25, 1970)
Matthew Mitcham (born March 2, 1988)
Dimitri Mitropoulos (1 March 1896 2 November 1960)
David Mixner (born August 16, 1946)
Paul Monette (October 16, 1945 - February 10, 1995)
Meredith Monk (born November 20, 1942)
Henry de Montherlant (April 20, 1895 September 21, 1972)
Charles Willard Moore (October 31, 1925 December 16, 1993)
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25, 1900 August 27, 1979)
Ona Munson (June 16, 1903 February 11, 1955)
Modest Mussorgsky (March 21, 1839 March 28, 1881)
Jim Nabors (born June 12, 1930)
George Nader (October 19, 1921 - February 4, 2002)
Holly Near (born June 6, 1949)
Pola Negri (January 3, 1897 August 1, 1987)
Sir Isaac Newton (December 25, 1642 March 20, 1727)
Harold Nicolson (November 21, 1886 May 1, 1968)
Vaslav Nijinsky (March 12, 1889/1890 April 8, 1950)
Alwin Nikolais (November 25, 1910 May 8, 1993)
Ramσn Novarro (February 6, 1899 October 30, 1968)
Rudolf Nureyev (March 17, 1938 January 6, 1993)
Rosie O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962)
Frank O'Hara (March 27, 1926 July 25, 1966)
Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier (May 22, 1907 July 11, 1989)
Orry-Kelly (December 31, 1897 February 27, 1964)
Joe Orton (January 1, 1933 August 9, 1967)
John Osborne (December 12, 1929 December 24, 1994)
Violet Paget aka Vernon Lee (October 14, 1856 February 13, 1935)
Sophia Parnok (August 11, 1885 August 26, 1933)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 November 2, 1975)
Walter Pater (August 4, 1839 July 30, 1894)
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 September 12, 1992)
Roger Peyrefitte (August 17, 1907 November 5, 2000)
Katherine Philips (January 1, 1632 June 22, 1664)
River Phoenix (August 23, 1970 October 31, 1993)
David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959)
August von Platen (October 24, 1796 December 5, 1835)
William Plomer (December 10, 1903 - September 21, 1973)
Walter Plunkett (June 5, 1902 March 8, 1982)
Francis Poulenc (January 7, 1899 January 30, 1963)
Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 November 18, 1922)
Nikolay Przhevalsky (April 12, 1839 - November 1, 1888)
Manuel Puig (December 28, 1932 - July 22, 1990)
Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886 December 22, 1939)
Bob Randall (1938 - February 11, 1995)
Mlle Raucourt aka Franηoise Marie Antoinette Saucerotte (March 3, 1756 January 15, 1815)
Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 May 12, 2008)
Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 December 28, 1937)
Derek Rawcliffe (July 8, 1921 February 1, 2011)
Amy Ray (born April 12, 1964)
Johnnie Ray (January 10, 1927 February 24, 1990)
Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 June 16, 1979)
John Rechy (born March 10, 1934)
Sir Michael Redgrave (March 20, 1908 March 21, 1985)
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 May 25, 2007)
Mary Renault (September 4, 1905 December 13, 1983)
Cecil Rhodes (July 5, 1853 March 26, 1902)
Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 - March 27, 2012)
Tony Richardson (June 5, 1928 November 14, 1991)
Marlon Riggs (February 3, 1957 April 5, 1994)
Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 November 10, 1891)
Herb Ritts (August 13, 1952 December 26, 2002)
Larry Rivers (August 17, 1923 - August 14, 2002)
Gene Robinson (born May 29, 1947)
Frederick Rolfe (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913)
Howard Rollins, Jr. (October 17, 1950 December 8, 1996)
Cesar Romero (February 15, 1907 January 1, 1994)
Don Roos (born April 14, 1955)
Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 November 7, 1962)
Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923)
Felipe Rose (born January 12, 1954)
A. L. Rowse (1903 - October 3, 1997)
Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958)
Paul Rudnick (born December 29, 1957)
Jane Rule (March 28, 1931 November 27, 2007)
RuPaul (born November 17, 1960)
Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 August 24, 1987)
Mitch Ryder (born February 26, 1945)
Vita Sackville-West (March 9, 1892 June 2, 1962)
Camille Saint-Saλns (October 9, 1835 December 16, 1921)
Saki aka Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 November 13, 1916)
George Sand (July 1, 1804 June 8, 1876)
George Santayana (December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952)
May Sarton (May 3, 1912 July 16, 1995)
Siegfried Sassoon (September 8, 1886 September 1, 1967)
Thomas Schippers (March 9, 1930 December 16, 1977)
John Schlesinger (February 16, 1926 July 25, 2003)
Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 March 2, 1987)
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956)
Anna Seward (December 12, 1747 March 25, 1809)
Jesse Shepard (September 18, 1848 May 29, 1927)
Sir Antony Sher (born June 14, 1949)
Martin Sherman (born December 22, 1938)
Ned Sherrin (1931 - October 1, 2007)
Bill Sherwood (June 14, 1952 February 10, 1990)
Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951 - February 17, 1994)
Karen Silkwood (February 19, 1946 November 13, 1974)
Roy Simmons (born November 8, 1956)
Oliver Sipple (November 20, 1941 February 2, 1989)
Sitting Bull (c. 1831 December 15, 1890)
Osbert Sitwell (December 6, 1892 - May 4, 1969)
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 September 26, 1937)
Liz Smith (born February 2, 1923)
Dame Ethel Smyth (April 23, 1858 May 8, 1944)
Simeon Solomon (October 9, 1840 August 14, 1905)
Stephen Sondheim (born March 22, 1930)
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 December 28, 2004)
Sir Stephen Spender (February 28, 1909 July 16, 1995)
Donald Spoto (born June 28, 1941)
Yves Saint Laurent (August 1, 1936 June 1, 2008)
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 January 20, 1990)
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 July 27, 1946)
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (September 17, 1730 November 28, 1794)
Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960)
Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843, April 23, 1909)
Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880 January 21, 1932)
Billy Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 May 31, 1967)
Pierre Andrι de Suffren de Saint Tropez (July 17, 1729 December 8, 1788)
Andrew Sullivan (born August 10, 1963)
Harry Stack Sullivan (February 21, 1892 January 14, 1949)
Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 September 21, 1974)
Terry Sweeney (born March 23, 1950)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 - April 10, 1909)
Sylvester (September 6, 1947 December 16, 1988)
John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893)
Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 December 19, 1878)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 November 6, 1893)
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 January 29, 1933)
Lord Alfred Tennyson (August 6, 1809 October 6, 1892)
M. Carey Thomas (January 2, 1857 - December 2, 1935)
Dorothy Thompson (July 9, 1893 January 30, 1961)
Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 September 30, 1989)
Bill Tilden (February 10, 1893 June 5, 1953)
Michael Tilson-Thomas (born December 21, 1944)
Andrew Tobias aka John Reid (born April 20, 1947)
Alice B. Toklas (April 30, 1877 March 7, 1967)
Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939)
Tom Tryon (January 14, 1926 September 4, 1991)
Esera Tuaolo (born July 11, 1968)
Tommy Tune (born February 28, 1939)
Alan Turing (June 23, 1912 June 7, 1954)
Nicholas Udall (1504 December 23, 1556)
Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (August 28, 1825 - July 14, 1895)
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 December 21, 1964)
Vasili III of Russia (25 March 1479 3 December 1533)
Paul Verlaine (March 30, 1844 - January 8, 1896)
Thιophile de Viau (1590 - September 25, 1626)
Gore Vidal (October 3, 1925 July 31, 2012)
Tom Villard (November 19, 1953 - November 14,1994)
Luchino Visconti (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976)
Renιe Vivien (June 11, 1877 - November 18, 1909)
Tom Waddell (November 1, 1937 - July 11, 1987)
Rufus Wainwright (born July 22, 1973)
Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944)
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (September 24, 1717 March 2, 1797)
Hugh Walpole (March 13, 1884 June 1, 1941)
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 February 22, 1987)
Edward Perry "Ned" Warren (January 8, 1860 December 28, 1928)
Peter Watson (September 14, 1908 May 3, 1956)
Alec Waugh (July 8, 1898 September 3, 1981)
Evelyn Waugh (28 October 1903 April 10, 1966)
Bruce Weber (born March 29, 1946)
Denton Welch (March 27, 1915 - December 30, 1948)
Sumner Welles (October 14, 1892 - September 24, 1961)
James Whale (July 22, 1889 May 29, 1957)
Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 August 11, 1937)
Mel White (born July 26, 1940)
Patrick White (1912 - September 30, 1990)
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892)
Josephine Wiggs (born February 26, 1965)
Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 November 30, 1900)
Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 December 7, 1975)
Emlyn Williams (November 26, 1905 September 25, 1987)
Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 February 25, 1983)
Henry Willson (July 31, 1911 November 2, 1978)
Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937 March 24, 2011)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (December 9, 1717 June 8, 1768)
Christa Winsloe (December 23, 1888 - June 10, 1944)
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